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1.		Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem (dbushell.com)
		493 points by dbushell 23 hours ago \| 350 comments
2.		Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B (reuters.com)
		379 points by personjerry 1 day ago \| 346 comments
3.		Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops (techcrunch.com)
		757 points by bookofjoe 12 hours ago \| 498 comments
4.		Bugs Apple loves (bugsappleloves.com)
		961 points by nhod 1 day ago \| 473 comments
5.		Booting from a vinyl record (2020) (boginjr.com)
		295 points by yesturi 19 hours ago \| 108 comments
6.		I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video] (youtube.com)
		451 points by codetheweb 1 day ago \| 100 comments
7.		Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go (github.com/ramonvermeulen)
		224 points by rvermeulen98 18 hours ago \| 80 comments
8.		Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020) (leidenmedievalistsblog.nl)
		235 points by benbreen 1 day ago \| 147 comments
9.		AI is a horse (2024) (kconner.com)
		455 points by zdw 4 days ago \| 219 comments
10.		Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users (openai.com)
		308 points by mustaphah 1 day ago \| 125 comments
11.		Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale (maggieappleton.com)
		293 points by pavel_lishin 14 hours ago \| 311 comments
12.		Proof of Corn (proofofcorn.com)
		342 points by rocauc 12 hours ago \| 252 comments
13.		KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer (korg.com)
		215 points by bpierre 15 hours ago \| 95 comments
14.		Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift (swift.org)
		144 points by timsneath 1 day ago \| 34 comments
15.		Radicle: The Sovereign Forge (radicle.xyz)
		269 points by ibobev 16 hours ago \| 131 comments
16.		AI Usage Policy (github.com/ghostty-org)
		476 points by mefengl 20 hours ago \| 254 comments
17.		Replacing Protobuf with Rust (pgdog.dev)
		169 points by whiteros_e 21 hours ago \| 123 comments
18.		Unrolling the Codex agent loop (openai.com)
		276 points by tosh 9 hours ago \| 136 comments
19.		Route leak incident on January 22, 2026 (cloudflare.com)
		135 points by nomaxx117 12 hours ago \| 37 comments
20.		Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities (googleblog.com)
		212 points by 01jonny01 20 hours ago \| 178 comments
21.		Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite (github.com/tursodatabase)
		136 points by marklit 4 days ago \| 97 comments
22.		Stunnel (stunnel.org)
		118 points by firesteelrain 1 day ago \| 36 comments
23.		Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG (markgascoyne.co.uk)
		73 points by chaz6 12 hours ago \| 21 comments
24.		The tech monoculture is finally breaking (jasonwillems.com)
		162 points by at1as 14 hours ago \| 210 comments
25.		Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit (righto.com)
		90 points by elpocko 12 hours ago \| 11 comments
26.		Nobody likes lag: How to make low-latency dev sandboxes (compyle.ai)
		71 points by mnazzaro 12 hours ago \| 35 comments
27.		New YC homepage (ycombinator.com)
		222 points by sarreph 12 hours ago \| 109 comments
28.		Show HN: Zsweep – Play Minesweeper using only Vim motions (zsweep.com)
		71 points by oug-t 5 days ago \| 31 comments
29.		TI-99/4A: Leaning More on the Firmware (bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com)
		69 points by ibobev 5 days ago \| 48 comments
30.		Waypoint-1: Real-Time Interactive Video Diffusion from Overworld (huggingface.co)
		68 points by avaer 15 hours ago \| 17 comments
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