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1.Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B (reuters.com)
378 points by personjerry 1 day ago | 342 comments
2.Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem (dbushell.com)
486 points by dbushell 21 hours ago | 344 comments
3.Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops (techcrunch.com)
713 points by bookofjoe 10 hours ago | 475 comments
4.Bugs Apple loves (bugsappleloves.com)
954 points by nhod 1 day ago | 471 comments
5.I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video] (youtube.com)
448 points by codetheweb 22 hours ago | 98 comments
6.Booting from a vinyl record (2020) (boginjr.com)
287 points by yesturi 17 hours ago | 104 comments
7.Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020) (leidenmedievalistsblog.nl)
234 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 145 comments
8.AI is a horse (2024) (kconner.com)
453 points by zdw 4 days ago | 219 comments
9.Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go (github.com/ramonvermeulen)
221 points by rvermeulen98 16 hours ago | 73 comments
10.Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users (openai.com)
306 points by mustaphah 1 day ago | 125 comments
11.Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale (maggieappleton.com)
276 points by pavel_lishin 12 hours ago | 287 comments
12.Proof of Corn (proofofcorn.com)
331 points by rocauc 10 hours ago | 247 comments
13.Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift (swift.org)
144 points by timsneath 1 day ago | 34 comments
14.Radicle: The Sovereign Forge (radicle.xyz)
267 points by ibobev 15 hours ago | 130 comments
15.AI Usage Policy (github.com/ghostty-org)
473 points by mefengl 18 hours ago | 251 comments
16.KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer (korg.com)
202 points by bpierre 13 hours ago | 94 comments
17.Replacing Protobuf with Rust (pgdog.dev)
167 points by whiteros_e 19 hours ago | 122 comments
18.Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities (googleblog.com)
212 points by 01jonny01 18 hours ago | 178 comments
19.Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite (github.com/tursodatabase)
135 points by marklit 4 days ago | 97 comments
20.Stunnel (stunnel.org)
118 points by firesteelrain 1 day ago | 36 comments
21.Unrolling the Codex agent loop (openai.com)
249 points by tosh 7 hours ago | 119 comments
22.Show HN: Zsweep – Play Minesweeper using only Vim motions (zsweep.com)
70 points by oug-t 5 days ago | 28 comments
23.Route leak incident on January 22, 2026 (cloudflare.com)
126 points by nomaxx117 10 hours ago | 34 comments
24.TI-99/4A: Leaning More on the Firmware (bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com)
69 points by ibobev 5 days ago | 48 comments
25.Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG (markgascoyne.co.uk)
70 points by chaz6 11 hours ago | 21 comments
26.Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit (righto.com)
88 points by elpocko 11 hours ago | 9 comments
27.The tech monoculture is finally breaking (jasonwillems.com)
149 points by at1as 13 hours ago | 193 comments
28.What has Docker become? (tuananh.net)
240 points by tuananh 15 hours ago | 262 comments
29.Nobody likes lag: How to make low-latency dev sandboxes (compyle.ai)
65 points by mnazzaro 11 hours ago | 34 comments
30.New YC homepage (ycombinator.com)
197 points by sarreph 10 hours ago | 99 comments

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