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Saturday, 10 January 2026

• Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir has died at age 78
  rollingstone.com · Discuss

• Show HN: GlyphLang – An AI-first programming language
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade: study
  brown.edu · Discuss

• UK Orders Ofcom to Explore Encryption Backdoors
  reclaimthenet.org · Discuss

• Extracting books from production language models (2026)
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• Worst of breed software
  worstofbreed.net · Discuss

• Sinclair C5
  en.wikipedia.org · Discuss

• Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study
  economist.com · Discuss

• Code Is Clay
  campedersen.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Play poker with LLMs, or watch them play against each other
  llmholdem.com · Discuss

• Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak
  mitchellh.com · Discuss

• Rats caught on camera hunting flying bats
  scienceclock.com · Discuss

• Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document
  theguardian.com · Discuss

• Minnesota vs. US Federal Government Timeline Project
  mnvsus.fyi · Discuss

• UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring PMs, SWEs to automate construction compliance
  up.codes · Discuss

• Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
  trails.pieterma.es · Discuss

• AI is a business model stress test
  dri.es · Discuss

• Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines
  ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11
  eteknix.com · Discuss

• Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project
  openchaos.dev · Discuss

• UK government exempting itself from cyber law inspires little confidence
  theregister.com · Discuss

• NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew
  livescience.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Yuanzai World – LLM RPGs with branching world-lines
  yuanzai.world · Discuss

• Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
  nightingaledvs.com · Discuss

• Why Is Greenland Part of the Kingdom of Denmark? A Short History
  diis.dk · Discuss

• New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis
  libroot.org · Discuss

• Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15
  eupolicy.social · Discuss

• "We write to ask that you enforce your app stores' terms of service against X" [pdf]
  wyden.senate.gov · Discuss

• Beating the Tutorial
  elliotmorris.net · Discuss

• Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages for Text (2017)
  karl-voit.at · Discuss

Friday, 09 January 2026

• CDC staff 'blindsided' as child vaccine schedule unilaterally overhauled
  unmc.edu · Discuss

• Oh My Zsh adds bloat
  rushter.com · Discuss

• OLED, Not for Me
  nuxx.net · Discuss

• Maine's black market for baby eels
  pressherald.com · Discuss

• USDA suspends federal financial awards to Minnesota and Minneapolis
  turnto10.com · Discuss

• Caltrain shows why every region should be moving toward regional rail
  hsrail.org · Discuss

• “Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”
  mathstodon.xyz · Discuss

• Pre-commit lint checks: Vibe coding's kryptonite
  getseer.dev · Discuss

• Start your meetings at 5 minutes past
  philipotoole.com · Discuss

• Sigmund Freud's Begonia
  observer.co.uk · Discuss

• Iran's complete Internet shutdown reaches 24 hours
  mastodon.social · Discuss

• QtNat – Open you port with Qt UPnP
  renaudguezennec.eu · Discuss

• RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?
  scottjg.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Rocket Launch and Orbit Simulator
  donutthejedi.com · Discuss

• Code and Let Live
  fly.io · Discuss

• JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters
  beta.dwitter.net · Discuss

• Turn a single image into a navigable 3D Gaussian Splat with depth
  lab.revelium.studio · Discuss

• Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression
  sciencedaily.com · Discuss

• My article on why AI is great (or terrible) or how to use it
  matthewrocklin.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok
  quack.sdan.io · Discuss

• Replit (YC W18) Is Hiring
  jobs.ashbyhq.com · Discuss

• How Markdown took over the world
  anildash.com · Discuss

• Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear
  lend-me-your-ears.specr.net · Discuss

• The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app
  xdaforums.com · Discuss

• Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times
  nexanet.ai · Discuss

• SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack
  fredbenenson.com · Discuss

• Latest SteamOS Beta Now Includes Ntsync Kernel Driver
  phoronix.com · Discuss

• Developers Are Solving the Wrong Problem
  caseysoftware.com · Discuss

• Amiga Pointer Archive
  heckmeck.de · Discuss

• How to store a chess position in 26 bytes (2022)
  ezzeriesa.notion.site · Discuss

• London–Calcutta bus service
  en.wikipedia.org · Discuss

• Show HN: Free noise evidence generator for tenant complaints
  noiseevidence.com · Discuss

• "They Saw a Protest": Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction [pdf] (2012)
  stanfordlawreview.org · Discuss

• Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux
  help.kagi.com · Discuss

• MCP is a fad
  tombedor.dev · Discuss

• Surveillance Watch – a map that shows connections between surveillance companies
  surveillancewatch.io · Discuss

• Grok turns off image generator for most after outcry over sexualised AI imagery
  theguardian.com · Discuss

Thursday, 08 January 2026

• What happened to WebAssembly
  emnudge.dev · Discuss

• European Commission issues call for evidence on open source
  lwn.net · Discuss

• Mathematics for Computer Science (2018) [pdf]
  courses.csail.mit.edu · Discuss

• Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success
  economist.com · Discuss

• Agonist-Antagonist Myoneural Interface
  media.mit.edu · Discuss

• The No Fakes Act has a “fingerprinting” trap that kills open source?
  old.reddit.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Executable Markdown files with Unix pipes
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Show HN: A website that auctions itself daily
  thedailyauction.com · Discuss

• Logistics Is Dying; Or – Dude, Where's My Mail?
  lagomor.ph · Discuss

• Why I left iNaturalist
  kueda.net · Discuss