
Snow HN: 950 line inference engine, on par with vLLM (github.com)


Trump Invoking ''Insurrection Act'' Speculation Grows After ICE Shooting (www.newsweek.com)
Gov. Hochul seeks restrictions on 3D printers and ghost guns (gothamist.com)
Smaller than you thought: Putting the US AI boom(let) in perspective (www.ft.com)
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt accused of rape, surveillance by ex-mistress (www.news.com.au)
A US-China War Would Be a Catastrophe for Everyone (medium.com)

Flint Confirms Biodegradable Paper Batteries Are Now in Production (audioxpress.com)


I built a quantum internet that runs on your WiFi (github.com)

AI-generated police report states Utah officer was turned into a frog (www.upi.com)
Scaling is not the story anymore. What GPT 6 might change (otieu.com)

Side-by-side comparison of how AI models answer moral dilemmas (civai.org)
TxtNet-Browser: An app that lets you browse the web over SMS (github.com)

Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin speaks to Tatsuya Takahashi (web.archive.org)
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Internet service in Iran cut off or restricted during deadly protests (www.cbsnews.com)
Inside China''s Six-Decade Campaign to Dominate Rare Earths (www.nytimes.com)

Deciding what SEO content to create before writing anything (vect.pro)


Trump warns Iran over protest crackdown amid internet blackout (www.iranintl.com)
Rust Is Perfectly Imperfect (0x80.pl)
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Solar hydrogen can now be produced efficiently without the scarce metal platinum (www.eurekalert.org)

Reusable "skills" for coding agents: how to design them so they do not drift (clipnotebook.com)



Some super-smart dogs can pick up new words just by eavesdropping (www.cnn.com)
It''s the little things that change your life, really: combining ChatGPTDocuSign (app.yanna.pro)

Support for the TSO memory model on Arm CPUs (2024) (lwn.net)

An update from Commonwealth Fusion Systems (January 2026) [video] (www.youtube.com)

Designing viral video hooks before recording anything (vect.pro)

Texas First State to End American Bar Association oversight of law schools (www.keranews.org)

Billionaires Are Ramping Up Their California Exits on Threat of Wealth Tax (www.bloomberg.com)

Trump administration mulls payments to sway Greenlanders to join US (www.reuters.com)
Marc Andreessen''s 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and the Price of AI [video] (www.youtube.com)

Trump withdraws US from key climate treaty and other groups (www.bbc.com)

Bowen: Trump risks pushing world back to age of empires (www.bbc.com)

Pay and pray: Nvidia reportedly wants money up front for Chinese H200 orders (www.theregister.com)
In Ukraine, a New Arsenal of Killer A.I. Drones Is Being Born (www.nytimes.com)

Free domain-based breach and infostealer exposure monitoring for organizations (lunarcyber.com)

X faces global investigations for deepfake porn of women and minors (boingboing.net)

"Worst in Show" Returns at CES 2026, Calling Out Gadgets That Make Things Worse (www.ifixit.com)

Rethinking Quran Rendering for the Digital Age (tarteel.ai)
We got 78 GitHub stars within 24 hours for our next-gen AI coding tool (github.com)


''Books are going to take longer to get to libraries'' (www.tcj.com)

Copyright Takedown Notices Don''t Require Services to Find Other Identical Copies (blog.ericgoldman.org)

Logi Options doesn''t work on Mac; Dev Cert expired on Jan 6th (old.reddit.com)



Finding real market signals before deciding what to build or write (vect.pro)

Tailwind CSS Announces 75% Layoffs as LLMs Reshape OSS Business Models (socket.dev)

Two-way electric vehicle charging could stop renewable energy being wasted (theconversation.com)
Internet access cut out in Iran after protests (apnews.com)

Mcpd Plugins: Extend Your Agent Infrastructure Without Touching Your Code (blog.mozilla.ai)
Testing whether AI-generated content will resonate before publishing (www.google.com)
Built "Lisa" plugin for Claude Code – high IQ planner to pair with Ralph loops (github.com)

Internet collapses in Iran amid protests over economic crisis (techcrunch.com)
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transform (joshuawise.com)


Thank Goodness Universal Basic Income Saved the AI Economy (blog.tjll.net)

AI programs used by Heber City [Utah] police claim officer turned into a frog (www.fox13now.com)

Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS (twitter.com)

Google and AI startup to settle lawsuits alleging chatbots led to teen suicide (www.theguardian.com)


Sprites – Stateful sandbox environments with checkpoint and restore (sprites.dev)
Blend2D and AsmJIT development paused due to lack of funding (kobalicek.com)

Jensen Huang saying "AI" 121 times during the Nvidia CES keynote (old.reddit.com)


The Trump Administration Says It''s Illegal to Record Videos of ICE (reason.com)

Fixing a Buffer Overflow in Unix v4 Like It''s 1973 (sigma-star.at)





He was called a ''terrorist sympathizer.'' Now his AI company is valued at 3B (sfstandard.com)
The AI SRE Your SRE Tells You Not to Worry About (kianjon.es)

Epiplexity to Beat DeepMind''s Alchemy Meta RL Benchmark (github.com)

High-performance graph library for JVM – 66/48x faster than Guava/JGraphT on BFS (github.com)

Supernova Remnant Video from NASA''s Chandra Is Decades in Making (www.nasa.gov)
Open source is dying because we all fucking suck (twitter.com)
There''s a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape (blog.jgc.org)

Illinois health department exposed over 700k residents'' personal data for years (techcrunch.com)

Chinese AI models have lagged the US frontier by 7 months on average since 2023 (epoch.ai)


The Digital FPV Revolution – The DJI, Leadcore and Artosyn Love Triangle (fpvwiki.co.uk)
History of the browser user-agent string (webaim.org)

Resumectl: Resume-as-code CLI written in Go (github.com)
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Reflexive Memory: A CPU-Only Alternative to Transformers for Streaming Data (medium.com)
Less than two years after stopping obesity drugs, weight, health issues return (www.reuters.com)

Stem cell engineering breakthrough paves way for next-generation living drugs (www.med.ubc.ca)
Talking to My FPGA: AI Chat on MicroBlaze [video] (www.youtube.com)
BCA statement regarding investigation of ICE fatal shooting in Minneapolis (dps.mn.gov)

Ubisoft Shuts Assassin''s Creed Developer Studio Just Weeks After It Unionized (www.ign.com)


Minnesota officials say they can''t access evidence after fatal ICE shooting (www.pbs.org)



MacDown 3000 – your favorite Markdown editor for macOS is back (macdown.app)
Lightricks (LTX-2 video model company) CEO answers "why open source releases?" (old.reddit.com)

Google Is Adding an ''AI Inbox'' to Gmail That Summarizes Emails (www.wired.com)
Lyft''s Feature Store: Architecture, Optimization, and Evolution (eng.lyft.com)
A plugin that Lets Claude Code call you on the phone (github.com)

Dynamic Large Concept Models: Latent Reasoning in an Adaptive Semantic Space (arxiv.org)

LANL''s ICE House Tests Microelectronics for Cosmic Radiation Exposure (www.lanl.gov)
We''ve been vibe coding since the Stone Age: Do we still need humans in the loop? (blog.hartleybrody.com)

Tim Davie says BBC will stay on X to try to stem ''flood'' of globalmisinformation (www.theguardian.com)

Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs (sakana.ai)

TikTok influencers fuelling parallel market for unlicensed weight-loss drug (www.theguardian.com)
rcarmo/gotel: OpenTelemetry for... tiny Gophers (github.com)


African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map (2025) (www.npr.org)

Point of no returns: researchers crossing a threshold in the fight for funding (www.nature.com)

Octopus-inspired ''synthetic skin'' changes colour and texture on demand (www.nature.com)


Language Models as One-Time Teacher for Hierarchical Planning in Text Environs (arxiv.org)
Qwen3-VL-Embedding and Qwen3-VL-Reranker: Next Gen of Multimodal Retrieval (qwen.ai)
Lockheed Martin to more than triple Patriot missile production capacity (www.reuters.com)
Everything you never wanted to know about file locking (2010) (apenwarr.ca)

Epiplexity: Rethinking Information for Computationally Bounded Intelligence (arxiv.org)



CA''s controversial wealth tax proposal leaves billionaires with little way out (www.cnbc.com)


Russia launches national AI taskforce with homegrown AI and drones by 2030 (www.techradar.com)

A Full Guide to Early X Account Growth (medium.com)

1000 Layer Networks for Self-Supervised RL (NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper Award) (arxiv.org)
Direct evidence for poison use on microlithic arrowheads at 60k years ago (doi.org)

Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them (www.theverge.com)




Tech titans divided over whether to pay billionaire tax or flee California (www.theguardian.com)


SuperCoder: Assembly Program Superoptimization with Large Language Models (arxiv.org)


Grok Is Generating Sexual Content More Graphic Than What''s on X (www.wired.com)

Former Google CEO plans to singlehandedly fund a Hubble telescope replacement (arstechnica.com)
What 24 hours of traffic looks like to our main web server in January 2026 (utcc.utoronto.ca)
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Iran leans into anti-Western bluster as it tries to quell deadly protests (www.cbsnews.com)
CHERIoT: Complete Memory Safety for Embedded Devices (dl.acm.org)


What I Got Wrong About "Hard Work" in My 20s (lemire.me)

Maine company in the spotlight after Maduro apparently wore one of their hoodies (www.boston.com)
Researchers develop efficient, reusable compound for capturing CO2 from air (phys.org)

Extracting books from production language models (arxiv.org)


NASA considers whether to bring sick crew member back to Earth (www.bbc.co.uk)

''Autofocus'' glasses can change their lenses in real time (www.cnn.com)

Reclaiming the Screen: A Developer''s Fix for macOS 26''s Corners (medium.com)

A Local-First Starter Kit for Cross-Platform Apps (React and Tauri and Rust) (github.com)

2026 Lucid Air Touring Review: Reliving the Model S Moment, in a Good Way (www.thedrive.com)

Estranged Wife of Indian Software Tycoon Claims He Transferred Ownership (www.forbes.com)
Flakes – A keyboard-first, AI-powered native browser for macOS (flakes.ai)

Why code reviews take 3-4 days on some teams and under an hour on others (smartguess.is)


NASA considers rare early ISS crew return due to astronaut''s medical issue (www.nbcnews.com)

A person claiming to be a ''whistleblower'' fooled the internet with AI''s help (www.nbcnews.com)
Ex–Google CEO funds private space telescope bigger than Hubble – Science – AAAS (www.science.org)

Are violent video games like Grand Theft Auto 6 becoming too realistic? (www.bbc.com)
X-shell – Complete web based terminal component (github.com)
Some Things I''ve Learned About Software [video] (www.youtube.com)


2025 Retrospective: Executives'' Predictions on the End of Software Engineering (www.techradar.com)

Tailwind and open source in the LLM era: when documentation no longer monetizes (eventuallymaking.io)

Brew-vulns: CVE scanning for Homebrew (nesbitt.io)

NASA considers evacuating ailing crew member from International Space Station (arstechnica.com)

Multithreading in PHP: Looking to the Future (medium.com)

Linus T: "The AI Slop Issue Is *Not* Going to Be Solved with Documentation" (www.phoronix.com)

ByteDance local agent is something I might feel safe running (github.com)

Ghent University rector Petra De Sutter uses AI-fabricated quotes in speech (www.vrt.be)
