Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 1, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
https://an.dywa.ng/carrier-gnss.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838597

Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media
https://yle.fi/a/74-20207494
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838417

Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)
https://nmn.sh/blog/2023-10-02-swift-is-the-more-convenient-rust
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46841374

Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/smallpox-eradication-champion-william-foege-dies-at-89/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46793313

Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
https://www.moltbook.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46802254

CPython Internals Explained
https://github.com/zpoint/CPython-Internals
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46780086

Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]
https://help.apple.com/pdf/security/en_US/apple-platform-security-guide.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46837814

In praise of –dry-run
https://henrikwarne.com/2026/01/31/in-praise-of-dry-run/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46840612

Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/inside-nvidias-10-year-effort-to-make-the-shield-tv-the-most-updated-android-device-ever/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46837346

List animals until failure
https://rose.systems/animalist/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46842603

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 31, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
https://antirender.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46829147

HTTP Cats
https://http.cat/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46824422

The engineer who invented the Mars rover suspension in his garage [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKSPk_0N4Jc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46773655

Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon
https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/01/27/surely-it-has-to-be-soon/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822630

Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
https://peerweb.lol/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46829582

Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones
https://simedw.com/2026/01/31/ear-pronunication-via-ctc/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832074

Code is cheap. Show me the talk
https://nadh.in/blog/code-is-cheap/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46823485

Disrupting the largest residential proxy network
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/disrupting-largest-residential-proxy-network
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46802748

YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other Browsers
https://piunikaweb.com/2026/01/28/youtube-background-play-samsung-internet-brave/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46834441

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 30, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking
https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810282

Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/project-genie/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812933

Moltbook
https://www.moltbook.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820360

PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible
https://redgamingtech.com/playstation-2-recompilation-project-is-absolutely-incredible/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814743

AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals
https://vercel.com/blog/agents-md-outperforms-skills-in-our-agent-evals
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46809708

A lot of population numbers are fake
https://davidoks.blog/p/a-lot-of-population-numbers-are-fake
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810027

Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer
https://grid.space/stem/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46817813

Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT
https://openai.com/index/retiring-gpt-4o-and-older-models/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46816539

OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again
https://openclaw.ai/blog/introducing-openclaw
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820783

The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)
https://predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-works-when-its-raining/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46816357

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 29, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Airfoil (2024)
https://ciechanow.ski/airfoil/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46795908

Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/28/patreon-apple-tax/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46801419

We can't send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)
https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46805665

Tesla ending Models S and X production
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/tesla-ending-model-s-x-production.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46802867

Render Mermaid diagrams as SVGs or ASCII art
https://github.com/lukilabs/beautiful-mermaid
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46804828

Android's desktop interface leaks
https://9to5google.com/2026/01/27/android-desktop-leak/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46790740

Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python
https://www.dimamik.com/posts/oban_py/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46797594

Europe's next-generation weather satellite sends back first images
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Meteorological_missions/meteosat_third_generation/Europe_s_next-generation_weather_satellite_sends_back_first_images
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46806773

Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers
https://github.com/ratatui/mousefood
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46798402

Trinity large: An open 400B sparse MoE model
https://www.arcee.ai/blog/trinity-large
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46789561

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 28, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/fbi-investigating-minnesota-signal-minneapolis-group-ice-patel-kash-rcna256041
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46783254

Prism
https://openai.com/index/introducing-prism
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46783752

A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2015883857489522876
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46771564

430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/science/archaeology-neanderthals-tools.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781530

Doing the thing is doing the thing
https://www.softwaredesign.ing/blog/doing-the-thing-is-doing-the-thing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46776155

Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor
https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_15.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779645

Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company
https://amutable.com/about
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784572

Show HN: One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch in 20K LOC
https://emsh.cat/one-human-one-agent-one-browser/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779522

Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-closing-fresh-grocery-convenience-150437789.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781444

AI2: Open Coding Agents
https://allenai.org/blog/open-coding-agents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46783017

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 27, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
https://atmoio.substack.com/p/after-two-years-of-vibecoding-im
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46765460

France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.
https://twitter.com/lellouchenico/status/2015775970330882319
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767668

Television is 100 years old today
https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/01/tv100.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46766188

Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:okydh7e54e2nok65kjxdklvd/post/3mdd55paffk2o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46769051

Qwen3-Max-Thinking
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-max-thinking
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46766741

Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601255198
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760329

Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/01/apple-introduces-new-airtag-with-expanded-range-and-improved-findability/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46765819

ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/26/chatgpt-containers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46770221

JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back
https://nproject.io/blog/juicessh-give-me-back-my-pro-features/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46768909

The hidden engineering of runways
https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/1/20/the-hidden-engineering-of-runways
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46694193

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 26, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

First, make me care
https://gwern.net/blog/2026/make-me-care
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46757067

A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
https://github.com/tldev/posturr
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46754944

Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only
https://restofworld.org/2026/iran-blackout-tiered-internet/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761822

Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant
https://github.com/clawdbot/clawdbot
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760237

Web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe Paint
https://github.com/steffest/DPaint-js
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46753708

Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems
https://www.diljitpr.net/blog-post-postgresql-dlq
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46755115

Scientists identify brain waves that define the limits of 'you'
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-identify-brain-waves-that-define-the-limits-of-you
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760099

The browser is the sandbox
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/25/the-browser-is-the-sandbox/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46762150

I was right about ATProto key management
https://notes.nora.codes/atproto-again/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46757357

Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager
https://www.jampa.dev/p/lessons-learned-after-10-years-as
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46709270

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 25, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp
https://www.birdy.chat/blog/first-to-interoperate-with-whatsapp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46746476

Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms
https://twitter.com/NicerInPerson/status/2014989679796347375
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46743908

Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study
https://keck.usc.edu/news/adoption-of-electric-vehicles-tied-to-real-world-reductions-in-air-pollution-study-finds/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46749198

Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-sideloading-android-high-friction-process-3633468/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688804

Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data)
https://albedo.com/post/clarity-1-what-worked-and-where-we-go-next
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46747119

Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46744807

Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison
https://the-diy-life.com/raspberry-pi-drag-race-pi-1-to-pi-5-performance-comparison/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745922

Nvidia-smi hangs indefinitely after ~66 days
https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/971
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46750425

Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-second-emergency-out-of-band-update-kb5078127-released-address-outlook-bugs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46750358

Deutsche Telekom is violating Net Neutrality
https://netzbremse.de/en/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751899

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 24, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/microsoft-gave-fbi-a-set-of-bitlocker-encryption-keys-to-unlock-suspects-laptops-reports/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735545

Proof of Corn
https://proofofcorn.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735511

Unrolling the Codex agent loop
https://openai.com/index/unrolling-the-codex-agent-loop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46737630

Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale
https://maggieappleton.com/gastown
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46734302

Booting from a vinyl record (2020)
https://boginjr.com/it/sw/dev/vinyl-boot/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46730885

Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance
https://comma.ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46740029

New YC homepage
https://www.ycombinator.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735644

Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go
https://github.com/ramonvermeulen/whosthere
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731432

KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer
https://www.korg.com/us/products/dj/phase8/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46732967

The tech monoculture is finally breaking
http://www.jasonwillems.com/technology/2025/12/17/Tech-Is-Fun-Again/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46733624

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 23, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC
https://cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46721802

GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers
https://gptzero.me/news/neurips/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46720395

Bugs Apple Loves
https://www.bugsappleloves.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46727587

Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3tts-0115
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719229

Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?
https://eieio.games/blog/ssh-sends-100-packets-per-keystroke/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46723990

Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"
https://shreevatsa.net/post/douglas-adams-cultural-divide/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719222

Your app subscription is now my weekend project
https://rselbach.com/your-sub-is-now-my-weekend-project
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46672713

Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/capital-one-buy-fintech-firm-brex-515-billion-deal-2026-01-22/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46725288

Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem
https://dbushell.com/2026/01/22/proton-spam/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46729368