It's 2026-01-29. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds | comment
US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: Report | comment
Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica | comment
County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security | comment
PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible | comment
Tesla is committing automotive suicide | comment
Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer | comment
ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data | comment
Bugs Apple Loves | comment
Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops | comment
FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE | comment
France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc. | comment
Amazon cuts 16k jobs | comment
Television is 100 years old today | comment
We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002) | comment
Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants | comment
Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't | comment
A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch | comment
U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office | comment
Heathrow scraps liquid container limit | comment
Prism | comment
Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images | comment
Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3 | comment
Qwen3-Max-Thinking | comment
BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp | comment
Deutsche Telekom is violating Net Neutrality | comment
Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance | comment
Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only | comment
Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE | comment
430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found | comment

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data | comment
Bugs Apple Loves | comment
GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers | comment
American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis | comment
Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC | comment
STFU | comment
Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops | comment
Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries | comment
De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025) | comment
We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports | comment
FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE | comment
France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc. | comment
Amazon cuts 16k jobs | comment
Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps) | comment
Television is 100 years old today | comment
In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels | comment
Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't | comment
Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation | comment
Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced | comment
A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch | comment
U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office | comment
jQuery 4 | comment
Heathrow scraps liquid container limit | comment
Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video | comment
Prism | comment
Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963) | comment
EU–INC – One Europe. One Standard. – Pan-European Legal Entity | comment
Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete | comment
Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3 | comment
Qwen3-Max-Thinking | comment
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