It's 2026-01-31. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban on youth social media | comment
Mobile carriers can get your GPS location | comment
The UK paid £4.1M for a bookmarks site | comment
Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles | comment
Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut from All Patreon Creators in iOS App | comment
Court Filings: ICE App Identifies Protesters; Global Entry, PreCheck Get Revoked | comment
How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills | comment
Swift is a more convenient Rust | comment
Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105 | comment
AISLE’s autonomous analyzer found all CVEs in the January OpenSSL release | comment
Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python | comment
Thief of $90M in seized U.S.-controlled crypto is gov't contractor's son | comment
Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent | comment
CPython Internals Explained | comment
Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings | comment
Moltbook | 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
Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds | 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

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data | comment
Bugs Apple Loves | comment
Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings | comment
GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers | comment
American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis | comment
Moltbook | comment
Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC | 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
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
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
Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds | 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
Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images | comment
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