HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order mRNA cancer vaccine shows protection at 5-year follow-up, Moderna and Merck say 1 17 58m +41m arstechnica.com/health/2026/01/mrna-cancer-vaccine-shows-protection-at-5-year-follow-up-moderna-and-merck-say 1[dead] ? 13 34m +4m en.wikipedia.org 2[dead] ? 14 41m +6m ft.com 3Draig, a Welsh Programming Language 10 14 2d +2d raku.land/zef:l10n/L10N::CY 4National Guard activated in Minneapolis after Border Patrol agent kills man 19 43 1h +2m apnews.com/live/minneapolis-ice-shooting-updates-1-24-2026 5Stochastic Terrorism 1 29 2h +33m en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism 6Two Weeks Until Tapeout 0 26 1h +21m essenceia.github.io/projects/two_weeks_until_tapeout 7[dead] ? 12 1h +13m youtube.com 8Tesla unsupervised Robotaxis are nowhere to be found 29 35 2h +1h lightbrd.com/ZacksJerryRig/status/2015119993428705575#m 9Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study 68 127 3h +1h keck.usc.edu/news/adoption-of-electric-vehicles-tied-to-real-world-reductions-in-air-pollution-study-finds 10Typography on Pencils (2023) 0 15 4d +4d presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/typography-on-pencils-1-5 11We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable 23 84 3h +55m eclypsium.com/blog/xray-counterfeit-usb-cable 12High-bandwidth flash progress and future 4 16 4d +3d blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/19/a-window-into-hbf-progress 13Show HN: Ask CLI – A simple tool to get help with commands from the terminal 0 3 3h +29m github.com/david-minaya/ask 14I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it 46 41 5h +2h jerpint.io/blog/2026-01-24-i-dont-write-code-anymore-i-sculpt-it 15Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology 142 172 4h +9m theconversation.com/europe-wants-to-end-its-dangerous-reliance-on-us-internet-technology-274042 16Show HN: Show HN: I built a fail-closed watchdog for ESP32/Arduino in C++ 0 4 6d +6d github.com/weareqrystal/qrystal_uplink_sdks 17Amazon braces for another major round of layoffs, 14,000 jobs at risk 132 91 4h +1m mynorthwest.com/local/amazon-layoffs-14000-jobs-at-risk/4192118 18ICE Releases RFI for User Tracking Tools 35 81 4h +21m wired.com/story/ice-asks-companies-about-ad-tech-and-big-data-tools 19[dead] ? 13 4h +5m nytimes.com 20KAOS – The Kubernetes Agent Orchestration System 4 15 4d +4d github.com/axsaucedo/kaos 21Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware 42 157 5h +51m arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/wiper-malware-targeted-poland-energy-grid-but-failed-to-knock-out-electricity 22Show HN: PicoFlow – a tiny DSL-style Python library for LLM agent workflows 0 11 3d +3d 23The Writers Came at Night 16 29 6h +15m metropolitanreview.org/p/the-writers-came-at-night 24Show HN: Debugging consent and conversion tracking with a headless scan 0 6 6d +6d consentcheck.online 25Show HN: I built a tiny daemon that reminds me what matters 1 12 5d +5d 26First Design Engineer Hire – Build Games at Gym Class (YC W22) 0 1 6h +15s ycombinator.com/companies/gym-class-by-irl-studios/jobs/ywXHGBv-design-engineer-senior-staff-principal 27Show HN: JSciPy – SciPy-inspired signal processing library for Java and Android 1 7 6h +17m github.com/hissain/jscipy 28I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog 79 217 6h +14m micahcantor.com/blog/bluesky-comment-section.html 29Show HN: Polymcp – Turn Any Python Function into an MCP Tool for AI Agents 4 15 7h +1h 30Bye Bye Gmail 101 111 7h +47m m24tom.com/bye-bye-gmail/show 31Show HN: StormWatch – Weather emergency dashboard with prep checklists 6 30 7h +47m jeisey.github.io/stormwatch 32Understanding Rust Closures 16 38 8h +1h antoine.vandecreme.net/blog/rust-closures 33Microservices for the Benefits, Not the Hustle (2023) 47 25 3d +3d wolfoliver.medium.com/the-purposes-of-microservices-4e5f373f4ea3 34Why Does Destroying Resources via TF Suck? 24 22 7h +23m newsletter.masterpoint.io/p/why-does-destroying-resources-via-tf-suck 35Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data) 47 134 7h +9m albedo.com/post/clarity-1-what-worked-and-where-we-go-next 36The Concatative Language XY 15 42 8h +53m nsl.comhttp://www./k/xy/xy.txt 37JSON-render: LLM-based JSON-to-UI tool 14 58 8h +48m json-render.dev 38Propositions about the New Romanticism 0 14 7h +15s honest-broker.com/p/25-propositions-about-the-new-romanticism 39Language may rely less on complex grammar than previously thought: study 10 19 1d +16h scitechdaily.com/have-we-been-wrong-about-language-for-70-years-new-study-challenges-long-held-theory 40Shared Claude: A website controlled by the public 18 48 19h +11h sharedclaude.com 41The Kept and the Killed (2022) 3 32 11h +4h publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-kept-and-the-killed 42Memory layout in Zig with formulas 22 85 11h +3h raymondtana.github.io/math/programming/2026/01/23/zig-alignment-and-sizing.html 43Agent orchestration for the timid 19 79 7h +29m substack.com/inbox/post/185649875 44Hung by a thread 15 14 8h +1h campedersen.com/rayon-mutex-deadlock 45Show HN: Open-source Figma design to code 8 36 21h +13h github.com/vibeflowing-inc/vibe_figma 46Looks like Claude is having a stroke 4 16 7h +4m twitter.com/tskulbru/status/2015148189897101622 47BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp 277 423 8h +21m birdy.chat/blog/first-to-interoperate-with-whatsapp 48Small Kafka: Tansu and SQLite on a free t3.micro 7 62 4d +4d blog.tansu.io/articles/broker-aws-free-tier 49Get-Shit-Done 2 13 8h +32m github.com/glittercowboy/get-shit-done 50[dead] ? 10 8h +30s old.reddit.com 51US Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional 106 78 9h +23m nytimes.com/2026/01/23/health/milhoan-vaccines-optional-polio.html 52Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison 73 135 9h +19m the-diy-life.com/raspberry-pi-drag-race-pi-1-to-pi-5-performance-comparison 53Federal Agents Kill Another Person in Minneapolis Immigration Crackdown 2 179 9h +11m time.com/7357547/minneapolis-shooting-ice-agent 54Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam? 96 141 11h +2h 55C++26 Reflection loves QRangeModel 6 28 4d +4d qt.io/blog/c26-reflection-qrangemodel 56December in Servo: multiple windows, proxy support, better caching, and more 12 137 10h +48m servo.org/blog/2026/01/23/december-in-servo 57Gmail Spam Detection Down 3 35 9h +11m google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/incidents/NNnDkY9CJ36annsfytjQ?hl=en 58Tao Te Ching – Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin 77 190 10h +30m github.com/nrrb/tao-te-ching/blob/master/Ursula%20K%20Le%20Guin.md 59[dead] ? 21 10h +2m text.tchncs.de 60How I Became a Quant (2007) [pdf] 76 87 5d +5d engineering.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/2021-10/How_I_Became_a_Quant%20%281%29.pdf 61Maze Algorithms (2017) 26 101 1d +21h jamisbuck.orghttp://www./mazes 62We are experiencing an issue with Gmail beginning on Saturday, 2026-01-24 13:02 1 28 10h +10m google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/incidents/NNnDkY9CJ36annsfytjQ 63Metriport (YC S22) is hiring a security eng to harden healthcare data infra 0 1 10h +6s ycombinator.com/companies/metriport/jobs/XC2AF8s-senior-security-engineer 64Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning 509 486 10h +10m startribune.com/ice-raids-minnesota/601546426 65Are we all plagiarists now? 117 97 10h +10m economist.com/culture/2026/01/22/are-we-all-plagiarists-now 66Minneapolis Authorities Respond to Shooting Involving ICE Agents 22 94 10h +2m nytimes.com/live/2026/01/24/us/minneapolis-shooting-ice 67After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [video] 122 111 11h +7m youtube.com/watch?v=SKTsNV41DYg 68The GNU C Library version 2.43 released 2 18 12h +1h sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2026-January/174374.html 696 Years Building Video Players. 9B Requests. Starting Over 14 35 4d +4d mux.com/blog/6-years-building-video-players-9-billion-requests-starting-over 70Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms 230 322 12h +31m twitter.com/NicerInPerson/status/2014989679796347375 71Ask HN: May an agent accept a license to produce a build? 47 26 12h +4m 72MS confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption key if asked 284 463 14h +1h windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-bitlocker-encryption-keys-give-fbi-legal-order-privacy-nightmare 73How I estimate work 256 428 16h +3h seangoedecke.com/how-i-estimate-work 74FOSS "just fork it" delusion 80 59 13h +13m hamishcampbell.com/foss-just-fork-it-delusion 75XHTML Club 107 60 14h +27m xhtml.club 76[dead] ? 10 14h +31m 77JVIC: New web-based Commodore VIC 20 emulator 35 37 15h +1h vic20.games/#/basic/24k 78You can't pay me to prompt 120 55 14h +34m dbushell.com/2025/06/18/ai-policy 79When employees feel slighted, they work less 232 289 4d +4d penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-wharton-when-employees-feel-slighted-they-work-less 80Genetic Data from over 20k U.S. Children Misused for 'Race Science' 4 16 15h +1h nytimes.com/2026/01/24/us/children-genetics-race-science.html 81Air Pollution in World: Real-Time Air Quality Index Visual Map 9 18 16h +2h aqicn.org/map/world 82Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite 98 155 16h +1h sqlite.org/np1queryprob.html 83I Like GitLab 116 176 16h +2h whileforloop.com/en/blog/2026/01/21/i-like-gitlab 84Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey? [pdf] 9 50 4d +4d med.unc.edu/uncaims/wp-content/uploads/sites/764/2014/03/Oncken-_-Wass-Who_s-Got-the-Monkey.pdf 85Unveiling Firestore Pipeline operations – Firestore's powerful new query engine 3 6 5d +5d firebase.blog/posts/2026/01/firestore-enterprise-pipeline-operations 86How Debt Bankrupted the British Empire, and Why America Is Walking the Same Path 17 35 19h +2h nitishastra.substack.com/p/how-debt-bankrupted-the-british-empire 87Show HN: I built a space travel calculator using Vanilla JavaScript 34 52 17h +48m cosmic-odometer.vercel.app 88Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires 246 432 17h +19m thehftguy.com/2026/01/22/doing-gigabit-ethernet-over-my-british-phone-wires 89Eloquent: Improving Text Editing on Mobile (2021) 3 4 20h +3h dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3474349.3480178 90Modetc: Move your dotfiles from kernel space 38 45 19h +2h maxwell.eurofusion.eu/git/rnhmjoj/modetc 91Show HN: Coi – A language that compiles to WASM, beats React/Vue 63 199 4d +3d 92Repatriate the gold': German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults 32 75 17h +12m theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/24/repatriate-the-gold-german-economists-advise-withdrawal-from-us-vaults 93The strange case of the underestimated Merge Join node 0 27 5d +4d blog.dalibo.com/2026/01/12/under-estimated-mergejoin.html 94“Let people help” – Advice that made a big difference to a grieving widow 62 154 1d +5h npr.org/2026/01/20/nx-s1-5683170/let-them-the-small-bit-of-advice-that-made-a-big-difference-to-a-grieving-widow 95If You Think This Instrument Is Hard to Play, Try Building One 7 24 5d +5d nytimes.com/2026/01/14/arts/music/oboe-laubin-jim-phelan.html 9680386 Multiplication and Division 30 96 21h +1h nand2mario.github.io/posts/2026/80386_multiplication_and_division 97Traintrackr – Live LED Maps 30 98 5d +4d traintrackr.co.uk 98Telli (YC F24) is hiring eng, design, growth [on-site, Berlin] 0 1 20h +7s careers.telli.com 99Air traffic control: the IBM 9020 6 57 6d +5d computer.rip/2026-01-17-air-traffic-control-9020.html 100Extracting verified C++ from the Rocq theorem prover at Bloomberg 27 116 4d +3d bloomberg.github.io/crane 101Internet Archive's Storage 84 276 4d +3d blog.dshr.org/2026/01/internet-archives-storage.html 102The Internet Doesn't Suck: Blame Big Tech, Not the Internet 27 41 1d +1h riverseeber.net/blog/post/the-internet-doesnt-suck 103[dead] ? 30 1d +24m theguardian.com 104SEC obtains final consent judgments against former FTX and Alameda executives 91 107 1d +18m sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/litigation-releases/lr-26450 105I built an in-memory rate limiter in a Next.js project 1 5 3d +2d freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-an-in-memory-rate-limiter-in-nextjs 106Losing 1½ Million Lines of Go 10 95 5d +4d tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/01/14/Unicode-Properties 107Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance 203 336 1d +43m comma.ai 108[dead] ? 26 1d +1h perplexity.ai 109Voyage-multimodal-3.5: A new multimodal retrieval frontier with video support 1 9 1d +2h blog.voyageai.com/2026/01/15/voyage-multimodal-3-5 110Wilson Lin on FastRender: a browser built by parallel agents 52 69 1d +2h simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/23/fastrender 111Workspaces and Monorepos in Package Managers 3 27 4d +3d nesbitt.io/2026/01/18/workspaces-and-monorepos-in-package-managers.html 112Noora Health (YC W14) Is Hiring AI/ML Engineer 0 1 1d +26s ycombinator.com/companies/noora-health/jobs/2B4RxLG-ai-ml-engineer 113OpenAI to Take a Percentage from Customer AI-Assisted R&D Outcomes 25 18 1d +1h news.aibase.com/news/24859 114Minnesota activist releases arrest video after manipulated White House version 52 170 1d +14m apnews.com/article/minnesota-activist-ice-protest-church-video-49faf3efd54e496388651aac1369fb44 115The SIM-to-real problem isn't about simulators – it's about behavior robustness 4 24 5d +4d medium.com/@freefabian/introducing-the-concept-of-kinematic-fingerprints-8e9bb332cc85 116 More... 2026.01.23