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1. So You've Decided to Become Dead to the World: On Becoming an Anchoress

https://medievalmarginalia.substack.com/p/so-youve-decided-to-become-dead-to

2 points by: dmazin 16.01.2026 10:41 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 11:18 UTC

2. More than 100k people urge MPs to ban social media for under-16s in UK

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan/15/people-urge-mps-ban-social-media-under-16s-uk-starmer

4 points by: giuliomagnifico 16.01.2026 10:37 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 11:18 UTC

3. Show HN: Mambo – An Experimental Kubernetes Autoscaler for MongoDB Clusters

https://github.com/Chen-Si-An/Autoscaling

1 points by: b00611024-uiuc 16.01.2026 10:33 UTC Added: 16.01.2026 10:33 UTC

4. Tool Search Now in Claude Code

https://twitter.com/trq212/status/2011523109871108570

1 points by: michaelmior 16.01.2026 10:32 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 11:18 UTC

5. Is CAPTCHA still a thing in 2026 (Captcha 3.5)?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46645024

1 points by: jarirajari 16.01.2026 10:32 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 11:18 UTC

6. How the Base UI team prevents UI regressions at scale

https://argos-ci.com/customers/mui

1 points by: neoziro 16.01.2026 10:31 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 11:15 UTC

7. VS Code extensions to code with AI that only a few know about

https://diploi.com/blog/exploring-7-lesser-known-ai-coding-extensions

1 points by: javierpresnsr 16.01.2026 10:30 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 11:12 UTC

8. Crane Lowers Rocq Safely into C++ [pdf]

https://bloomberg.github.io/crane/papers/crane-rocqpl26.pdf

2 points by: pjmlp 16.01.2026 10:30 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 11:15 UTC

9. Wikimédia to Partner with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, and Perplexity

https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/blog/wikipedia-25-enterprise-partners/

1 points by: mrtnmrtn 16.01.2026 10:23 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 11:12 UTC

10. Show HN: Free AI Image Upscaler (100% local, private, and free)

https://freeaitoolforthat.com/ai-image-upscaler

3 points by: tamnv 16.01.2026 10:23 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 11:12 UTC

11. On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) [pdf]

https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/crisis/crisis.pdf

34 points by: barishnamazov 16.01.2026 10:21 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 11:06 UTC

12. Promoting AI Agents

https://world.hey.com/dhh/promoting-ai-agents-3ee04945

1 points by: kiyanwang 16.01.2026 10:21 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 11:06 UTC

13. Hands-On: Exploit RISC-V CPU Using Return-Oriented Programming

https://www.bogdandeac.com/hands-on-exploit-risc-v-cpu-using-return-oriented-programming/

2 points by: bg2d 16.01.2026 10:21 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 11:12 UTC

14. Chrome 145 Adds Experimental Support for Vertical Tabs

https://www.bram.us/2026/01/16/chrome-145-adds-experimental-support-for-vertical-tabs/

2 points by: tobr 16.01.2026 10:20 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 11:06 UTC

15. The Magic of the Better Software Conference

https://www.rfleury.com/p/the-magic-of-the-better-software

1 points by: kruuuder 16.01.2026 10:20 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 11:06 UTC

16. John von Neumann's MANIAC I (1952)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MANIAC_I

1 points by: widenrun 16.01.2026 10:16 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 10:57 UTC

17. I vibed a CMS with live-preview/users/click-through-edit in an afternoon

https://github.com/mj1618/yolo-cms

2 points by: mj2718 16.01.2026 10:16 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 11:03 UTC

18. Operation Big Buzz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Big_Buzz

1 points by: downboots 16.01.2026 10:15 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 10:54 UTC

19. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46644883

3 points by: ssunboyy 16.01.2026 10:08 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 10:54 UTC

20. Show HN: Wikitool – CLI for fetching Wikipedia content

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46644846

2 points by: moeffju 16.01.2026 10:03 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 10:51 UTC

21. The Thrill Is Gone: Airbnb and the Crisis of Imagination in Short-Term Rentals

https://skift.com/2026/01/15/the-thrill-is-gone-airbnb-and-the-crisis-of-imagination-in-short-term-rentals/

3 points by: jclampet 16.01.2026 10:03 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 10:51 UTC

22. Pi: There are many coding agents, but this one is mine

https://buildwithpi.ai/

1 points by: tosh 16.01.2026 09:53 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 10:48 UTC

23. Show HN: Using Strudel to control character dance animations

https://github.com/bntre/threejs-osc-dance

2 points by: bntr 16.01.2026 09:51 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 10:48 UTC

24. AI Destroys Institutions

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5870623

7 points by: sean_the_geek 16.01.2026 09:49 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 10:48 UTC

25. The integrated explicit analytic number theory network

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/the-integrated-explicit-analytic-number-theory-network/

2 points by: jjgreen 16.01.2026 09:48 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 10:48 UTC

26. Control Flow Integrity for Computer Use Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09923

1 points by: iliaishacked 16.01.2026 09:46 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 10:45 UTC

27. Kamal: Deploy Web Apps Anywhere

https://kamal-deploy.org/

2 points by: ndr 16.01.2026 09:45 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 10:45 UTC

28. Show HN: Codex Plus – Turbocharged OpenAI Codex for Headless Workflows

https://github.com/aperoc/codex-plus

1 points by: SafeDusk 16.01.2026 09:44 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 10:45 UTC

29. The Discoveries of Continuations [pdf]

https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/papers-we-love/reynolds-discoveries.pdf

2 points by: fanf2 16.01.2026 09:42 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 10:45 UTC

30. If a Tree Falls – The Trial of the Sycamore Gap Killers

https://harpers.org/archive/2026/01/if-a-tree-falls-rosa-lyster-sycamore-gap/

1 points by: bcraven 16.01.2026 09:41 UTC Last Updated: 16.01.2026 10:42 UTC