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hacker news · February 4, 2026

Hacker News for Feb 4, 2026

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Orbital AI data centers debate Vibe coding and deep thinking Always-on personal AI assistants

hacker news · February 3, 2026

Hacker News for Feb 3, 2026

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AI models fail incoherently OpenAI Codex macOS agents One config for AI tools

hacker news · February 2, 2026

Hacker News for Feb 2, 2026

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Malicious VS Code AI extensions Termux security and Android limits Nano-vLLM and LLM serving

hacker news · February 1, 2026

Hacker News for Feb 1, 2026

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Carrier-requested GPS location privacy Zero-trust networking without VPNs Minimal AI coding agent tools

hacker news · January 31, 2026

Hacker News for Jan 31, 2026

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Ancient tablet, possible asteroid EU push for sovereign cloud Latency-based IP geolocation CLI

hacker news · January 30, 2026

Hacker News for Jan 30, 2026

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Robotaxi crash rate in Austin LLMs redefining software development Hidden costs of generative AI

hacker news · January 29, 2026

Hacker News for Jan 29, 2026

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Speed-of-light email bug New ESA weather sounder images Supplements versus antidepressants debate

hacker news · January 28, 2026

Hacker News for Jan 28, 2026

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WhatsApp moves media parsing to Rust tmux gets dwm-style tiling pandas 3.0 breaks and speeds up

hacker news · January 27, 2026

Hacker News for Jan 27, 2026

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Agent swarms in open models Swift-first Tauri-style desktop apps Xfce’s Wayland compositor roadmap

hacker news · January 26, 2026

Hacker News for Jan 26, 2026

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Brain waves shape body ownership Vibe coding versus open source Browser as agent sandbox

hacker news · January 25, 2026

Hacker News for Jan 25, 2026

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DOOM streamed from earbuds Mac posture app blurs screen SwiftUI tabs plus split panes

hacker news · January 24, 2026

Hacker News for Jan 24, 2026

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BitLocker keys and FBI orders GitLab as a private workshop Codex CLI agent loop details

hacker news · January 23, 2026

Hacker News for Jan 23, 2026

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Outlook Autodiscover credential misrouting Strict AI rules in Ghostty AI as tool, not magic

hacker news · January 22, 2026

Hacker News for Jan 22, 2026

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ChatGPT and cognitive load Next-edit code prediction model curl security.txt and reporting

hacker news · January 21, 2026

Hacker News for Jan 21, 2026

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Can you beat Claude’s benchmark? AI-assisted cloud cluster tooling EU-wide startup incorporation proposal

hacker news · January 20, 2026

Hacker News for Jan 20, 2026

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Severe geomagnetic storm update Sandboxing Claude Code safely Emulating PCIe devices in Linux

hacker news · January 19, 2026

Hacker News for Jan 19, 2026

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EU Digital Omnibus privacy rollback GDPR changes for AI training AI Act delays and transparency

hacker news · January 18, 2026

Hacker News for Jan 18, 2026

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Topological attention for transformers CLI control of Figma Infrastructure for coding agents

hacker news · January 17, 2026

Hacker News for Jan 17, 2026

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Sharper image-to-ASCII rendering AI agent in RollerCoaster Tycoon ClickHouse buys Langfuse tracing

hacker news · January 16, 2026

Hacker News for Jan 16, 2026

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CPU voice cloning breakthrough De-bloated browsers via policies OpenBSD on Apple hypervisor

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