Weekly news | 2026-02-04
news
- ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data
- There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him
- Show HN: The HN Arcade
- Golden Ratio using an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle
- Amazon cuts 16k jobs
- Airfoil (2024)
- Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp
- SVG Path Editor
- Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores
- Make.ts
- ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions
- ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrants
- Extremophile molds are invading art museums
- I overengineered a spinning top [video]
- Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python
- Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance
- Virtual Boy on TV with Intelligent Systems Video Boy
- Thirty Years of the Square Kilometre Array
- Android's desktop interface leaks
- Super Monkey Ball ported to a website
- Show HN: Fuzzy Studio – Apply live effects to videos/camera
- Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Collection
- We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)
- Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images
- Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app
- Tesla ending Models S and X production
- Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking
- Mecha Comet – Open Modular Linux Handheld Computer
- Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105
- US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: Report
- Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in
- Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer
- Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica
- Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua
- County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security
- Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes
- PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible
- Tea Chemistry (1997)
- Satellites encased in wood are in the works
- The tech market is fundamentally fucked up and AI is just a scapegoat
- Show HN: ShapedQL – A SQL engine for multi-stage ranking and RAG
- Deep dive into Turso, the "SQLite rewrite in Rust"
- My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025)
- Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
- Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones
- Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
- Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban on youth social media
- The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice
- My ridiculously robust photo management system (Immich edition)
- Stonebraker on CAP theorem and Databases (2010)
- Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of an Asteroid (2024)
- Show HN: Phage Explorer
- NASA's WB-57 crash lands at Houston
- Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User
- Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?
- Naples' 1790s civil war was intensified by moral panic over Real Analysis (2023)
- A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: A Philosophy on AI in Dev
- A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived
- Giving up upstream-ing my patches and feel free to pick them up
- I trapped an AI model inside an art installation (2025) [video]
- Designing a Passively Safe API
- CERN accepts $1B in private cash towards Future Circular Collider
- Ashcan Comic
- Genode OS is a tool kit for building highly secure special-purpose OS
- Quaternion Algebras
- Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
- Declassifying JUMPSEAT: an American pioneer in space
- US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private
- Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking
- In praise of –dry-run
- Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89
- List animals until failure
- Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions
- Opentrees.org (2024)
- What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent
- The Book of PF, 4th edition
- The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video]
- VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code
- Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games
- Amiga Unix (Amix)
- MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience
- EV-1 for Lease (1996)
- Wikipedia: Sandbox
- A web server on a single floppy disk
- Apple I Advertisement (1976)
- Coffee as a staining agent substitute in electron microscopy
- Drawings of the elements of CMS detector, in the style of Leonardo da Vinci
- Ferrari vs. Markets
- English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings
- Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
- Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong
- My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs
- Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed
- Treasures found on HS2 route
- Two kinds of AI users are emerging
- Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf] (1985)
- Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
- Ian's Shoelace Site
- Contracts in Nix
- Leaked chats expose the daily life of a scam compound's enslaved workforce
- My fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
- Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route
- Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
- Ratchets in software development (2021)
- xAI joins SpaceX
- Library of Juggling
- IsoCoaster – Theme Park Builder
- EU launches government satcom program in sovereignty push
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
- What's up with all those equals signs anyway?
- GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations
- Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition
- The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal
- France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
- Agent Skills
- The Connection Machine CM-1 "Feynman" T-shirt
- Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair
- Julia
- See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments
- Carnegie Mellon Unversity Computer Club FTP Server
- Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50%
- Joedb, the Journal-Only Embedded Database
- Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site
- Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode
- The Everdeck: A Universal Card System (2019)
- Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features
- X offices raided in France
- Launch HN: Modelence (YC S25) – App Builder with TypeScript / MongoDB Framework
- Show HN: Octosphere, a tool to decentralise scientific publishing
- Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product
AI: - The Codex App - How does misalignment scale with model intelligence and task complexity?
- AWS:
- AWS MCP Server Deployment Agent SOPs |
Preview - Bedrock 1-hour duration for prompt caching
- Bedrock server-side custom tools using the Responses API
- Cognito inbound federation Lambda triggers
- Connect granular access controls for cases
- Deadline Cloud editing job name and description
- DynamoDB global tables with multi-Region strong consistency in Fault Injection Service
- ECS container health status as a CloudWatch metric
- EKS and Amazon EKS Distro version 1.35
- EventBridge 1 MB payload size
- GameLift Servers automatic scaling to and from zero instances
- IAM Identity Center now supports IPv6
- Keyspaces pre-warming with WarmThroughput for your tables
- Lambda enhanced observability for Kafka event source mappings
- Lightsail blueprints for Node.js, LAMP, and Ruby on Rails blueprints
- Marketplace AMI self-service listing experience to FPGA products
- Marketplace New Partner Revenue Measurement
- Network Firewall GenAI traffic visibility and enforcement with Web category-based filtering
- RDS for Oracle Cross-Region replicas with additional storage volumes
- RDS IPv6 for VPC endpoints of RDS Service APIs
- S3 Change the server-side encryption type
- SageMaker Unified Studio now supports AWS PrivateLink
- Transfer Family now supports Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
- WorkSpaces announces advanced printer redirection
- WorkSpaces Core monthly pricing for managed instances
- For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.
- AWS MCP Server Deployment Agent SOPs |
tooling
- Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers
- Show HN: Dwm.tmux – a dwm-inspired window manager for tmux
- Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminal
- EmulatorJS
- CPython Internals Explained
- Roots is a game server daemon that manages Docker containers for game servers
- Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc.
- Pg_tracing: Distributed Tracing for PostgreSQL
- Termux
- Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust
- AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines
- Show HN: Sandboxing untrusted code using WebAssembly
- LNAI – Define AI coding tool configs once, sync to Claude, Cursor, Codex, etc.
blogs
- Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
- Rust’s Standard Library on the GPU
- Pandas 3.0
- AISLE’s autonomous analyzer found all CVEs in the January OpenSSL release
- Some notes on starting to use Django
- I found the perfect yearly calendar (for me)
- Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants
- Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
- How to choose colors for your CLI applications (2023)
- A lot of population numbers are fake
- Decompiling Xbox games using PDB debug info
- Run Clawdbot/Moltbot on Cloudflare with Moltworker
- Benchmarking OpenTelemetry: Can AI trace your failed login?
- We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency
- An anecdote about backward compatibility
- How to explain Generative AI in the classroom
- Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025
- Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt
- FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap
- Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples
- I taught my neighbor to keep the volume down
- Sparse File LRU Cache
- Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works
- 4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)
- Founding is a snowball
- Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++
- Time Machine-style backups with rsync (2018)
- Hacking Moltbook
- Hypergrowth isn’t always easy
- Qwen3-Coder-Next
- Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog?
- Bunny Database
- Deno Sandbox