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The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs Claude Cowork exfiltrates files The <Geolocation> HTML Element Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally? Furiosa: 3.5x efficiency over H100s New Safari developer tools provide insight into CSS Grid Lanes Nao Labs (Open-Source Analytics Agent, YC X25) Is Hiring Ask HN: Share your personal website Have Taken Up Farming Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level turn-taking without ASR Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app Scaling long-running autonomous coding Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files Project SkyWatch (a.k.a. Wescam at Home) The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography Bare metal programming with RISC-V guide (2023) Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today? Sun Position Calculator Show HN: WebTiles – create a tiny 250x250 website with neighbors around you SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation Find a pub that needs you Show HN: Webctl – Browser automation for agents based on CLI instead of MCP Crafting Interpreters Desperately Seeking Squircles (2018) A letter to those who fired tech writers because of AI Generate QR Codes with Pure SQL in PostgreSQL How can I build a simple pulse generator to demonstrate transmission lines Ask HN: What is the best way to provide continuous context to models? MIT Whirlwind I: A High-Speed Electronic Digital Computer (1951) [pdf]30 heise online News
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heise+ | All-in-One-PC im Test: Asus ExpertCenter P600 AIO mit Ryzen-AI-300-Prozessor heise+ | Wie Sie den Empfang von Paketen optimal steuern heise+ | Frostwarner im Eigenbau: Schaltung zur Temperaturerkennung für Pflanzen Ricoh GR IV Monochrome: Kompaktkamera mit Sensor für die Schwarz-Weiß-Fotografie AWS verspricht Souveränität mit europäischem Cloudangebot Xiaomi Redmi Note 15: Fünf Modelle, nicht alle mit 5G Roblox fordert User zur Altersüberprüfung auf heise-Angebot: TDWI München 2026: Jetzt noch Vortrag für die Konferenz einreichen Urteil: Kassenpatienten dürfen nicht unfreiwillig zu Selbstzahlern werden „Civilization 7“ kommt zu Apple Arcade KI in der Medizin: "Maschine darf nicht alleine entscheiden" Die Produktwerker: Die Macht der Pause NPU für den Raspberry Pi 5: Edge-KI-Beschleuniger leistet bis zu 40 Tops Windows Update-Nebenwirkungen: Verbindungsfehler mit Windows 365 Windenergieausbau in der EU zu langsam für Klimaziele heise-Angebot: iX-Workshop: Microsoft 365 Copilot für IT-Administratoren Nexperia: Gericht prüft Vorwürfe gegen Chip-Hersteller heise+ | Wikipedia wird 25: Zwischen Wissensmacht und Existenzkampf Erstmals in der Geschichte: ISS-Crew muss medizinisch evakuiert werden Donnerstag: Zwist um Exporte von KI-Chips, Kalifornien gegen Groks KI-Bilder #heiseshow: Metaverse, Apple-KI, ChatGPT in der Schule Erster US-Bundesstaat geht gegen xAI und Grok wegen sexualisierter KI-Bilder vor heise+ | Notebooks für 2026: Geräte mit neuen Prozessoren von der CES Doch kein Zwang zu digitalem Ausweis und Handy im Vereinigten Königreich Trump erlaubt Ausfuhr, doch Peking verbietet Einfuhr von Nvidias H200-Chips Razzia in Deutschland: Behörden machen Cybercrime-Hoster RedVDS dicht Top 10: Das beste Kurbelradio im Test Justiz-Schlappe: Razzien im Fall Indymedia linksunten waren rechtswidrig Aus Fotos werden 3D-Umgebungen: Apples neues KI-Modell mit iPhone ausprobieren Salesforce: Slack soll zur „KI-Schaltzentrale” werden22 PC Gaming
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Tech Support and Basic Questions Thread - January 15, 2026 What Are You Playing Thread - January 12, 2026 One Modder Almost Doubled Monster Hunter Wilds’ Performance (After Disabling DLC Checkers) GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software… I can't believe it!' Nvidia DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution leaves beta, available now to Nvidia app users — update includes support for over 400 titles with new presets Disco Elysium had so much text it broke the branching narrative software: 'we were writing too much' Fallout veteran Ron Perlman says he was paid "40 dollars and a sandwich" for his voiceover work in the original game Terraria 1.4.5 will release on January 27th The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon has released on Epic Games Store, GOG and Steam Total War: WARHAMMER 40,000 - 1 Million Wishlists No Rest for the Wicked Together | Co-op | Official Trailer It Takes Two Has Sold Almost 27m Copies, A Way Out at "Over 12m" Forza Horizon 6 Release Date Potentially Leaks In FH5 Star Wars Battlefront 2 modders have formed a rebellion and refuse to stop updating the game. Most PC players are now playing new content through a community-led server platform called Kyber Moorestech — 5-year solo dev gear-driven factory automation RPG, the Steam page is live！！ About 20 minutes of Brigador Killers gameplay footage Hytale surges to the most-watched game on Twitch, attracting over 420,000 viewers with its long-awaited launch Steam dev says his game got harder because young people can't write an email We are the small team that set the Italian Kickstarter record for a videogame in 2017. We are back with The Ballad Singer: Knights Templar, a Historical Strategy RPG. To celebrate the Kickstarter launch, I'm giving away $20 Steam Credit + 10 Game Keys! Former Bethesda lead says The Elder Scrolls 6 got announced so early because the studio had to make sure 'people were not just pissed at us' for revealing Starfield instead Coming to Steam 2026: Max Savage - Wing Commander meets Zelda in a 90s space sim / action-adventure If you like naval RTS games, the reboot of Corsairs is coming in 2026!25 programming
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Ken Thompson rewrote his code in real-time. A federal court said he co-created MP3. So why has no one heard of James D. Johnston? A good test of engineering team maturity is how well you can absorb junior talent LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3 How a 40-Line Fix Eliminated a 400x Performance Gap Zero-copy SIMD parsing to handle unaligned reads and lifetime complexity in binary protocols Open source strategies Why do writing code feels easier than reading someone else's code ? Do this matters in jobs graph: A library for creating generic graph data structures and modifying, analyzing, and visualizing them. Partitioning vs Sharding: A Simple Explanation for Growing Databases Rust is being used at Volvo Cars Unpopular Opinion: SAGA Pattern is just a fancy name for Manual Transaction Management Quick Fix Archaeology - 3 famous hacks that changed the world Same Prompt, Same Task — 2 of 3 AI coding assistant succeeded including OpenCode Pidgin Markup For Writing, or How Much Can HTML Sustain? A 4-part technical series on how I built NES in VS Code for a coding agent Python Program Obfuscation Tool Your estimates take longer than expected, even when you account for them taking longer — Parkinson's & Hofstadter's Laws Java is prototyping adding null checks to the type system! PR Review Guidelines: What I Look For in Code Reviews The Unbearable Frustration of Figuring Out APIs I let the internet vote on what code gets merged. Here's what happened in Week 1. Caching Playbook for System Design Interviews Why I Don’t Trust Software I Didn’t Suffer For Why your coding agent keeps undoing your architecture25 /r/Technology
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Supreme Court Hacked, Proving Its Cybersecurity Is As Robust As Its Ethical Code Website that leaked info about ICE agents is down after cyberattack. FBI fights leaks by seizing Washington Post reporter’s phone, laptops, and watch | FBI searches home and devices of reporter who has over 1,100 government contacts. Bandcamp becomes the first major music platform to ban AI content Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud 'Warhammer' Maker Games Workshop Bans Its Staff From Using AI in Its Content or Designs, Says None of Its Senior Managers Are Currently Excited About the Tech Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public Regulators say DoorDash and Uber Eats chiseled NYC delivery workers out of $550M in tips California to investigate xAI over Grok chatbot images, officials say Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform | Indie music store says it wants fans to have confidence music was largely made by humans US tech giants allying with European far-right to strip back EU rules Personal information of 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol agents is leaked online Waymo passenger jumps out of self-driving car after it stops on rail tracks near oncoming train UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake Use of AI to harm women has only just begun, experts warn US tech giants allying with European far-right to strip back EU rules CrowdStrike shareholders lose battle to recoup losses from 2024 outage US teachers union says it is leaving X over sexualized AI images of children QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year President says that AI tech companies need to ‘pay their own way’ when it comes to their electricity consumption — says major changes are coming to ensure Americans don't 'pick up the tab' for data centers AI may be everywhere, but it's nowhere in recent productivity statistics Microsoft Copilot Reprompt exploit allowed attackers to steal your AI data AI Risks Leaving 25% of New College Grads Jobless, Senator Says Roblox's Age Verification Is a Joke How prediction markets turned life into a dystopian gambling experiment25 Open Source on Reddit
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The top 20 OSI-Approved licenses most frequently sought out by our community in 2025 based on number of pageviews. Made a free and open source web app to render .blend files on cloud GPUs because my laptop was dying I added P2P collaboration and visual dependency tracing to my serverless spreadsheet. I built film negative converter/editor Spade: Open-source code snippet image generator (Next.js + Tailwind) I built a Modern Satellite Orbit Propagation Service powered by U.S. Space Force SGP4/SGP4-XP orbital propagator MosaicGrid – Easy Mosaic Grid Layouts for SwiftUI Apps I built an open-source OAuth Mock Server for E2E testing built liqgui - glassmorphism UI components with spring physics (inspired by iOS liquid glass) The OSPO Virtual Event Looking for contributors to help build an open-source visual archiving tool (Firefox Extension + Dashboard) Looking for open source sponsers GNU Hurd doesn't not yet support UEFI Atlas agent replacement? I built a CLI that adds NextAuth + protected routes to an existing Next.js app in one command A small application live streaming crypto price on your system tray Blobcache: Content-Addressed Storage Are there any opensource / modable TVs? CareDay: A Simple, Open-Source App for Home Daycares Keyboard-oriented Zsweep | Finding contributors | Vim-motions Build-in-public: AGPL CRM core with map/pipeline — would love OSS feedback + collaborators How do yall publish executables signed? Built a dotfiles manager that handles the annoying edge cases AI-startup's concepts are all same with our MIT-licensed OSS projects. Is this convergent evolution? or OSS etiquette violation? Manage third-party licenses22 /r/space: news, articles and discussion
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All Space Questions thread for week of January 11, 2026 ISS astronauts begin journey back to Earth in Nasa’s first ever medical evacuation | Four astronauts undock from International Space Station, with the affected crewmember in a stable condition, says space agency Splashdown! In NASA/ISS' first ever medical evacuation, Crew-11 Dragon has safely returned back to Earth following an early end to their mission due to a medical emergency. The affected astronaut is in a stable condition. Scientists Watched Viruses Attack Bacteria in Space. Things Got Weird | "Microbes continue to evolve under microgravity, and they do so in ways that are not always predictable." European Space Agency hosts China's space leaders Where's the hype for the Plato Telescope? First time we can find Earth sized planets around Sun sized stars I built a real-time ISS tracker that shows exactly when the station will be visible from your location MelodySheep Ch. 4 just dropped. Panspermia! The astronauts, part of a mission called Crew-11, are scheduled to splash down around 3:40 a.m ET Thursday off the coast of California. The United States Congress has passed a NASA budget that "does not support the existing Mars Sample Return program”, NASA officials are sending signals that the MSR program is effectively dead Space Force just moved GPS SV09 from ULA Vulcan to a SpaceX Falcon 9 so it can launch ASAP. Portugal signs the Artemis Accords From a new flagship space telescope to lunar exploration, global cooperation – and competition – will make 2026 an exciting year for space Trump Declared a Space Race With China. The US Is Losing What is everyone's favourite thing about space? (For college work) What is the beehive cluster? When, how to see swarm of stars in January The moon has been stealing Earth’s atmosphere for billions of years It's Almost 'All Systems Go' for Artemis 2 to Take the Next Giant Leap Toward Stepping on the Moon Again Advisory on the Long March 8A rocket launch carlsagan “A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our survival. It is our birthright. Rural areas have darker skies but fewer resources for students interested in astronomy – telescopes in schools can help Mars was a "blue planet" around three billion years ago, half covered by an ocean21 Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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Mirror's Edge's iconic art style? Yeah, turns out it was sort of an accident Point-and-click adventure game filled with "ah yeah, them" British actors Earth Must Die is out later this month What's next for GOG? Publishing games, maybe, but its new owner isn't in any rush As if making the System Shock remake wasn't tough enough, someone apparently called the FBI on Nightdive during development Rockstar launch official roleplay mods store where you can spend $67 to turn GTA into Euro Truck Simulator 2 Playing Hytale on the Steam Deck takes some classic PC spannering, but the effort is rewarded I have no idea what you do in Hypnos, but its cosmic horror, megastructure world looks so pretty I'm not bothered The Elder Scrolls 6 in the Summerset Isles would be cool, or so recently unearthed Daggerfall-era dev D&D notes have convinced me Forza Horizon 6's release date might have raced onto the streets faster than planned, thanks to an ad Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick accuses Embracer of secretly organising a lawsuit against him and Microsoft Anthem could be revived as a trad BioWare singleplayer RPG for $10 million, says former Dragon Age producer Games Workshop ban staff from using genAI in Warhammer, saying they're not “excited about it yet” Valve stress again that there'll be more Steam Machine Verified games than Steam Deck ones, with "fewer constraints" in their testing programme Hytale's first hotfix targets crash-inducing hairdos and buckets, as its devs outline update plans for the next few months Hytale's out now and its devs are advising those suffering download issues or errors to keep plugging away Shush, Helldivers 2's Redacted Regiment warbond is all about being sneakily stealthy and silently suppressed “Lore should not be a strict set of rules," says Hytale developer in a tribute to player "archaeology" Fallout: London hasn't developed into a Fallout 4-esque hub of new quest and expansion mods so far, and its lead has theories why Arc Raiders studio want future Expeditions to be less about fat stacks and FOMO Having asked Division devs to lay themselves off, Ubisoft are now cutting 55 jobs at Massive and Ubisoft Stockholm "AI is bad, game will be deleted" concludes developer behind sloppy Steam card battler, before setting the self-destruct timer25 Formula 1
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2025 FIA Awards Ceremony - Live Discussion (not actually live, but you get the idea) Ask r/Formula1 Anything - Daily Discussion Thread Finally found a use for the extreme wets Ferrari's F1 livery is 'not good design', says Audi's new title sponsor [Redbull Racing] MV3 & DR3 Max Verstappen knew exactly that he was three seconds off Arvid’s time. [redbullracing on X] 24 hours and counting until Season Launch (plus small tease of front nose/livery) Enhanced look at the 2026 Red Bull from the new promotional content [AutoRacer IT] The Mercedes engine is the only one with the compression trick for 2026. Audi is the team pushing hardest for this to be declared illegal. Ford Makes Jab At Cadillac F1 Team Over Ferrari Alliance [Craig Scarborough]Another look back, this time to the 2014 #F1 reg changes, when no one thought they'd actually run the noses I'd predicted... [motorsportcom] Isack Hadjar and Liam Lawson Suffering together with lip sync videos NASCAR fan interested in following F1, where to start? Today I learned Michael Schumacher beat Ayrton Senna in his first full season in 1992 F1 Drivers Race 100 Years Of Cars - Lindblad, Verstappen and a sneaky Ricciardo [Oracle Red Bull Racing] Fit checks are hitting different in '26 F1® The Movie — Behind the VFX | Behind the Scenes | Apple TV What are your favourite extinct F1 practices which might surprise newcomers to the sport? Lidl UK has these RedBull 3D puzzles [philippe_bianchi] Jules Bianchi’s kart has been found! AstonMartinF1 on X - Built with intent. James Hunt Ending His F1 Career In The Most James Hunt Fashion Possible | 1979 Monaco Grand Prix [Off-Topic]Dakar 2026 - Extended Highlights Stage 10 The Rosin family leaves Prema after more than 40 years [Giorgio Piola]Curious coincidences. The front wing of the 2026 car is very reminiscent of that of the 2006 McLaren MP4/21...20 Ars Technica - All content
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Exclusive: Volvo tells us why having Gemini in your next car is a good thing A British redcoat’s lost memoir resurfaces Musk and Hegseth vow to “make Star Trek real” but miss the show’s lessons SC measles outbreak has gone berserk: 124 cases since Friday, 409 quarantined A single click mounted a covert, multistage attack against Copilot I can’t stop shooting Oddcore’s endless waves of weird little guys FBI fights leaks by seizing Washington Post reporter’s phone, laptops, and watch US gov’t: House sysadmin stole 200 phones, caught by House IT desk Grok was finally updated to stop undressing women and children, X Safety says Federal data underscores meteoric rise of streaming subscription prices in 2025 Civilization VII is headed to iPhone and iPad with “Arcade Edition” Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform Man got $2,500 whole-body MRI that found no problems—then had massive stroke Scientists sequence a woolly rhino genome from a 14,400-year-old wolf’s stomach Gemini can now scan your photos, email, and more to provide better answers Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI “hallucination” when banning football fans EPA makes it harder for states, tribes to block pipelines Is 2026 the year buttons come back to cars? Crash testers say yes. BMW’s first electric M car is coming in 2027—with one motor per wheel The RAM shortage’s silver lining: Less talk about “AI PCs”20 Science - Ars Technica
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A British redcoat’s lost memoir resurfaces Scientists sequence a woolly rhino genome from a 14,400-year-old wolf’s stomach EPA makes it harder for states, tribes to block pipelines EPA moves to stop considering economic benefits of cleaner air Switching water sources improved hygiene of Pompeii’s public baths NASA launches new mission to get the most out of the James Webb Space Telescope That time Will Smith helped discover new species of anaconda The oceans just keep getting hotter These 60,000-year-old poison arrows are oldest yet found NASA orders “controlled medical evacuation” from the International Space Station These dogs eavesdrop on their owners to learn new words Trump withdraws US from world’s most important climate treaty NASA considers evacuating ailing crew member from International Space Station Japanese nuclear plant operator fabricated seismic risk data New battery idea gets lots of power out of unusual sulfur chemistry We have a fossil closer to our split with Neanderthals and Denisovans Here are the launches and landings we’re most excited about in 2026 Appeals court agrees that Congress blocked cuts to research costs Ørsted seeks injunction against US government over project freeze Under anti-vaccine RFK Jr., CDC slashes childhood vaccine schedule20 Gaming - Ars Technica
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I can’t stop shooting Oddcore’s endless waves of weird little guys Civilization VII is headed to iPhone and iPad with “Arcade Edition” Is this the beginning of the end for GameStop? Seasonal Switch 2 sales show significant slowing as annual cycle sunsets SteamOS continues its slow spread across the PC gaming landscape With GeForce Super GPUs missing in action, Nvidia focuses on software upgrades Nvidia’s new G-Sync Pulsar monitors target motion blur at the human retina level Intel launches Core Ultra Series 3 CPUs, made using its long-awaited 18A process AMD reheats last year’s Ryzen AI and X3D CPUs for 2026’s laptops and desktops BioWare’s Anthem will soon be completely unplayable Ars readers gave over $42,000 in our 2025 Charity Drive Final reminder: Donate to win swag in our annual Charity Drive sweepstakes In the ’90s, Wing Commander: Privateer made me realize what kind of games I love Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025 Call of Duty co-creator and Battlefield lead Vince Zampella dies in car crash Switch 2 pub backs off Game Key Cards after leaking lower-cost cartridge options Riot Games is making an anti-cheat change that could be rough on older PCs We asked four AI coding agents to rebuild Minesweeper—the results were explosive Reminder: Donate to win swag in our annual Charity Drive sweepstakes RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders16 OSnews
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Just the Browser: scripts to remove all the crap from your browser Haiku’s 6th beta is getting closer, but you really don’t need to wait if you want to try Haiku Can you turn Windows 95’s Windows 3.10-based pre-install environment into a full desktop without using Microsoft products? Modern HTML features on text-based web browsers The DEC PDP-10 You are not required to close your <p>, <li>, <img>, or <br> tags in HTML Windows Explorer likely to get Copilot “AI” sidebar Phosh 2025 in retrospect Budgie 10.10 released OpenBSD on the Sharp Zaurus SL-C3100 GNU/Hurd gets dhcpcd port, further SMP improvements MenuetOS 1.58.00 released The world is on fire, so let’s look at pretty Amiga desktops Improving the Flatpak graphics drivers situation Firefox on POWER9: the JIT of it Google takes next big leap in killing AOSP, significantly scales back AOSP contributions15 Slashdot
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Britain Awards Wind Farm Contracts That Will Power 12 Million Homes The Swedish Start-Up Aiming To Conquer America's Full-Body-Scan Craze Are QWERTY Phones Trying To Make a Comeback? Digg Launches Its New Reddit Rival To the Public Cerebras Scores OpenAI Deal Worth Over $10 Billion DoorDash and UberEats Cost Drivers $550 Million In Tips, NYC Says US Approves Sale of Nvidia's Advanced AI Chips To China Bandcamp Bans AI Music House Sysadmin Stole 200 Phones, Caught By House IT Desk UK Scraps Mandatory Digital ID Enrollment for Workers After Public Backlash Dell Tells Staff To Get Ready For the 'Biggest Transformation in Company History' NASA Acknowledges Record Heat But Avoids Referencing Climate Change Widespread Verizon Outage Prompts Emergency Alerts in Washington, New York City Beijing Tells Chinese Firms To Stop Using US and Israeli Cybersecurity Software Coal Power Generation Falls in China and India for First Time Since 1970s