Hacker News on Friday, 23 January 2026

Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops(techcrunch.com)

971 points by bookofjoe 9 months ago | 607 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that Microsoft provided the FBI with BitLocker encryption recovery keys to unlock suspects' laptops.

Bugs Apple Loves(bugsappleloves.com)

803 points by nhod 9 months ago | 348 comments

A website cataloging long-standing Apple software bugs and estimating the total time humanity has wasted because Apple hasn't fixed them.

European Alternatives(european-alternatives.eu)

615 points by s_dev 9 months ago | 348 comments

European Alternatives is a directory site helping users find European alternatives to digital services and products such as cloud services and SaaS.

Heathrow scraps liquid container limit(bbc.com)

598 points by robotsliketea 9 months ago | 748 comments

BBC News article reporting that Heathrow Airport has scrapped the 100ml limit on liquid containers in hand luggage.

Proton spam and the AI consent problem(dbushell.com)

525 points by dbushell 9 months ago | 379 comments

David Bushell's blog post criticizing Proton for sending a Lumo AI promotional newsletter he says he opted out of, raising issues of AI consent.

Proof of Corn(proofofcorn.com)

455 points by rocauc 9 months ago | 301 comments

Proof of Corn is a case study site documenting an attempt to grow real corn from seed to harvest with every decision made by Claude Code, responding to a challenge.

AI Usage Policy(github.com)

449 points by mefengl 9 months ago | 237 comments

The Ghostty terminal emulator project's AI_POLICY.md on GitHub, setting strict rules for AI usage in contributions, including mandatory disclosure of AI tools used.

I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video](youtube.com)

432 points by codetheweb 9 months ago | 97 comments

YouTube video by Rootkid showing a self-built light installation that visualizes nearby radio wave activity.

Unrolling the Codex agent loop(openai.com)

423 points by tosh 9 months ago | 195 comments

OpenAI engineering blog post by Michael Bolin explaining how the Codex CLI software agent's agent loop works.

Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale(maggieappleton.com)

380 points by pavel_lishin 9 months ago | 399 comments

Maggie Appleton's digital garden note on Gas Town's agent orchestration patterns, design and critical thinking as bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale.

Booting from a vinyl record (2020)(boginjr.com)

338 points by yesturi 9 months ago | 113 comments

A blog post describing how the author made a PC boot from a vinyl record played on a record player, as an alternative to disks, network, or USB.

There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him(fastcompany.com)

309 points by coloneltcb 9 months ago | 146 comments

New YC homepage(ycombinator.com)

285 points by sarreph 9 months ago | 154 comments

Radicle: The Sovereign Forge(radicle.xyz)

258 points by ibobev 9 months ago | 130 comments

Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go(github.com)

252 points by rvermeulen98 9 months ago | 85 comments

KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer(korg.com)

245 points by bpierre 9 months ago | 108 comments

Pandas 3.0(pandas.pydata.org)

241 points by jonbaer 9 months ago | 96 comments

Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?

225 points by dsrtslnd23 9 months ago | 55 comments

Banned C++ features in Chromium(chromium.googlesource.com)

221 points by szmarczak 9 months ago | 219 comments

What has Docker become?(tuananh.net)

213 points by tuananh 9 months ago | 237 comments

The tech monoculture is finally breaking(jasonwillems.com)

210 points by at1as 9 months ago | 281 comments

Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020)(leidenmedievalistsblog.nl)

210 points by benbreen 9 months ago | 137 comments

Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities(programmablesearchengine.googleblog.com)

209 points by 01jonny01 9 months ago | 176 comments

Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee(arstechnica.com)

203 points by CharlesW 9 months ago | 159 comments

Microsoft mishandling example.com(tinyapps.org)

190 points by mrled 9 months ago | 69 comments

Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed(github.com)

164 points by nurimamedov 9 months ago | 119 comments

Zotero 8(zotero.org)

164 points by bouchard 9 months ago | 38 comments

Replacing Protobuf with Rust to go 5 times faster(pgdog.dev)

163 points by whiteros_e 9 months ago | 112 comments

Golden Ratio using an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle(geometrycode.com)

156 points by peter_d_sherman 9 months ago | 48 comments

Route leak incident on January 22, 2026(blog.cloudflare.com)

156 points by nomaxx117 9 months ago | 51 comments

Maze Algorithms (2017)(jamisbuck.org)

149 points by surprisetalk 9 months ago | 33 comments

I overengineered a spinning top [video](youtube.com)

138 points by bane 9 months ago | 40 comments

The Universal Pattern Popping Up in Math, Physics and Biology (2013)(quantamagazine.org)

126 points by kerim-ca 9 months ago | 46 comments

Extremophile molds are invading art museums(scientificamerican.com)

125 points by sohkamyung 9 months ago | 58 comments

Mental Models (2018)(fs.blog)

119 points by hahahacorn 9 months ago | 19 comments

Talking to LLMs has improved my thinking(philipotoole.com)

117 points by otoolep 9 months ago | 95 comments

Where to Sleep in LAX(cadence.moe)

111 points by surprisetalk 9 months ago | 75 comments

TikTok Is Now Collecting More Data About Its Users(wired.com)

106 points by coloneltcb 9 months ago | 58 comments

EmulatorJS(github.com)

98 points by avaer 9 months ago | 16 comments

The lost art of XML(marcosmagueta.com)

97 points by Curiositry 9 months ago | 108 comments

Stunnel(stunnel.org)

96 points by firesteelrain 9 months ago | 31 comments

Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit(righto.com)

90 points by elpocko 9 months ago | 11 comments

Nobody likes lag: How to make low-latency dev sandboxes(compyle.ai)

84 points by mnazzaro 9 months ago | 38 comments

Any application that can be written in a system language, eventually will be(avraam.dev)

81 points by almonerthis 9 months ago | 90 comments

I found the perfect yearly calendar (for me)(blog.notmyhostna.me)

80 points by dewey 9 months ago | 31 comments

In a genre where spoilers are devastating, how do we talk about puzzle games?(thinkygames.com)

79 points by tobr 9 months ago | 83 comments

Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG(markgascoyne.co.uk)

78 points by chaz6 9 months ago | 22 comments

Waypoint-1: Real-Time Interactive Video Diffusion from Overworld(huggingface.co)

78 points by avaer 9 months ago | 19 comments

The Enchiridion by Epictetus(gutenberg.org)

76 points by atropoles 9 months ago | 32 comments

The state of modern AI text to speech systems for screen reader users(stuff.interfree.ca)

70 points by tuukkao 9 months ago | 30 comments

Winapp, the Windows App Development CLI(blogs.windows.com)

68 points by MaysonL 9 months ago | 70 comments

United States Completes WHO Withdrawal(hhs.gov)

64 points by Swizec 9 months ago | 13 comments

BU-808: How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries (2023)(batteryuniversity.com)

63 points by eswat 9 months ago | 34 comments

Why I don't have fun with Claude Code(brennan.io)

63 points by ingve 9 months ago | 44 comments

Tesla fined for repeatedly failing to help UK police over driving offences(bbc.co.uk)

63 points by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 9 months ago | 58 comments

Wilson Lin on FastRender: a browser built by parallel agents(simonwillison.net)

62 points by lumpa 9 months ago | 25 comments

Tea Chemistry (1997)(researchgate.net)

62 points by aabiji 9 months ago | 19 comments

The Science of Fermentation [audio](bbc.co.uk)

62 points by fallinditch 9 months ago | 18 comments

Presence in Death(rubinmuseum.org)

59 points by tock 9 months ago | 22 comments

The Five Levels: From spicy autocomplete to the dark factory(danshapiro.com)

54 points by benwerd 9 months ago | 56 comments