Hacker News on Saturday, 24 January 2026

BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp(birdy.chat)

689 points by joooscha 9 months ago | 433 comments

BirdyChat blog post announcing it is the first European chat app able to exchange messages with WhatsApp under the EU Digital Markets Act.

MS confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption key if asked(windowscentral.com)

505 points by blacktulip 9 months ago | 299 comments

Windows Central article reporting Microsoft confirmed it will hand BitLocker encryption recovery keys stored in the cloud to the FBI under a valid legal order.

Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms(twitter.com)

472 points by AffableSpatula 9 months ago | 305 comments

An X post describing a hidden multi-agent 'Swarms' feature in Anthropic's Claude Code, linked alongside a GitHub tool for enabling unreleased features.

How I estimate work(seangoedecke.com)

450 points by mattjhall 9 months ago | 268 comments

Sean Goedecke's blog post on how he approaches estimating software work as a staff engineer, arguing accurate estimation is impossible.

Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires(thehftguy.com)

443 points by user5994461 9 months ago | 255 comments

Blog post by The HFT Guy describing running gigabit Ethernet over existing British telephone wiring in a London home.

Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance(comma.ai)

321 points by JumpCrisscross 9 months ago | 179 comments

Homepage of comma.ai, maker of the comma device running openpilot, an open source driver-assistance system for cars.

I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog(micahcantor.com)

259 points by hydroxideOH- 9 months ago | 91 comments

Rust’s Standard Library on the GPU(vectorware.com)

244 points by justaboutanyone 9 months ago | 47 comments

Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware(arstechnica.com)

233 points by Bender 9 months ago | 110 comments

Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data)(albedo.com)

207 points by topherhaddad 9 months ago | 68 comments

Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison(the-diy-life.com)

197 points by verginer 9 months ago | 83 comments

Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?

185 points by goopthink 9 months ago | 116 comments

Tao Te Ching – Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin(github.com)

179 points by andsoitis 9 months ago | 74 comments

Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology(theconversation.com)

173 points by DyslexicAtheist 9 months ago | 145 comments

We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable(eclypsium.com)

163 points by aa_is_op 9 months ago | 67 comments

I Like GitLab(whileforloop.com)

160 points by lukas346 9 months ago | 105 comments

“Let people help” – Advice that made a big difference to a grieving widow(npr.org)

142 points by NaOH 9 months ago | 53 comments

Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite(sqlite.org)

133 points by tosh 9 months ago | 88 comments

December in Servo: multiple windows, proxy support, better caching, and more(servo.org)

122 points by t-3 9 months ago | 10 comments

Memory layout in Zig with formulas(raymondtana.github.io)

120 points by raymondtana 9 months ago | 27 comments

Agent orchestration for the timid(substack.com)

104 points by markferree 9 months ago | 27 comments

After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [video](youtube.com)

94 points by written-beyond 9 months ago | 80 comments

SEC obtains final consent judgments against former FTX and Alameda executives(sec.gov)

93 points by sizzle 9 months ago | 66 comments

Bye Bye Gmail(m24tom.com)

88 points by tklenke 9 months ago | 72 comments

Are we all plagiarists now?(economist.com)

87 points by pseudolus 9 months ago | 98 comments

80386 Multiplication and Division(nand2mario.github.io)

85 points by nand2mario 9 months ago | 29 comments

Show HN: Dwm.tmux – a dwm-inspired window manager for tmux(github.com)

82 points by saysjonathan 9 months ago | 16 comments

Package management is a wicked problem(nesbitt.io)

82 points by zdw 9 months ago | 59 comments

Shared Claude: A website controlled by the public(sharedclaude.com)

71 points by reasonableklout 9 months ago | 26 comments

C++ Modules Are Here to Stay(faresbakhit.github.io)

70 points by faresahmed 9 months ago | 79 comments

Federal Agents Kill Another Person in Minneapolis Immigration Crackdown(time.com)

69 points by hggh 9 months ago | 3 comments

An Illustrated Guide to Hippo Castration (2014)(science.org)

68 points by joebig 9 months ago | 28 comments

Amazon braces for another major round of layoffs, 14,000 jobs at risk(mynorthwest.com)

67 points by niuzeta 9 months ago | 82 comments

JSON-render: LLM-based JSON-to-UI tool(json-render.dev)

65 points by rickcarlino 9 months ago | 16 comments

Understanding Rust Closures(antoine.vandecreme.net)

59 points by avandecreme 9 months ago | 29 comments

3D-Printed Mathematical Lampshades(hessammehr.github.io)

59 points by hessammehr 9 months ago | 24 comments

ICE Releases RFI for User Tracking Tools(wired.com)

55 points by eoskx 9 months ago | 13 comments

Show HN: I built a space travel calculator using Vanilla JavaScript(cosmic-odometer.vercel.app)

49 points by captainnemo729 9 months ago | 24 comments

US Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional(nytimes.com)

48 points by throw0101c 9 months ago | 32 comments

XHTML Club(xhtml.club)

47 points by bradley_taunt 9 months ago | 102 comments

FOSS "Just Fork It" Delusion(hamishcampbell.com)

43 points by mimasama 9 months ago | 47 comments

The Concatative Language XY(nsl.com)

42 points by ofalkaed 9 months ago | 17 comments

Modetc: Move your dotfiles from kernel space(maxwell.eurofusion.eu)

41 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago | 27 comments

Show HN: Open-source Figma design to code(github.com)

37 points by alepeak 9 months ago | 8 comments

Show HN: StormWatch – Weather emergency dashboard with prep checklists(jeisey.github.io)

37 points by lotusxblack 9 months ago | 7 comments

I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it(jerpint.io)

36 points by jerpint 9 months ago | 31 comments

The Kept and the Killed (2022)(publicdomainreview.org)

33 points by nomagicbullet 9 months ago | 3 comments

You can't pay me to prompt(dbushell.com)

31 points by shinryuu 9 months ago | 28 comments

Repatriate the gold': German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults(theguardian.com)

30 points by vinni2 9 months ago | 8 comments

Gmail Spam Detection Down(google.com)

30 points by Abimelex 9 months ago | 11 comments

The Writers Came at Night(metropolitanreview.org)

29 points by ctoth 9 months ago | 15 comments

JVIC: New web-based Commodore VIC 20 emulator(vic20.games)

29 points by lance_ewing 9 months ago | 28 comments

Everybody's at each other's throats': James Cameron left the US permanently(theguardian.com)

28 points by teleforce 9 months ago | 6 comments

Minnesota activist releases arrest video after manipulated White House version(apnews.com)

22 points by petethomas 9 months ago | 1 comments

Why Is the US Sliding Toward Authoritarianism?(text.tchncs.de)

19 points by doener 9 months ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: May an Agent accepts a license to produce a build?

18 points by athrowaway3z 9 months ago | 20 comments

Language may rely less on complex grammar than previously thought: study(scitechdaily.com)

18 points by mikhael 9 months ago | 4 comments

Propositions about the New Romanticism(honest-broker.com)

18 points by dom2 9 months ago | 0 comments

Why Does Destroying Resources via TF Suck?(newsletter.masterpoint.io)

14 points by mooreds 9 months ago | 18 comments

The Internet Doesn't Suck: Blame Big Tech, Not the Internet(riverseeber.net)

13 points by cratermoon 9 months ago | 4 comments