Hacker News on Tuesday, 27 January 2026

TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues(cnn.com)

1304 points by kotaKat 9 months ago | 853 comments

CNN Business article reporting that TikTok users say they cannot upload anti-ICE videos, which the company attributes to technical issues.

FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE(nbcnews.com)

850 points by duxup 9 months ago | 1178 comments

News report that the FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal group chats used to track ICE activity; the captured page shows an MS NOW Maddowblog post.

Prism(openai.com)

748 points by meetpateltech 9 months ago | 502 comments

OpenAI product announcement introducing Prism, an AI tool for accelerating science writing and collaboration.

Doing the thing is doing the thing(softwaredesign.ing)

522 points by prakhar897 9 months ago | 176 comments

A personal blog post by Prakhar Gupta arguing that only actually doing the work counts, and that thinking or planning about it is not the same as doing it.

430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found(nytimes.com)

480 points by bookofjoe 9 months ago | 249 comments

News article reporting that 430,000-year-old wooden handheld tools found at Marathousa 1 in Greece's Megalopolis Basin are the oldest known.

Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model(kimi.com)

423 points by nekofneko 9 months ago | 199 comments

Blog post announcing Kimi K2.5, an open-source native multimodal model with coding, vision, and agent swarm capabilities.

Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't(tech.lgbt)

410 points by JadedBlueEyes 9 months ago | 161 comments

A Mastodon thread criticizing a Cloudflare blog post claiming a Matrix homeserver on Cloudflare Workers, arguing the code is AI-generated and incomplete.

The engineer who invented the Mars rover suspension in his garage [video](youtube.com)

369 points by UltraSane 9 months ago | 54 comments

A 1 hour 40 minute YouTube video from GearSkeptic about the engineer who invented the Mars rover suspension in his garage.

U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office(science.org)

362 points by j_maffe 9 months ago | 270 comments

Science magazine news article reporting the U.S. federal government has lost more than 10,000 STEM PhD employees since Trump took office; page shows Cloudflare check.

Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company(amutable.com)

353 points by hornedhob 9 months ago | 581 comments

Website of Amutable, a new company founded by Lennart Poettering and Christian Brauner with a mission to deliver verifiable integrity to Linux workloads.

Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor(alexxcons.github.io)

345 points by pantalaimon 9 months ago | 270 comments

Xfce team blog post announcing xfwl4, a donation-funded Wayland compositor developed by Brian Tarricone to replicate xfwm4 behavior, with its roadmap.

I made my own Git(tonystr.net)

340 points by TonyStr 9 months ago | 152 comments

A blog post describing the author's reimplementation of git, covering how objects, trees, commits and hashing work.

Thief of $90M in seized U.S.-controlled crypto is gov't contractor's son(web3isgoinggreat.com)

321 points by pavel_lishin 9 months ago | 64 comments

A Web3 is Going Just Great entry reporting that the alleged thief of $90M in seized U.S.-government-controlled crypto is the son of a government crypto contractor.

Show HN: One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch in 20K LOC(emsh.cat)

298 points by embedding-shape 9 months ago | 135 comments

Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores(finance.yahoo.com)

286 points by trenning 9 months ago | 507 comments

Software Pump and Dump(tautvilas.lt)

280 points by brisky 9 months ago | 113 comments

A list of fun destinations for telnet(telnet.org)

267 points by tokyobreakfast 9 months ago | 90 comments

Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt(kohlschuetter.github.io)

247 points by kohlschuetter 9 months ago | 124 comments

Some notes on starting to use Django(jvns.ca)

229 points by ingve 9 months ago | 123 comments

AI2: Open Coding Agents(allenai.org)

221 points by publicmatt 9 months ago | 37 comments

Amazon to shut down Go and Fresh stores(cnn.com)

219 points by gmays 9 months ago | 206 comments

Parametric CAD in Rust(campedersen.com)

213 points by ecto 9 months ago | 153 comments

Time Station Emulator(github.com)

212 points by FriedPickles 9 months ago | 48 comments

CPython Internals Explained(github.com)

205 points by yufiz 9 months ago | 49 comments

Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot(github.com)

200 points by philip1209 9 months ago | 173 comments

SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned(haveibeenpwned.com)

197 points by gnabgib 9 months ago | 102 comments

The age of Pump and Dump software(tautvilas.medium.com)

178 points by brisky 9 months ago | 63 comments

The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video](youtube.com)

177 points by doppp 9 months ago | 139 comments

Russia using Interpol's wanted list to target critics abroad, leak reveals(bbc.com)

176 points by breve 9 months ago | 55 comments

TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin(bbc.com)

168 points by ourmandave 9 months ago | 169 comments

CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT(politico.com)

154 points by rurp 9 months ago | 224 comments

Opentrees.org (2024)(opentrees.org)

135 points by surprisetalk 9 months ago | 12 comments

Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE(pride.com)

125 points by saubeidl 9 months ago | 43 comments

iPhone 5s Gets New Software Update 13 Years After Launch(macrumors.com)

120 points by angott 9 months ago | 35 comments

Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way(randsinrepose.com)

120 points by ohjeez 9 months ago | 83 comments

India and EU announce landmark trade deal(bbc.com)

119 points by Palmik 9 months ago | 67 comments

The National Herbarium of Ireland digital collection of Irish plants(dri.ie)

105 points by gnabgib 9 months ago | 10 comments

Doin' It with a 555: One Chip to Rule Them All(aashvik.com)

105 points by MonkeyClub 9 months ago | 62 comments

Try text scaling support in Chrome Canary(joshtumath.uk)

103 points by linolevan 9 months ago | 35 comments

Show HN: LemonSlice – Upgrade your voice agents to real-time video

101 points by lcolucci 9 months ago | 100 comments

France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s(rte.ie)

89 points by austinallegro 9 months ago | 89 comments

Show HN: I wrapped the Zorks with an LLM(infocom.tambo.co)

88 points by alecf 9 months ago | 51 comments

OpenSSL: Stack buffer overflow in CMS AuthEnvelopedData parsing(openssl-library.org)

88 points by MagerValp 9 months ago | 40 comments

Show HN: We Built the 1. EU-Sovereignty Audit for Websites(lightwaves.io)

85 points by cmkr 9 months ago | 62 comments

Ask HN: Books to learn 6502 ASM and the Apple II

84 points by abkt 9 months ago | 54 comments

Heathrow drops the liquids rule(flymag.com)

83 points by lxm 9 months ago | 68 comments

Quaternion Algebras(jvoight.github.io)

82 points by teleforce 9 months ago | 34 comments

The state of Linux music players in 2026(crescentro.se)

77 points by signa11 9 months ago | 70 comments

A first look at Aperture by Tailscale (private alpha)(tailscale.com)

77 points by geoffeg 9 months ago | 31 comments

Old Insurance Maps – Georeferencing Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps on Modern Maps(oldinsurancemaps.net)

73 points by lapetitejort 9 months ago | 22 comments

Management as AI superpower: Thriving in a world of agentic AI(oneusefulthing.org)

73 points by swolpers 9 months ago | 78 comments

Quack-Cluster: A Serverless Distributed SQL Query Engine with DuckDB and Ray(github.com)

71 points by tanelpoder 9 months ago | 14 comments

Show HN: ShapedQL – A SQL engine for multi-stage ranking and RAG(playground.shaped.ai)

67 points by tullie 9 months ago | 20 comments

We Do Not Support Opt-Out Forms (2025)(consciousdigital.org)

66 points by mefengl 9 months ago | 28 comments

How many chess games are possible?(win-vector.com)

62 points by jmount 9 months ago | 30 comments

Claude Code is your customer(calebjohn.xyz)

61 points by mfbx9da4 9 months ago | 43 comments

LLM-as-a-Courtroom(falconer.com)

57 points by jmtulloss 9 months ago | 25 comments

Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# – Part 6: Mark and Sweep(minidump.net)

54 points by pjmlp 9 months ago | 1 comments

Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018-2026(blog.emojipedia.org)

50 points by surprisetalk 9 months ago | 34 comments

Anciente map of Fairyland. Places from nursery rhymes, fairy tales etc.(collections.leventhalmap.org)

44 points by speckx 9 months ago | 9 comments