Hacker News on Saturday, 31 January 2026

Mobile carriers can get your GPS location(an.dywa.ng)

817 points by cbeuw 8 months ago | 480 comments

Blog post explaining that cellular standards let carriers silently request a device's GNSS/GPS location, prompted by Apple's iOS 26.3 precise-location limit feature.

Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native(theregister.com)

675 points by jamesblonde 8 months ago | 594 comments

The Register opinion piece by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols arguing European companies should move workloads from US cloud providers to EU-native clouds.

Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media(yle.fi)

669 points by Teever 8 months ago | 482 comments

Yle News article on Finland considering an Australia-style ban or restriction on social media use by children under 15, backed by the PM and health authority THL.

Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones(simedw.com)

426 points by simedw 8 months ago | 128 comments

Blog post describing a 9M-parameter Conformer-CTC model trained on ~300 hours of speech that grades Mandarin pronunciation and tones in the browser.

The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice(wsj.com)

302 points by pixelesque 8 months ago | 221 comments

Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)(nmn.sh)

298 points by behnamoh 8 months ago | 285 comments

In praise of –dry-run(henrikwarne.com)

280 points by ingve 8 months ago | 151 comments

Outsourcing thinking(erikjohannes.no)

223 points by todsacerdoti 8 months ago | 197 comments

Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025(wikiedu.org)

218 points by ColinWright 8 months ago | 107 comments

Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device(arstechnica.com)

217 points by qmr 8 months ago | 191 comments

We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency(blog.globalping.io)

211 points by jimaek 8 months ago | 53 comments

Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf](help.apple.com)

188 points by pieterr 8 months ago | 140 comments

Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign(theregister.com)

180 points by breve 8 months ago | 160 comments

US reportedly investigate claims that Meta can read encrypted WhatsApp messages(theguardian.com)

167 points by echelon_musk 8 months ago | 178 comments

US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private(bloomberg.com)

165 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 8 months ago | 321 comments

Automatic Programming(antirez.com)

161 points by dvrp 8 months ago | 153 comments

Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine(crl.io)

158 points by Antibabelic 8 months ago | 37 comments

Giving up upstream-ing my patches and feel free to pick them up(mail.openjdk.org)

157 points by csmantle 8 months ago | 94 comments

Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User(nemin.hu)

156 points by todsacerdoti 8 months ago | 65 comments

150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation(vermaden.wordpress.com)

139 points by vermaden 8 months ago | 24 comments

Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of an Asteroid (2024)(archaeologyworlds.com)

134 points by griffzhowl 8 months ago | 44 comments

Court Filings: ICE App Identifies Protesters; Global Entry, PreCheck Get Revoked(viewfromthewing.com)

132 points by datsci_est_2015 8 months ago | 63 comments

YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other Browsers(piunikaweb.com)

131 points by croes 8 months ago | 119 comments

Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc.(github.com)

125 points by behnamoh 8 months ago | 76 comments

Puget Systems Most Reliable Hardware of 2025(pugetsystems.com)

123 points by zdw 8 months ago | 45 comments

Goblins: Distributed, Transactional Programming with Racket and Guile(spritely.institute)

116 points by alhazrod 8 months ago | 16 comments

CERN accepts $1B in private cash towards Future Circular Collider(physicsworld.com)

115 points by zeristor 8 months ago | 90 comments

The Saddest Moment (2013) [pdf](usenix.org)

115 points by tosh 8 months ago | 23 comments

Genode OS is a tool kit for building highly secure special-purpose OS(genode.org)

111 points by doener 8 months ago | 18 comments

Show HN: Phage Explorer(phage-explorer.org)

110 points by eigenvalue 8 months ago | 25 comments

Show HN: Minimal – Open-Source Community driven Hardened Container Images(github.com)

98 points by ritvikarya98 8 months ago | 27 comments

Berlin: Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes(theguardian.com)

96 points by novaRom 8 months ago | 73 comments

Film students who can no longer sit through films(theatlantic.com)

90 points by haunter 8 months ago | 152 comments

Naples' 1790s civil war was intensified by moral panic over Real Analysis (2023)(lareviewofbooks.org)

88 points by OgsyedIE 8 months ago | 22 comments

Brazilian Micro-SaaS Map(saas-map.ssr.trapiche.cloud)

86 points by acfilho 8 months ago | 4 comments

Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies

80 points by andylizf 8 months ago | 40 comments

Demystifying ARM SME to Optimize General Matrix Multiplications(arxiv.org)

73 points by matt_d 8 months ago | 16 comments

Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train(finance.yahoo.com)

71 points by malchow 8 months ago | 19 comments

Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2011)(gwern.net)

71 points by teej 8 months ago | 15 comments

Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland(github.com)

67 points by doener 8 months ago | 29 comments

The Mathematics of Tuning Systems(math.ucr.edu)

65 points by u1hcw9nx 8 months ago | 12 comments

Coding is when we're least productive(codemanship.wordpress.com)

57 points by vinhnx 8 months ago | 39 comments

Why S7 Scheme? (2020)(iainctduncan.github.io)

56 points by bmacho 8 months ago | 14 comments

How not to securely erase a NVME drive (2022)(peterbabic.dev)

54 points by transpute 8 months ago | 38 comments

Target director's Global Entry was revoked after ICE used app to scan her face(arstechnica.com)

51 points by mmoustafa 8 months ago | 5 comments

Bitcoin Looks Set for Longest Monthly Losing Streak Since 2018(bloomberg.com)

50 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 8 months ago | 38 comments

Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?

50 points by cvhc 8 months ago | 66 comments

Direct Current Data Centers(terraformindustries.wordpress.com)

47 points by jk_tech 8 months ago | 38 comments

htmx: Server Sent Event (SSE) Extension(htmx.org)

40 points by tosh 8 months ago | 7 comments

What's wrong with bunny hands on dinosaurs? (2018)(paleoaerie.org)

39 points by exvi 8 months ago | 13 comments

175K+ publicly-exposed Ollama AI instances discovered(techradar.com)

38 points by heresie-dabord 8 months ago | 27 comments

Ads Are Killing Podcasting(podcasts.rip)

35 points by mpugner 8 months ago | 16 comments

Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?

33 points by speedylight 8 months ago | 90 comments

No More Hidden Changes: How MySQL 9.6 Transforms Foreign Key Management(blogs.oracle.com)

31 points by ksec 8 months ago | 16 comments

The Spacecraft That Wouldn't Die(corememory.com)

31 points by trothamel 8 months ago | 7 comments

Best of Moltbook(astralcodexten.com)

30 points by feross 8 months ago | 9 comments

When will CSS Grid Lanes arrive?(webkit.org)

28 points by feross 8 months ago | 18 comments

This Year in LLVM (2025)(npopov.com)

26 points by asb 8 months ago | 0 comments

Phenakistoscopes (1833)(publicdomainreview.org)

25 points by tobr 8 months ago | 0 comments

The Department of Justice Ignores Court Orders Because It Knows It Can(americanmuckrakers.com)

24 points by davidbwheeler 8 months ago | 3 comments