Hacker News on Monday, 2 February 2026

xAI joins SpaceX(spacex.com)

847 points by g-mork 8 months ago | 1875 comments

SpaceX updates page announcing that xAI is joining SpaceX, shown with an email signup form for SpaceX updates.

The Codex App(openai.com)

765 points by meetpateltech 8 months ago | 576 comments

OpenAI's product announcement introducing the Codex app for macOS, a new interface for working with its Codex coding agent.

Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors(notepad-plus-plus.org)

605 points by mysterydip 8 months ago | 323 comments

Notepad++ news post explaining that its update infrastructure was compromised at the shared hosting provider by state-sponsored attackers who redirected update traffic.

Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years(millert.dev)

569 points by wodniok 8 months ago | 297 comments

Personal homepage of Todd C. Miller, longtime sudo maintainer and OpenBSD contributor, noting he is seeking a sponsor to fund continued sudo development.

The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal(frommers.com)

535 points by donohoe 8 months ago | 611 comments

Frommer's article reporting a regulatory expert's claim that the TSA's new $45 fee for flying without acceptable ID is illegal.

Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub(forums.ankiweb.net)

522 points by trms 8 months ago | 210 comments

Anki forum announcement by developer dae, titled "Anki's Growing Up", reflecting on Anki's 19 years and its future, reportedly including an ownership transfer to AnkiHub.

Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction(arstechnica.com)

433 points by ck2 8 months ago | 302 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that courts ordered a restart of all US offshore wind construction, putting the Trump administration's classified-justification halt on hold in five cases.

Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed(xikipedia.org)

379 points by rebane2001 8 months ago | 126 comments

Xikipedia is a pseudo social media feed that shows Simple Wikipedia articles, using a local non-ML algorithm that learns what you engage with.

Hacking Moltbook(wiz.io)

369 points by galnagli 8 months ago | 228 comments

Wiz blog post describing how researchers found an exposed Moltbook database leaking 35,000 emails and 1.5M API keys from the AI-agent social network.

Zig Libc(ziglang.org)

317 points by ingve 8 months ago | 131 comments

Zig devlog entry by Andrew Kelley on the zig libc subproject, which replaces vendored C libc code with Zig standard library wrapper implementations.

Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft(theverge.com)

313 points by Anon84 8 months ago | 437 comments

Termux(github.com)

311 points by tosh 8 months ago | 154 comments

Animated Knots(animatedknots.com)

309 points by ostacke 8 months ago | 45 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)

296 points by whoishiring 8 months ago | 378 comments

Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works(neutree.ai)

265 points by yz-yu 8 months ago | 26 comments

GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations(githubstatus.com)

253 points by bhouston 8 months ago | 95 comments

Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound's Enslaved Workforce(wired.com)

217 points by smurda 8 months ago | 116 comments

Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support(lists.linuxfromscratch.org)

201 points by cf100clunk 8 months ago | 288 comments

Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong(lapcatsoftware.com)

191 points by zdw 8 months ago | 72 comments

Waymo seeking about $16B near $110B valuation(bloomberg.com)

180 points by JumpCrisscross 8 months ago | 264 comments

EPA Advances Farmers' Right to Repair(epa.gov)

154 points by bilsbie 8 months ago | 63 comments

Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route(phys.org)

152 points by defrost 8 months ago | 40 comments

Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features(macrumors.com)

150 points by stalfosknight 8 months ago | 57 comments

Why software stocks are getting pummelled(economist.com)

146 points by petethomas 8 months ago | 208 comments

Julia(borretti.me)

143 points by ashergill 8 months ago | 23 comments

Mattermost say they will not clarify what license the project is under(github.com)

135 points by MallocVoidstar 8 months ago | 107 comments

EU launches government satcom program in sovereignty push(spacenews.com)

135 points by benkan 8 months ago | 76 comments

My fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml(anil.recoil.org)

133 points by noelwelsh 8 months ago | 45 comments

Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload(windowscentral.com)

130 points by jsheard 8 months ago | 186 comments

Kernighan on Programming

124 points by chrisjj 8 months ago | 36 comments

Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf] (1985)(apps.dtic.mil)

124 points by kioku 8 months ago | 64 comments

Parking lots as economic drains(progressandpoverty.substack.com)

124 points by surprisetalk 8 months ago | 145 comments

Advancing AI Benchmarking with Game Arena(blog.google)

121 points by salkahfi 8 months ago | 51 comments

Nvidia shares are down after report that its OpenAI investment stalled(cnbc.com)

112 points by greatgib 8 months ago | 47 comments

Library of Juggling(libraryofjuggling.com)

108 points by tontony 8 months ago | 27 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics(blog.szczepan.org)

107 points by quibono 8 months ago | 34 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)

106 points by whoishiring 8 months ago | 259 comments

UK government launches fuel forecourt price API(gov.uk)

100 points by Technolithic 8 months ago | 114 comments

Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage(github.com)

98 points by surprisetalk 8 months ago | 109 comments

The largest number representable in 64 bits(tromp.github.io)

97 points by tromp 8 months ago | 66 comments

Making Ferrite Core Inductors at Home(danielmangum.com)

93 points by hasheddan 8 months ago | 29 comments

Time Machine-style Backups with rsync (2018)(samuelhewitt.com)

90 points by accrual 8 months ago | 39 comments

On being sane in insane places (1973) [pdf](weber.edu)

84 points by dbgrman 8 months ago | 48 comments

Unlocking high-performance PostgreSQL with key memory optimizations(stormatics.tech)

82 points by camille_134 8 months ago | 5 comments

The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 1) Berkeley DB(aosabook.org)

81 points by grep_it 8 months ago | 10 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok(martypc.blogspot.com)

79 points by kmm 8 months ago | 13 comments

MaliciousCorgi: AI Extensions send your code to China(koi.ai)

75 points by tatersolid 8 months ago | 63 comments

ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face(arstechnica.com)

74 points by theahura 8 months ago | 24 comments

xAI Joins SpaceX(x.ai)

70 points by beklein 8 months ago | 90 comments

Formally Verifying PBS Kids with Lean4(shadaj.me)

64 points by shadaj 8 months ago | 5 comments

Kolakoski Sequence(en.wikipedia.org)

60 points by surprisetalk 8 months ago | 12 comments

Adobe Animate will be discontinued effective March 1, 2026(helpx.adobe.com)

54 points by g0ld3nrati0 8 months ago | 41 comments

The Monad Called Free(blog.sigfpe.com)

53 points by romes 8 months ago | 28 comments

Product and design are the new bottlenecks(jampa.dev)

53 points by jampa 8 months ago | 62 comments

72M Points of Interest(tech.marksblogg.com)

49 points by marklit 8 months ago | 10 comments

Nixie-clock using neon lamps as logic elements (2007)(pa3fwm.nl)

49 points by jacquesm 8 months ago | 9 comments

Greenland tensions harden Europe's push for energy independence(ft.com)

37 points by JumpCrisscross 8 months ago | 27 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads(mirageos.org)

36 points by romes 8 months ago | 3 comments

Europe just started building a 'kill switch' for U.S. tech(morningstar.com)

33 points by mooreds 8 months ago | 12 comments

Moroccan sardine prices to stabilise via new measures: officials(maghrebi.org)

32 points by mooreds 8 months ago | 3 comments