Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation https://github.com/gavrielc/nanoclaw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850205

TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe https://taoofmac.com/space/til/2026/02/01/1630 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46848699

Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle https://dmitrybrant.com/2026/02/01/defeating-a-40-year-old-copy-protection-dongle https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46849567

Apple I Advertisement (1976) http://apple1.chez.com/Apple1project/Gallery/Gallery.htm https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46847780

FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap https://gyptazy.com/blog/fosdem-2026-opensource-conference-brussels/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845103

I taught my neighbor to keep the volume down https://idiallo.com/blog/teaching-my-neighbor-to-keep-the-volume-down https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46848415

Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46846252

The Book of PF, 4th edition https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844350

Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions https://www.quantamagazine.org/cells-use-bioelectricity-to-coordinate-and-make-group-decisions-20260112/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46842178

Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/30/road_sign_hijack_ai/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46840676

Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine https://crl.io/ds-game-engine/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46839215

Giving up upstream-ing my patches and feel free to pick them up https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2026-January/118080.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46835454

What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-30-pi-coding-agent/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844822

Outsourcing thinking https://erikjohannes.no/posts/20260130-outsourcing-thinking/index.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46840865

Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025 https://wikiedu.org/blog/2026/01/29/generative-ai-and-wikipedia-editing-what-we-learned-in-2025/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46840924

Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/inside-nvidias-10-year-effort-to-make-the-shield-tv-the-most-updated-android-device-ever/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46837346

Netbird a German Tailscale alternative (P2P WireGuard-based overlay network) https://netbird.io/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844870

List animals until failure https://rose.systems/animalist/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46842603

In praise of –dry-run https://henrikwarne.com/2026/01/31/in-praise-of-dry-run/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46840612

Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf] https://help.apple.com/pdf/security/en_US/apple-platform-security-guide.pdf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46837814

Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User https://nemin.hu/guix.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46835612

US reportedly investigate claims that Meta can read encrypted WhatsApp messages https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/31/us-authorities-reportedly-investigate-claims-that-meta-can-read-encrypted-whatsapp-messages https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46836487

US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-29/us-has-investigated-claims-that-whatsapp-chats-aren-t-private https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838635

Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users https://opensourcemalware.com/blog/clawdbot-skills-ganked-your-crypto https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46827731

Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law https://themarkup.org/artificial-intelligence/2026/01/30/mamdani-to-kill-the-nyc-ai-chatbot-we-caught-telling-businesses-to-break-the-law https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46827665

Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826963

Richard Feynman Side Hustles https://twitter.com/carl_feynman/status/2016979540099420428 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46824867

Swift is a more convenient Rust https://nmn.sh/blog/2023-10-02-swift-is-the-more-convenient-rust https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46841374

YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers https://piunikaweb.com/2026/01/28/youtube-background-play-samsung-internet-brave/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46834441

Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System https://starlink.com/updates/stargaze https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820113

Automatic Programming https://antirez.com/news/159 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46835208

We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency https://blog.globalping.io/we-have-ipinfo-at-home-or-how-to-geolocate-ips-in-your-cli-using-latency/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46834953

Mobile carriers can get your GPS location https://an.dywa.ng/carrier-gnss.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838597

Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban on youth social media https://yle.fi/a/74-20207494 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838417

Court Filings: ICE App Identifies Protesters; Global Entry, PreCheck Get Revoked https://viewfromthewing.com/court-filings-ice-uses-mobile-fortify-to-identify-protesters-global-entry-and-precheck-get-revoked/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832751

Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826277

Backseat Software https://blog.mikeswanson.com/backseat-software/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46817452

Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/30/silver-gold-fall-price-usd-dollar-fed-warsh-chair-trump-metals.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46829548

How AI impacts skill formation https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46821360

My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025) https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-chatbot-china-sick/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814569

Amazon's Spending on 'Melania' Is a Barely Concealed Bribe https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/29/amazon-melania-spending https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46827826

Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit https://jamieclarketype.com/case-study/wallace-and-gromit-font/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46825415

Code is cheap. Show me the talk https://nadh.in/blog/code-is-cheap/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46823485

Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/30/euro_firms_must_ditch_us/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46835336

Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones https://simedw.com/2026/01/31/ear-pronunication-via-ctc/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832074

Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent https://peerweb.lol/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46829582

Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/01/27/surely-it-has-to-be-soon/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822630

The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-100-billion-megadeal-between-openai-and-nvidia-is-on-ice-aa3025e3 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46831702

Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis https://blog.cloudflare.com/moltworker-self-hosted-ai-agent/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810828

Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf] https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2.5/blob/master/tech_report.pdf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826597