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Gnome calculator pings the International Monetary Fund website

https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch/discussions/1283
16•programd•1d ago

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bawolff•1d ago
App showing currency exchange has to look up currency rates. News at 11.
yjftsjthsd-h•1d ago
I would prefer it to be opt-in
e2le•1d ago
Not too long ago, Gnome calculator would freeze and crash when it tried to download currency conversion data. It would make such requests on each startup, eventually it was fixed in Ubuntu LTS but was broken for quite some time.
anthk•1d ago
So will qalc from libqalculate.
antisol•5h ago
Wow, gnome defaulting to doing something dumb, who woulda thunk it.

Continuous AI on Your Terminal

https://github.com/autohandai/code-cli
1•igorpcosta•24s ago•2 comments

Ask HN: Which career is most future-secure in the AI era?

1•danver0•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tickk.app – Local-only voice braindumps → tasks (no AI, no cloud)

https://tickk.app/
1•digi_wares•2m ago•0 comments

LLMs Are Performance-Enhancing Drugs for the Mind

https://dogdogfish.com/blog/2026/01/07/ai-as-ped/
1•matthewsharpe3•4m ago•0 comments

How CU Boulder's student news site got taken over by AI slop

https://www.denverpost.com/2026/01/05/cu-independent-website-ai-impersonator/
2•thm•6m ago•0 comments

Valve Should Buy Discord (Before the IPO)

https://www.garbagecollected.dev/p/valve-should-buy-discord
1•ee64a4a•7m ago•0 comments

Backpressure in JavaScript

https://blog.gaborkoos.com/posts/20206-01-06-Backpressure-in-JavaScript-the-Hidden-Force-Behind-S...
1•enz•8m ago•0 comments

'Autofocus' glasses can change their lenses in real time

https://www.cnn.com/science/autofocus-glasses-ixi-change-lenses-spc
1•thunderbong•10m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: I have no interest in being tracked

1•nsaciafbi•11m ago•0 comments

OpenAI down 20% of AI Web Traffic in last 12 months

https://twitter.com/Similarweb/status/2008805674893939041
1•ostenbom•11m ago•0 comments

Ralph Wiggum went from 'The Simpsons' to the biggest name in AI

https://venturebeat.com/technology/how-ralph-wiggum-went-from-the-simpsons-to-the-biggest-name-in...
1•ghuntley•12m ago•0 comments

China mandates 50% domestic equipment rule for chipmakers, sources say

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-mandates-50-domestic-equipment-rule-chipmakers-sources-...
1•bryanrasmussen•12m ago•1 comments

Ikigai

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai
1•fsflover•13m ago•0 comments

Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(24)00310-3/fulltext
1•hamburgererror•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Server-rendered multiplayer game with proximity chat and LLM NPC

https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/proximity-explorer
1•modinfo•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: DreamStack – Framework-agnostic Node.js foundation - 500+ tests (~10s)

https://dreamverse.ng/dreamstack/
1•katafyi•22m ago•1 comments

haggleforme.computer

https://haggleforme.computer/
1•emaadm•23m ago•0 comments

Conformity Gates ST#5

https://medium.com/@omshree0709/the-conformity-gate-phenomenon-a-psychological-and-philosophical-...
1•OmShree0709•23m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Cheapest / most efficient way of pre-filtering candidates

1•sz4kerto•26m ago•1 comments

The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250121-the-enormous-challenge-of-mining-greenland
2•1659447091•26m ago•0 comments

Robot vacuum maker Roborock shows off stair-climbing model with legs

https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2026/01/07/robot-vacuum-maker-roborock-shows-off-stair-...
1•akg130522•28m ago•0 comments

Fewer layovers, better-connected airports, more firm growth

https://news.mit.edu/2026/fewer-layovers-better-connected-airports-more-firm-growth-0107
1•fleahunter•29m ago•0 comments

Httpz – Zero-Allocation HTTP/1.1 Parser for OxCaml

https://github.com/avsm/httpz
1•noelwelsh•29m ago•0 comments

Google Gemini Is Taking Control of Humanoid Robots on Auto Factory Floors

https://www.wired.com/story/google-boston-dynamics-gemini-powered-robot-atlas/
2•ashishgupta2209•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: One API for LinkedIn, X, Slack, SMS, and email (yeetpost)

1•marttilaine•31m ago•0 comments

Htmx: High Power Tools for HTML

https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx
1•tosh•32m ago•0 comments

CI-Hush

https://gitlab.com/jjg/ci-hush
1•jjgreen•34m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: IF you could get a functional prototype in 24h for €5k,would you buy it?

1•altras•34m ago•1 comments

The open source AI coding agent

https://opencode.ai
1•Link-•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Scribe – Generate styled emails from plain English

https://usescribe.ashpak.dev
1•blackmamoth•36m ago•0 comments