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Mima Mounds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mima_mounds
1•areoform•2m ago•0 comments

Web Authentication: An API for Accessing Public Key Credentials – Level 3

https://www.w3.org/TR/2026/CR-webauthn-3-20260113/
1•joecobb•2m ago•0 comments

CYSA PBQ Exam Prep

https://cysa-exam-prep.web.app/
1•BlackNovaTech•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Archives is a lightweight macOS app for extracting archives

https://github.com/velocityzen/Archives
1•velocityzen•3m ago•0 comments

Extracting Embedded Images from a PDF

https://wadetregaskis.com/extracting-embedded-images-from-a-pdf/
1•ingve•5m ago•0 comments

What Have Unions Done for Us

https://whathaveunionsdoneforus.uk/
1•marche101•7m ago•0 comments

Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple and Fast

https://research.swtch.com/fp
1•chmaynard•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AirPipe – terminal to phone file transfer via QR code

https://github.com/Sanyam-G/Airpipe
1•sammylis•9m ago•0 comments

Northern lights may be visible in 24 states tonight as a CME hits Earth

https://www.space.com/stargazing/auroras/northern-lights-may-be-visible-in-24-states-tonight-as-m...
1•dayjah•11m ago•0 comments

Iran U-23 football coach detained and had passport revoked

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601191977
1•ukblewis•17m ago•1 comments

I tried building an OS, accidentally I built a Natural Language compiler instead

https://github.com/alonsovm44/yori
1•alonsovm•19m ago•1 comments

Personal Infrastructure Setup 2026

https://linderud.dev/blog/personal-infrastructure-setup-2026/
2•Foxboron•22m ago•0 comments

How Pen Caps Work

https://drmaciver.substack.com/p/how-pen-caps-work
1•insom•22m ago•0 comments

Prediction Markets and Lotteries

https://qoppac.blogspot.com/2026/01/prediction-markets-and-lotteries-and-my.html
1•7777777phil•24m ago•0 comments

Why the AI-in-Education Debate Keeps Missing the Point

https://gilpignol.substack.com/p/why-the-ai-in-education-debate-keeps
2•light_triad•26m ago•0 comments

United States Territorial Acquisitions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_territorial_acquisitions_table
2•tchalla•27m ago•1 comments

Tesselation

https://mymodernmet.com/tessellation-art/
1•andsoitis•29m ago•0 comments

Trustless dead man's switch for crypto

https://www.deadhandprotocol.com/
1•maxcomperatore•29m ago•0 comments

US Supreme Court to decide if the pesticide Roundup is shielded from lawsuits

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/climate/supreme-court-roundup-pesticide.html
3•noleary•30m ago•0 comments

The Illusion of Discovery: AI-Generated Proofs of 'Open' Math Problems

https://bpatwa.substack.com/p/the-illusion-of-discovery-ai-generated
2•burglarhobbit•31m ago•0 comments

Origami and Programming

https://medium.com/@amitzur/origami-and-programming-4bddee3a1cb1
1•andsoitis•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Txt2plotter – True centerline vectors from Flux.2 for pen plotters

https://github.com/malvarezcastillo/txt2plotter
1•tsanummy•33m ago•0 comments

A good first word for Wordle

https://explainextended.com/2022/01/27/a-good-first-word-for-wordle/
1•7777777phil•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sonar CiteScout – Find the links AI relies on to answer a prompt

https://trysonar.ai/tools/citescout
1•shukantpal•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Former Cloudflare SRE building OpsCompanion a live map of whats running

2•kennethops•35m ago•2 comments

Flux.2 Klein 4B (Apache 2.0)

https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-klein-4B
12•anjneymidha•36m ago•6 comments

What if the idea of the autism spectrum is completely wrong?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2509117-what-if-the-idea-of-the-autism-spectrum-is-completel...
3•kristianp•36m ago•4 comments

Regressions on benchmark scores suggest frontier LLMs ~3-5T params

https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/benchmarks-predict-model-size/
2•namnnumbr•37m ago•1 comments

Origami Programming [pdf]

https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/jeremy.gibbons/publications/origami.pdf
1•andsoitis•37m ago•0 comments

Do AI models reason or regurgitate? Why AI is not merely a "stochastic parrot"

https://bigthink.com/the-present/do-ai-models-reason-or-regurgitate/
2•ryan_j_naughton•38m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Our collective obsession with boredom: Interview with a boredom lab researcher

https://nautil.us/why-the-do-nothing-challenge-doesnt-do-much-for-you-1262005/
2•akakievich•1h ago

Comments

elbci•1h ago
"boredom lab researcher"? Well...

I remember as it was yesterday, many years ago I saw on National Geographic a NGO lady flown thousands of miles to Africa to sit on a boulder and explain (I imagine - the Tv was on mute) the intricacies of her trade. Lower left on the screen there was her name and her job title: "Human Lion Conflict Specialist"