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SnapHabit : Extreme habit accountability with AI and friend groups

https://snap-habit.com/
1•apollos•1m ago•0 comments

E-scooter sharing company Bird has raised $20M

https://micromobility.io/news/birds-parent-company-third-lane-mobility-raises-20m
1•prabinjoel•2m ago•1 comments

AI-Powered CSPM Tools Are Transforming Cloud Compliance

https://digimagazine.co.uk/how-ai-powered-cspm-tools-are-transforming-cloud-compliance/
1•cybleinc•5m ago•0 comments

Does AI-Assisted Coding Deliver? A Study of Cursor on Software Projects

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04427
2•iLoveOncall•5m ago•0 comments

Ghostty's AI Policy

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md
1•mefengl•9m ago•1 comments

A crowdsourced repository for optimization constants?

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/a-crowdsourced-repository-for-optimization-constants/
1•jjgreen•10m ago•0 comments

Dcli: Declarative Package Management for Arch Linux (Inspired by NixOS)

https://gitlab.com/theblackdon/dcli
1•signa11•17m ago•0 comments

The new rules of the road for agentic commerce

https://www.mastercard.com/us/en/news-and-trends/stories/2026/agentic-commerce-rules-of-the-road....
1•saikatsg•18m ago•0 comments

Copilot SDK in Technical Preview

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/184872
1•edent•19m ago•0 comments

Google is ending full-web search for niche search engines

https://programmablesearchengine.googleblog.com/
29•01jonny01•21m ago•6 comments

Voice Layer for AI Agents Built with Rust, Pluggable to All Agentic Frameworks

https://github.com/SaynaAI/sayna
1•tigranbs•21m ago•0 comments

Raiden Warned About AI Censorship [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gGLvg0n-uY
1•DeathArrow•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Thalo – A "programming" language for structured knowledge

https://github.com/rejot-dev/thalo
3•WilcoKruijer•29m ago•0 comments

From Tomorrow Back to Yesterday: A Tale of Two Web Architectures – Yang [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W6Lr1hRgXo
1•adityaathalye•30m ago•0 comments

The State of Modern AI Text to Speech Systems for Screen Reader Users

https://stuff.interfree.ca/2026/01/05/ai-tts-for-screenreaders.html
1•tuukkao•35m ago•0 comments

Apple is burying the Time Capsule, but how to replace it?

https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/01/apple-is-burying-the-time-capsule-but-how-to-replace-it/
4•tosh•36m ago•1 comments

What time you should arrive at cinema to avoid adverts

https://news.sky.com/story/what-time-you-should-actually-arrive-at-cinema-to-avoid-adverts-13149863
1•austinallegro•36m ago•0 comments

Subject of Unique Interest: Mary Freeman Heuston Lewis and William Dean Howells

https://commonplace.online/article/a-subject-of-unique-interest/
1•bryanrasmussen•37m ago•1 comments

DeepSeek's mHC: Stabilizing Training Divergence from 3,000x to 1.6x

2•Research_Brief•38m ago•0 comments

How to Think About Self-Attention Intuitively

https://www.henrydashwood.com/posts/attention-intuition
1•HenryDashwood•41m ago•0 comments

Nvidia PersonaPlex: natural conversation AI

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/adlr/personaplex/
1•ricardobeat•43m ago•0 comments

Doing Gigabit Ethernet over My British Phone Wires

https://thehftguy.com/2026/01/22/doing-gigabit-ethernet-over-my-british-phone-wires/
2•user5994461•45m ago•0 comments

Microservices Architecture Fails Due to Poor Product Topology

https://www.hyperact.co.uk/blog/product-topology
1•birdculture•45m ago•0 comments

Tried Qwen3-TTS Open source to clone my voice and created a video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LU9nmnR0cs
2•naveen-zerocool•52m ago•0 comments

Why are there so many CPU bugs nowadays

https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/115939583202357863
9•riffraff•53m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: Do You Prefer Cursor over Codex or Claude Code? Why?

3•halamadrid•53m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SpiraCSS – CSS architecture where tooling and AI handle the rules

https://spiracss.jp/
1•zetsubo•54m ago•0 comments

Can You Run Recursion on Ideas?

2•codenighter•54m ago•1 comments

Picking up the missing pieces of Apple's Creator Studio

https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/01/whats-the-real-value-in-creator-studio/
1•tosh•55m ago•0 comments

Replacing Protobuf with Rust to go 5 times faster

https://pgdog.dev/blog/replace-protobuf-with-rust
9•whiteros_e•55m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

United States Completes WHO Withdrawal

https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/united-states-completes-who-withdrawal.html
92•Swizec•4h ago

Comments

shubhamjain•3h ago
> Going forward, the U.S. government will continue its global health leadership through existing and new engagements directly with other countries, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, and faith-based entities. U.S.-led efforts will prioritize emergency response, biosecurity coordination, and health innovation to protect America first while delivering benefits to partners around the world.

The funny thing about this administration is that they label existing system as "bad" and "corrupt", use that as justification to abandon it, and then proceed to recreate the same thing different way.

hackyhacky•3h ago
The point is to enable corruption that benefits current office-holders and prevent any activity, corrupt or not, that benefits anyone else.
0928374082•3h ago
See Goldstein, "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" (1949)
jasomill•29m ago
“For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.”
RajBhai•3h ago
NAFTA bad. USMCA good.
xingped•3h ago
You think they will actually replace it with something similar though. They won't. They have no desire to do that. Even in name. Just like all their other supposed plans - it's just smoke and mirrors and no one will actually do any such thing.
roenxi•3h ago
I dunno, reading it in context of the whole statement, "...and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states" deserves a bit of focus. The UN is structurally designed to give China and Russia outsized influence. Coordinating technical matters like healthcare through the UN does seem a bit unwise given that everyone is posturing up for some sort of Cold-war or potential WWIII style scenario. I don't think we've seen much deescalation of tension in the last decade.

Better to leave the bandwidth of the UN free to focus on diplomacy without distractions, the military situation is urgent.

dc396•3h ago
> The UN is structurally designed to give China and Russia outsized influence.

An interesting assertion. I presume you are implying outsized influence over the US (or do you mean every other country?). I'm honestly curious: can you describe this structural design?

N19PEDL2•3h ago
Perhaps they mean that Russia, a corrupted warmonger weak country, has veto power, while more powerful, free and democratic countries have not.
sparqlittlestar•3h ago
Honestly, ceteris paribus for the US
niceguy1827•3h ago
Thank you sir. Love learning new things every day in a tech forum, especially Latin.
roenxi•3h ago
The thing that jumps to mind is the Security Council, which they can parley into diplomatic favours from other people. And the whole point of the UN is that it was the victors of WWII explaining to the rest of the world how international affairs were going to work, so I'd be pleasantly surprised if the special privileges stopped there.

And even without that, the UN isn't really set up to handle technical matters. It is a diplomatic club. The point is to give people a seat at the table without considering their competence.

pu_pe•2h ago
The Security Council is controlled by the US and its allies (3 out of 5 permanent seats). And the Security Council does not decide on matters of public health like the WHO does. The WHO is staffed by very competent people, certainly more competent than RFK.

The UN has handled several technical matters successfully, including global vaccination programs.

0hw0t•3h ago
Art of the Deal
pmarreck•3h ago
> faith-based entities

Look, believe what you want, but praying literally has no known demonstrable deterministic scientific or medical effect on people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficacy_of_prayer

King-Aaron•3h ago
There is literally no point invoking research and factual information into an argument with a religious person.
snehk•3h ago
Not sure how it is in the US but in Germany there are many faith-based entities providing regular health services. Malteser would be one of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malteser_Hilfsdienst_e.V.

fsh•3h ago
These church-owned entities in Germany are almost 100% government fincanced [1], while abusing a loophole in the German constitution to discriminate their employees for religious reasons. For example, the Catholic ones are notorious for firing employees that get divorced. This system is an absolute disgrace, but the churches are still too powerful in German society and have so far been able to block any attempt at fixing the constitution.

[1] https://www.malteser-international.org/en/about-us/how-we-wo...

dcrazy•3h ago
It’s not uncommon in the U.S. either. Providence Health is a Catholic nonprofit that owns 51 hospitals, including several of the big ones in Seattle. It was a big deal when they bought Swedish and people were afraid they would stop offering abortions even in cases of medical necessity.
snehk•2h ago
My point was that they don't get funding to pray and instead provide real medical services.
plagiarist•3h ago
I sure wish demonstrable facts had mattered to the constituents at any point in time over the last 10 years.
King-Aaron•2h ago
Amathia runs rife in these people.
standardUser•3h ago
Maybe the Board of Peace can pick up the slack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Peace
ChrisArchitect•3h ago
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46727669
phendrenad2•3h ago
This is extremely disappointing all-around. The World Health Organization was at the forefront of sounding the alarm about COVID-19 early on, and was one of the first to start preparing for the eventuality that it would spread beyond it's origin point. While most people in the US were still saying it wasn't airborne, and downplaying the spread potential and health effects of COVID, the WHO was sounding the alarm on that, too. Ah yes. A little satire does the heart good, you know?
mahirsaid•2h ago
I agree there is only so much an organization can do After the spread, countries themselves have to take action in behalf of the organization's directions and procedures. The U.S. at the time took way too long to act, this was a fact, clearly why some governors were in a tweeting match and arguments over this issue. I do not agree with this direction. Clearly there is alternative motive behind this amongst the multiple other useless withdraws and steps taking at this time.
BLKNSLVR•3h ago
> The WHO delayed declaring a global public health emergency and a pandemic during the early stages of COVID-19, costing the world critical weeks as the virus spread.

Isn't this administrations position that COVID was kinda a nothingburger anyway. Not worth all the fuss?

Not that it's out of the ordinary for this administration, just another grain on an increasingly large pile of hypocrisy sand. Whatever serves their agenda.

> The U.S. is the world’s leading force in protecting public health, saving lives, and responding rapidly to infectious disease outbreaks. Going forward, the U.S. government will continue its global health leadership through existing and new engagements directly with other countries, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, and faith-based entities. U.S.-led efforts will prioritize emergency response, biosecurity coordination, and health innovation to protect America first while delivering benefits to partners around the world.

Firstly, let's update it to "was the world's leading force". Secondly, I hope they're not going to be foisting their newfound vaccine skepticism[0] on the rest of the world. Holy shit if they do.

[0]: https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/vaccine-policy-adviser-k...

Some choice quotes in that article.

simianparrot•3h ago
The WHO demonstrated clearly during covid that they are corrupt and less than useless. If I had a say my country would pull out as well, a long time ago.
eska•3h ago
I don’t know how people can defend this organization and criticize the US government for losing trust in it, when there’s a myriad of scandals like this one.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UlCYFh8U2xM&pp=ygUUd2hvIHRhaXd...

arisAlexis•51m ago
The fact that Tedros is still the head while he mishandled completely the biggest catastrophe of our era should be taken seriously.