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Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/01/22/ed-tech-is-profitable-it-is-also-mostly-useless
1•paulpauper•36s ago•0 comments

Gmail, Facebook and other account credentials exposed

https://www.scworld.com/news/millions-of-gmail-facebook-and-other-account-credentials-exposed
1•Bender•40s ago•0 comments

'Devil's Corkscrews' in Eastern Wyoming Are 20M-Year-Old Beaver Burrows

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/01/24/devils-corkscrews-were-living-spaces-for-20-million-year-...
1•Bender•1m ago•0 comments

A CLI to Tame OWASP Dependency-Track Version Sprawl in CI/CD

https://github.com/MedUnes/dtrack-cli
1•medunes•2m ago•1 comments

Tiny BASIC: An Early Free Software Project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FirGzw9nTTk
1•WoodenChair•2m ago•0 comments

Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/wiper-malware-targeted-poland-energy-grid-but-failed-to-...
2•Bender•2m ago•0 comments

New catalyst makes plastic upcycling 10x more efficient than platinum

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260124003806.htm
2•westurner•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Modbhold – Vanilla JavaScript open source browser game

https://agentratelimit.github.io/Mobhold/
1•skinnyasianboi•4m ago•0 comments

The Writers Came at Night

https://www.metropolitanreview.org/p/the-writers-came-at-night
2•ctoth•7m ago•0 comments

When two years of academic work vanished with a single click

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04064-7
1•bsoles•8m ago•0 comments

Debugging Google Ads conversion tracking by observing real consent behavior

2•marstay•13m ago•0 comments

If Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, that's it for me

https://old.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/1qdmu0k/if_trump_invokes_the_insurrection_act_thats...
9•wslh•18m ago•2 comments

Modern Memory Bandwidth and Latency Benchmarks

https://github.com/SpareCores/sc-membench
1•tanelpoder•18m ago•0 comments

CATL set to launch first sodium-ion batteries in passenger vehicles

https://electrek.co/2026/01/23/ev-battery-leader-plans-first-sodium-ion-batteries-passenger-cars/
2•ksec•19m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A GTK app for Linux to show file buffer progress

1•dcminter•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pingaroo – a tiny native macOS menu bar app for network stats

https://github.com/mallochio/pingaroo
4•mallochio•23m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Are you using Clawdbot? What are your use cases?

1•amrrs•23m ago•0 comments

Davos 2026: Special Address by Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/davos-2026-special-address-by-mark-carney-prime-minister-...
4•lemming•25m ago•0 comments

Sloponomics: Who wins and loses in the AI-content flood?

https://www.economist.com/business/2025/10/16/sloponomics-who-wins-and-loses-in-the-ai-content-flood
1•paulpauper•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI agent to create small PRs from Slack

2•owendarko•27m ago•0 comments

What Happened to X? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TTE8g4ouBk
2•Kapura•28m ago•0 comments

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Failure

https://benoitessiambre.com/fail.html
2•BenoitEssiambre•29m ago•0 comments

GitLab patch release 18.8.2 released

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2026/01/21/patch-release-gitlab-18-8-2-released/
2•based2•31m ago•0 comments

Trump administration unlawfully suspended EV charger program, U.S. judge rules

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/24/us-judge-trump-admin-unlawfully-suspended-ev-charger-program.html
7•donsupreme•31m ago•0 comments

Syntux: JSON to UI for Websites

https://www.getsyntux.com/
3•TheDever•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made an app that blurs my screen when I slouch

https://tomjohnell.com/posturr-a-macos-app-that-blurs-your-screen-when-you-slouch/
1•tjohnell•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kontra, a data quality validator that avoids unnecessary full scans

https://github.com/Saevarl/Kontra
2•saevarl•34m ago•0 comments

Sally Mann Says 'Film Is So Expensive' and Has Started Shooting Digital

https://petapixel.com/2026/01/20/sally-mann-says-film-is-so-expensive-and-has-started-shooting-di...
3•PaulHoule•34m ago•0 comments

Homebrew is great on Linux (2023)

https://www.ypsidanger.com/homebrew-is-great-on-linux/
1•shaicoleman•35m ago•0 comments

Chinese scientists shrink semiconductor chip into fibre as thin as human hair

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3341025/chinese-scientists-shrink-semiconductor-c...
1•based2•36m ago•0 comments
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Looks like Claude is having a stroke

https://twitter.com/tskulbru/status/2015148189897101622
13•tskulbru•1h ago

Comments

tskulbru•1h ago
Was generating some funny things to post to on bsky/x on a saturday evening, and suddenly Claude started only generating replies spamming "mass-mass-mass-mass...", I think its having a stroke
MadnessASAP•1h ago
It happens sometimes, I've managed it a few times with ChatGPT. I think it's an overflow of the context window that doesn't get caught. With the result of losing it's 'identity' and reverting to the grossly overcomplicated text prediction engine at its core.
tskulbru•1h ago
haha, its so weird. Ive had it started messing up things and such but this is insane. Been using them quite actively for years now and ive never seen this before. Fun!