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1•isaachinman•3m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Claude Code Hooks – Block dangerous commands, protect secrets

https://github.com/karanb192/claude-code-hooks
1•karanb192•3m ago•1 comments

Is the Internet Hijacking Our Ambition?

https://calnewport.com/is-the-internet-hijacking-our-ambition/
1•fady0•4m ago•1 comments

Scraping Shock: Why Web Data Is Getting Too Expensive to Scrape

https://scrapeops.io/blog/scraping-shock/
3•Ian_Kerins•4m ago•1 comments

AI Finds Vulnerability Chain Leading to Account Takeover and Leaked Bookings

https://www.gecko.security/blog/caldotcom-broken-access-controls
2•jjjutla•7m ago•0 comments

California's exodus isn't just billionaires; it's regular people renting U-Hauls

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-01-08/californias-exodus-isnt-just-billionaires-its-r...
1•PaulHoule•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: wt – lightweight Git worktree orchestrator for parallel coding agents

3•pldpld•8m ago•2 comments

Nushell: The Shell That Treats Everything as Data

https://spin.atomicobject.com/nushell-treats-everything-as-data/
1•ingve•9m ago•1 comments

Gravity Is Free: The Games of René Soriano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTepZ7qM24Q
1•debo_•10m ago•0 comments

Printing things in colour is not simple

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/PrintingColourNotSimple
1•speckx•10m ago•0 comments

After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand

https://atmoio.substack.com/p/after-two-years-of-vibecoding-im
2•mobitar•11m ago•0 comments

What's the best way to sanity-check severance/termination pay rules in Canada?

1•cerdotca•11m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Was tired of drowning in HN comments, so I built an AI Chief of Staff

https://hnsignals.com/
1•rektlessness•12m ago•0 comments

New class of magnets uses earth-abundant elements, avoids rare-earth metals

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-class-strong-magnets-earth-abundant.html
1•wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB•12m ago•0 comments

Claude Code Psychosis

https://jasmi.news/p/claude-code
1•dkobia•13m ago•0 comments

The Apple Gaming Console [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlZkD3bbfM4
1•impoppy•13m ago•0 comments

Professional Photo Retouching and Restoration

https://www.photorestorationretouching.com/wedding-photo-retouching/
1•prophoto•13m ago•1 comments

EU investigates Elon Musk's X over Grok AI sexual deepfakes

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clye99wg0y8o
2•chrisjj•14m ago•0 comments

Reviving Bettertyping.org with AI Coding Agents

https://davidschilling.de/2026/01/11/reviving-bettertyping-org-with-ai-coding-agents.html
1•akbarnama•15m ago•0 comments

If you must use Signal, use Molly

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/if-you-must-use-signal-use-molly/
2•rainingmonkey•17m ago•3 comments

Programming principles for self taught front-end developers

https://piccalil.li/blog/programming-principles-for-self-taught-front-end-developers/
1•cdrnsf•18m ago•0 comments

Some Basic Limitations of Transformer-Based Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07505
1•RansomStark•18m ago•0 comments

Data thieves borrow Nike's 'Just Do It' mantra, claim they ran off with 1.4TB

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/26/data_thieves_claim_nike_data_haul/
1•beardyw•19m ago•0 comments

Gas Town Is the Second Worst Place to Live

https://mattjhall.co.uk/posts/gas-town-second-worst-place.html
1•mattjhall•19m ago•0 comments

Please, No More Loops (Than Necessary)

https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/please-no-more-loops-than-necessary-new-patterns-in-fortra...
1•zaikunzhang•19m ago•0 comments

Test Meka Is Live We Automate Website Testing

1•kwebb-tm•19m ago•0 comments

Web Interface Guidelines

https://vercel.com/design/guidelines
1•mooreds•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Fast, Static GitHub Pull Requests

https://github.com/stategraph/argus
1•lawnchair•20m ago•0 comments

Please, No More Loops (Than Necessary)

https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/please-no-more-loops-than-necessary-new-patterns-in-fortra...
2•zaikunzhang•21m ago•0 comments

What Developers Need to Know About JWTs

https://cfe.dev/sessions/what-devs-need-to-know-about-jwts/
2•mooreds•22m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

The Secret Society of People Who Know the Formula for WD-40

https://www.wsj.com/business/the-secret-society-of-people-who-know-the-formula-for-wd-40-e9c0ff54
1•impish9208•1h ago

Comments

impish9208•1h ago
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/business/the-secret-society-of-people-wh...
FrankWilhoit•1h ago
So what is the manufacturing process? Compartmentalized knowledge doesn't scale. Is it totally automated? What is the procurement process? Even if every ingredient is a commodity, they have names and prices and second sources, etc.
RicoElectrico•1h ago
If an amateur chemist can quite faithfully reverse engineer Coca-Cola in a year, so can they reverse engineer WD-40.