fp.

Level S4 solar radiation event

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g4-severe-geomagnetic-storm-levels-reached-19-jan-2026

218•WorldPeas•5h ago•85 comments

Porsche Sold More Electrified Cars in Europe in 2025 Than Pure Gas-Powered Cars

https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2026/company/porsche-deliveries-2025-41516.html

25•m463•37m ago•6 comments

Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs

https://github.com/jordanhubbard/nanolang

67•Scramblejams•3h ago•31 comments

Nearly a third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry

https://www.science.org/content/article/nearly-third-social-media-research-has-undisclosed-ties-i...

197•bikenaga•7h ago•84 comments

Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack

https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum

33•brogu•1h ago•5 comments

Harvard legal scholars debate the state of the U.S. constitution

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/social-sciences/is-the-constitution-broken

16•KnuthIsGod•43m ago•15 comments

What came first: the CNAME or the A record?

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cname-a-record-order-dns-standards/

279•linolevan•8h ago•98 comments

British redcoat's lost memoir reveals realities of life as a disabled veteran

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-british-redcoat-lost-memoir-reveals.html

37•wglb•3d ago•21 comments

The assistant axis: situating and stabilizing the character of LLMs

https://www.anthropic.com/research/assistant-axis

50•mfiguiere•4h ago•8 comments

The coming industrialisation of exploit generation with LLMs

https://sean.heelan.io/2026/01/18/on-the-coming-industrialisation-of-exploit-generation-with-llms/

67•long•17h ago•53 comments

How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster

https://iscinumpy.dev/post/packaging-faster/

29•rbanffy•3d ago•2 comments

Use Social Media Mindfully

https://danielleheberling.xyz/blog/mindful-social-media/

28•mooreds•3h ago•14 comments

From Nevada to Kansas by Glider

https://www.weglide.org/flight/978820

97•sammelaugust•4d ago•17 comments

Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)

https://jon.bo/posts/nano-texture/

131•dsr12•7h ago•80 comments

Show HN: An interactive physics simulator with 1000’s of balls, in your terminal

https://github.com/minimaxir/ballin

28•minimaxir•7h ago•5 comments

Upgrading DrizzleORM logging with AsyncLocalStorage

https://numeric.substack.com/p/upgrading-drizzleorm-logging-with

19•bihla•5d ago•1 comments

Conditions in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip's microcode

https://www.righto.com/2025/12/8087-microcode-conditions.html

85•diogotozzi•4d ago•24 comments

Weight Transfer for RL Post-Training in under 2 seconds

https://research.perplexity.ai/articles/weight-transfer-for-rl-post-training-in-under-2-seconds

18•jxmorris12•5h ago•0 comments

Sending Data over Offline Finding Networks

https://cc-sw.com/find-my-and-find-hub-network-research/

65•findmysanity•5d ago•6 comments

CSS Web Components for marketing sites (2024)

https://hawkticehurst.com/2024/11/css-web-components-for-marketing-sites/

99•zigzag312•10h ago•47 comments

Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) [pdf]

https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf

107•praptak•4h ago•48 comments

Show HN: Pipenet – A Modern Alternative to Localtunnel

https://pipenet.dev/

82•punkpeye•9h ago•16 comments

Radicle 1.6.0 – Amaryllis

https://radicle.xyz/2026/01/14/radicle-1.6.0

23•zdw•5d ago•8 comments

San Francisco coyote swims to Alcatraz

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/san-francisco-coyote-alcatraz-21302218.php

139•kaycebasques•23h ago•43 comments

Show HN: A creative coding library for making art with desktop windows

https://github.com/willmeyers/window-art

25•willmeyers•5h ago•2 comments

There's a hidden Android setting that spots fake cell towers

https://www.howtogeek.com/theres-a-hidden-android-setting-that-spots-fake-cell-towers/

108•rmason•5h ago•30 comments

Bypassing Gemma and Qwen safety with raw strings

https://teendifferent.substack.com/p/apply_chat_template-is-the-safety

99•teendifferent•20h ago•29 comments

Graphics In Flatland – 2D ray tracing [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYTOykSqf2Y

54•evakhoury•3d ago•11 comments

Fix your robots.txt or your site disappears from Google

https://www.alanwsmith.com/en/37/wa/jz/s1/

119•bobbiechen•8h ago•67 comments

Iterative image reconstruction using random cubic bézier strokes

https://tangled.org/luthenwald.tngl.sh/splined

73•luthenwald•4d ago•16 comments

Open in hackernews

How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster

https://iscinumpy.dev/post/packaging-faster/

29•rbanffy•3d ago

Comments

zahlman•3d ago

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557542

djoldman•11m ago

> _canonicalize_table = str.maketrans( "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_.", "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz--", )

> ...

> value = name.translate(_canonicalize_table)

> while "--" in value:

> value = value.replace("--", "-")

translate can be wildly fast compared to some commonly used regexes or replacements.