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Radicle: The Sovereign Forge

https://radicle.xyz
62•ibobev•1h ago•28 comments

Booting from a vinyl record (2020)

https://boginjr.com/it/sw/dev/vinyl-boot/
110•yesturi•4h ago•28 comments

Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go

https://github.com/ramonvermeulen/whosthere
46•rvermeulen98•3h ago•18 comments

AI is a horse (2024)

https://kconner.com/2024/08/02/ai-is-a-horse.html
197•zdw•3d ago•112 comments

Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem

https://dbushell.com/2026/01/22/proton-spam/
298•dbushell•8h ago•192 comments

I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moBCOEiqiPs
302•codetheweb•9h ago•69 comments

Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities

https://programmablesearchengine.googleblog.com/2026/01/updates-to-our-web-search-products.html
138•01jonny01•5h ago•128 comments

Replacing Protobuf with Rust to go 5 times faster

https://pgdog.dev/blog/replace-protobuf-with-rust
101•whiteros_e•6h ago•67 comments

What has Docker become?

https://tuananh.net/2026/01/20/what-has-docker-become/
108•tuananh•2h ago•116 comments

The cleaner: One woman’s mission to help Britain’s hoarders

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/1/18/the-cleaner-one-womans-mission-to-help-britains-hoar...
25•Qem•5d ago•21 comments

Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC

https://cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/
1097•cannoneyed•22h ago•205 comments

AI Usage Policy

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md
337•mefengl•5h ago•163 comments

Flying with Photons: Rendering Novel Views of Propagating Light

https://anaghmalik.com/FlyingWithPhotons/
4•pillars•3d ago•0 comments

Tesla fined for repeatedly failing to help UK police over driving offences

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0r44zpprg7o
38•6LLvveMx2koXfwn•42m ago•18 comments

GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers

https://gptzero.me/news/neurips/
889•segmenta•1d ago•472 comments

Microsoft mishandling example.com

https://tinyapps.org/blog/microsoft-mishandling-example-com.html
111•mrled•2h ago•48 comments

Show HN: S2-lite, an open source Stream Store

https://github.com/s2-streamstore/s2
33•shikhar•1d ago•3 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
50•tuukkao•5h ago•17 comments

Presence in Death

https://rubinmuseum.org/presence-in-death/
31•tock•3h ago•4 comments

Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/capital-one-buy-fintech-firm-brex-515-billion-deal-20...
330•personjerry•17h ago•276 comments

Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?

https://eieio.games/blog/ssh-sends-100-packets-per-keystroke/
565•eieio•19h ago•299 comments

I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

https://hugodaniel.com/posts/claude-code-banned-me/
621•hugodan•20h ago•549 comments

Variation on Iota

https://www.toolofthought.com/posts/variation-on-iota
11•aebtebeten•4d ago•2 comments

Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3tts-0115
656•Palmik•1d ago•205 comments

Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"

https://shreevatsa.net/post/douglas-adams-cultural-divide/
495•speckx•1d ago•497 comments

European Alternatives

https://european-alternatives.eu
58•s_dev•2h ago•6 comments

Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020)

https://www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/why-medieval-city-builder-video-games-are-historic...
179•benbreen•14h ago•117 comments

TI-99/4A: Leaning More on the Firmware

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/ti-99-4a-leaning-more-heavily-on-the-firmware/
59•ibobev•4d ago•24 comments

Your app subscription is now my weekend project

https://rselbach.com/your-sub-is-now-my-weekend-project
450•robteix•4d ago•317 comments

The lost art of XML

https://marcosmagueta.com/blog/the-lost-art-of-xml/
74•Curiositry•11h ago•92 comments
Open in hackernews

Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/01/22/microsoft-gave-fbi-keys-to-unlock-bitlocker-encrypted-data/
31•_____k•2h ago

Comments

fuzzfactor•2h ago
You all did know that the idea of a Microsoft account was a security & privacy compromise from day zero of its conception, right?
jqpabc123•1h ago
Yes; and none of my computers have one. Contrary to popular myth, it is relatively easy to install Win11 Pro without one.
josephcsible•1h ago
A constant cat-and-mouse game of Microsoft disabling every method to do so as soon as they become somewhat popular is not "relatively easy".
jmclnx•1h ago
Well I would say this should be true for most people here. I expect the same for Apple too. The big question is, when will these keys hit the wild ? Since they exist, eventually they will get out there.

We all know, if you want real security, there are much better OSs.

jqpabc123•1h ago
... does not possess the forensic tools to break into devices encrypted with Microsoft BitLocker

Nice intel to have. Now, all that is needed for reasonable security is to avoid storing the key in the cloud. Duhhh.

Basic rule: Not your hardware (computer/drive), not your data.

Never store anything on someone else's hardware that you need to maintain full control over.

But, but, but encryption? It helps but encryption does not guarantee full access when you don't control the hardware.

OptionOfT•1h ago
They don't have the tools but for 99% of the people who have laptop with device encryption, they mandate Microsoft Accounts, and guess where the keys are uploaded to? Thats right, https://aka.ms/recoverykey.

You don't need to build backdoors when you store a copy of the key.

romanovcode•1h ago
The flaw is that they had those keys to begin with. What's the point of encryption if key is available and free to use? Same with iCloud Email.

Privacy cannot come from human-made laws and regulations because they get abused on they change. Privacy comes from mathematics which do not care for laws and regulations.