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First, make me care

https://gwern.net/blog/2026/make-me-care
419•andsoitis•9h ago•130 comments

Scientists identify brain waves that define the limits of 'you'

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-identify-brain-waves-that-define-the-limits-of-you
91•mikhael•4h ago•16 comments

A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

https://github.com/tldev/posturr
509•dnw•12h ago•172 comments

Case study: Creative math – How AI fakes proofs

https://tomaszmachnik.pl/case-study-math-en.html
55•musculus•5h ago•33 comments

The Science of Fermentation [audio]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002pqg6
19•fallinditch•2d ago•4 comments

Doom has been ported to an earbud

https://doombuds.com
368•arin-s•16h ago•113 comments

Delta single handle ball faucets (1963)

https://archive.org/details/DeltaSingleHandleBallFaucets
18•userbinator•4d ago•7 comments

Guix for Development

https://dthompson.us/posts/guix-for-development.html
49•clircle•5d ago•16 comments

Show HN: A small programming language where everything is pass-by-value

https://github.com/Jcparkyn/herd
56•jcparkyn•5h ago•33 comments

Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems

https://www.diljitpr.net/blog-post-postgresql-dlq
180•tanelpoder•12h ago•58 comments

Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

https://github.com/clawdbot/clawdbot
162•KuzeyAbi•3h ago•96 comments

Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1m77dmxlvlo
157•Rygian•9h ago•134 comments

Show HN: An interactive map of US lighthouses and navigational aids

https://www.lighthouses.app/
51•idd2•10h ago•15 comments

Turbopack: Building faster by building less

https://nextjs.org/blog/turbopack-incremental-computation
27•feross•5d ago•15 comments

Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Oneplus_phone_update_introduces_hardware_anti-rollback
370•validatori•7h ago•210 comments

The future of software engineering is SRE

https://swizec.com/blog/the-future-of-software-engineering-is-sre/
40•Swizec•6h ago•12 comments

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world (2019)

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
232•choult•6h ago•164 comments

Web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe Paint

https://github.com/steffest/DPaint-js
190•bananaboy•15h ago•17 comments

Bitwise conversion of doubles using only FP multiplication and addition (2020)

https://dougallj.wordpress.com/2020/05/10/bitwise-conversion-of-doubles-using-only-floating-point...
24•vitaut•13h ago•2 comments

ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/report-ice-using-palantir-tool-feeds-medicaid-data
1002•JKCalhoun•10h ago•617 comments

Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/01/25/microsoft-suspects-some-pcs-might-not-boot-after-windows...
26•nsoonhui•2h ago•13 comments

Infinite pancakes, anyone?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/science/infinite-pancake-math-puzzle.html
28•cainxinth•3d ago•8 comments

Show HN: Bonsplit – Tabs and splits for native macOS apps

https://bonsplit.alasdairmonk.com
220•sgottit•16h ago•27 comments

Environmentalists worry Google behind bid to control Oregon town's water

https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/mount-hood-water-google-21307223.php
6•voxadam•42m ago•0 comments

A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/22/aking/
646•timr•19h ago•334 comments

I was right about ATProto key management

https://notes.nora.codes/atproto-again/
122•todsacerdoti•8h ago•81 comments

Optimizing GPU Programs from Java Using Babylon and Hat

https://openjdk.org/projects/babylon/articles/hat-matmul/hat-matmul
37•pjmlp•5d ago•2 comments

Hackable personal news reader in bash pipes

https://github.com/haron/news.sh
29•haron•5d ago•7 comments

Show HN: Netfence – Like Envoy for eBPF Filters

https://github.com/danthegoodman1/netfence
47•dangoodmanUT•13h ago•6 comments

Show HN: FaceTime-style calls with an AI Companion (Live2D and long-term memory)

https://thebeni.ai/
26•summerlee9611•5h ago•12 comments
Open in hackernews

ICE tells legal observer, 'We have a database, now you're a domestic terrorist'

https://reason.com/2026/01/23/ice-tells-legal-observer-we-have-a-nice-little-database-and-now-youre-considered-a-domestic-terrorist/
109•heavyset_go•1h ago

Comments

afavour•1h ago
We’ve seen it documented before that they do indeed have a facial recognition database. Good news is it doesn’t seem all that reliable so who knows who is being labelled.
jerrythegerbil•1h ago
https://huggingface.co/papers/2508.18265
0xbadcafebee•1h ago
We know what's next after this: they start using intel to blackmail activists into silence. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO) Worked for the SS, worked for the KGB, worked for the FBI, it'll work for ICE.
SpicyLemonZest•1h ago
Blackmail them with what? It's the ICE agents who are wearing masks, because they know their life will be ruined once people discover who they are and what they've been up to.
pavel_lishin•1h ago
> Blackmail them with what?

With murder or deportation or harassment.

vpribish•1h ago
so extortion, not blackmail
SpicyLemonZest•1h ago
Sure, but then why do they have to wait? ICE agents who want to threaten legal observers can just do it to their faces - as we've seen, even if they murder legal observers the Trump regime will have their back. I think most don't want to do that, whether out of cowardice or an understanding of what's coming once their leaders are brought to justice.
macintux•1h ago
Dig into their past, find indiscretions they can lean on. When you can't win the argument, discredit the messenger.
halfcat•1h ago
Even if a person has no indiscretions, everyone has a weak point. A significant other, child, friend, job, boss, bank, etc.
dylan604•57m ago
Everyone is guilty, we just haven't proven it yet.
tosapple•1h ago
Just wait until they switch us to the deutchemark.

Bitcoin doesn't work properly without power or network access extending over days though.

tkel•1h ago
Who is a "terrorist" in the eyes of the US gov't has always been their political enemies, never themselves or their allies.

At this point, it's simply an empty accusation that has been so ingrained into the American psychy over generations, that it can cheaply be used to justify incredible violence against enemies of the state. Even justify invading entire countries even on faked evidence, remember the "war on terror", "weapons of mass destruction", calling Maduro a "narcoterrorist"? It's a term of propaganda, same as it ever was. Only difference now is it's more obvious as this administration doesn't seem to care if the mask is slipping.

akomtu•1h ago
Colonialism is finally coming back home?
crummy•1h ago
The right complains that "fascist" gets thrown around on by the left so much the terms loses meaning, but soon you'll be able to say the same about "domestic terrorist".
segmondy•1h ago
Folks in tech built that for them knowing the purpose.
dylan604•58m ago
And those people have no qualms about doing so. We all know this. It's not like it was built in a skunk works type of back room of some unnamed branch of the gov't agencies. The conversations about the use of these tools have been ongoing for a long time.

Your comment reads as if you're trying to imply some sort of shame on those that built it. I'm guessing that instead of shame, pride is being felt on their part in the play.

OutOfHere•59m ago
Link saved for posterity:

https://reason.com/2026/01/23/ice-tells-legal-observer-we-ha...