Daily Top Stories
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Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops (techcrunch.com)
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European Alternatives (european-alternatives.eu)
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Proof of Corn (proofofcorn.com)
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Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale (maggieappleton.com)
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Unrolling the Codex agent loop (openai.com)
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Booting from a vinyl record (2020) (boginjr.com)
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Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee (arstechnica.com)
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Radicle: The Sovereign Forge (radicle.xyz)
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Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance (comma.ai)
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New YC homepage (ycombinator.com)
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What has Docker become? (tuananh.net)
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Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go (github.com)
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Microsoft mishandling example.com (tinyapps.org)
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KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer (korg.com)
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Zotero 8 (zotero.org)
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The tech monoculture is finally breaking (jasonwillems.com)
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Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed (github.com)
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Banned C++ features in Chromium (chromium.googlesource.com)
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Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?
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Route leak incident on January 22, 2026 (blog.cloudflare.com)
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White House defends sharing AI image showing arrested woman crying (bbc.co.uk)
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TikTok is now collecting more data about its users (wired.com)
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Minnesota activist releases arrest video after manipulated White House version (apnews.com)
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White House Posts Altered Photo Showing Arrested Minnesota Protester Crying (nytimes.com)
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House vote keeps federal "kill switch" vehicle mandate (reclaimthenet.org)
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SEC obtains final consent judgments against former FTX and Alameda executives (sec.gov)
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Mental Models (2018) (fs.blog)
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Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit (righto.com)
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Why I don't have fun with Claude Code (brennan.io)
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DOGE improperly accessed and shared Social Security data (blog.quintarelli.it)