news: 2026

DoNotNotify is now Open Source
353 by awaaz | 47 comments on Hacker News.
A month ago, I submitted my app "DoNotNotify" to control Android notifications on Show HN [0], and it trended on the front page for a day. I was happy, but the most upvoted comments on the thread were asking for the app to be open sourced, since it dealt with system-wide notifications. My promises weren't good enough, and the community wanted more! Why didn't I open source it in the first place? Linux has been by primary driver for more than a decade. I genuinely believe in the philosophy, and have always wanted to give back to the community. The primary reason, probably, was because I was ashamed that I had 90% vibe-coded the app. More than 2 decades of writing software, and my first contribution to FOSS would be AI-generated code? Would it withstand even the most minimal of scrutiny? Would by (unknown) name forever be tarnished? I exaggerate, but only slightly :) So, yesterday, after a fair bit of trepidation, I changed the github repo visibility to public and put up a announcement on the app's website [1]. I have also submitted the app to F-Droid [2]. As before, I welcome the community's feedback and suggestions! [0] https://ift.tt/xQwaIiR [1] https://ift.tt/8kV6duQ [2] https://ift.tt/5YLGCEi -- Anuj Jain

Saturday, 7 February 2026

New best story on Hacker News: An Update on Heroku

An Update on Heroku
476 by lstoll | 324 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: France's homegrown open source online office suite

France's homegrown open source online office suite
567 by nar001 | 259 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience
553 by todsacerdoti | 267 comments on Hacker News.

Friday, 6 February 2026

New best story on Hacker News: A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content

A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content
510 by giuliomagnifico | 214 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: The Waymo World Model

The Waymo World Model
522 by xnx | 321 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe

TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe
529 by thm | 399 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions

LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions
499 by mdp | 230 comments on Hacker News.

Thursday, 5 February 2026

New best story on Hacker News: Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]

Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]
426 by cdrnsf | 287 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: GPT-5.3-Codex

GPT-5.3-Codex
517 by meetpateltech | 184 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown

When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown
388 by zdw | 204 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Deno Sandbox

Deno Sandbox
519 by johnspurlock | 166 comments on Hacker News.

Wednesday, 4 February 2026

New best story on Hacker News: FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled

FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled
527 by robin_reala | 455 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Voxtral Transcribe 2

Voxtral Transcribe 2
547 by meetpateltech | 141 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok

X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok
554 by vikaveri | 1037 comments on Hacker News.

Tuesday, 3 February 2026

New best story on Hacker News: Agent Skills

Agent Skills
395 by mooreds | 215 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
392 by Anon84 | 514 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Qwen3-Coder-Next

Qwen3-Coder-Next
533 by danielhanchen | 323 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US

France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
494 by AareyBaba | 280 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years

Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
397 by wodniok | 204 comments on Hacker News.

Monday, 2 February 2026

New best story on Hacker News: xAI joins SpaceX

xAI joins SpaceX
454 by g-mork | 1032 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: The Codex App

The Codex App
381 by meetpateltech | 241 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Ian's Shoelace Site

Ian's Shoelace Site
356 by righthand | 67 comments on Hacker News.

Sunday, 1 February 2026

New best story on Hacker News: What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent

What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent
305 by SatvikBeri | 126 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles

Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles
295 by pera | 308 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Microsoft 365 now tracks you in real time?

Microsoft 365 now tracks you in real time?
375 by imalerba | 287 comments on Hacker News.

Saturday, 31 January 2026

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones

Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones
442 by simedw | 133 comments on Hacker News.
Built this because tones are killing my spoken Mandarin and I can't reliably hear my own mistakes. It's a 9M Conformer-CTC model trained on ~300h (AISHELL + Primewords), quantized to INT8 (11 MB), runs 100% in-browser via ONNX Runtime Web. Grades per-syllable pronunciation + tones with Viterbi forced alignment. Try it here: https://ift.tt/tJyZ6aq

New best story on Hacker News: Mobile carriers can get your GPS location

Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
476 by cbeuw | 318 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban on youth social media

Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban on youth social media
457 by Teever | 332 comments on Hacker News.

Friday, 30 January 2026

New best story on Hacker News: PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible

PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible
536 by croes | 328 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
619 by iambateman | 148 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again
558 by ed | 284 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client

GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client
561 by franczesko | 309 comments on Hacker News.

Thursday, 29 January 2026

New best story on Hacker News: Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds

Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
545 by meetpateltech | 258 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking

Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking
535 by qwesr123 | 263 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Tesla ending Models S and X production

Tesla ending Models S and X production
508 by keyboardJones | 1056 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Airfoil (2024)

Airfoil (2024)
513 by brk | 59 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance

Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance
472 by wubin | 118 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/BjUJcAS https://ift.tt/ZgH4ueM...

Wednesday, 28 January 2026

New best story on Hacker News: Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in

Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in
504 by randycupertino | 228 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Amazon cuts 16k jobs

Amazon cuts 16k jobs
429 by DGAP | 591 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: 430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found

430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found
475 by bookofjoe | 249 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/uOnJKN2 https://ift.tt/6yFuW48... https://ift.tt/nEYvL2p...

Tuesday, 27 January 2026

New best story on Hacker News: U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office

U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office
466 by j_maffe | 332 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE

FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE
453 by duxup | 509 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model

Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model
446 by nekofneko | 211 comments on Hacker News.

Monday, 26 January 2026

New best story on Hacker News: Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3

Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3
459 by todsacerdoti | 171 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Television is 100 years old today

Television is 100 years old today
472 by qassiov | 157 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.

France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.
426 by bwb | 378 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Doom has been ported to an earbud

Doom has been ported to an earbud
424 by arin-s | 131 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Yes, It's Fascism

Yes, It's Fascism
500 by mickle00 | 229 comments on Hacker News.

Sunday, 25 January 2026

New best story on Hacker News: First, make me care

First, make me care
528 by andsoitis | 154 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
468 by dnw | 162 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data
511 by JKCalhoun | 257 comments on Hacker News.

Saturday, 24 January 2026

New best story on Hacker News: MS confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption key if asked

MS confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption key if asked
388 by blacktulip | 258 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires

Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires
388 by user5994461 | 213 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B

Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B
380 by personjerry | 350 comments on Hacker News.
Archive link: https://ift.tt/sjm7c6F Capitol One statement: https://ift.tt/HYrM0Nc... Brex statement: https://ift.tt/7uSYGRb...

New best story on Hacker News: Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale

Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale
381 by pavel_lishin | 399 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Proton spam and the AI consent problem

Proton spam and the AI consent problem
526 by dbushell | 389 comments on Hacker News.

Friday, 23 January 2026

New best story on Hacker News: Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops

Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops
557 by bookofjoe | 394 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: European Alternatives

European Alternatives
564 by s_dev | 308 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"

Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"
531 by speckx | 523 comments on Hacker News.

Thursday, 22 January 2026

New best story on Hacker News: Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation

Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation
513 by Palmik | 163 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels

In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels
512 by speckx | 524 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC

Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC
500 by cannoneyed | 137 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN! I wanted to share something I built over the last few weeks: isometric.nyc is a massive isometric pixel art map of NYC, built with nano banana and coding agents. I didn't write a single line of code. Of course no-code doesn't mean no-engineering. This project took a lot more manual labor than I'd hoped! I wrote a deep dive on the workflow and some thoughts about the future of AI coding and creativity: https://ift.tt/tkhrevW

New best story on Hacker News: GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers

GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers
481 by segmenta | 258 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Claude's new constitution

Claude's new constitution
442 by meetpateltech | 439 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/Z0QcGS2

Wednesday, 21 January 2026

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)

Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)
443 by huntergemmer | 138 comments on Hacker News.
Creator here. I built ChartGPU because I kept hitting the same wall: charting libraries that claim to be "fast" but choke past 100K data points. The core insight: Canvas2D is fundamentally CPU-bound. Even WebGL chart libraries still do most computation on the CPU. So I moved everything to the GPU via WebGPU: - LTTB downsampling runs as a compute shader - Hit-testing for tooltips/hover is GPU-accelerated - Rendering uses instanced draws (one draw call per series) The result: 1M points at 60fps with smooth zoom/pan. Live demo: https://chartgpu.github.io/ChartGPU/examples/million-points/ Currently supports line, area, bar, scatter, pie, and candlestick charts. MIT licensed, available on npm: `npm install chartgpu` Happy to answer questions about WebGPU internals or architecture decisions.

New best story on Hacker News: Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction

Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction
438 by todsacerdoti | 362 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years

California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years
441 by thnaks | 237 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: A 26,000-year astronomical monument hidden in plain sight (2019)

A 26,000-year astronomical monument hidden in plain sight (2019)
477 by mkmk | 92 comments on Hacker News.

Tuesday, 20 January 2026

New best story on Hacker News: De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)

De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
487 by andsoitis | 624 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries

Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries
469 by mythical_39 | 484 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results

Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results
478 by ksec | 389 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Level S4 solar radiation event

Level S4 solar radiation event
449 by WorldPeas | 152 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/gdSwY6e

New best story on Hacker News: Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)

Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
460 by hn_acker | 158 comments on Hacker News.

Monday, 19 January 2026

New best story on Hacker News: Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026

Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026
480 by MrBuddyCasino | 251 comments on Hacker News.

Sunday, 18 January 2026

New best story on Hacker News: Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video

Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video
300 by ChrisArchitect | 108 comments on Hacker News.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1-46Nu3HxQ

New best story on Hacker News: Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro

Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro
279 by nl | 260 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see

Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see
313 by speckx | 132 comments on Hacker News.

Saturday, 17 January 2026

New best story on Hacker News: The recurring dream of replacing developers

The recurring dream of replacing developers
375 by glimshe | 300 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13

Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13
361 by bookofjoe | 169 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: The Dilbert Afterlife

The Dilbert Afterlife
370 by rendall | 234 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor

OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor
400 by gpi | 57 comments on Hacker News.

Friday, 16 January 2026

New best story on Hacker News: Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence

Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence
495 by embedding-shape | 208 comments on Hacker News.
Related: Scaling long-running autonomous coding - https://ift.tt/at47cER - Jan 2026 (174 comments)

New best story on Hacker News: Just the Browser

Just the Browser
523 by cl3misch | 245 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: STFU

STFU
487 by tanelpoder | 355 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Cloudflare acquires Astro

Cloudflare acquires Astro
460 by todotask2 | 245 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/uO0KBqT...

Thursday, 15 January 2026

New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?

Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
496 by publicdebates | 803 comments on Hacker News.
Countless voiceless people sit alone every day and have no one to talk to, people of all ages, who don't feel that they can join any local groups. So they sit on social media all day when they're not at work or school. How can we solve this?