Monthly Highlights
5041.
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2026)
5042.
Ask HN: Iran has now been offline for 100 hours. What can we "technically" do?
5043.
Show HN: I'm 35 and couldn't finish reading articles anymore, so I built this (parsely.obasic.app)
5044.
China's Renewable Energy Revolution Is a Mess That Might Save the World (wired.com)
5045.
Pilot reports UFO hovering beside jet, leaving air traffic control stunned (foxnews.com)
5046.
New .gov Portal: Foreign Funding in US Higher Education (foreignfundinghighered.gov)
5047.
Ask HN: How do you verify cron jobs did what they were supposed to?
5048.
Ask HN: What book are you currently reading?
5049.
The average 50-something American is now worth $1.4M (usatoday.com)
5050.
The new vs. used car debate is dead. They're both expensive debt traps (washingtonpost.com)
5051.
Show HN: I Built a YouTube Clone with 1 Prompt (whytube-clone-maker.lovable.app)
5052.
Ask HN: Do you "micro-manage" your agents?
5053.
Ask HN: Thinking about memory for AI coding agents
5054.
Tell HN: Cursor agent force-pushed despite explicit "ask for permission" rules
5055.
Amthropic CEO claims we are 1yr away where AI can do everything SWEs (twitter.com)
5056.
Oil Tanker Fleeing the Coast Guard Now Listed in Russian Ship Database (nytimes.com)
5057.
An A.I. Startup Says It Wants to Empower Workers, Not Replace Them (nytimes.com)
5058.
The $160k Mechanic Job That Ford Can't Fill (wsj.com)
5059.
Ask HN: When has humanities/history knowledge helped you in tech?
5060.
I Sharted and Understood the Helpful Content Update (wskpf.com)
5061.
Why Rust solves a Problem we no longer have – use AI and Formal Proofs instead (rochuskeller.substack.com)
5062.
Ask HN: Estimating % of dev using coding assistants
5063.
Ask HN: Why no dark mode?
5064.
The latest Firefox version broke ChatGPT website (old.reddit.com)
5065.
Ask HN: Why Can't We Make Approved Building Plans Reusable?
5066.
Show HN: Bucket – Encrypted file sharing for people who live in the terminal (bucketlabs.org)
5067.
Europe's executives need to skill up to solve our total US cloud dependency (berthub.eu)
5068.
AxonFlow – a control plane for production LLM and agent workflows (github.com)
5069.
Tell HN: A Proposal to Modernize Xorg as a Protocol-Only Graphics Layer
5070.
If you receive a bribe, include it in your income (irs.gov)