Monthly Highlights
5971.
AI Has an Image Problem (brittanyellich.com)
5972.
Hegseth Wants to Integrate Grok into Pentagon Networks (arstechnica.com)
5973.
Miami Beach resident posted online about the mayor. Police showed up (miamiherald.com)
5974.
The Battle for One of the Richest and Smallest Counties in Texas (newyorker.com)
5975.
They are now putting composite armor on spacecraft to shield from orbital debris (spacenews.com)
5976.
It's not just China's total population that's falling (economist.com)
5977.
Ask HN: Who's given up on getting hired? (January 2026)
5978.
Amazon Flags 'Low-Time' and 'Zero Badgers' as It Cracks Down on RTO (businessinsider.com)
5979.
The RAM shortage's silver lining: Less talk about "AI PCs" (arstechnica.com)
5980.
Half of CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows (theguardian.com)
5981.
Maia 200: The AI accelerator built for inference (blogs.microsoft.com)
5982.
Factory farming in Africa: development banks like it, but it's bad for climate (theconversation.com)
5983.
Show HN: Vibe scrape with AI Web Agents, prompt => get data [video] (youtube.com)
5984.
Contrary to popular belief, EV sales growth continued to accelerate in 2025 (electrek.co)
5985.
Panda Diplomacy (en.wikipedia.org)
5986.
Moderna Won't Run Phase III Vaccine Trials as Skepticism Grows in US (biospace.com)
5987.
Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks (publishersweekly.com)
5988.
Are You Dead?: The viral Chinese app for young people living alone (bbc.com)
5989.
Can x402 save the Open Source Software movement? (easydns.com)
5990.
Ask HN: Vibe-coded prototypes: what happens when they go into production?
5991.
Every LLM hallucinates that std:vector deletes elements in LIFO order (am17an.bearblog.dev)
5992.
DNA shows syphilis was rooted in the Americas, before Columbus (washingtonpost.com)
5993.
Crypto users forced to share account details with tax officials (bbc.co.uk)
5994.
You are probably getting brain damage from all those Covid infections (synergies.substack.com)
5995.
Bring Back Ops Pride (substack.com)
5996.
France to ditch US platforms for 'sovereign platform' amid security concerns (euronews.com)
5997.
Smart glasses: 'I was filmed and trolled online' (bbc.co.uk)
5998.
List of obsolete occupations (en.wikipedia.org)
5999.
Tell HN: Aden, A YC company, is growth hacking by luring devs with paid work
6000.
Sopro: A 169M parameter real-time TTS model with zero-shot voice cloning (github.com)