Stewart Brand – Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One
Article URL: https://press.stripe.com/maintenance-part-one Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46696276 Points: 4 # Comments: 0...
13hHacker NewsTechnologyImpact
Japan’s Okinawa loses longevity crown as slow living makes way for faster, shorter future
A generation ago, the people of Okinawa in Japan were recognised as among the longest-lived in the world, fortunate residents of one of just five “blue zones” around the planet where a combination of ...
6hSouth China Morning PostHealthImpact
Northern lights dazzle US, Europe amid intense solar storm
The sun has ejected the largest solar radiation storm in over 20 years. The phenomenon caused auroras to light up the skies in some parts of the world....
1dDeutsche WelleScienceImpact
List of Individual Trees
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individual_trees Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46641284 Points: 5 # Comments: 0...
5dHacker NewscultureImpact
New moon of January 2026 brings prime views of Jupiter, Saturn and winter stars tonight
With the moon out of the way on Jan. 18, bright Jupiter and Saturn become stand-outs in the January night sky....
2dSpace.comScience
Sick astronaut, rest of crew undock from ISS ahead of return to Earth, NASA says
Crew-11 is expected to splash down off the coast of California Thursday morning....
6dABC NewsScience
Electricity use of AI coding agents
Article URL: https://www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01-20-cc-impact/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695415 Points: 4 # Comments: 0...
14hHacker NewsTechnologyImpact
Mistaken identity and the psychology of human recognition
Nature, Published online: 20 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00190-y The accuracy of eyewitness evidence is questioned, and a fossil collection examined when a geological society moves its London...
1dNatureScience
The coming industrialisation of exploit generation with LLMs
Article URL: https://sean.heelan.io/2026/01/18/on-the-coming-industrialisation-of-exploit-generation-with-llms/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46676081 Points: 64 # Comments: 51...
2dHacker NewsTechnologyImpact
Earth from Space: The Fate of a Giant
Article URL: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/01/Earth_from_Space_The_fate_of_a_giant Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649813 Points: 3 # Comments: 0...
4dHacker NewsScienceImpact
Found: Medieval Cargo Ship – Largest Vessel of Its Kind Ever
Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-say-theyve-unearthed-a-massive-medieval-cargo-ship-thats-the-largest-vessel-of-its-kind-ever-found-180987984/ Comments URL: https:...
5dHacker NewsScienceImpact
Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout
Article URL: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-renewable-photo-essay Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630369 Points: 18 # Comments: 0...
5dHacker NewsenvironmentImpact
Acetaminophen use in pregnancy doesn't increase risk of autism, ADHD, review finds
Using acetaminophen during pregnancy does not increase a child's risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability, a major new review published Friday finds....
4dABC NewsHealth
On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) [pdf]
Article URL: https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/crisis/crisis.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46644962 Points: 8 # Comments: 0...
4dHacker NewssocietyImpact
Show HN: The Hessian of tall-skinny networks is easy to invert
It turns out the inverse of the Hessian of a deep net is easy to apply to a vector. Doing this naively takes cubically many operations in the number of layers (so impractical), but it's possible to do...
5dHacker NewsTechnologyImpact
Maggots, an Efficient Source of Protein, May Become Next Superfood for Humans
Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/maggots-incredibly-efficient-source-protein-may-make-them-next-superfood-humans-180987847/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...
6dHacker NewsScienceImpact
This is the sharpest view ever seen of a black hole's dusty disk
"Instead of Webb's 6.5-meter diameter, it's like we are observing this region with a 13-meter space telescope."...
1dSpace.comScience
The near death -- and last-minute reprieve -- of a trial for an HIV vaccine
A trial was about to launch for a vaccine that would ward off the HIV virus. It would be an incredible breakthrough. Then it looked as if it would be over before it started. (Image credit: Tommy Trenc...
3dNPR NewsScienceImpact
Astronaut on ISS captures spectacular orbital video of zodiacal light, auroras and the Pleiades
Kimiya Yui released the timelapse footage to celebrate his 300th cumulative day spent orbiting Earth....
Jan 10Space.comScience
Space telescopes capture breathtaking galactic hug | Space photo of the day for Jan. 8, 2026
Both NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory caught these two galaxies in a close embrace....
Jan 8Space.comScience
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