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1. How to Handle the Death of the Essay

https://blog.apaonline.org/2026/01/12/how-to-handle-the-death-of-the-essay/

1 points by: jruohonen 13.01.2026 13:33 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:54 UTC

2. Why have death rates from accidental falls tripled?

https://usafacts.org/articles/why-have-death-rates-from-accidental-falls-tripled/

7 points by: atlasunshrugged 13.01.2026 13:33 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:54 UTC

3. Contra Dance as a Model for Post-AI Culture

https://www.jefftk.com/p/contra-dance-as-a-model-for-post-ai-culture

1 points by: mhb 13.01.2026 13:32 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:51 UTC

4. Show HN: I built a Finances app for Mac where you own the SQLite database

https://thefinances.app

1 points by: steveharrison 13.01.2026 13:31 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:51 UTC

5. Helping promote the Lax programming language

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600699

1 points by: Mavox-ID 13.01.2026 13:30 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:48 UTC

6. FailHub – Issue #1 (Every week, three real failures. Three real lessons.)

https://failhub.substack.com/p/failhub-issue-1

1 points by: khambir 13.01.2026 13:30 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:48 UTC

7. Reversal of the Leloir pathway for galactose and tagatose synthesis from glucose

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-physical-science/fulltext/S2666-3864(25)00592-2

1 points by: thunderbong 13.01.2026 13:29 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:45 UTC

8. Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams' memecoin faces rug pull allegations

https://www.theblock.co/post/385222/eric-adams-floats-memecoin

1 points by: zzzeek 13.01.2026 13:29 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:45 UTC

9. Tell HN: Viral Hit Made by AI, 10M listens on Spotify last few days

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600681

1 points by: montebicyclelo 13.01.2026 13:29 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:48 UTC

10. Stop Being Nice. Start Being Kind

https://velocitycurve.substack.com/p/stop-being-nice-start-being-kind

1 points by: mooreds 13.01.2026 13:27 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:45 UTC

11. Movies in the public domain without an attached video file

https://wikiflix.toolforge.org/#/candidates

1 points by: bookofjoe 13.01.2026 13:27 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:45 UTC

12. Context Engineering in Practice: How Atlassian Builds AI for Real Developer Work [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeuoB9aaHHk

1 points by: mooreds 13.01.2026 13:25 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:42 UTC

13. Slackbot is an AI agent now

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/13/slackbot-is-an-ai-agent-now/

1 points by: prng2021 13.01.2026 13:25 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:33 UTC

14. A Landscape View of Robotic Skills, Agents, and the Architecture

https://medium.com/@telekinesis-ai/the-telekinesis-physical-ai-stack-a-landscape-view-of-robotic-skills-agents-and-architecture-4e24fdd2156d

1 points by: CCB-TK 13.01.2026 13:25 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:45 UTC

15. We still need small language models – even in the age of frontier AI

https://www.turing.ac.uk/blog/why-we-still-need-small-language-models-even-age-frontier-ai

1 points by: mooreds 13.01.2026 13:25 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:45 UTC

16. llms .py – Extensible OSS ChatGPT UI, RAG, Tool Calling, Image/Audio Gen

https://llmspy.org/docs/v3

1 points by: mythz 13.01.2026 13:21 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:39 UTC

17. Healthy dietary pattern and risk of rheumatoid arthritis: meta-analysis

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40913838/

2 points by: RickJWagner 13.01.2026 13:20 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:39 UTC

18. Creating an Agentic Skill Library for Robotics, Computer Vision, and Physical AI

https://medium.com/@telekinesis-ai/creating-an-agentic-skill-library-for-robotics-computer-vision-and-physical-ai-1f3ecfbbbca0

2 points by: CCB-TK 13.01.2026 13:19 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:39 UTC

19. Confused between lowlevel and back end development – need guidance

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600552

3 points by: DRIVER_OCTA 13.01.2026 13:18 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:36 UTC

20. Show HN: A dashboard for VS Code extension authors to track search rankings

https://www.vscoderank.com/

1 points by: devoxyes 13.01.2026 13:18 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:36 UTC

21. Cells Use 'Bioelectricity' to Coordinate and Make Group Decisions

https://www.quantamagazine.org/cells-use-bioelectricity-to-coordinate-and-make-group-decisions-20260112/

2 points by: pseudolus 13.01.2026 13:17 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:36 UTC

22. Maggots Are an Efficient Source of Protein

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/maggots-incredibly-efficient-source-protein-may-make-them-next-superfood-humans-180987847/

1 points by: lehi 13.01.2026 13:15 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:36 UTC

23. Building in-browser autocomplete for entries with Radix Tries

https://aarol.dev/posts/wasm-trie-autocomplete/

1 points by: ibobev 13.01.2026 13:15 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:36 UTC

24. Claude Code's system prompt: what governs its behavior

https://rastrigin.systems/blog/claude-code-part-2-system-prompt/

1 points by: rastriga 13.01.2026 13:15 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:36 UTC

25. I deserve to write at least two or three more arithmetic expression parsers

https://buttondown.com/jaffray/archive/i-deserve-to-write-at-least-two-or-three-more/

1 points by: ibobev 13.01.2026 13:15 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:36 UTC

26. Trump's exercise of power upends world order, sending friends and foes reeling

https://www.reuters.com/world/trumps-exercise-raw-power-upends-world-order-sending-friends-foes-reeling-2026-01-13/

1 points by: Bondi_Blue 13.01.2026 13:14 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:33 UTC

27. Legacy code modernization – structured process, pay on delivery

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600515

1 points by: millhouse1112 13.01.2026 13:14 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:33 UTC

28. A New Jersey lawsuit shows how hard it is to fight deepfake porn

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/12/a-new-jersey-lawsuit-shows-how-hard-it-is-to-fight-deepfake-porn/

2 points by: pseudolus 13.01.2026 13:14 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:33 UTC

29. Optimizing spatiotemporal variance-guided filtering for modern GPU architectures

https://jcgt.org/published/0015/01/02/

1 points by: ibobev 13.01.2026 13:14 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:36 UTC

30. Meet.google.com – Low frame rate for screen shares

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1983227

1 points by: doener 13.01.2026 13:13 UTC Last Updated: 13.01.2026 13:33 UTC