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LLMs do not meaningfully "refactor" at anything other than a junior engineering level. They can basically do some window dressing and move code around between files. True refactoring means creating new abstractions, which LLMs can't do because they can't form world-models.
🗓️ Exactly three weeks ago #Iran imposed a national internet blackout to obscure civilian killings. Whitelisting and heavy filtering are still in effect.
The incident is among the most severe of its kind on record, exceeded in duration only during civil war in Myanmar and Sudan.
Objects in the rear view mirror can only be seen in the mirror since they're stalking you on the Astral Plane.
What will he break this time?
Systemd daddy departs Microsoft for Linux startup
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/29/lennart_poettering_quits_microsoft/
@queen_fennec and why the heck would all Dutch government services depend for authentication on a non-public organisation? Before even considering the option that such company could be sold to a US corp. Maybe time to have DigID as a public service by a public entity?
@WtebbensWouter Tebbens ⁂ @queen_fennec Everything is already public. Except for one tiny thorny detail. The actual hosting and maintenance. By a company now being sold to a former daughter company of IBM.
Ownership of the code, transparancy, everything is okay.
Show HN: ShapedQL – A SQL engine for multi-stage ranking and RAG
Link: https://playground.shaped.ai
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779922
my lyft is 3 minutes away. i listen to a song that is 6:29 long. my lyft is 3 minutes away
Working from home for the first time with our new kitten. Not quite sure how it is possible to do any work?
It's a "wearing two coats at my desk and still shivering" kind of winter because I'm stubborn about trying to rely on the heat pumps as much as possible. So mad that I asked for cold-climate systems and they gave me this nonsense.
When I get out from under this house repair nightmare and finances recover a bit I want to hire, like... someone with a FLIR drone to fly around the home, figure out all the places where it's leaking heat, and help insulate/seal them.
Here’s an export of my big tab group of indie font foundries. If I need a font and can pay a few eurobucks for it, I look here.
Far wider range of expression than you’ll find on Google Fonts. Licenses are still annoying, but some have begun to adopt better ones.
https://www.arcanetype.com/
https://www.arrowtype.com/
https://beastsofengland.co/
https://www.boldmonday.com/
https://djr.com/
https://lettermatic.com/
https://frerejones.com/
https://www.futurefonts.com/
https://hex.xyz/
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Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images
Link: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Meteorological_missions/meteosat_third_generation/Europe_s_next-generation_weather_satellite_sends_back_first_images
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46806773
US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: Report
Link: https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/us-cybersecurity-chief-leaked-sensitive-government-files-to-chatgpt-report-3311462/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812173
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'Huge news!' Expert cheers as a federal judge shuts down #Trump's scheme to have #ICE arrest and detain thousands of legal refugee claimants
“Senior U.S. District Judge John Tunheim ordered that the moves to arrest #Minnesota's 5,600 refugees, transport them to other states, and interrogate them in detention cannot continue — and that anyone who was shipped out to other states in this manner must be returned to Minnesota.”
MN Judge: "ICE has violated nearly 100 court orders."
ICE Fascists: "We're acting on orders of DHS Secretary Kristy Noem."
Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen."
Nuremberg Trials: "I was just following orders is not a valid defense to criminal behavior.'
Abolish ICE. Impeach Noem. Prosecute every illegal action by this regime.
Anything less is unacceptable.
Beta testing of WebUSBUnpinner - a tool to investigate platform worker's privacy and rights violations https://lobste.rs/s/b7lh3o #security #testing
https://reversing.works/posts/2026/01/help-reversing.works-empower-workers-by-testing-our-tool/
You get a lot of benefits when you support #FreeSoftware with a #FSF associate membership: https://www.fsf.org/associate/benefits
V睡してもいいんだけど多分よくない
お風呂した
這個也賣光了…還想有機會遇到就買一個
我的眼光就這麼大眾嗎 
Metaprogramming the next generation of testing tools. ~ Harry Goldstein. https://youtu.be/AFbnS9xuPhY #ITP #LeanProver
애들아~ 이 리스트는 '자동'으로 차단하는 리스트다~~~
'자동'으로 차단해서 트위터 계정 정지 완전 많이 당해봤잖니~~~
너희 스라에 이 리스트 구독 중인 사람 있지 않게 퍼뜨려다오.
그런데 나는 저기 들어가있으니까 이 글을 알티/알피/인용해도 저 리스트 구독 중인 분한테는 안보일테니 니네가 저 리스트를 직접 언급해줘야 할거임.
겸사겸사 나는 블스 공식에 신고 박고 옴
bsky.app/profile/auto...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iqga7bwbwbdo4z6suofriwa5/post/3mdl5gyavyc25
W3C is thinking to standardize gesture events. we need your thoughts at https://github.com/w3c/pointerevents/issues/636 ! 
@w3cWorld Wide Web Consortium 
@w3cdevsW3C Developers
Josette is enjoying some sunshine.
#catsofmastodon
do zoomers know about the pompatus of love
W3C's Emma Fraser gave an update on the 2025 World Wide Web Consortium Membership Survey
"The 2025 Membership Survey has given W3C valuable insight into our Membership and their vision for the future and we are grateful to everyone who took the time to participate. We continuously strive to increase transparency, diversity, accessibility, and sustainability in our community."
https://www.w3.org/blog/2026/2025-w3c-membership-survey/
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널부렁 자다가 하품하는 고양이 보여줄게. 🙄
私はエイレーンのエトラと萌実とヨメミの物語が完結するのを見たかったよ
What's new in the Lean standard library. ~ Markus Himmel, Sofia Rodrigues. https://youtu.be/Il8xUcO15pE #ITP #LeanProver
An E-Ink Macropad For Improved Productivity
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/29/an-e-ink-macropad-for-improved-productivity/
Owl takes up residence in Mazu's crown at Miaoli temple
"Huang, the temple chairman, said he had asked Mazu to look after the owl. From the perspective of Buddhism and folk beliefs, he said, temples are places of purity, and the owl must have come for a special reason."
This is nice, and such a cool picture.
후지미L 레이블에서 백합 소설 나오네. https://lbunko.kadokawa.co.jp/product/322508000661.html
이 레이블 전엔 백합 나오는 이미지 전혀 없었는데 그래도 최근 몇년동안 두세권쯤 나온 듯?
Writing proofs by clicking. ~ Jovan Gerbscheid. https://youtu.be/SvATv2hadkI #ITP #LeanProver
The new CentOS branding is cute. #centosconnect
Meet Osprey V1.0, a new open source online safety tool designed to help platforms investigate and address their priority threats at scale, without sacrificing data privacy or performance. roost.tools/blog/introdu...
Introducing Osprey V1.0: Open ...
#neovim Development News
The 0.12 version will allow Neovim to be built without Unibilium (terminfo implementation). If missing, only internal definitions for the most common terminals are used.
Less build time dependency -> support for more platforms is possible.
PR:
- github.com/neovim/neovi...
feat(build): HAVE_UNIBILIUM by...
"It’s a real Mac app — written mostly in AppKit, supporting all the right UI idioms and platform integrations. It’s not just the best Bluesky client I’ve seen, for any platform, but maybe the best new Mac app I’ve seen in years, period. Certainly the one whose very existence has made me happiest" 🍎
Aeronaut 1.0
"Your password must not contain the same character more than once." is an actual requirement i saw a few days ago
Narwhal: an extensible pub/sub messaging server for edge applications https://lobste.rs/s/icj2ce #distributed #rust
https://github.com/narwhal-io/narwhal
널부렁 자다가 하품하는 고양이 보여줄게. 🙄
Brüssel Chapelle-Kerk (chaotic neutral)
Wake-up strike!! Ft. @gabebold.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
Brüssel Chapelle-Kerk (chaotic neutral)
Great to see this also in vim:) github.com/vim/vim/pull... #vim #neovim
Chao-c'
Olivier Forget
DevelopersIO 
C106落選 
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Tom Casavant
- solidarity with 
Dr. Anna Latour