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A judge just blew up Apple's control of the App Store (theverge.com)
Watch Bluesky's explosive user growth in real time (bcounter.nat.vg)
Tell HN: Happy New Year HN
i spend too much time on this site, but its probably worth it. happy new year guys
Decentralization Ends Where Interoperability Begins (timctrl.substack.com)
Nissan.com (nissan.com)
Ask HN: Why can't ChatGPT count to a million?
Ask HN: What service should I use to send email from my Node.js application?
All options, mailtrap, sendgrid, resend, etc, seem to have a good free tier, looking for some anecdotal opinions
Internet Wrapped (internetwrapped.com)
NPM Left-Pad Incident (en.wikipedia.org)
Requests for Startups – Fall 2025 (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: What non-existent app or tool would you pay for right now?
Show HN: Internet Wrapped – Like Spotify Wrapped but for your browsing patterns (internetwrapped.com)
Tell HN: Increased 403's on the Cloudflare Dashboard
Is anyone else seeing this?
Show HN: Internet Wrapped (internetwrapped.com)
Ask HN: On advice that you would give to your younger self
If successful people lived out the advice that they would give to their younger self as young people, would they still end up successful?
Claude.ai Chats Not Saved (status.anthropic.com)
Link: The Wallet Designed for the Internet (link.com)
Show HN: 'Backed by Y Combinator' Embeddable Widget (yc-widget.pages.dev)
Show HN: 'Backed by YC' Embeddable Widget (yc-widget.pages.dev)
I thought this would be cool, so I coded it in about 30 minutes, very hacky, but works!
Unequal Scenes (unequalscenes.com)
Show HN: I Built MentorAI; an Educational AI Chat Application (mentoraiapp.com)
Hi HN;<p>Imagine could chat to Isaac Newton, or Einstein! MentorAI does just that. It is an educational ai chat application where you get to chat to AI personas of what we would consider experts in a given field. My available lists may not be very comprehensive but i&#x27;m working on adding as many...
Requests for Startups – Spring 2026 (ycombinator.com)
What Happened to MCP? (hntrends.net)
Tell HN: Anything you are working on in AI could become an industry standard
Here are a few examples;<p>Vibe Coding - Using an LLM or LLM Powered IDE to build an application.<p>Messaging Interface popularised by ChatGPT - Standard way for textual conversation with LLM<p>Typing Text Animation - Standard way of outputting text across all mainstream text based interactions with...
You Control This Video with Your Keyboard 2 (youtube.com)
Show HN: MentorAI – Learn from the Best (mentoraiapp.com)
Ryan Dahl explains why Deno had to evolve with version 2.0 (stackoverflow.blog)