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Hacker News (31 Jan 2026)

  1. Mobile carriers can get your GPS location

    879 points • 574 comments • jan 31, 2026

  2. Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native

    770 points • 668 comments • jan 31, 2026

  3. Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media

    730 points • 552 comments • jan 31, 2026

  4. Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones

    460 points • 146 comments • jan 31, 2026

  5. The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice

    353 points • 279 comments • jan 31, 2026

  6. Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)

    317 points • 339 comments • jan 31, 2026

  7. In praise of –dry-run

    299 points • 160 comments • jan 31, 2026

  8. Automatic Programming

    276 points • 243 comments • jan 31, 2026

  9. Outsourcing thinking

    259 points • 210 comments • jan 31, 2026

  10. Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025

    235 points • 117 comments • jan 31, 2026