Year: 2026

The percentage of Show HN posts is increasing, but their scores are decreasing

đź’Ą Discover this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Last update: 2026-01-14 Recently, I felt like I was seeing more “Show HN” stories, and many of which were generated with LLMs. So I analyzed the data to see if that was true. Also I included the average score per month to see if people enjoy seeing them (because I don’t :P). Charts Stories in 2026 was omitted. 1) It’s only 13 days, 2) Scores are not stable yet. Left axis: show_hn_ratio(show_hn / story * 100) Right axis: average_show_hn_score and average_story_score With LLM timeline Analysis…
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‘A new form of theatre’: Can Ian McKellen, 52 cameras and mixed reality reinvent the medium? | American theatre

‘A new form of theatre’: Can Ian McKellen, 52 cameras and mixed reality reinvent the medium? | American theatre

🚀 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: US theater,Ian McKellen,Culture,Stage,Theatre,ArinzĂ© Kene âś… **What You’ll Learn**: YShe sits in a circle in the Shed, the cultural center in Manhattan's future Hudson Yards, waiting for the show to start. Through your enhanced glasses, you see four empty chairs facing you, out of reach. You watch strangers searching for the actors to arrive. As they do so, one by one, you feel unsettled - each of them looking specifically at you. “Don't panic,” esteemed British actor Ian McKellen assures you, as the actors take their seats.Except the…
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John Armstrong: Knocks, eSports and McRae – The rise of the new underdog in the World Rally Championship

John Armstrong: Knocks, eSports and McRae – The rise of the new underdog in the World Rally Championship

🔥 Read this trending post from BBC Sport đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: After the ups and downs of his journey, Armstrong's dream of a World Rally Championship (WRC) will become a reality when he takes part in the famous Monte Carlo Rally. His teammate is Josh McErlane in a team fully supported by the Motorsport Ireland Rally Academy, and he will be accompanied by Shane Byrne.Armstrong admits it will be a "baptism of fire" on narrow, icy, high-speed mountain roads, but "you just have to keep swimming.""It's heading into the unknown, but that's what the rally is…
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Grubhub’s parent is taking over the startup restaurant rewards claim

Grubhub’s parent is taking over the startup restaurant rewards claim

🔥 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Apps,Startups,claim,grubhub đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Wonder, the parent company of Grubhub, announced it has acquired Claim, a restaurant rewards app. Founded in 2021, Claim offers cash back rewards to local restaurants that users can redeem for dine-in or pickup orders. Restaurants partner with Claim to create promotions, drive traffic, and track performance insights through the claim dashboard. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. However, Claim said it had raised a total of $20 million, when it raised a $12 million Series A in October 2024. PitchBook…
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Australian Open 2026: Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka advance to the third round

Australian Open 2026: Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka advance to the third round

🚀 Discover this must-read post from BBC Sport đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Sabalenka, who has not lost a match so far in 2026, will face Anastasia Potapova in the third round at Melbourne Park, after the Russian-born Austrian defeated British top seed Emma Raducano.Like Gauff, top seed Sabalenka was quick to assert herself against an opponent 701 places behind her, winning five straight games in the first 15 minutes.But the Grand Slam champion was initially frustrated as she looked to improve, having her serve broken before being denied the first six set points.With Bey's resistance ended, Sabalenka…
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Can you slim macOS down? – The Eclectic Light Company

Can you slim macOS down? – The Eclectic Light Company

đź’Ą Explore this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Open Activity Monitor when your Mac isn’t doing a great deal and you’ll see hundreds of processes listed there. Even in a virtual machine with a minimum of services there are at least 500, and in a vanilla setup with no apps open a real Mac can exceed 700. Clearly some of those like WindowServer are essential, but aren’t there plenty we could do without? That’s a question I’m asked repeatedly, which this article tries to answer. One of the first problems when trying to…
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“Soviet attitudes positioned local culture as backward”: Record label stands up to Russian imperialism | music

“Soviet attitudes positioned local culture as backward”: Record label stands up to Russian imperialism | music

đź’Ą Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Music,Europe,Russia,World news,Culture,Folk music 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn May 2022, a few weeks after the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, musician Bulat Khalilov was attending a demonstration in Nalchik, a southern Russian city nestled in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains. When he joined a group gathered around the monument to the Russian-Circassian war victims, a policeman approached Khalilov and sensed trouble. To his surprise, the officer asked: “Are you from Oored Records? I follow you on Instagram. You are doing great.”The Guardian's journalism is…
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Australian Open 2026: Carlos Alcaraz, Coco Gauff and Andrey Rublev talk about how they spend their days off

Australian Open 2026: Carlos Alcaraz, Coco Gauff and Andrey Rublev talk about how they spend their days off

✨ Explore this insightful post from BBC Sport đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Alcaraz, who hopes to add to his two French Open titles, two Wimbledon titles and two US Open titles this month, said he will focus mainly on tennis before his third-round match against 32nd-seeded Frenchman Corentin Moutet."Maybe I'll practice a little bit because I want to be better in the next round, but the golf courses are waiting for me and I know that," added Alcaraz, who celebrated all of his US Open victories last season with the impact of a golf swing.While Alcaraz was…
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The vulnerability in UStriv exposed the personal data of its users, including children

The vulnerability in UStriv exposed the personal data of its users, including children

✨ Discover this trending post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Security,college search,cybersecurity,data exposure,Exclusive,mentorship âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Online routing website UStriv has resolved a security flaw that exposed the personal information of its users, including children. The exposed data included full names, email addresses, phone numbers, other non-public information, and information provided by USrive users, which was accessible to any other logged in user. The nonprofit, formerly known as Strive for College, provides online mentoring to high school and college students through its platform. The organization did not say whether it plans to inform users of the security incident. Last…
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Director Gore Verbinski says Unreal Engine is ‘the greatest slip backwards’ for movie CGI

Director Gore Verbinski says Unreal Engine is ‘the greatest slip backwards’ for movie CGI

🔥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Remember the glory days of CGI in movies? Terminator 2's liquid metal T-1000, Jurassic Park's stunning dinosaurs, Starship Trooper's swarms of giant arachnids. Not only did the CGI look great then, most of the visual effects in those movies still hold up well today, even decades after they were created.Nowadays, movie fans seem much less impressed by CGI in films. There's a general distaste for a perceived overuse of CGI in favor of practical effects, and there are a lot of complaints that recent…
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