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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:19) - Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work
• (01:31) - Apple picks Gemini to power Siri
• (02:37) - Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids
• (03:44) - TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875
• (04:53) - Postal Arbitrage
• (05:53) - Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy
• (07:03) - Date is out, Temporal is in
• (08:08) - LLVM: The bad parts
• (09:16) - Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode
• (10:27) - Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
• (11:38) - Outro

Apple picks Gemini to power Siri
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/apple-google-ai-siri-gemini.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589675

Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids
https://blog.smartere.dk/2026/01/floppy-disks-the-best-tv-remote-for-kids/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587934

TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875
https://github.com/haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLM
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46590280

Postal Arbitrage
https://walzr.com/postal-arbitrage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46591708

Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/12/ozempic-changing-foods-americans-buy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587536

Date is out, Temporal is in
https://piccalil.li/blog/date-is-out-and-temporal-is-in/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589658

LLVM: The bad parts
https://www.npopov.com/2026/01/11/LLVM-The-bad-parts.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46588837

Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode
https://cy.md/opencode-rce/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46581095

Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
https://archaeologist.dev/artifacts/anthropic
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46586766

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:19) - The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
• (01:29) - CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun
• (02:46) - iCloud Photos Downloader
• (03:40) - I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video]
• (04:49) - Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]
• (05:50) - Xfce is great
• (06:56) - This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser
• (08:01) - Poison Fountain
• (09:07) - Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
• (10:08) - Outro

Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
https://antirez.com/news/158
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574276

CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun
https://fulghum.io/self-hosting
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580326

iCloud Photos Downloader
https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578921

I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il-TXbn5iMA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46539478

Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDkH3EbWTYc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46543509

Xfce is great
https://rubenerd.com/xfce-is-great/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46584173

This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser
https://iczelia.net/posts/snake-polyglot/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580864

Poison Fountain
https://rnsaffn.com/poison3/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46577464

Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46577242

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:18) - Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak
• (01:32) - Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project
• (02:37) - Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
• (03:34) - Code and Let Live
• (04:45) - AI is a business model stress test
• (06:01) - Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering
• (07:11) - My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated
• (08:11) - A battle over Canada’s mystery brain disease
• (09:20) - Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study
• (10:23) - ASCII-Driven Development
• (11:22) - Outro

Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project
https://www.openchaos.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566812

Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
https://trails.pieterma.es/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46567400

Code and Let Live
https://fly.io/blog/code-and-let-live/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557825

AI is a business model stress test
https://dri.es/ai-is-a-business-model-stress-test
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46567392

Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering
https://github.com/OlaProeis/Ferrite
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571980

My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated
https://alienchow.dev/post/fibre_disintegration/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46572679

A battle over Canada’s mystery brain disease
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c623r47d67lo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46572769

Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/01/08/why-overdose-deaths-are-falling-in-america
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46569312

ASCII-Driven Development
https://medium.com/@calufa/ascii-driven-development-850f66661351
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46538628