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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:15) - Scott Adams has died
• (01:19) - AI generated music barred from Bandcamp
• (02:24) - There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape
• (03:32) - A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gap
• (04:42) - Every GitHub object has two IDs
• (05:53) - The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
• (07:06) - The Tulip Creative Computer
• (08:07) - How to make a damn website (2024)
• (09:12) - The $LANG Programming Language
• (10:10) - No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams
• (11:21) - Outro

AI generated music barred from Bandcamp
https://old.reddit.com/r/BandCamp/comments/1qbw8ba/ai_generated_music_on_bandcamp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605490

There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape
https://blog.jgc.org/2026/01/theres-ridiculous-amount-of-tech-in.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46591810

A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gap
https://questdb.com/blog/jvm-current-thread-user-time/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46609630

Every GitHub object has two IDs
https://www.greptile.com/blog/github-ids
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602591

The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
https://www.owlposting.com/p/the-truth-behind-the-2026-jp-morgan
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605332

The Tulip Creative Computer
https://github.com/shorepine/tulipcc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46603995

How to make a damn website (2024)
https://lmnt.me/blog/how-to-make-a-damn-website.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46604250

The $LANG Programming Language
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46610557

No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams
https://www.ablg.io/blog/no-management-needed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605854

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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

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:17) - Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines
• (01:30) - Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear
• (02:23) - “Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”
• (03:24) - How will the miracle happen today?
• (04:33) - Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times
• (05:47) - Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux
• (06:48) - How Markdown took over the world
• (07:50) - JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters
• (08:41) - Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok
• (09:32) - RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?
• (10:48) - Outro

Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear
https://lend-me-your-ears.specr.net
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556210

“Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”
https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115855840223258103
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560445

How will the miracle happen today?
https://kk.org/thetechnium/how-will-the-miracle-happen-today/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46489514

Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times
https://nexanet.ai/blog/53-times-flocksafety-hardcoded-the-password-for-americas-surveillance-infrastructure
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46555807

Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux
https://help.kagi.com/orion/misc/linux-status.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46553343

How Markdown took over the world
https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556695

JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters
https://beta.dwitter.net
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557489

Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok
https://quack.sdan.io
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557029

RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?
https://scottjg.com/posts/2026-01-08-crappy-computer-showdown/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558148

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:18) - Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
• (01:23) - Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
• (02:28) - How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code
• (03:38) - The Jeff Dean Facts
• (04:32) - Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
• (05:36) - AI coding assistants are getting worse?
• (06:43) - Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU
• (07:50) - The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transform
• (08:58) - Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async
• (10:09) - Why I left iNaturalist
• (11:18) - Outro

Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
https://twitter.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2009339263251566902
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545077

How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code
https://www.mihaileric.com/The-Emperor-Has-No-Clothes/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545620

The Jeff Dean Facts
https://github.com/LRitzdorf/TheJeffDeanFacts
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46540498

Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/7410
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46549823

AI coding assistants are getting worse?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542036

Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU
https://github.com/samuel-vitorino/sopro
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546113

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transform
https://joshuawise.com/resources/ofdm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544981

Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async
https://github.com/embassy-rs/embassy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46547740

Why I left iNaturalist
https://kueda.net/blog/2026/01/06/why-i-left-inat/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46548940

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:17) - Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
• (01:22) - US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes
• (02:29) - Eat Real Food
• (03:36) - Shipmap.org
• (04:36) - A4 Paper Stories
• (05:37) - LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf]
• (06:40) - Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default
• (07:54) - ChatGPT Health
• (08:58) - “Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)
• (10:10) - Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware
• (11:13) - Outro

US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-will-ban-large-institutional-investors-buying-single-family-homes-trump-says-2026-01-07/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531068

Eat Real Food
https://realfood.gov
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46529237

Shipmap.org
https://www.shipmap.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527161

A4 Paper Stories
https://susam.net/a4-paper-stories.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46525888

LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf]
https://ctan.math.illinois.edu/graphics/pgf/contrib/coffeestains/coffeestains-en.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526933

Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default
https://tailscale.com/changelog
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531925

ChatGPT Health
https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-health/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531280

“Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)
https://lbstanza.org/purpose_of_programming_languages.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46525640

Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware
https://patchouli.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46537489

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:16) - Vietnam bans unskippable ads
• (01:25) - Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
• (02:44) - Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone
• (03:51) - The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup
• (04:55) - I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it
• (05:48) - Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024)
• (06:54) - A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time
• (08:19) - Sergey Brin's Unretirement
• (09:21) - Passing of Joe Mancuso
• (10:15) - Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kit
• (11:26) - Outro

Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
https://burkeholland.github.io/posts/opus-4-5-change-everything/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46515696

Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone
https://github.com/rberg27/doom-coding
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46517458

The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup
https://twitter.com/bcherny/status/2007179832300581177
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46470017

I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it
https://medium.com/@cristi.baluta/i-wanted-a-camera-that-doesnt-exist-so-i-built-it-5f9864533eb7
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466843

Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024)
https://phrack.org/issues/71/17
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46518129

A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time
https://byteshape.com/blogs/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46518573

Sergey Brin's Unretirement
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/google-co-founder-sergey-brins-unretirement-is-a-lesson-for-the-rest-of-us/91280208
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452641

Passing of Joe Mancuso
https://github.com/MasoniteFramework/masonite/discussions/853
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46516137

Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kit
https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/how-microsoft-killed-my-snapdragon-devkit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521860