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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