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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

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:18) - There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout
• (01:27) - Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
• (02:47) - Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got
• (03:58) - Pebble Round 2
• (04:56) - I switched from VSCode to Zed
• (06:14) - Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%
• (07:20) - enclose.horse
• (08:10) - Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android
• (09:07) - Welcome to Gas Town
• (10:16) - Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale
• (11:10) - Outro

Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2026/01/2025-databases-retrospective.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46496103

Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got
https://andrew.grahamyooll.com/blog/Try-to-Take-My-Position/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466027

Pebble Round 2
https://repebble.com/blog/pebble-round-2-the-most-stylish-pebble-ever
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46465335

I switched from VSCode to Zed
https://tenthousandmeters.com/blog/i-switched-from-vscode-to-zed/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46498735

Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%
https://brave.com/privacy-updates/36-adblock-memory-reduction/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501894

enclose.horse
https://enclose.horse/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46509211

Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android
https://donotnotify.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46499646

Welcome to Gas Town
https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458936

Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale
https://github.com/Adversis/tailsnitch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501137

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:20) - Lessons from 14 years at Google
• (01:26) - The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café
• (02:33) - Web development is fun again
• (03:44) - Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021)
• (04:54) - Claude Code On-the-Go
• (06:00) - Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS
• (06:59) - I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019)
• (08:06) - Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data?
• (09:16) - Show HN: An interactive guide to how browsers work
• (10:18) - During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website
• (11:25) - Outro

The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café
https://candost.blog/the-unbearable-joy-of-sitting-alone-in-a-cafe/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488355

Web development is fun again
https://ma.ttias.be/web-development-is-fun-again/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488576

Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021)
https://fabiensanglard.net/sf2_warrier/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488278

Claude Code On-the-Go
https://granda.org/en/2026/01/02/claude-code-on-the-go/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491486

Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS
https://github.com/huseyinbabal/taws
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491749

I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019)
https://idiallo.com/blog/18000-dollars-static-web-page
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46469877

Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data?
https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/674129/why-does-a-linear-least-squares-fit-appear-to-have-a-bias-when-applied-to-simple
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491821

Show HN: An interactive guide to how browsers work
https://howbrowserswork.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488654

During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website
https://sparkbox.com/foundry/helene_and_mobile_web_performance
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46494734

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:19) - Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
• (01:34) - The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025
• (02:45) - The C3 Programming Language
• (03:52) - The suck is why we're here
• (05:17) - Neural Networks: Zero to Hero
• (06:09) - Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible
• (07:20) - Corroded: Illegal Rust
• (08:27) - KDE onboarding is good now
• (09:28) - Exploring Dithering on Spectra 6-color E-Ink Displays
• (10:34) - Take One Small Step
• (11:36) - Outro

The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025
https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/2025-hn-top-5/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478377

The C3 Programming Language
https://c3-lang.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478647

The suck is why we're here
https://nik.art/the-suck-is-why-were-here/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482877

Neural Networks: Zero to Hero
https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46485090

Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible
https://docs.swifdroid.com/app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483023

Corroded: Illegal Rust
https://github.com/buyukakyuz/corroded
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483531

KDE onboarding is good now
https://rabbitictranslator.com/kde-onboarding/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483432

Exploring Dithering on Spectra 6-color E-Ink Displays
https://myembeddedstuff.com/e-ink-spectra-6-color
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46440037

Take One Small Step
https://thinkhuman.com/take-one-small-step/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482107