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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:19) - Airfoil (2024)
• (01:18) - Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app
• (02:32) - We can't send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)
• (03:33) - Tesla ending Models S and X production
• (04:39) - Render Mermaid diagrams as SVGs or ASCII art
• (05:38) - Android's desktop interface leaks
• (06:54) - Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python
• (08:02) - Europe's next-generation weather satellite sends back first images
• (09:08) - Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers
• (10:12) - Trinity large: An open 400B sparse MoE model
• (11:15) - Outro

Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/28/patreon-apple-tax/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46801419

We can't send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)
https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46805665

Tesla ending Models S and X production
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/tesla-ending-model-s-x-production.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46802867

Render Mermaid diagrams as SVGs or ASCII art
https://github.com/lukilabs/beautiful-mermaid
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46804828

Android's desktop interface leaks
https://9to5google.com/2026/01/27/android-desktop-leak/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46790740

Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python
https://www.dimamik.com/posts/oban_py/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46797594

Europe's next-generation weather satellite sends back first images
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Meteorological_missions/meteosat_third_generation/Europe_s_next-generation_weather_satellite_sends_back_first_images
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46806773

Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers
https://github.com/ratatui/mousefood
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46798402

Trinity large: An open 400B sparse MoE model
https://www.arcee.ai/blog/trinity-large
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46789561

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:17) - FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE
• (01:30) - Prism
• (02:38) - A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
• (03:41) - 430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found
• (04:51) - Doing the thing is doing the thing
• (05:44) - Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor
• (06:56) - Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company
• (07:54) - Show HN: One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch in 20K LOC
• (09:09) - Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores
• (10:11) - AI2: Open Coding Agents
• (11:25) - Outro

Prism
https://openai.com/index/introducing-prism
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46783752

A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2015883857489522876
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46771564

430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/science/archaeology-neanderthals-tools.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781530

Doing the thing is doing the thing
https://www.softwaredesign.ing/blog/doing-the-thing-is-doing-the-thing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46776155

Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor
https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_15.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779645

Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company
https://amutable.com/about
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784572

Show HN: One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch in 20K LOC
https://emsh.cat/one-human-one-agent-one-browser/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779522

Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-closing-fresh-grocery-convenience-150437789.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781444

AI2: Open Coding Agents
https://allenai.org/blog/open-coding-agents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46783017

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:15) - After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
• (01:25) - France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.
• (02:33) - Television is 100 years old today
• (03:40) - Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3
• (04:41) - Qwen3-Max-Thinking
• (05:36) - Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal
• (06:56) - Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
• (08:04) - ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files
• (09:11) - JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back
• (10:26) - The hidden engineering of runways
• (11:29) - Outro

France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.
https://twitter.com/lellouchenico/status/2015775970330882319
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767668

Television is 100 years old today
https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/01/tv100.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46766188

Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:okydh7e54e2nok65kjxdklvd/post/3mdd55paffk2o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46769051

Qwen3-Max-Thinking
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-max-thinking
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46766741

Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601255198
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760329

Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/01/apple-introduces-new-airtag-with-expanded-range-and-improved-findability/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46765819

ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/26/chatgpt-containers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46770221

JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back
https://nproject.io/blog/juicessh-give-me-back-my-pro-features/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46768909

The hidden engineering of runways
https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/1/20/the-hidden-engineering-of-runways
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46694193