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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

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:19) - First, make me care
• (01:14) - A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
• (02:13) - Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only
• (03:33) - Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant
• (04:32) - Web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe Paint
• (05:33) - Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems
• (06:40) - Scientists identify brain waves that define the limits of 'you'
• (07:48) - The browser is the sandbox
• (09:05) - I was right about ATProto key management
• (10:15) - Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager
• (11:29) - Outro

A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
https://github.com/tldev/posturr
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46754944

Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only
https://restofworld.org/2026/iran-blackout-tiered-internet/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761822

Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant
https://github.com/clawdbot/clawdbot
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760237

Web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe Paint
https://github.com/steffest/DPaint-js
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46753708

Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems
https://www.diljitpr.net/blog-post-postgresql-dlq
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46755115

Scientists identify brain waves that define the limits of 'you'
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-identify-brain-waves-that-define-the-limits-of-you
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760099

The browser is the sandbox
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/25/the-browser-is-the-sandbox/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46762150

I was right about ATProto key management
https://notes.nora.codes/atproto-again/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46757357

Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager
https://www.jampa.dev/p/lessons-learned-after-10-years-as
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46709270