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  • 1.28.26 | FBI probes Minnesota Signal chats, Prism, Claude's recent coding notes
    Jan 28 2026
    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 28, 2026.

    Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

    • (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

    FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE
    https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/fbi-investigating-minnesota-signal-minneapolis-group-ice-patel-kash-rcna256041
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46783254

    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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    12 min
  • 1.27.26 | Vibecoding to handwriting, France's video conferencing alternatives, Television's centennial celebration
    Jan 27 2026
    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 27, 2026.

    Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

    • (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

    After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
    https://atmoio.substack.com/p/after-two-years-of-vibecoding-im
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46765460

    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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    12 min
  • 1.26.26 | Make me care, macOS app blurs screen when slouching, Iran's internet blackout may be permanent for elites
    Jan 26 2026
    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 26, 2026.

    Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

    • (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

    First, make me care
    https://gwern.net/blog/2026/make-me-care
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46757067

    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

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    12 min
  • 1.25.26 | BirdyChat is first European WhatsApp-interoperable app, Claude Code introduces Swarms feature, EV adoption linked to reduced air pollution: study
    Jan 25 2026
    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 25, 2026.

    Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

    • (00:00) - Intro
    • (00:21) - BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp
    • (01:40) - Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms
    • (02:40) - Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study
    • (03:52) - Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android
    • (05:02) - Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data)
    • (06:19) - Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
    • (07:23) - Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison
    • (08:31) - Nvidia-smi hangs indefinitely after ~66 days
    • (09:36) - Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday
    • (10:46) - Deutsche Telekom is violating Net Neutrality
    • (11:53) - Outro

    BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp
    https://www.birdy.chat/blog/first-to-interoperate-with-whatsapp
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46746476

    Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms
    https://twitter.com/NicerInPerson/status/2014989679796347375
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46743908

    Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study
    https://keck.usc.edu/news/adoption-of-electric-vehicles-tied-to-real-world-reductions-in-air-pollution-study-finds/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46749198

    Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android
    https://www.androidauthority.com/google-sideloading-android-high-friction-process-3633468/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688804

    Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data)
    https://albedo.com/post/clarity-1-what-worked-and-where-we-go-next
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46747119

    Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46744807

    Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison
    https://the-diy-life.com/raspberry-pi-drag-race-pi-1-to-pi-5-performance-comparison/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745922

    Nvidia-smi hangs indefinitely after ~66 days
    https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/971
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46750425

    Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday
    https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-second-emergency-out-of-band-update-kb5078127-released-address-outlook-bugs
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46750358

    Deutsche Telekom is violating Net Neutrality
    https://netzbremse.de/en/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751899

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    12 min
  • 1.24.26 | Microsoft provided FBI BitLocker keys, Proof of Corn, Unrolling Codex agent loop
    Jan 24 2026
    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 24, 2026.

    Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

    • (00:00) - Intro
    • (00:17) - Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops
    • (01:30) - Proof of Corn
    • (02:42) - Unrolling the Codex agent loop
    • (03:38) - Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale
    • (04:48) - Booting from a vinyl record (2020)
    • (05:49) - Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance
    • (06:58) - New YC homepage
    • (07:57) - Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go
    • (09:01) - KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer
    • (10:10) - The tech monoculture is finally breaking
    • (11:24) - Outro

    Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops
    https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/microsoft-gave-fbi-a-set-of-bitlocker-encryption-keys-to-unlock-suspects-laptops-reports/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735545

    Proof of Corn
    https://proofofcorn.com/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735511

    Unrolling the Codex agent loop
    https://openai.com/index/unrolling-the-codex-agent-loop/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46737630

    Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale
    https://maggieappleton.com/gastown
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46734302

    Booting from a vinyl record (2020)
    https://boginjr.com/it/sw/dev/vinyl-boot/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46730885

    Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance
    https://comma.ai
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46740029

    New YC homepage
    https://www.ycombinator.com/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735644

    Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go
    https://github.com/ramonvermeulen/whosthere
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731432

    KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer
    https://www.korg.com/us/products/dj/phase8/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46732967

    The tech monoculture is finally breaking
    http://www.jasonwillems.com/technology/2025/12/17/Tech-Is-Fun-Again/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46733624

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    11 min
  • 1.23.26 | Isometric pixel art map of NYC, GPTZero discovers hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025, Bugs Apple Loves
    Jan 23 2026
    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 23, 2026.

    Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

    • (00:00) - Intro
    • (00:19) - Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC
    • (01:29) - GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers
    • (02:37) - Bugs Apple Loves
    • (03:39) - Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation
    • (04:41) - Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?
    • (05:58) - Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"
    • (07:13) - Your app subscription is now my weekend project
    • (08:22) - Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B
    • (09:28) - Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem
    • (10:33) - Outro

    Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC
    https://cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46721802

    GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers
    https://gptzero.me/news/neurips/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46720395

    Bugs Apple Loves
    https://www.bugsappleloves.com
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46727587

    Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation
    https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3tts-0115
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719229

    Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?
    https://eieio.games/blog/ssh-sends-100-packets-per-keystroke/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46723990

    Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"
    https://shreevatsa.net/post/douglas-adams-cultural-divide/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719222

    Your app subscription is now my weekend project
    https://rselbach.com/your-sub-is-now-my-weekend-project
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46672713

    Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B
    https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/capital-one-buy-fintech-firm-brex-515-billion-deal-2026-01-22/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46725288

    Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem
    https://dbushell.com/2026/01/22/proton-spam/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46729368

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    11 min
  • 1.22.26 | ChartGPU is a WebGPU charting library, Claude has a new constitution, Skip is now free and open source
    Jan 22 2026
    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 22, 2026.

    Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

    • (00:00) - Intro
    • (00:18) - Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)
    • (01:20) - Claude's new constitution
    • (02:29) - Skip is now free and open source
    • (03:41) - Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi
    • (05:00) - Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete
    • (06:02) - Nested code fences in Markdown
    • (06:57) - Can you slim macOS down?
    • (08:02) - Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant
    • (09:14) - JPEG XL Test Page
    • (10:09) - Significant US farm losses persist, despite federal assistance
    • (11:26) - Outro

    Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)
    https://github.com/ChartGPU/ChartGPU
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46706528

    Claude's new constitution
    https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-new-constitution
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46707572

    Skip is now free and open source
    https://skip.dev/blog/skip-is-free/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46706906

    Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi
    https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46708678

    Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete
    https://huggingface.co/sweepai/sweep-next-edit-1.5B
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713106

    Nested code fences in Markdown
    https://susam.net/nested-code-fences.html
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46705201

    Can you slim macOS down?
    https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/21/can-you-slim-macos-down/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46702411

    Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant
    https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46712678

    JPEG XL Test Page
    https://tildeweb.nl/~michiel/jxl/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46708032

    Significant US farm losses persist, despite federal assistance
    https://www.fb.org/market-intel/significant-farm-losses-persist-despite-federal-assistance
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713929

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    12 min
  • 1.21.26 | California drought-free for 25 years, PostgreSQL optimizations, Anthropic's open-sourced assignment
    Jan 21 2026
    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 21, 2026.

    Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

    • (00:00) - Intro
    • (00:21) - California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years
    • (01:26) - Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations
    • (02:34) - Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced
    • (03:36) - Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
    • (04:43) - cURL removes bug bounties
    • (05:47) - The Unix Pipe Card Game
    • (06:37) - Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher
    • (07:44) - IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT
    • (08:56) - The challenges of soft delete
    • (10:06) - Outro

    California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years
    https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-09/california-has-no-areas-of-dryness-first-time-in-25-years
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698660

    Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations
    https://hakibenita.com/postgresql-unconventional-optimizations
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46692116

    Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced
    https://github.com/anthropics/original_performance_takehome
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46700594

    Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46691243

    cURL removes bug bounties
    https://etn.se/index.php/nyheter/72808-curl-removes-bug-bounties.html
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46701733

    The Unix Pipe Card Game
    https://punkx.org/unix-pipe-game/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46694124

    Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher
    https://novalauncher.com/nova-is-here-to-stay
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46696357

    IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT
    https://www.johnmaguire.me/blog/ipv6-is-not-insecure-because-it-lacks-nat/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46696303

    The challenges of soft delete
    https://atlas9.dev/blog/soft-delete.html
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698061

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    10 min