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11:28

1.11.26 | Fixing Ghostty's memory leak, Open Chaos as...

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2026/01/11

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 11, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(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

10:53

1.10.26 | Cloudflare CEO discusses Italy fines,...

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2026/01/10

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 10, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(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

11:23

1.9.26 | Bose opens API for SoundTouch speakers,...

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2026/01/09

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 9, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(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

11:18

1.8.26 | Tailwind creators lay off 75% of engineers,...

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2026/01/08

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 8, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(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

11:32

1.7.26 | Vietnam bans unskippable ads, Opus 4.5...

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2026/01/07

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 7, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(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

11:16

1.6.26 | BGP anomalies during Venezuela blackout,...

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2026/01/06

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 6, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(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

11:35

1.5.26 | Insights from Google, Joy of solitude in...

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2026/01/05

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 5, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(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)

11:42

1.4.26 | StackOverflow questions trend, Popular...

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2026/01/04

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 4, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(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) -

11:26

1.3.26 | Self-publishing and syndication, 2026 as the...

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2026/01/03

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 3, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere (01:31) - 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop (02:40) - Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger? (03:56) - IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world (05:11) - Clicks Communicator (06:12) - Assorted less(1)

11:42

1.2.26 | Linux improved, website destruction tool,...

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2026/01/02

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 2, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:17) - Linux is good now (01:21) - A website to destroy all websites (02:34) - Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video] (03:41) - Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust (04:49) - Cameras and Lenses (2020) (05:48) - Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable

10:34

1.1.26 | Buffett resigns as Berkshire Hathaway CEO,...

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2026/01/01

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 1, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:15) - Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades (01:22) - 2025: The Year in LLMs (02:38) - I canceled my book deal (03:42) - Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc. (04:46) - Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf] (05:56) - Web Browsers have

11:36

12.31.25 | 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite, faster...

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2025/12/31

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 31, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite (01:18) - A faster heart for F-Droid (02:22) - Non-Zero-Sum Games (03:20) - OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026 (04:26) - FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service (05:32) - Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux (06:46) - A

12:00

12.30.25 | Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn, Google is...

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2025/12/30

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 30, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn (01:35) - Google is dead. Where do we go now? (02:44) - GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder (03:48) - Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind” (04:52) - Tesla's 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99% (06:16) - Linux DAW:

11:30

12.29.25 | Unprocessed photo example, China's nuclear...

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2025/12/29

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 29, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - What an unprocessed photo looks like (01:31) - Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert (02:39) - You can make up HTML tags (03:33) - Software engineers should be a little bit cynical (04:42) - Unity's Mono problem: Why your C# code runs slower than it should (05:57) - MongoBleed

10:38

12.28.25 | Floor796, Nvidia's $20B loophole, lost...

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2025/12/28

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 28, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:17) - Floor796 (01:09) - Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole (02:19) - How we lost communication to entertainment (03:25) - Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML (04:35) - Calendar (05:21) - Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English (06:26) - Gpg.fail (07:28) - Say No to Palantir in the NHS (08:32) - Janet Jackson

9:45

12.27.25 | uv's speed, Git's issues in package...

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2025/12/27

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 27, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - How uv got so fast (01:36) - Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out (02:43) - Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time (03:43) - Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system (04:48) - The best things and stuff of 2025 (05:53) - LearnixOS (06:52)

11:39

12.26.25 | Fabrice Bellard's MicroQuickJS released,...

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2025/12/26

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 26, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS (01:28) - We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years (02:35) - Maybe the default settings are too high (03:50) - I sell onions on the Internet (2019) (04:54) - The entire New Yorker archive is now digitized (05:54) - Python 3.15’s

11:12

12.25.25 | Merry Christmas, Nvidia acquires Groq for...

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2025/12/25

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 25, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - Tell HN: Merry Christmas (01:14) - Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20B in cash (02:25) - Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig (03:40) - Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL (04:43) - Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans,

11:49

12.24.25 | Fabrice Bellard's MicroQuickJS released,...

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2025/12/24

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 24, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:17) - Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS (01:19) - Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks (02:22) - X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents (03:28) - We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better) (04:49) - What makes you senior (06:02) - Lua

12:15

12.23.25 | Flock's AI cameras exposed online, Claude...

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2025/12/23

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 23, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves (01:32) - Claude Code gets native LSP support (02:37) - The Illustrated Transformer (03:55) - GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability (05:03) - It's Always TCP_NODELAY (06:19) - NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut (07:31) -

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