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11:23

1.18.26 | ASCII rendering explained, Apple icons...

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2026/01/18

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 18, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:16) - ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering (01:24) - If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design (02:26) - We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon (03:38) - The recurring dream of replacing developers (04:48) - jQuery 4 (05:54) - Raising money fucked me

11:47

1.17.26 | STFU, Cloudflare acquires Astro, Cursor's...

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2026/01/17

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 17, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - STFU (01:17) - Cloudflare acquires Astro (02:18) - Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence (03:26) - East Germany balloon escape (04:40) - 6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available (05:53) - Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13 (07:11) - LLM

11:05

1.16.26 | Apple battles for TSMC capacity, addressing...

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2026/01/16

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 16, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:16) - Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage (01:22) - Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic? (02:29) - Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice (03:35) - Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark (04:38) - Inside The Internet

10:35

1.15.26 | Claude Cowork exfiltrates files, personal...

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2026/01/15

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 15, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:17) - Claude Cowork exfiltrates files (01:25) - Ask HN: Share your personal website (02:23) - SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation (03:22) - The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible (04:11) - Find a pub that needs you (05:15) - Scaling long-running autonomous

11:27

1.14.26 | Scott Adams dies, AI music banned on...

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2026/01/14

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 14, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:15) - Scott Adams has died (01:19) - AI generated music barred from Bandcamp (02:24) - There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape (03:32) - A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gap (04:42) - Every GitHub object has two IDs (05:53) - The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare

11:43

1.13.26 | Cowork's Claude Code enhances productivity,...

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2026/01/13

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 13, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work (01:31) - Apple picks Gemini to power Siri (02:37) - Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids (03:44) - TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875 (04:53) - Postal Arbitrage (05:53) - Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy (07:03)

10:19

1.12.26 | Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe, Avoiding...

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2026/01/12

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 12, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe (01:29) - CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun (02:46) - iCloud Photos Downloader (03:40) - I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video] (04:49) - Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video] (05:50) - Xfce is

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:

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