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11:34

2.3.26 | xAI partners with SpaceX, The Codex App,...

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2026/02/03

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 3, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:13) - xAI joins SpaceX (01:28) - The Codex App (02:31) - Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years (03:36) - The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal (04:53) - Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub (05:57) - Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction (07:08) - Hacking

12:03

2.2.26 | Netbird offers open source zero trust...

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2026/02/02

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 2, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking (01:18) - Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle (02:35) - Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation (03:46) - Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games (04:50) - My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage

10:11

2.1.26 | Mobile carriers track GPS, Finland considers...

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2026/02/01

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 1, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Mobile carriers can get your GPS location (01:36) - Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media (02:39) - Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023) (03:54) - Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89 (05:00) - Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang

10:18

1.31.26 | Antirender removes glossy shine, HTTP Cats,...

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2026/01/31

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 31, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings (01:25) - HTTP Cats (02:12) - The engineer who invented the Mars rover suspension in his garage [video] (03:12) - Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon (04:19) - Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent (05:32) - Show HN: I

11:59

1.30.26 | Claude Code benchmarks for degradation,...

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2026/01/30

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 30, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking (01:24) - Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds (02:31) - Moltbook (03:34) - PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible (04:41) - AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals (05:56) - A lot of population numbers

11:21

1.29.26 | Airfoil (2024), Apple to take 30% cut from...

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2026/01/29

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 29, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(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) -

11:31

1.28.26 | FBI probes Minnesota Signal chats, Prism,...

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2026/01/28

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

11:34

1.27.26 | Vibecoding to handwriting, France's video...

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2026/01/27

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

11:39

1.26.26 | Make me care, macOS app blurs screen when...

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2026/01/26

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

11:58

1.25.26 | BirdyChat is first European...

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2026/01/25

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

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1.24.26 | Microsoft provided FBI BitLocker keys,...

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2026/01/24

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

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1.23.26 | Isometric pixel art map of NYC, GPTZero...

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2026/01/23

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)

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1.22.26 | ChartGPU is a WebGPU charting library,...

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2026/01/22

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

10:11

1.21.26 | California drought-free for 25 years,...

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2026/01/21

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

12:02

1.20.26 | Level S4 solar radiation event, Apple tests...

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2026/01/20

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 20, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Level S4 solar radiation event (01:22) - Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results (02:28) - What came first: the CNAME or the A record? (03:51) - Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars (05:11) - Prediction markets are ushering in a

11:43

1.19.26 | Gaussian Splatting music video, A Social...

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2026/01/19

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 19, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:25) - Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video (01:32) - A Social Filesystem (02:44) - Flux 2 Klein pure C inference (03:45) - Dead Internet Theory (04:58) - Texas police invested in phone-tracking software and won’t say how it’s used (06:01) - A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that

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

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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

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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

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