Hacker News Highlights

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 with native Mermaid diagram rendering (07:11) - My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated (08:11) - A battle over Canada’s mystery brain disease (09:20) - Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study (10:23) - ASCII-Driven Development (11:22) - Outro Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leakhttps://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-memory-leak-fixhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46568794Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source projecthttps://www.openchaos.dev/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566812Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 bookshttps://trails.pieterma.es/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46567400Code and Let Livehttps://fly.io/blog/code-and-let-live/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557825AI is a business model stress testhttps://dri.es/ai-is-a-business-model-stress-testhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46567392Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram renderinghttps://github.com/OlaProeis/Ferritehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571980My Home Fibre Network Disintegratedhttps://alienchow.dev/post/fibre_disintegration/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46572679A battle over Canada’s mystery brain diseasehttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c623r47d67lohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46572769Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': studyhttps://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/01/08/why-overdose-deaths-are-falling-in-americahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46569312ASCII-Driven Developmenthttps://medium.com/@calufa/ascii-driven-development-850f66661351https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46538628

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 Times (05:47) - Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux (06:48) - How Markdown took over the world (07:50) - JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters (08:41) - Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok (09:32) - RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game? (10:48) - Outro Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fineshttps://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/2009654937303896492https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46555760Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by earhttps://lend-me-your-ears.specr.nethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556210“Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115855840223258103https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560445How will the miracle happen today?https://kk.org/thetechnium/how-will-the-miracle-happen-today/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46489514Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Timeshttps://nexanet.ai/blog/53-times-flocksafety-hardcoded-the-password-for-americas-surveillance-infrastructurehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46555807Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linuxhttps://help.kagi.com/orion/misc/linux-status.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46553343How Markdown took over the worldhttps://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556695JavaScript Demos in 140 Charactershttps://beta.dwitter.nethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557489Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTokhttps://quack.sdan.iohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557029RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?https://scottjg.com/posts/2026-01-08-crappy-computer-showdown/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558148

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 assistants are getting worse? (06:43) - Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU (07:50) - The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transform (08:58) - Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async (10:09) - Why I left iNaturalist (11:18) - Outro Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakershttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/bose-open-sources-its-soundtouch-home-theater-smart-speakers-ahead-of-eol/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541892Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSShttps://twitter.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2009339263251566902https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545077How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Codehttps://www.mihaileric.com/The-Emperor-Has-No-Clothes/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545620The Jeff Dean Factshttps://github.com/LRitzdorf/TheJeffDeanFactshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46540498Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptionshttps://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/7410https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46549823AI coding assistants are getting worse?https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degradeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542036Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPUhttps://github.com/samuel-vitorino/soprohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546113The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transformhttps://joshuawise.com/resources/ofdm/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544981Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and asynchttps://github.com/embassy-rs/embassyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46547740Why I left iNaturalisthttps://kueda.net/blog/2026/01/06/why-i-left-inat/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46548940

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 default (07:54) - ChatGPT Health (08:58) - “Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016) (10:10) - Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware (11:13) - Outro Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering teamhttps://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527950US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homeshttps://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-will-ban-large-institutional-investors-buying-single-family-homes-trump-says-2026-01-07/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531068Eat Real Foodhttps://realfood.govhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46529237Shipmap.orghttps://www.shipmap.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527161A4 Paper Storieshttps://susam.net/a4-paper-stories.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46525888LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf]https://ctan.math.illinois.edu/graphics/pgf/contrib/coffeestains/coffeestains-en.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526933Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by defaulthttps://tailscale.com/changeloghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531925ChatGPT Healthhttps://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-health/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531280“Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)https://lbstanza.org/purpose_of_programming_languages.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46525640Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardwarehttps://patchouli.readthedocs.io/en/latest/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46537489

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 it (05:48) - Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024) (06:54) - A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time (08:19) - Sergey Brin's Unretirement (09:21) - Passing of Joe Mancuso (10:15) - Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kit (11:26) - Outro Vietnam bans unskippable adshttps://saigoneer.com/vietnam-news/28652-vienam-bans-unskippable-ads,-requires-skip-button-to-appear-after-5-secondshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46514677Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus farhttps://burkeholland.github.io/posts/opus-4-5-change-everything/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46515696Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phonehttps://github.com/rberg27/doom-codinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46517458The creator of Claude Code's Claude setuphttps://twitter.com/bcherny/status/2007179832300581177https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46470017I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built ithttps://medium.com/@cristi.baluta/i-wanted-a-camera-that-doesnt-exist-so-i-built-it-5f9864533eb7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466843Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024)https://phrack.org/issues/71/17https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46518129A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real timehttps://byteshape.com/blogs/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46518573Sergey Brin's Unretirementhttps://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/google-co-founder-sergey-brins-unretirement-is-a-lesson-for-the-rest-of-us/91280208https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452641Passing of Joe Mancusohttps://github.com/MasoniteFramework/masonite/discussions/853https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46516137Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kithttps://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/how-microsoft-killed-my-snapdragon-devkit/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521860