Hacker News Highlights

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 Structured Outputs Handbook (08:21) - Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor (09:25) - High-Level Is the Goal (10:28) - FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence (11:41) - Outro STFUhttps://github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna/stfuhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649142Cloudflare acquires Astrohttps://astro.build/blog/joining-cloudflare/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46646645Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidencehttps://embedding-shapes.github.io/cursor-implied-success-without-evidence/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46646777East Germany balloon escapehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany_balloon_escapehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=466489166-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Availablehttps://letsencrypt.org/2026/01/15/6day-and-ip-general-availabilityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46647491Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/discover-michelangelos-first-painting.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46646263LLM Structured Outputs Handbookhttps://nanonets.com/cookbooks/structured-llm-outputshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46635309Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitorhttps://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-ultrasharp-52-thunderbolt-hub-monitor-u5226kw/apd/210-bthw/monitors-monitor-accessorieshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648885High-Level Is the Goalhttps://bvisness.me/high-level/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630816FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligencehttps://bfl.ai/blog/flux2-klein-towards-interactive-visual-intelligencehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46653721

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 Archive's Infrastructure (05:47) - OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor (06:52) - Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them (08:00) - Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected (09:09) - First impressions of Claude Cowork (10:02) - Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork (11:00) - Outro Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stagehttps://www.culpium.com/p/exclusiveapple-is-fighting-for-tsmchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633488Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46635345Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voicehttps://kyutai.org/blog/2026-01-13-pocket-ttshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46628329Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes darkhttps://briarproject.org/manual/fa/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46638013Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructurehttps://hackernoon.com/the-long-now-of-the-web-inside-the-internet-archives-fight-against-forgettinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46613324OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisorhttps://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260115203619https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642560Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating themhttps://www.approachwithalacrity.com/claude-ne/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618042Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconectedhttps://shellbox.dev/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46638629First impressions of Claude Coworkhttps://simonw.substack.com/p/first-impressions-of-claude-coworkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46612919Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Coworkhttps://github.com/different-ai/openworkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46612494

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 coding (06:21) - Show HN: WebTiles – create a tiny 250x250 website with neighbors around you (07:14) - Furiosa: 3.5x efficiency over H100s (08:29) - Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally? (09:21) - The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography (10:30) - Outro Claude Cowork exfiltrates fileshttps://www.promptarmor.com/resources/claude-cowork-exfiltrates-fileshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46622328Ask HN: Share your personal websitehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618714SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violationhttps://www.sparkfun.com/official-responsehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616488The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possiblehttps://creepylink.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46627652Find a pub that needs youhttps://www.ismypubfucked.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46617360Scaling long-running autonomous codinghttps://cursor.com/blog/scaling-agentshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624541Show HN: WebTiles – create a tiny 250x250 website with neighbors around youhttps://webtiles.kicya.net/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46561341Furiosa: 3.5x efficiency over H100shttps://furiosa.ai/blog/introducing-rngd-server-efficient-ai-inference-at-data-center-scalehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46626410Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616529The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptographyhttps://cryptography.io/en/latest/statements/state-of-openssl/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624352

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 Conference (07:06) - The Tulip Creative Computer (08:07) - How to make a damn website (2024) (09:12) - The $LANG Programming Language (10:10) - No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams (11:21) - Outro Scott Adams has diedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs_JrOIo3SEhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602102AI generated music barred from Bandcamphttps://old.reddit.com/r/BandCamp/comments/1qbw8ba/ai_generated_music_on_bandcamp/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605490There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vapehttps://blog.jgc.org/2026/01/theres-ridiculous-amount-of-tech-in.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46591810A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gaphttps://questdb.com/blog/jvm-current-thread-user-time/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46609630Every GitHub object has two IDshttps://www.greptile.com/blog/github-idshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602591The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conferencehttps://www.owlposting.com/p/the-truth-behind-the-2026-jp-morganhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605332The Tulip Creative Computerhttps://github.com/shorepine/tulipcchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46603995How to make a damn website (2024)https://lmnt.me/blog/how-to-make-a-damn-website.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46604250The $LANG Programming Languagehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46610557No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teamshttps://www.ablg.io/blog/no-management-neededhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605854

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) - Date is out, Temporal is in (08:08) - LLVM: The bad parts (09:16) - Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode (10:27) - Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients (11:38) - Outro Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your workhttps://claude.com/blog/cowork-research-previewhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46593022Apple picks Gemini to power Sirihttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/apple-google-ai-siri-gemini.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589675Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kidshttps://blog.smartere.dk/2026/01/floppy-disks-the-best-tv-remote-for-kids/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587934TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875https://github.com/haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLMhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46590280Postal Arbitragehttps://walzr.com/postal-arbitragehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46591708Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buyhttps://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/12/ozempic-changing-foods-americans-buyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587536Date is out, Temporal is inhttps://piccalil.li/blog/date-is-out-and-temporal-is-in/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589658LLVM: The bad partshttps://www.npopov.com/2026/01/11/LLVM-The-bad-parts.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46588837Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCodehttps://cy.md/opencode-rce/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46581095Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clientshttps://archaeologist.dev/artifacts/anthropichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46586766