Hacker News on Thursday, 8 January 2026

Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers(arstechnica.com)

2475 points by rayrey 9 months ago | 379 comments

News article reporting that Bose is releasing API documentation and open-sourcing its end-of-life SoundTouch smart speakers instead of bricking them.

How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code(mihaileric.com)

780 points by nutellalover 9 months ago | 235 comments

Blog post by Mihail Eric showing how to build a minimal Claude Code–style AI coding agent in about 200 lines of code.

Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS(twitter.com)

714 points by qwertyforce 9 months ago | 265 comments

Tweet by Logan Kilpatrick announcing that the Google AI Studio team is now a sponsor of the Tailwind CSS project.

The Jeff Dean Facts(github.com)

534 points by ravenical 9 months ago | 176 comments

GitHub repository containing a consolidated list of the humorous "Jeff Dean Facts" jokes about the Google engineer.

I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video](youtube.com)

419 points by imagiro 9 months ago | 68 comments

YouTube video by Mike Turitzin about building a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs).

Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware(patchouli.readthedocs.io)

416 points by ffin 9 months ago | 48 comments

Documentation site for Project Patchouli, an open-source electromagnetic resonance pen tablet hardware implementation with coil array, RF front end, and DSP algorithms.

AI coding assistants are getting worse?(spectrum.ieee.org)

414 points by voxadam 9 months ago | 658 comments

IEEE Spectrum guest article by Jamie Twiss arguing newer AI coding assistants are more prone to silent but deadly failure modes.

Open Infrastructure Map(openinframap.org)

414 points by efskap 9 months ago | 92 comments

Open Infrastructure Map is an interactive globe map showing power lines, telecoms, oil, gas and other infrastructure from OpenStreetMap data.

Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout(radar.cloudflare.com)

400 points by honeycrispy 9 months ago | 289 comments

Cloudflare Radar dashboard showing routing statistics for Iran, including ASes, prefixes, routes, and RPKI status split by IPv4 and IPv6.

A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela(blog.cloudflare.com)

368 points by ChrisArchitect 9 months ago | 200 comments

Cloudflare Blog post by Bryton Herdes examining a BGP routing anomaly observed in Venezuela.

Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU(github.com)

331 points by sammyyyyyyy 9 months ago | 116 comments

GitHub repository for Sopro, a lightweight 169M-parameter text-to-speech model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on CPU, under Apache-2.0.

Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video](youtube.com)

309 points by HansVanEijsden 9 months ago | 196 comments

Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async(github.com)

297 points by birdculture 9 months ago | 133 comments

The unreasonable effectiveness of the Fourier transform(joshuawise.com)

289 points by voxadam 9 months ago | 136 comments

ChatGPT Health is a marketplace, guess who is the product?(consciousdigital.org)

278 points by yoaviram 9 months ago | 261 comments

Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley(sfstandard.com)

275 points by newusertoday 9 months ago | 423 comments

Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20(pebblebed.com)

272 points by kmavm 9 months ago | 146 comments

Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin speaks to Tatsuya Takahashi (2017)(web.archive.org)

256 points by lelandfe 9 months ago | 84 comments

IBM AI ('Bob') Downloads and Executes Malware(promptarmor.com)

231 points by takira 9 months ago | 111 comments

Fighting back against biometric surveillance at Wegmans(blog.adafruit.com)

188 points by ptorrone 9 months ago | 132 comments

ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods(404media.co)

176 points by cmurf 9 months ago | 122 comments

The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones(popularmechanics.com)

157 points by DamnInteresting 9 months ago | 187 comments

Some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature(nature.com)

155 points by Growtika 9 months ago | 77 comments

Go.sum is not a lockfile(words.filippo.io)

153 points by pabs3 9 months ago | 68 comments

Fixing a Buffer Overflow in Unix v4 Like It's 1973(sigma-star.at)

145 points by vzaliva 9 months ago | 38 comments

Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time(github.com)

139 points by RichHickson 9 months ago | 46 comments

ASCII-Driven Development(medium.com)

138 points by _hfqa 9 months ago | 85 comments

Scientists discover oldest poison, on 60k-year-old arrows(nytimes.com)

136 points by noleary 9 months ago | 65 comments

Japanese electronics store pleads for old PCs amid ongoing hardware shortage(tomshardware.com)

132 points by speckx 9 months ago | 81 comments

Iran Protest Map(pouyaii.github.io)

131 points by breppp 9 months ago | 84 comments

Ushikuvirus: Newly discovered virus may offer clues to the origin of eukaryotes(tus.ac.jp)

121 points by rustoo 9 months ago | 40 comments

AI misses nearly one-third of breast cancers, study finds(emjreviews.com)

116 points by Liquidity 9 months ago | 61 comments

Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs(sakana.ai)

114 points by hardmaru 9 months ago | 14 comments

The virtual AmigaOS runtime (a.k.a. Wine for Amiga:)(github.com)

112 points by doener 9 months ago | 29 comments

Musashi: Motorola 680x0 emulator written in C(github.com)

112 points by doener 9 months ago | 14 comments

Chase to become new issuer of Apple Card(jpmorganchase.com)

105 points by vismit2000 9 months ago | 110 comments

Robotopia: A 3D, first-person, talking simulator(elbowgreasegames.substack.com)

98 points by psawaya 9 months ago | 46 comments

Side-by-side comparison of how AI models answer moral dilemmas(civai.org)

82 points by jesenator 9 months ago | 49 comments

Everything you never wanted to know about file locking (2010)(apenwarr.ca)

69 points by SmartHypercube 9 months ago | 13 comments

How your high school affects your chances of UC Admission(sfeducation.substack.com)

67 points by mutator 9 months ago | 136 comments

SQL Studio(sql.studio)

66 points by handfuloflight 9 months ago | 49 comments

An Honest Review of Go (2025)(benraz.dev)

64 points by benrazdev 9 months ago | 68 comments

Texas court blocks Samsung from tracking TV viewing, then vacates order(bleepingcomputer.com)

61 points by speckx 9 months ago | 23 comments

Show HN: DeepDream for Video with Temporal Consistency(github.com)

60 points by fruitbarrel 9 months ago | 21 comments

Task-free intelligence testing of LLMs(marble.onl)

59 points by amarble 9 months ago | 17 comments

Show HN: A geofence-based social network app 6 years in development(localvideoapp.com)

59 points by Adrian-ChatLocl 9 months ago | 38 comments

Show HN: Miditui – A terminal app/UI for MIDI composing, mixing, and playback(github.com)

54 points by minimaxir 9 months ago | 10 comments

How Did TVs Get So Cheap?(construction-physics.com)

54 points by thelastgallon 9 months ago | 78 comments

Distributed Denial of Secrets(ddosecrets.com)

52 points by sabakhoj 9 months ago | 12 comments

Nvidia Kicks Off the Next Generation of AI with Rubin(nvidianews.nvidia.com)

51 points by TSiege 9 months ago | 29 comments

Claude keeps nagging about "Help improve Claude" inspite of previous decline

50 points by onesandofgrain 9 months ago | 22 comments

Our Changing Planet, as Seen from Space(e360.yale.edu)

49 points by YaleE360 9 months ago | 5 comments

Dynamic Large Concept Models: Latent Reasoning in an Adaptive Semantic Space(arxiv.org)

47 points by gmays 9 months ago | 4 comments

What old tennis players teach us (2017)(raphkoster.com)

45 points by surprisetalk 9 months ago | 24 comments

Supernova Remnant Video from NASA's Chandra Is Decades in Making(nasa.gov)

45 points by dylan604 9 months ago | 5 comments

Chinese AI models have lagged the US frontier by 7 months on average since 2023(epoch.ai)

44 points by gmays 9 months ago | 43 comments

Flint Confirms Biodegradable Paper Batteries Are Now in Production(audioxpress.com)

41 points by rmason 9 months ago | 5 comments

Why BM25 queries with more terms can be faster (and other scaling surprises)(turbopuffer.com)

39 points by _peregrine_ 9 months ago | 0 comments

Why we're taking legal action against SerpApi's unlawful scraping(blog.google)

39 points by doppp 9 months ago | 35 comments

Texas first state to end American bar association oversight of law schools(keranews.org)

38 points by randycupertino 9 months ago | 30 comments