Hacker News on Monday, 12 January 2026

Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work(claude.com)

1231 points by adocomplete 9 months ago | 528 comments

Anthropic blog post announcing Cowork, a research preview bringing Claude Code-style agentic capabilities to non-coding work tasks.

Apple picks Gemini to power Siri(cnbc.com)

959 points by stygiansonic 9 months ago | 588 comments

CNBC news article reporting that Apple is partnering with Google to use Gemini models to power a new AI-driven Siri launching this year.

There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape(blog.jgc.org)

710 points by abnercoimbre 9 months ago | 620 comments

John Graham-Cumming's blog post tearing down a discarded disposable vape found in a park and describing the surprising electronics inside.

TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875(github.com)

704 points by admp 9 months ago | 290 comments

GitHub repository for TimeCapsuleLLM, a language model trained only on texts from 1800-1875 London to reduce modern bias.

Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids(blog.smartere.dk)

701 points by mchro 9 months ago | 399 comments

A personal blog post describing a DIY TV remote for kids that uses floppy disks to select what to watch, avoiding complicated remotes and auto-play apps.

We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon(labs.ramp.com)

515 points by iamwil 9 months ago | 278 comments

A Ramp Labs page about connecting Claude Code to the game Rollercoaster Tycoon so the AI agent can play and manage a park.

Postal Arbitrage(walzr.com)

515 points by The28thDuck 9 months ago | 260 comments

A web project listing Amazon Prime items cheaper than a $0.78 US stamp that ship free, suggesting sending them with gift notes instead of postcards.

Date is out, Temporal is in(piccalil.li)

430 points by alexanderameye 9 months ago | 177 comments

A Piccalilli article by Mat Marquis explaining why JavaScript's Date object is being superseded by the new Temporal API.

Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy(news.cornell.edu)

411 points by giuliomagnifico 9 months ago | 748 comments

Cornell Chronicle article on research finding that GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are associated with reductions in Americans' grocery and food purchases.

Statement from Jerome Powell(federalreserve.gov)

367 points by 0xedb 9 months ago | 356 comments

A January 11, 2026 statement from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell, published on the Federal Reserve Board's speeches page.

LLVM: The bad parts(npopov.com)

366 points by vitaut 9 months ago | 75 comments

Blog post by LLVM lead maintainer Nikita Popov listing design and project issues in LLVM that represent opportunities for improvement.

Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients(archaeologist.dev)

338 points by codesparkle 9 months ago | 225 comments

Blog post by Adam Thalhammer arguing Anthropic made a major business mistake by cutting off third-party clients from Claude Code, tracing the rise of terminal coding agents.

The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video](youtube.com)

319 points by cjaackie 9 months ago | 320 comments

A 7-minute YouTube video by ZachAhern1 about playing against the surprisingly strong chess bot on Delta Air Lines' in-flight entertainment system.

Lock-Picking Robot(github.com)

292 points by p44v9n 9 months ago | 128 comments

Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome F. Powell [video](youtube.com)

272 points by sprawl_ 9 months ago | 141 comments

Xfce is great(rubenerd.com)

239 points by mikece 9 months ago | 165 comments

Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux(github.com)

221 points by edent 9 months ago | 212 comments

Fabrice Bellard's TS Zip (2024)(bellard.org)

221 points by everlier 9 months ago | 88 comments

Zen-C: Write like a high-level language, run like C(github.com)

193 points by simonpure 9 months ago | 117 comments

Google removes AI health summaries after investigation finds dangerous flaws(arstechnica.com)

183 points by barishnamazov 9 months ago | 120 comments

Show HN: AI in SolidWorks(trylad.com)

180 points by WillNickols 9 months ago | 98 comments

Lightpanda migrate DOM implementation to Zig(lightpanda.io)

178 points by gearnode 9 months ago | 101 comments

Ai, Japanese chimpanzee who counted and painted dies at 49(bbc.com)

178 points by reconnecting 9 months ago | 60 comments

Uncrossy(uncrossy.com)

152 points by dgacmu 9 months ago | 42 comments

Statement from Federal Reserve Chair(federalreserve.gov)

142 points by nikhizzle 9 months ago | 16 comments

Ireland fast tracks Bill to criminalise harmful voice or image misuse(irishtimes.com)

141 points by mooreds 9 months ago | 91 comments

Himalayas bare and rocky after reduced winter snowfall, scientists warn(bbc.com)

140 points by koolhead17 9 months ago | 123 comments

Launch a Debugging Terminal into GitHub Actions(blog.gripdev.xyz)

134 points by martinpeck 9 months ago | 57 comments

Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board with PCIe Gen4x16(cnx-software.com)

126 points by fork-bomber 9 months ago | 69 comments

Iran has now been offline for 96 hours(twitter.com)

121 points by payamb 9 months ago | 80 comments

Go-legacy-winxp: Compile Golang 1.24 code for Windows XP(github.com)

119 points by Oxodao 9 months ago | 61 comments

X Didn't Fix Grok's 'Undressing' Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It(wired.com)

109 points by pavel_lishin 9 months ago | 83 comments

Show HN: Yolobox – Run AI coding agents with full sudo without nuking home dir(github.com)

104 points by Finbarr 9 months ago | 75 comments

Reproducing DeepSeek's MHC: When Residual Connections Explode(taylorkolasinski.com)

101 points by taykolasinski 9 months ago | 30 comments

Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager(github.com)

99 points by river_otter 9 months ago | 43 comments

Why we built our own background agent(builders.ramp.com)

95 points by jrsj 9 months ago | 17 comments

Message Queues: A Simple Guide with Analogies (2024)(cloudamqp.com)

95 points by byt3h3ad 9 months ago | 26 comments

The Emacs Widget Library: A Critique and Case Study(d12frosted.io)

95 points by whacked_new 9 months ago | 31 comments

Z80 Mem­ber­ship Card(sunrise-ev.com)

92 points by exvi 9 months ago | 28 comments

Superhuman AI Exfiltrates Emails(promptarmor.com)

89 points by takira 9 months ago | 23 comments

Impeccable Style(impeccable.style)

88 points by noemit 9 months ago | 48 comments

Which programming languages are most token-efficient?(martinalderson.com)

87 points by tehnub 9 months ago | 61 comments

Code is cheap now, but software isn't(chrisgregori.dev)

83 points by fs_software 9 months ago | 33 comments

Common misunderstandings about large software companies(philipotoole.com)

80 points by otoolep 9 months ago | 44 comments

Fossil versus Git(fossil-scm.org)

77 points by vednig 9 months ago | 65 comments

The five orders of ignorance (2000)(cacm.acm.org)

74 points by svilen_dobrev 9 months ago | 18 comments

Building a 25 Gbit/s workstation for the SCION Association(github.com)

71 points by romshark 9 months ago | 26 comments

IKEA for Software(tommaso-girotto.co)

69 points by tgirotto 9 months ago | 39 comments

Experts Warn of Growing Parrot Crisis in Canada(ctvnews.ca)

69 points by debo_ 9 months ago | 39 comments

Show HN: Fall asleep by watching JavaScript load(github.com)

68 points by sarusso 9 months ago | 24 comments

A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory(papers.ssrn.com)

67 points by 7777777phil 9 months ago | 10 comments

Gadget Exposed a Spy Camera [video](youtube.com)

64 points by rib3ye 9 months ago | 30 comments

Keychron's Nape Pro turns your keyboard into a laptop‑style trackball rig(yankodesign.com)

62 points by tortilla 9 months ago | 21 comments

Reducing Dependabot Noise(nesbitt.io)

60 points by zdw 9 months ago | 38 comments

Show HN: B-IR – An LLM-optimized programming language(github.com)

55 points by ImJasonH 9 months ago | 37 comments

Computers that used to be human(digitalseams.com)

54 points by bobbiechen 9 months ago | 12 comments

Open-Meteo is a free and open-source weather API for non-commercial use(open-meteo.com)

52 points by Brajeshwar 9 months ago | 9 comments

A deep dive on agent sandboxes(pierce.dev)

47 points by icyfox 9 months ago | 10 comments

Cue Does It All, but Can It Literate?(xlii.space)

42 points by xlii 9 months ago | 13 comments

Ideas are cheap, execution is cheaper(davekiss.com)

39 points by grncdr 9 months ago | 18 comments