Hacker News on Monday, 26 January 2026

A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks(twitter.com)

864 points by bigwheels 9 months ago | 773 comments

An X post by Andrej Karpathy sharing notes from several weeks of coding with Anthropic's Claude.

France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.(twitter.com)

794 points by bwb 9 months ago | 689 comments

An X (Twitter) post about France planning to replace US videoconferencing tools like Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams; the content did not load.

Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal(iranintl.com)

790 points by mhb 9 months ago | 544 comments

Iran International exclusive report claiming documents show over 36,500 people were killed in Iran's deadliest massacre.

After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand(atmoio.substack.com)

747 points by mobitar 9 months ago | 544 comments

A Substack essay by Mo explaining why, after two years of relying on AI-assisted vibecoding, the author returned to writing code by hand.

Television is 100 years old today(diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)

612 points by qassiov 9 months ago | 233 comments

A London blog post marking 100 years since the first television demonstration, held above what is now Bar Italia in Soho.

Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability(apple.com)

577 points by meetpateltech 9 months ago | 689 comments

Apple Newsroom announcement of a next-generation AirTag with improved Precision Finding, longer Bluetooth range, and a louder speaker.

Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3(bsky.app)

540 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago | 201 comments

Bluesky post by Michael Reeves announcing a KDE Plasma desktop running under Fedora Asahi Remix on an Apple M3 Mac, with a photo of the working system.

Qwen3-Max-Thinking(qwen.ai)

471 points by vinhnx 9 months ago | 410 comments

Qwen team blog post announcing Qwen3-Max-Thinking, a reasoning-focused version of their flagship large language model.

ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files(simonwillison.net)

432 points by simonw 9 months ago | 305 comments

Simon Willison's blog post describing undocumented upgrades to ChatGPT's code container: running Bash, Node.js and other languages, pip/npm installs via proxy, and file downloads.

Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse(windowscentral.com)

413 points by 01-_- 9 months ago | 323 comments

Windows Central article reporting that Microsoft confirmed a botched Windows 11 Patch Tuesday update may leave some PCs unable to boot.

MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format(maplibre.org)

406 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago | 79 comments

MapLibre blog post announcing MapLibre Tile (MLT), a new modern and efficient vector tile format.

Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries(theguardian.com)

379 points by bookofjoe 9 months ago | 200 comments

Guardian news article reporting a German study finding Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical website for health queries.

JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back(nproject.io)

376 points by jandeboevrie 9 months ago | 151 comments

A blog post complaining that the JuiceSSH Android SSH client no longer honors previously purchased pro features and describing how to get them back.

Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only(restofworld.org)

338 points by siev 9 months ago | 259 comments

Rest of World article reporting that Iran is testing a two-tier internet where access is a vetted privilege for elites, potentially making its blackout permanent.

There is an AI code review bubble(greptile.com)

329 points by dakshgupta 9 months ago | 220 comments

Greptile blog post by Daksh Gupta arguing there is a bubble of AI code review products from OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, startups and others.

The browser is the sandbox(simonwillison.net)

319 points by enos_feedler 9 months ago | 172 comments

Simon Willison's blog post on Paul Kinlan's notes and Co-do demo about using the web browser as a sandbox for running AI coding agents.

Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant(github.com)

307 points by KuzeyAbi 9 months ago | 189 comments

Scientists identify brain waves that define the limits of 'you'(sciencealert.com)

288 points by mikhael 9 months ago | 85 comments

RIP Low-Code 2014-2025(zackliscio.com)

266 points by zackliscio 9 months ago | 138 comments

Vibe coding kills open source(arxiv.org)

253 points by kgwgk 9 months ago | 234 comments

Dithering – Part 2: The Ordered Dithering(visualrambling.space)

234 points by ChrisArchitect 9 months ago | 30 comments

Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month(blog.vjeux.com)

231 points by ibobev 9 months ago | 146 comments

AI code and software craft(alexwennerberg.com)

218 points by alexwennerberg 9 months ago | 128 comments

The Adolescence of Technology(darioamodei.com)

209 points by jasondavies 9 months ago | 139 comments

The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen(github.com)

209 points by Splizard 9 months ago | 181 comments

Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow(godotengine.org)

203 points by makepanic 9 months ago | 83 comments

San Francisco Graffiti(walzr.com)

197 points by walz 9 months ago | 203 comments

I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then I called my doctor(msn.com)

187 points by zdw 9 months ago | 175 comments

Google Books removed all search functions for any books with previews(old.reddit.com)

184 points by adamnemecek 9 months ago | 62 comments

People who know the formula for WD-40(wsj.com)

179 points by fortran77 9 months ago | 263 comments

When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype(theregister.com)

179 points by CrankyBear 9 months ago | 84 comments

Show HN: Only 1 LLM can fly a drone(github.com)

154 points by beigebrucewayne 9 months ago | 84 comments

Y Combinator website no longer lists Canada as a country it invests in(betakit.com)

144 points by TheLegace 9 months ago | 85 comments

Environmentalists worry Google behind bid to control Oregon town's water(sfgate.com)

120 points by voxadam 9 months ago | 50 comments

OSS ChatGPT WebUI – 530 Models, MCP, Tools, Gemini RAG, Image/Audio Gen(llmspy.org)

116 points by mythz 9 months ago | 27 comments

Show HN: TetrisBench – Gemini Flash reaches 66% win rate on Tetris against Opus(tetrisbench.com)

101 points by ykhli 9 months ago | 38 comments

UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs(reclaimthenet.org)

98 points by ubercow13 9 months ago | 81 comments

TSMC Risk(stratechery.com)

95 points by swolpers 9 months ago | 57 comments

State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11?(ntdotdev.wordpress.com)

94 points by xd1936 9 months ago | 122 comments

The mountain that weighed the Earth(signoregalilei.com)

89 points by surprisetalk 9 months ago | 14 comments

Decompiling Xbox games using PDB debug info(i686.me)

88 points by orange_redditor 9 months ago | 12 comments

Video Games as Art(gwern.net)

88 points by andsoitis 9 months ago | 57 comments

What "The Best" Looks Like(kuril.in)

84 points by akurilin 9 months ago | 37 comments

Notice of collective action lawsuit against Workday, Inc.(workdaycase.com)

82 points by mooreds 9 months ago | 25 comments

An anecdote about backward compatibility(blog.plover.com)

78 points by speckx 9 months ago | 21 comments

Exactitude in Science – Borges (1946) [pdf](kwarc.info)

77 points by jxmorris12 9 months ago | 24 comments

Apple, What Have You Done?(onlinegoddess.net)

77 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago | 86 comments

Making niche solutions is the point(ntietz.com)

76 points by evakhoury 9 months ago | 26 comments

DHS keeps trying and failing to unmask anonymous ICE critics online(arstechnica.com)

74 points by duxup 9 months ago | 17 comments

Usenet personality(en.wikipedia.org)

74 points by mellosouls 9 months ago | 54 comments

Water 'Bankruptcy' Era Has Begun for Billions, Scientists Say(bloomberg.com)

62 points by ciconia 9 months ago | 54 comments

Satellites encased in wood are in the works(economist.com)

61 points by andsoitis 9 months ago | 37 comments

Painless Software Schedules (2000)(joelonsoftware.com)

59 points by MonkeyClub 9 months ago | 32 comments

Animated AVIF for the Modern Web(arthur.pizza)

57 points by sdoering 9 months ago | 31 comments

Running the Stupid Cricut Software on Linux(arthur.pizza)

56 points by starkparker 9 months ago | 13 comments

House of Lords Votes to Ban UK Children from Using Internet VPNs(ispreview.co.uk)

56 points by donpott 9 months ago | 55 comments

Designing a Passively Safe API(danealbaugh.com)

55 points by dalbaugh 9 months ago | 16 comments

Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update(windowslatest.com)

54 points by nsoonhui 9 months ago | 35 comments

You have to know how to drive the car(seangoedecke.com)

53 points by alexwennerberg 9 months ago | 39 comments

Transfering Files with gRPC(kreya.app)

48 points by CommonGuy 9 months ago | 19 comments