January 2026 Archive
1531.
I reverse-engineered Netflix's 4K restrictions (github.com)
1532.
OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions (arstechnica.com)
1533.
RISC-V is coming along quite speedily: Milk-V Titan Mini-ITX 8-core board (tomshardware.com)
1534.
Favorite Tech Museums (aresluna.org)
1535.
Show HN: I replaced Beads with a faster, simpler Markdown-based task tracker (github.com)
1536.
Google: Don't make "bite-sized" content for LLMs (arstechnica.com)
1537.
Global software engineering job postings outlook – 2026 (jobswithgpt.com)
1538.
Show HN: ShapedQL – A SQL engine for multi-stage ranking and RAG (playground.shaped.ai)
1539.
Making Magic Leap past Nvidia's secure bootchain and breaking Tesla Autopilots (fahrplan.events.ccc.de)
1540.
Systematically generating tests that would have caught Anthropic's top‑K bug (theorem.dev)
1541.
Running the Stupid Cricut Software on Linux (arthur.pizza)
1542.
Quack-Cluster: A Serverless Distributed SQL Query Engine with DuckDB and Ray (github.com)
1543.
Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams rugs his own memecoin just 30 minutes after launch (old.reddit.com)
1544.
Implementing a web server in a single printf() call (2014) (tinyhack.com)
1545.
How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE (eff.org)
1546.
Ideas are cheap, execution is cheaper (davekiss.com)
1547.
Judge to Texas: You Can't Age-Gate the Internet Without Evidence (techdirt.com)
1548.
What it's like to be banned from the US for fighting online hate (technologyreview.com)
1549.
Former CNN journalist Don Lemon arrested after church protest in Minnesota (reuters.com)
1550.
Ask HN: Unemployed almost a year after graduating MIT – a rant
1551.
Presidential Immunity in the United States (en.wikipedia.org)
1552.
US believes its power matters more than international law, UN chief (bbc.co.uk)
1553.
You have to know how to drive the car (seangoedecke.com)
1554.
US judge rules Luigi Mangione won't face death penalty in CEO killing case (aljazeera.com)
1555.
Observability's past, present, and future (blog.sherwoodcallaway.com)
1556.
IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service (1999) (rfc-editor.org)
1557.
An anecdote about backward compatibility (blog.plover.com)
1558.
Germany's Merz admits nuclear exit was strategic mistake (clashreport.com)
1559.
Winapp, the Windows App Development CLI (blogs.windows.com)
1560.
Steam "Offline" status leaks exact login timestamps (Valve: Won't Fix) (xmrcat.org)