top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-01-12

Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

https://claude.com/blog/cowork-research-preview

15 hours ago

978 upvotes – 436 comments

Statement from Jerome Powell

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20260111a.htm

a day ago

873 upvotes – 788 comments

Apple picks Gemini to power Siri

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/apple-google-ai-siri-gemini.html

19 hours ago

850 upvotes – 526 comments

Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids

https://blog.smartere.dk/2026/01/floppy-disks-the-best-tv-remote-for-kids/

a day ago

632 upvotes – 356 comments

TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875

https://github.com/haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLM

19 hours ago

617 upvotes – 253 comments

Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/12/ozempic-changing-foods-americans-buy

a day ago

407 upvotes – 737 comments

Postal Arbitrage

https://walzr.com/postal-arbitrage

17 hours ago

407 upvotes – 205 comments

Date is out, Temporal is in

https://piccalil.li/blog/date-is-out-and-temporal-is-in/

19 hours ago

386 upvotes – 155 comments

LLVM: The bad parts

https://www.npopov.com/2026/01/11/LLVM-The-bad-parts.html

21 hours ago

338 upvotes – 66 comments

Xfce is great

https://rubenerd.com/xfce-is-great/

a day ago

301 upvotes – 231 comments
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