top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-01-12

Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

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

1 month ago

1298 upvotes – 564 comments

Apple picks Gemini to power Siri

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

1 month ago

1037 upvotes – 651 comments

Statement from Jerome Powell

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

1 month ago

924 upvotes – 808 comments

There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape

https://blog.jgc.org/2026/01/theres-ridiculous-amount-of-tech-in.html

1 month ago

755 upvotes – 653 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/

1 month ago

751 upvotes – 418 comments

TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875

https://github.com/haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLM

1 month ago

737 upvotes – 309 comments

Postal Arbitrage

https://walzr.com/postal-arbitrage

1 month ago

559 upvotes – 280 comments

We Put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon

https://labs.ramp.com/rct

1 month ago

526 upvotes – 285 comments

Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy

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

1 month ago

470 upvotes – 949 comments

Date is out, Temporal is in

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

1 month ago

463 upvotes – 205 comments

LLVM: The bad parts

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

1 month ago

389 upvotes – 77 comments

Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients

https://archaeologist.dev/artifacts/anthropic

1 month ago

349 upvotes – 242 comments

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0mLhHDcY3I

1 month ago

338 upvotes – 339 comments

Lock-Picking Robot

https://github.com/etinaude/Lock-Picking-Robot

1 month ago

314 upvotes – 138 comments

Xfce is great

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

1 month ago

313 upvotes – 248 comments

Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux

https://github.com/er-bharat/Win8DE

1 month ago

235 upvotes – 237 comments

Fabrice Bellard's TS Zip (2024)

https://www.bellard.org/ts_zip/

1 month ago

233 upvotes – 93 comments

Google removes AI health summaries

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/google-removes-some-ai-health-summaries-after-investigation-finds-dangerous-flaws/

1 month ago

226 upvotes – 175 comments

Zen-C: Write like a high-level language, run like C

https://github.com/z-libs/Zen-C

1 month ago

213 upvotes – 142 comments

Lightpanda migrate DOM implementation to Zig

https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/migrating-our-dom-to-zig

1 month ago

198 upvotes – 142 comments

Uncrossy

https://uncrossy.com/

1 month ago

195 upvotes – 50 comments

Ai, Japanese chimpanzee who counted and painted dies at 49

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9r3zl2ywyo

1 month ago

192 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: AI in SolidWorks

https://www.trylad.com

1 month ago

190 upvotes – 106 comments

Himalayas bare and rocky after reduced winter snowfall, scientists warn

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyndv7zd20o

1 month ago

164 upvotes – 162 comments
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