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January 17th, 2026 | ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering Jan 18, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 17, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46657122&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:55): The recurring dream of replacing developers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46658345&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:20): If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46663338&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:46): US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656903&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:11): PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656998&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:37): Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656834&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:02): ClickHouse acquires Langfuse
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656552&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:28): After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656911&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:53): Raising money fucked me up
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46660543&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:19): 2025 was the third hottest year on record
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46659913&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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January 16th, 2026 | Cloudflare acquires Astro Jan 17, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 16, 2026.
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(00:30): Cloudflare acquires Astro
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46646645&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:56): STFU
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649142&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:23): Just the Browser
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46645615&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:49): Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46646777&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:16): Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648778&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:42): OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642560&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:09): East Germany balloon escape
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648916&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:35): 6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46647491&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:02): List of individual trees
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46641284&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:29): Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46646263&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

January 15th, 2026 | The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible Jan 16, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 15, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46627652&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:57): Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633488&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:24): Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630369&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:52): The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633378&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:19): Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46635345&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:47): 25 Years of Wikipedia
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46632023&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:14): ‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46637127&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:42): To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629474&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:09): Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46628329&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:37): Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629682&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

January 14th, 2026 | FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home Jan 15, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 14, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616745&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:58): Claude Cowork exfiltrates files
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46622328&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:26): Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618901&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:55): Ask HN: Share your personal website
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618714&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:23): I hate GitHub Actions with passion
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46614558&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:52): SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616488&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:20): 1000 Blank White Cards
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46611823&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:48): ASCII Clouds
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46611507&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:17): So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46619030&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:45): I’m leaving Redis for SolidQueue
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46614037&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

January 13th, 2026 | Scott Adams has died Jan 14, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 13, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Scott Adams has died
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602102&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:56): AI generated music barred from Bandcamp
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605490&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:22): Apple Creator Studio
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46601157&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:48): Chromium Has Merged JpegXL
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46597927&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:14): Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46601902&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:40): Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46603535&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:07): Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600850&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:33): We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608840&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:59): Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605553&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:25): Network of Scottish X accounts go dark amid Iran blackout
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46599574&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

January 12th, 2026 | Statement from Jerome Powell Jan 13, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 12, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Statement from Jerome Powell
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582420&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:51): Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46593022&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:12): Apple picks Gemini to power Siri
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589675&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:34): Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587934&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:55): TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46590280&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:16): Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587536&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:38): Date is out, Temporal is in
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589658&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:59): Postal Arbitrage
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46591708&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:20): LLVM: The bad parts
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46588837&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:42): Xfce is great
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46584173&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

January 11th, 2026 | The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe Jan 12, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 11, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579864&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:51): I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574707&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:13): Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574276&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:34): Statement from Jerome Powell
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582420&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:56): CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580326&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:17): iCloud Photos Downloader
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578921&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:39): Gentoo Linux 2025 Review
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574769&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:00): Anthropic: Developing a Claude Code competitor using Claude Code is banned
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578701&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:22): Meta announces nuclear energy projects
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578497&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:43): My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46572679&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

January 10th, 2026 | Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15 Jan 11, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 10, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46564696&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:52): I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566465&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:15): Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46565132&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:38): Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566812&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:00): Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46568794&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:23): Oh My Zsh adds bloat
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46562790&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:46): Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46567138&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:09): New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46564762&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:31): UK government exempting itself from cyber law inspires little confidence
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46565731&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:54): Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46567400&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

January 9th, 2026 | Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions Jan 10, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 09, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46549823&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:50): The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46555963&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:10): Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46555760&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:30): Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556210&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:50): European Commission issues call for evidence on open source
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46550912&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:10): Mathematics for Computer Science (2018) [pdf]
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46550895&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:31): Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46553343&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:51): Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46555807&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:11): “Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560445&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:31): What happened to WebAssembly
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46551044&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

January 8th, 2026 | Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers Jan 09, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 08, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541892&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:50): Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545077&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:11): The Jeff Dean Facts
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46540498&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:32): Open Infrastructure Map
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46536866&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:53): Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46537489&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:13): Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542683&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:34): How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545620&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:55): A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46538001&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:16): Minnesota officials say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46543457&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:36): Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46536340&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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