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The Unix Pipe Card Game

https://punkx.org/unix-pipe-game/
39•kykeonaut•1h ago•12 comments

IP Addresses Through 2025

https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2026-01/addr2025.html
109•petercooper•4h ago•47 comments

The Startup Graveyard

https://www.loot-drop.io/
49•skogstokig•2h ago•38 comments

The 26,000-Year Astronomical Monument Hidden in Plain Sight

https://longnow.org/ideas/the-26000-year-astronomical-monument-hidden-in-plain-sight/
5•mkmk•18m ago•0 comments

De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)

https://www.jpmorgan.com/insights/global-research/currencies/de-dollarization
371•andsoitis•2h ago•433 comments

Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations

https://hakibenita.com/postgresql-unconventional-optimizations
83•haki•4h ago•9 comments

I'm addicted to being useful

https://www.seangoedecke.com/addicted-to-being-useful/
292•swah•7h ago•170 comments

Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction

https://entropicthoughts.com/nvidia-stock-crash-prediction
157•todsacerdoti•2h ago•129 comments

Show HN: wxpath – Declarative web crawling in XPath

https://github.com/rodricios/wxpath
8•rodricios•6d ago•0 comments

Linux kernel framework for PCIe device emulation, in userspace

https://github.com/cakehonolulu/pciem
167•71bw•10h ago•64 comments

Show HN: Ocrbase – pdf → .md/.json document OCR and structured extraction API

https://github.com/majcheradam/ocrbase
58•adammajcher•5h ago•18 comments

Level S4 solar radiation event

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g4-severe-geomagnetic-storm-levels-reached-19-jan-2026
554•WorldPeas•22h ago•182 comments

A Pro Meticulously Restores a Damaged Oil Painting [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQbZIyo-SgM
24•surprisetalk•4d ago•10 comments

Ask HN: Burned out from tech, what else is there?

4•bleosh•5m ago•1 comments

Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results

https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/16/iphone-apple-app-store-search-results-ads-new-design/
553•ksec•1d ago•454 comments

IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service (1999)

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549.html
46•mig4ng•7h ago•21 comments

Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack

https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum
299•brogu•18h ago•72 comments

Channel3 (YC S25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/channel3/jobs/3DIAYYY-backend-engineer
1•aschiff1•6h ago

Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)

https://blog.emilburzo.com/2026/01/running-claude-code-dangerously-safely/
200•emilburzo•6h ago•171 comments

Nuudel: Non-Tracking Appointment Tool

https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/
32•doener•4d ago•9 comments

Increasing the performance of WebAssembly Text Format parser by 350%

https://blog.gplane.win/posts/improve-wat-parser-perf.html
83•gplane•5d ago•30 comments

What came first: the CNAME or the A record?

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cname-a-record-order-dns-standards/
425•linolevan•1d ago•149 comments

Benchmarking a Baseline Fully-in-Place Functional Language Compiler [pdf]

https://trendsfp.github.io/papers/tfp26-paper-12.pdf
26•matt_d•4d ago•3 comments

Kiss Launcher – fast launcher for Android

https://kisslauncher.com/
54•ifh-hn•8h ago•31 comments

Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs

https://github.com/jordanhubbard/nanolang
206•Scramblejams•20h ago•162 comments

The coming industrialisation of exploit generation with LLMs

https://sean.heelan.io/2026/01/18/on-the-coming-industrialisation-of-exploit-generation-with-llms/
221•long•1d ago•137 comments

Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries

https://www.reuters.com/business/danish-pension-fund-divest-its-us-treasuries-2026-01-20/
442•mythical_39•3h ago•451 comments

3D printing my laptop ergonomic setup

https://www.ntietz.com/blog/3d-printing-my-laptop-ergonomic-setup/
135•kurinikku•18h ago•62 comments

Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/america-polymarket-disaster/685662/
426•krustyburger•2d ago•420 comments

Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)

https://jon.bo/posts/nano-texture/
230•dsr12•1d ago•123 comments
Open in hackernews

Claude Code is the ChatGPT moment repeated and awful news for software stocks

https://sherwood.news/markets/how-claude-code-is-the-chatgpt-moment-repeated-and-why-thats-awful-news-for/
18•nadis•2h ago

Comments

skybrian•1h ago
I do think coding agents are very important and will have widespread impact. But this article seems like rather vague hand-waving about the future?
nadis•40m ago
I thought the concluding quote was the most interesting part but I also am not super versed in market prediction (I sort of assume it is hand-wavy in general?). I shared it because I was curious if folks with more insight might have better perspectives than I. But it also might just be too vague an article to effectively ground that kind of conversation - I'm not sure.
djmips•1h ago
My opinion is that Claude Code is the first viable leverage of the LLM technology so comparing it to a 'ChatGPT moment' is odd to me.
HNisCIS•1h ago
Analyst slop, he's trying to say that Claude code is like the moment that chatgpt was released and everyone went apeshit for AI. The future he's describing is vaguely plausible in a narrow set of use cases a decade from now but he needs to justify the paycheck so here we are.
xnx•1h ago
I see this with the disproportionate amount of hype around "Claude Code" specifically vs. AI coding in general. Eventually people realized that there was AI chat beyond the brand-name "Chat GPT" and that Gemini was just as good (and often better).
nadis•44m ago
I tend to agree, although I do think Claude Code specifically is having a moment for AI for software development. There are a lot of similar products (OpenAI's Codex, Google's Gemini CLI, etc.) but none work quite as well - yet anyways. Sort of orthogonal to the potential market impact, which I personally am not really sure how to interpret.
z0r•1h ago
Vague nonsense
nadis•42m ago
What felt vague about it? Personally while I'm not sure how to interpret the potential market impact (or lack there of) I thought it was an interesting hypothesis, especially the quote at the end:

> “One day, the successor to Claude Code will make a superhuman interface available to everyone. And if Tokens were TCP/IP, Claude Code is the first genuine website built in the age of AI. And this is going to hurt a large part of the software industry.”

“I believe that all software must leave information work as soon as possible. I believe that the future role of software will not have much ‘information processing’, i.e., analysis. Claude Code or Agent-Next will be doing the information synthesis, the GUI, and the workflow. That will be ephemeral and generated for the use at hand. Anyone should be able to access the information they want in the format they want and reference the underlying data.

What I’m trying to say is that the traditional differentiation metrics will change. Faster workflows, better UIs, and smoother integrations will all become worthless, while persistent information, a la an API, will become extremely valuable.”

throwup238•1h ago
Get ready folks, another breathless hype wave incoming!

Don't get me wrong, I somewhat agree that there's been a sea change with Opus 4.5 in the usefulness of Claude Code, but it stills goes off the rails at the drop of a hat in the dumbest and most frustrating ways. Actually trying to use it to develop even a nontrivial greenfield project from scratch requires carefully reviewing its code to make sure it stays on track.

nadis•42m ago
> "Actually trying to use it to develop even a nontrivial greenfield project from scratch requires carefully reviewing its code to make sure it stays on track."

Completely agreed!

kankerlijer•1h ago
Perhaps journalists are just trying to make fetch^^^^^Claude happen, but I've noticed it popping up a bit more (The Atlantic): https://archive.is/6YvPh
njhnjh•1h ago
You write like someone who hasn't tried Claude Code.

We're less than a calendar year away from AGI and ignorant luddites still want to pretend the entire world hasn't shifted under their feet.

kankerlijer•1h ago
Not at all, I just like to pay special attention to how the normies view AI. I have nothing to add to the debate over whether it's good, but I will adjust myself to its impact.
saagarjha•1h ago
You will find that people will take you more seriously if you don't try to claim that AGI is here.
njhnjh•1h ago
Have you used Claude? The writing is on the wall.
falloutx•1h ago
Dont bait people here. Claude is good but its not great, consumer is not gonna be able to generate GTA 6 any time soon. May be never
daliusd•44m ago
Claude is great, but you still need a developer to ripe the benefits. And it is not magic - I see productivity increase of about 30% in my team.
CuriouslyC•1h ago
This is only true for a mickey mouse definition of AGI. I honestly don't think transformers are capable of that level of autonomous intelligence, they're far too fragile/spikey, they do great at stuff on manifold but will actively fight you on things that are off manifold.
falloutx•1h ago
This article makes no sense. Wouldn't software companies make more money if Claude Code is good, as they have to pay less to the SDEs?

Genuinely confused here.

njhnjh•1h ago
why would you pay for software you can generate for free?
falloutx•1h ago
Try generating Figma through Claude Code before you can say that. Classic software is full of human ingenuity and replicating each feature looks easy on the surface, but when you get into it, it slowly becomes impossible.

Note: Figma was just an example of a complex software.

njhnjh•1h ago
Figma is old-world technology. The future is on-demand LLM image generation.
falloutx•1h ago
> The future is on-demand LLM image generation.

Why even generate an image then. Why don I just use dribbble / behance and pick the best design

SoftTalker•1h ago
So you're going to generate Quickbooks on the fly every time you need to make an accounting journal entry?
jon-wood•1h ago
The theory (which I don't really think stands up) is that software companies will lose value because everyone just gets an LLM to generate them the software they need instead.
falloutx•1h ago
This theory falls apart because I dont think a regular internet user can just generate something complex like Photoshop/Figma/Final Cut Pro via LLMs.

Even hardcore top level engineer wont be able to do it just via LLMs

recursivecaveat•49m ago
Also, all the biggest software companies run network services. You could download your own search engine forever, but it doesn't mean anything without the Google data centers and crawlers. Likewise there's a million open source twitter clones, but without the users they have no real utility to the average person. The era of shrink wrap software has been over for a long time.
CuriouslyC•58m ago
There are variants of the theory that are actually pretty sound, but it's more about the critical mass open source will achieve and the reduced friction that agents will bring to self hosting.

What closed source software company can compete on features against the entire world's collective agents? What sales pitch do hosted saas vendors have when you can spin up a container for your open source saas of choice pre-configured, and the agent can tweak stuff and offload ops efficiently? We're ~2 years away from this reality.

waffletower•1h ago
A common belief is that an experienced software developer steers AI (whether via Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Opencode, browser et al) much more effectively than a "layperson". I concur.
falloutx•1h ago
I doubt any single engineer of any level can steer AI into building something complex like lets say Photoshop.

Most of the recent completely vibe coded projects dont do anything as complex as that, they are usually just tiny websites or some slop tui

daliusd•30m ago
How much is “much more”. It is still a number.
sixtyj•1h ago
This is really odd. They are incomparable in terms of the scope that these companies have.

I have used all major tools: OpenAI (chat, api), Google Gemini (ai studio, api, cli, antigravity) and Claude (chat, code and api). Mostly for coding issues to solve.

Claude Code gives usable results almost instantly for small scripts and it can go live. Gemini CLI tells me that it doesn't have this and that - and I have tried pushing Gemini to deliver production-quality code. No chance.

I use the same style of coding instructions for all tools.

But difference is in hours. I had a Claude session - result was in minutes, Gemini - hour and in many rounds.

On the other side, Gemini Canvas is really powerful as it makes usable app/tool inside Gemini so you don’t have to know how to run Python or PHP.

And OpenAI has very powerful chat.

So all of them seem to have different focus groups…

nadis•46m ago
I tend to agree, but was curious to hear others' thoughts. My background is more product / software, less market prediction and performance so I really wasn't sure what to make of this.
ls612•1h ago
So I’m not proud to admit that for my recent work (which has been 90% data science stuff in Julia) I’ve been still just using Gemini via the webpage for coding and it’s pretty effective for me, what is the most user friendly way to get started with Claude Code? Is there a nice VSCode integration out there?
falloutx•1h ago
Yes you can install it as a VSCode extension or use it from terminal. Effect is same.

But for your use-case, I would think Gemini cli is better, since gemini does seem to excel in Data Analytics tasks for me.

waffletower•1h ago
Yes, admittedly, since the Gemini 3 release, I have switched to using Gemini 3 via Opencode and the Gemini CLI, largely.
waffletower•1h ago
Claude Code is a command line CLI. There are many like it -- Opencode, aider, Gemini CLI -- you launch the CLI in a software project directory and ask it to code interactively. It can navigate source files and create them. I prefer the approach to Cursor, however, there is a vscode extension for Claude Code as well: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/vs-code
yellow_lead•1h ago
> Just 3% of the time does SPY gain 1% while software stocks drop 5% in a month

I would like to direct the author to a high school statistics class.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_cau...

nadis•41m ago
Fair point!