Hacker News Recap

January 12th, 2026 | Statement from Jerome Powell

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 12, 2026.

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(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

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