January 2026 Archive
7711.
China's birth rate hits record low as population continues to shrink (bbc.com)
7712.
Regressions on benchmark scores suggest frontier LLMs ~3-5T params (aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com)
7713.
College Football Teams Are Now Worth Billions–and Their Values Are Skyrocketing (wsj.com)
7714.
Ask HN: Do Hackathons Still Matter in 2026?
7715.
How much can a city take? (theverge.com)
7716.
How to Know What's Worth Learning (joshfonseca.com)
7717.
America needs fewer bus stops (worksinprogress.news)
7718.
The Loss of Stop Conditions in Modern Life (slideshare.net)
7719.
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime's Nuclear Program (nytimes.com)
7720.
AI and jobs: The decline started before ChatGPT (engineeringprompts.substack.com)
7721.
My Second Worst Interview (2025) (writing.spaans.ca)
7722.
Urban Greenery Is Making Some Cities Hotter, Study Finds (e360.yale.edu)
7723.
Show HN: We built a hidden micro-bearing system inside a 2mm ring
7724.
Show HN: Paradigm – Interactive Visualizer for Codebases (useparadigm.app)
7725.
UN Global Water Bankruptcy Report 2026 [pdf] (collections.unu.edu)
7726.
Claude Code as a Sales Guy (twitter.com)
7727.
Being creative requires taking risks (henrikkarlsson.xyz)
7728.
Humans& (humansand.ai)
7729.
Suicides Were Frequent at the Golden Gate Bridge. Not Anymore (nytimes.com)
7730.
The Dionne Quintuplets (en.wikipedia.org)
7731.
Making Gaussian Splats Searchable (spatialview.io)
7732.
The UK government is backing AI that can run its own lab experiments (technologyreview.com)
7733.
DiffRatio – A One-Step Diffusion Model with SOTA quality and 50% less memory (arxiv.org)
7734.
So, why *should* GNOME support server side decorations? (blister.zip)
7735.
Show HN: RobyGraph – A graph strategy game to program AI agents in the browser (yfiles.com)
7736.
DOGE staffers at Social Security agency may have violated Hatch Act, DOJ says (abcnews.go.com)
7737.
Show HN: Why single agents suck at math proofs (ensue.dev)
7738.
Trust AI, but Verify (jordivillar.com)
7739.
Windows 11 shutdown bug forces Microsoft into out-of-band damage control (theregister.com)
7740.
Google Hardware Circa 1999 (blog.codinghorror.com)