Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 7, 2026.

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  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (00:16) - Vietnam bans unskippable ads
  • (01:25) - Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
  • (02:44) - Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone
  • (03:51) - The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup
  • (04:55) - I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it
  • (05:48) - Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024)
  • (06:54) - A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time
  • (08:19) - Sergey Brin's Unretirement
  • (09:21) - Passing of Joe Mancuso
  • (10:15) - Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kit
  • (11:26) - Outro

Vietnam bans unskippable ads
https://saigoneer.com/vietnam-news/28652-vienam-bans-unskippable-ads,-requires-skip-button-to-appear-after-5-seconds
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46514677

Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
https://burkeholland.github.io/posts/opus-4-5-change-everything/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46515696

Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone
https://github.com/rberg27/doom-coding
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46517458

The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup
https://twitter.com/bcherny/status/2007179832300581177
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46470017

I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it
https://medium.com/@cristi.baluta/i-wanted-a-camera-that-doesnt-exist-so-i-built-it-5f9864533eb7
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466843

Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024)
https://phrack.org/issues/71/17
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46518129

A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time
https://byteshape.com/blogs/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46518573

Sergey Brin's Unretirement
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/google-co-founder-sergey-brins-unretirement-is-a-lesson-for-the-rest-of-us/91280208
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452641

Passing of Joe Mancuso
https://github.com/MasoniteFramework/masonite/discussions/853
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46516137

Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kit
https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/how-microsoft-killed-my-snapdragon-devkit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521860

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