Weekly news | 2026-01-07
news
- iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan
- Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet
- Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
- Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible
- China DRAM Maker CXMT Targets $4.2B IPO as It Takes on Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron
- Vietnam bans unskippable ads
- Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%
- AWS:
- Bedrock NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano
- CloudWatch automatic telemetry configuration +6 services
- Connect automated agent performance evaluations +5 languages
- Deadline Cloud direct job submission from the Deadline Cloud Monitor
- ECS Service Connect enhances observability with Envoy Access Logs
- End User Messaging SMS launches a Generative AI Registration Reviewer |
Preview - GameLift Streams Gen6-based stream classes and enhanced autoscaling
- GameLift Streams real-time performance stats and improved API error messaging
- Kinesis Video Streams now supports IPv6 for WebRTC
- Oracle Database@AWS sharing of AWS Marketplace entitlements across accounts
- Redshift four new materialized view (MV) features on data shares
- SageMaker JumpStart MiniMax-M2
- Secrets Manager improved secret sorting capabilities
- Storage Gateway Nutanix AHV hypervisor
- Transform enables network conversion for hybrid data center migrations
- Wickr admin APIs for programmatic network management at scale
- WorkSpaces Secure Browser enables branding customization
- WorkSpaces Secure Browser WebAuthn redirection for local Chromium browsers
- For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.
tooling
- Enroll, a tool to reverse-engineer servers into Ansible config mgmt
- Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux VMs
- Common Lisp SDK for the Datastar Hypermedia Framework
- How to construct complex data declaratively and progressively?
- FracturedJson
- TinyTinyTPU: 2×2 systolic-array TPU-style matrix-multiply unit deployed on FPGA
- Jank Lang Hit Alpha
- Uxn32: Uxn Emulator for Windows and Wine
- List, inspect and explore OCI container images, their layers and contents
- Torch.ts – building PyTorch in TypeScript from scratch to learn
- Terminal UI for AWS
- Agentic Patterns
- Hover – IDE style hover documentation on any webpage
- Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale
- Mantic.sh – A structural code search engine for AI agents
- Xr0 verifier, guarantee the safety of C programs at compile time
- Ed25519-CLI – command-line interface for the Ed25519 signature system
- OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust
- Sirius DB
- OpenGitOps
- Welcome to Gas Town
- n8n-Oidc
- DoNotNotify – log and intelligently block notifications on Android
- Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities
- 48-digit prime numbers every git commit
- CookieConsent: A lightweight, GDPR and CCPA compliant Consent Management Tool written in vanilla JS
blogs
- WebAssembly as a Python Extension Platform
- If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app
- Assorted
less(1)tips - The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025
- Lessons from 14 Years at Google
- Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got
- It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
- I switched from VSCode to Zed
- Dealing with abandonware (2024)
- Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
- A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time
- Why Most Websites Don't Need Cookie Consent Banners
- How uv got so fast
- 16 Best Practices for Reducing Dependabot Noise
- Love your customers
- Python numbers every programmer should know
- Claude Code On-the-Go
- Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams
resources
- The rsync algorithm (1996) [pdf]
- An interactive guide to how browsers work
- Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024)
- PassSeeds – hijacking Passkeys to unlock new cryptographic use cases
- What you need to know before touching a video file
- I wrote a batch script to keep my 2011 ThinkPad alive for 24/7 streaming