This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 9, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/bose-open-sources-its-soundtouch-home-theater-smart-speakers-ahead-of-eol/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541892

Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
https://twitter.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2009339263251566902
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545077

How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code
https://www.mihaileric.com/The-Emperor-Has-No-Clothes/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545620

The Jeff Dean Facts
https://github.com/LRitzdorf/TheJeffDeanFacts
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46540498

Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/7410
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46549823

AI coding assistants are getting worse?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542036

Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU
https://github.com/samuel-vitorino/sopro
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546113

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transform
https://joshuawise.com/resources/ofdm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544981

Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async
https://github.com/embassy-rs/embassy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46547740

Why I left iNaturalist
https://kueda.net/blog/2026/01/06/why-i-left-inat/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46548940