This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 16, 2026.
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(00:16) - Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage(01:22) - Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?(02:29) - Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice(03:35) - Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark(04:38) - Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure(05:47) - OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor(06:52) - Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them(08:00) - Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected(09:09) - First impressions of Claude Cowork(10:02) - Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork(11:00) - OutroApple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage
https://www.culpium.com/p/exclusiveapple-is-fighting-for-tsmc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633488
Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46635345
Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
https://kyutai.org/blog/2026-01-13-pocket-tts
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46628329
Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark
https://briarproject.org/manual/fa/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46638013
Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure
https://hackernoon.com/the-long-now-of-the-web-inside-the-internet-archives-fight-against-forgetting
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46613324
OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor
https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260115203619
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642560
Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them
https://www.approachwithalacrity.com/claude-ne/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618042
Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected
https://shellbox.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46638629
First impressions of Claude Cowork
https://simonw.substack.com/p/first-impressions-of-claude-cowork
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46612919
Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork
https://github.com/different-ai/openwork
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46612494