1.28.26 | FBI probes Minnesota Signal chats, Prism, Claude's recent coding notes

Hacker News Highlights · Jan 28, 2026 · 11m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 28, 2026.

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(00:00) - Intro

(00:17) - FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE

(01:30) - Prism

(02:38) - A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

(03:41) - 430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found

(04:51) - Doing the thing is doing the thing

(05:44) - Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor

(06:56) - Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company

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