1.11.26 | Fixing Ghostty's memory leak, Open Chaos as a self-evolving project, Claude Code connects 100 books

Hacker News Highlights · Jan 11, 2026 · 11m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 11, 2026.

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(00:00) - Intro

(00:18) - Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak

(01:32) - Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project

(02:37) - Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books

(03:34) - Code and Let Live

(04:45) - AI is a business model stress test

(06:01) - Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering

(07:11) - My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated

(08:11) - A battle…