1.29.26 | Airfoil (2024), Apple to take 30% cut from Patreon creators, Mail limited to 500 miles (2002)

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:19) - Airfoil (2024)
• (01:18) - Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app
• (02:32) - We can't send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)
• (03:33) - Tesla ending Models S and X production
• (04:39) - Render Mermaid diagrams as SVGs or ASCII art
• (05:38) - Android's desktop interface leaks
• (06:54) - Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python
• (08:02) - Europe's next-generation weather satellite sends back first images
• (09:08) - Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers
• (10:12) - Trinity large: An open 400B sparse MoE model
• (11:15) - Outro

Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/28/patreon-apple-tax/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46801419

We can't send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)
https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46805665

Tesla ending Models S and X production
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/tesla-ending-model-s-x-production.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46802867

Render Mermaid diagrams as SVGs or ASCII art
https://github.com/lukilabs/beautiful-mermaid
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46804828

Android's desktop interface leaks
https://9to5google.com/2026/01/27/android-desktop-leak/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46790740

Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python
https://www.dimamik.com/posts/oban_py/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46797594

Europe's next-generation weather satellite sends back first images
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Meteorological_missions/meteosat_third_generation/Europe_s_next-generation_weather_satellite_sends_back_first_images
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46806773

Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers
https://github.com/ratatui/mousefood
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46798402

Trinity large: An open 400B sparse MoE model
https://www.arcee.ai/blog/trinity-large
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46789561