1.31.26 | Antirender removes glossy shine, HTTP Cats, engineer invents Mars rover suspension in garage

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:18) - Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
• (01:25) - HTTP Cats
• (02:12) - The engineer who invented the Mars rover suspension in his garage [video]
• (03:12) - Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon
• (04:19) - Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
• (05:32) - Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones
• (06:41) - Code is cheap. Show me the talk
• (08:02) - Disrupting the largest residential proxy network
• (09:14) - YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other Browsers
• (10:12) - Outro

HTTP Cats
https://http.cat/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46824422

The engineer who invented the Mars rover suspension in his garage [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKSPk_0N4Jc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46773655

Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon
https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/01/27/surely-it-has-to-be-soon/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822630

Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
https://peerweb.lol/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46829582

Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones
https://simedw.com/2026/01/31/ear-pronunication-via-ctc/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832074

Code is cheap. Show me the talk
https://nadh.in/blog/code-is-cheap/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46823485

Disrupting the largest residential proxy network
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/disrupting-largest-residential-proxy-network
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46802748

YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other Browsers
https://piunikaweb.com/2026/01/28/youtube-background-play-samsung-internet-brave/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46834441