Hacker News for Jan 18, 2026

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Today's topics:
-Topological attention for transformers
-CLI control of Figma
-Infrastructure for coding agents
-Plan 9 and namespaces
-RISC-V mini-ITX motherboard
-Shell pipelines versus Hadoop
-EV battery degradation realities
-Design history behind ThinkPad
-Asimov on learning and creativity

-https://www.tuned.org.uk/posts/013_the_topological_transformer_training_tauformer
-https://fqa.9front.org/fqa0.html#0.1
-https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html
-https://www.geotab.com/blog/ev-battery-health/
-https://github.com/dannote/figma-use
-https://thinknextdesign.com/home.html
-https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/12/milk-v-titan-a-329-octa-core-64-bit-risc-v-mini-itx-motherboard-with-a-pcie-gen4-x16-slot/
-https://news.ycombinator.com/item
-https://www.abelard.org/asimov.php


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