Hacker News for Jan 21, 2026

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Today's topics:
-Can you beat Claude’s benchmark?
-AI-assisted cloud cluster tooling
-EU-wide startup incorporation proposal
-CUDA speedups for equivariant GNNs
-Tracking Hacker News front-page removals
-Markdown backticks and code fences
-SETI@home hibernation and papers
-AI and civic institutions warning

-https://www.eu-inc.org/
-https://matklad.github.io/2026/01/20/vibecoding-2.html
-https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/publications/how-ai-destroys-institutions/
-https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/
-https://github.com/anthropics/original_performance_takehome
-https://elliotarledge.com/blog/batmobile
-https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals
-https://susam.net/nested-code-fences.html


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