29: DTF:HN for January 29, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for January 29, 2026. Featuring: Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds, PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible, Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking, Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer, Compressed Agents.md > Agent Skills, and more.

Stories covered:

1. Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 0:22)
2. PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 2:35)
3. Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 4:44)
4. Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 7:04)
5. Compressed Agents.md > Agent Skills
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 9:21)
6. Flameshot
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 11:26)
7. Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 13:24)
8. Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes
   (HN Discussion | 🎧 15:22)
9. Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 17:23)
10. The Value of Things
    (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 19:20)