DTF:HN for January 31, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 9 stories on Hacker News for January 31, 2026. Featuring: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings, Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native, Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of an Asteroid (2024), We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency, Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones, and more. Stories covered: 1. Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings https://antirender.com/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46829147 2. Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/30/euro_firms_must_ditch_us/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46835336 3. Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of an Asteroid (2024) https://archaeologyworlds.com/5500-year-old-sumerian-star-map-recorded/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46834313 4. We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency https://blog.globalping.io/we-have-ipinfo-at-home-or-how-to-geolocate-ips-in-your-cli-using-latency/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46834953 5. Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones https://simedw.com/2026/01/31/ear-pronunication-via-ctc/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832074 6. A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: A Philosophy on AI in Dev https://somehowmanage.com/2026/01/22/a-step-behind-the-bleeding-edge-monarchs-philosophy-on-ai-in-dev/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46809846 7. Direct Current Data Centers https://terraformindustries.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/direct-current-data-centers/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46831736 8. Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent https://peerweb.lol/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46829582 9. My Ridiculously Robust Photo Management System (Immich Edition) https://jaisenmathai.com/articles/my-ridiculously-robust-photo-management-system-immich-edition/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46794971