Skip to content
Sign in
Artwork for Hacker News Highlights
TechnologyScience

Hacker News Highlights

Hacker News Highlights

Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.

Play
Open in
  • 36 episodes
  • daily
  • Avg 13 min
  • English

Episodes 36

NewestOldestLongest
All20Unplayed20In progress0Played0
Counted on this page — what you have heard stays on this device, so it is not something the list can be paged by.
  • #583
    Yesterday · 13 min

    8.28.26 | Saving memory through DNS cache optimization, Microduck, emergence of small models

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 28, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache (01:36) - Microduck (02:48) - Small Models Have Arrived (04:17) - 507 Mechanical Movements (05:13) - Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude (06:30) - The turbulent AI era is here (07:42) - Gemini-3.5-Transcribe (09:18) - Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash (10:48) - We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer (12:11) - Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days (13:39) - Outro Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-cache-memory-optimization-1111/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468083 Microduck https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49462763 Small Models Have Arrived https://calv.info/small-models-have-arrived https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466917 507 Mechanical Movements https://507movements.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49465169 Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude https://louisabraham.github.io/load-bearing/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49461817 The turbulent AI era is here https://www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49447057 Gemini-3.5-Transcribe https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5-transcribe/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468818 Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/build-with-gemini-omni-1-1-flash/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467922 We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/issues/24290 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468642 Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days https://blog.chrislewis.au/decompiling-a-nintendo-64-game-in-84-days/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466006

    • Chapters
  • #581
    Thursday · 14 min

    8.27.26 | Nvidia acquires Hugging Face, GLM-5.3-Flash, CEO fires developers for AI progress

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 27, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B (01:31) - GLM-5.3-Flash (02:48) - CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO (04:01) - Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane (05:27) - U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications (06:49) - Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account (08:04) - Nebula Sans (09:25) - An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation (11:01) - Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30 (12:15) - Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2 (13:59) - Outro Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458161 GLM-5.3-Flash https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449507 CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO https://github.com/SenteLabsAI/OpenExecutive https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458418 Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane https://github.com/tailscale/tailcat https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452990 U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/u-s-state-department-pauses-immigrant-visa-applications-25b31b23 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452709 Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account https://twitterwebviewer.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449576 Nebula Sans https://www.nebulasans.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450448 An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1089390/46116614cc74b814/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452980 Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30 https://www.mturk.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49457545 Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2 https://asahilinux.org/2026/08/progress-report-7-2/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49456851

    • Chapters
  • #580
    Wednesday · 14 min

    8.26.26 | Dolly Parton has died, Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra, Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 26, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Dolly Parton has died (01:33) - Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra (02:52) - Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices (04:09) - New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra (05:39) - My Friend Aaron (06:53) - New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro (08:22) - OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell (10:03) - FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels (11:26) - Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms (12:56) - Don't Wordle (13:56) - Outro Dolly Parton has died https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/25/dolly-parton-country-singer-dead https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438052 Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-m6-and-m5-ultra-for-a-big-leap-in-performance-and-ai-compute/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433292 Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1442 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283 New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-new-mac-studio-with-m5-max-and-m5-ultra/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433316 My Friend Aaron https://rorz.io/writing/my-friend-aaron https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437069 New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-unveils-a-more-powerful-mac-mini-featuring-the-all-new-m6-and-m5-pro/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433450 OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/openai-jalapeno-better-than-nvidia https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49434378 FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-authorizes-first-wearable-device-continuously-monitors-both-ketone-levels-and-blood-sugar https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49439017 Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/3YMV4MS34KA?pli=1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437946 Don't Wordle https://dontwordle.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432319

    • Chapters
  • #579
    Tuesday · 13 min

    8.25.26 | Europe harming makers, Xiaomi's CPU performance, MS Paint and Photos watermarking

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 25, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs (01:58) - Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded (03:16) - MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID (04:34) - The entire city of San Francisco as a video game (05:42) - iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com (07:02) - Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence (08:12) - Where did all the public bathrooms go? (09:40) - SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64 (11:07) - Moon (2024) (12:10) - Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation (13:27) - Outro How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs https://lectronz.com/u/lectronz/articles/how-europe-is-killing-makers-and-micro-entrepreneurs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49419237 Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2091894299289874926 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49420873 MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID https://xusheng.dev/posts/reversing/mspaint_invisible_watermark/main/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49421158 The entire city of San Francisco as a video game https://sf.thijs.gg/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49422784 iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=1ptvdtcm https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426564 Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence https://gultsch.de/posts/25-years-of-digital-independence/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49421536 Where did all the public bathrooms go? https://daily.jstor.org/where-did-all-the-public-bathrooms-go/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49422800 SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64 https://proofcraft.systems/news-2026/#2026-08-21 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49418255 Moon (2024) https://ciechanow.ski/moon/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426466 Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-are-some-octopuses-so-smart-the-answer-might-lie-in-a-never-before-seen-mutation-that-helps-them-accurately-build-proteins-180989319/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49423539

    • Chapters
  • #578
    Monday · 13 min

    8.24.26 | Reading to improve writing, Python thinking, Texas student's AI hack whistleblower

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 24, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - To become a better writer, read as much as you can (01:30) - Thinking in Python (02:52) - How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt (04:13) - ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data (05:44) - I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes (07:05) - MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust (08:10) - The End of an Athlon (09:27) - NetBSD and my life (2005) (10:58) - The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015) (12:07) - NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier (13:37) - Outro To become a better writer, read as much as you can https://nappertime.com/the-golden-rule-of-becoming-a-better-writer/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405870 Thinking in Python https://thinkinginpython.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402202 How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt https://www.reuters.com/world/how-texas-student-blew-whistle-rogue-ai-hacking-attempt-2026-08-20/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387959 ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data https://atproto.com/blog/atproto-spaces-alpha https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379732 I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes https://www.xda-developers.com/qwen-3-8-27b-reverse-engineering-job-frontier-model/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49407507 MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust https://martypc.net/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405816 The End of an Athlon http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-end-of-an-athlon/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406333 NetBSD and my life (2005) https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/09/10/0000.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402781 The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015) https://nappertime.com/the-art-of-and-beauty-of-blade-runner/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405331 NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier https://www.primeintellect.ai/research/nanogpt-speedrun https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49404380

    • Chapters
  • #577
    Sunday · 12 min

    8.23.26 | Canada matches US tariffs, Scrap from 2006, ElevenLabs TwelveLabs ThirteenLabs

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 23, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down (01:47) - Scrap (2006) (03:10) - ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs (04:24) - Hister – A private, full content search index that you control (05:34) - Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones (06:53) - Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is (07:59) - typ.ing (08:59) - A Friendly Introduction to Racket (10:08) - New MCP Roadmap (11:36) - RF Cafe (12:52) - Outro Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgvyy4x2mvo https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49397074 Scrap (2006) https://twitter.com/moxie/status/2091218652133732491 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402189 ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs https://quantumi.sh/public/labs.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49400408 Hister – A private, full content search index that you control https://hister.org/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351802 Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones https://munderdiffl.in/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49398152 Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is https://forum.level1techs.com/t/why-your-local-llm-feels-dumber-than-it-is/253917 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402232 typ.ing https://typ.ing/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49346854 A Friendly Introduction to Racket https://geometridae.bearblog.dev/a-friendly-introduction-to-racket/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49399898 New MCP Roadmap https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/mcp-roadmap/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49399591 RF Cafe https://www.rfcafe.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355659

    • Chapters
  • #576
    August 22 · 14 min

    8.22.26 | Kagi adds setting for paywalled links, citizen faces felony charges for deleting phone data at US Border, Felony Bench

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 22, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results (01:35) - Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border (02:50) - Felony Bench (04:07) - I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases (05:58) - Kobo can run apps now (07:25) - I'm becoming AI-blind (09:02) - AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study (10:19) - There's no reason for software to be slow anymore (11:32) - Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article (12:58) - New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson (14:27) - Outro Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results https://kagi.com/changelog#11296 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388154 Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/samuel-tunick-deleted-phone-felony.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386895 Felony Bench https://www.felonybench.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49389430 I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387570 Kobo can run apps now https://bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49390427 I'm becoming AI-blind https://cymerys.com/w/im-becoming-ai-blind https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386699 AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/08/18/does-ai-stop-children-from-learning https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49357530 There's no reason for software to be slow anymore https://danluu.com/perf-opt/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395628 Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article https://github.com/adnanakil/nobuzz/blob/main/README.md https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388752 New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/08/16/new-worlds/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387525

    • Chapters
  • #575
    August 21 · 14 min

    8.21.26 | Aaron Swartz prosecution, AliExpress WebAudio fingerprinting, HTML capabilities

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 21, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence (01:41) - AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint (02:51) - HTML Can Do That (04:09) - I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers (05:43) - Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload (07:27) - The August 17 outage (08:47) - CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s (09:46) - Mojo is now open source (11:05) - Git at any scale (12:28) - Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI (13:59) - Outro Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence https://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-creator-of-rss-being-prosecuted-for-something-meta-is-doing-with-little-consequence/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379550 AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint https://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49372583 HTML Can Do That https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49362689 I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers https://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-thick https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49347543 Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload https://safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374269 The August 17 outage https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378957 CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s https://www.wsj.com/tech/steve-jobs-apple-next-cia-161b65f9?st=NWWds1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368886 Mojo is now open source https://www.modular.com/blog/mojo-open-source https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49348079 Git at any scale https://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49348141 Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI https://www.danielvaughn.dev/posts/huzzah/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378768

    • Chapters
  • #574
    August 20 · 13 min

    8.20.26 | A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare, OpenRouter is joining Stripe, Go 1.27

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 20, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare (01:34) - OpenRouter is joining Stripe (02:49) - Go 1.27 (04:21) - Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming (05:46) - Google replaced Git tags for certain source code with obtaining via Google Drive (07:01) - PostgreSQL for Everything (08:10) - Casio F-B100W-1A (09:43) - Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam (10:53) - Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs (12:26) - fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent. (13:37) - Outro A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2026/08/19/sondehub-and-war/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49360015 OpenRouter is joining Stripe https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/openrouter-is-joining-stripe/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49364559 Go 1.27 https://go.dev/blog/go1.27 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365405 Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming https://yassa9.github.io/osint/gralhix-004/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49360545 Google replaced Git tags for certain source code with obtaining via Google Drive https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117057099753905023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49364745 PostgreSQL for Everything https://www.raphaelbauer.com:443/posts/postgresql-everything/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49361279 Casio F-B100W-1A https://www.casio.com/uk/watches/casio/product.F-B100W-1A/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49362887 Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam https://theremin.bizibah.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49359425 Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs https://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/dynamic-3.0-ggufs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365443 fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent. https://fx.sh https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49353339

    • Chapters
  • #573
    August 19 · 13 min

    8.19.26 | Amazon tax, universal health coverage saves lives and money, memory prices spike

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 19, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:20) - The Amazon tax (01:36) - Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study (03:14) - Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months (04:31) - Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative (05:46) - Beware Management Consultants (06:49) - Being ambitious and being a dad (08:07) - Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation (09:51) - How does IKEA come up with names for its products? (11:11) - And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway (12:27) - OpenLogi (13:40) - Outro The Amazon tax https://seths.blog/2026/08/the-amazon-tax/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345263 Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/universal-health-coverage-could-save-one-trillion-dollars-and-114000-lives-every-year/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332981 Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/memory-prices-climb-500-percent-in-12-months-up-to-10x-the-lowest-ever-tracked-prices-128gb-of-ddr5-now-usd3-399 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334960 Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative https://cursor.com/changelog/origin-code-hosting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334209 Beware Management Consultants https://about.iceland.co.uk/our-story/the-dark-ages/beware-management-consultants/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351324 Being ambitious and being a dad https://nicholascharriere.com/blog/being-ambitious-and-being-a-dad/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321298 Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/BFI_WP_2026-108-1.pdf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355142 How does IKEA come up with names for its products? https://www.ikea.com/se/en/customer-service/knowledge/articles/6f564c4d-2ccc-46de-b643-545a3948dc79.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49349984 And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/and-then-the-men-with-guns-tell-you-to-do-it-anyway/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49348912 OpenLogi https://openlogi.org/en https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355606

    • Chapters
  • #572
    August 18 · 14 min

    8.18.26 | AI summaries, DuckDB v2.0 preview, alternatives to GitHub

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 18, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:16) - AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) (01:43) - A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 (03:27) - Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub (04:39) - Olo (Color) (05:48) - How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots (07:19) - AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira (08:58) - GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released (10:33) - GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% (11:41) - Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots (13:17) - How to disable or avoid intrusive AI (14:38) - Outro AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/aidr-ai-didnt-read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336573 A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 https://duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb-20-highlights https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330781 Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331033 Olo (Color) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olo_(color) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49270194 How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots https://timmarinin.net/2026/bluesky-screenshots/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338459 AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira https://www.wiz.io/blog/red-agent-snowflake-copilot-cicd-bug https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331423 GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released https://blog.roboflow.com/openai-gpt-5-6/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329575 GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5.6-sol https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337602 Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influence-chatgpt/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337392 How to disable or avoid intrusive AI https://www.librarian.net/notoai/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331220

    • Chapters
  • #571
    August 17 · 14 min

    8.17.26 | Firefox for iOS adblocker, Claude system prompts, third world engineer on RISC-V

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 17, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:15) - Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker (01:21) - Claude: System Prompts (03:05) - A third world engineer responds to ”RISC-V: They should have known better“ (04:39) - Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers (05:56) - Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+ (07:26) - Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things (09:11) - The AI Credit Resale Economy (10:28) - The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding (11:53) - St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core (13:07) - Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee (14:12) - Outro Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319633 Claude: System Prompts https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-prompts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319556 A third world engineer responds to ”RISC-V: They should have known better“ https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321717 Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322107 Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+ https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/16/stripe-will-reportedly-acquire-ai-gateway-startup-openrouter-for-7b/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323381 Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324985 The AI Credit Resale Economy https://vectoral.com/blog/who-are-the-token-brokers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320611 The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding https://www.highereddive.com/news/inside-the-federal-keyword-lists-that-canceled-billions-in-research-funding/826203/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325159 St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core https://www.wptv.com/news/treasure-coast/region-st-lucie-county/saint-lucie-nuclear-power-plant-unit-1-manually-shut-down-after-3-control-rods-drop-into-reactor-core https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320856 Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-scales-back-250-billion-openai-data-center-guarantee-wsj-reports-2026-08-14/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323686

    • Chapters
  • #570
    August 16 · 12 min

    8.16.26 | AI's larger working memory, Semaglutide's potential to lower dementia risk, RISC-V's oversight issues

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 16, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain (01:42) - Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk (02:53) - RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better (04:08) - Asus Bike Booster (05:12) - At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis (06:22) - Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI (07:22) - A spectre is haunting Unicode (08:42) - Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter (09:57) - Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023) (11:13) - AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward (12:24) - Outro AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain https://davidepiffer.com/p/ai-isnt-outthinking-mathematicians https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312845 Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dad2.70432 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49311651 RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better https://dmitry.gr/?r=06.%20Thoughts&proj=12.%20RV https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298035 Asus Bike Booster https://www.asus.com/accessories/bike-booster/asus-oxiis/oxiis-intelligent-bike-booster/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49268580 At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/the-first-at-home-test-for-infected-ticks-could-improve-lyme-disease-diagnosis-180989235/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310682 Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI https://www.acc.org/about-acc/press-releases/2026/08/11/14/59/abdominal-fat-predicts-heart-disease-risk-better-than-bmi https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314403 A spectre is haunting Unicode https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310926 Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-range-2/super-el-nino-growth-accelerating-to-record-strength-fall-winter-2026-2027-forecast-impact-united-states-canada-europe-fa/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313428 Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023) https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/good-ideas https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314235 AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/so-how-ai-drug-discovery-doing-really https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313367

    • Chapters
  • #569
    August 15 · 13 min

    8.15.26 | Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities, Qwen 3.8 27B, Opus 5 usability issues

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 15, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities (01:48) - Qwen 3.8 27B (02:59) - Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with? (04:31) - Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin (05:50) - Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption (07:12) - Seven books I keep close because I love them (08:36) - Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking (10:08) - AI by Hand (11:05) - RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland (12:18) - Introducing Toast 1 (13:23) - Outro GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294997 Qwen 3.8 27B https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299605 Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with? https://mun-logadan.github.io/why-does-opus-5-feel-worse/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296740 Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin https://www.pcworld.com/article/3212428/firefox-is-now-the-last-major-browser-that-still-supports-ublock-origin.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303202 Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption https://blog.google/security/how-google-is-making-private-ai-practical-with-homomorphic-encryption/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300314 Seven books I keep close because I love them https://blog.plover.com/2026/08/02/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299675 Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/everything-is-about-to-go-dark/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304447 AI by Hand https://www.byhand.ai/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300568 RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland https://rustdesk.com/blog/unattended-remote-access-wayland/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300759 Introducing Toast 1 https://www.mixedbread.com/blog/toast-1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299746

    • Chapters
  • #568
    August 14 · 13 min

    8.14.26 | Gemini 3.7 Flash, DeepSeek Harness developer preview, Spaghettifying DRAM

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 14, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Gemini 3.7 Flash (01:47) - DeepSeek Harness developer preview (03:11) - Spaghettifying DRAM (04:25) - Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast (05:50) - Choose Boring Technology (2015) (07:09) - Mistral OCR 4.1 (08:09) - Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data (09:38) - Understanding is the new bottleneck (10:40) - Ordinary Abundance (11:45) - Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory (13:05) - Outro Gemini 3.7 Flash https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-3-7-flash/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289112 DeepSeek Harness developer preview https://deepseek.com/harness/en/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285244 Spaghettifying DRAM https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/skitter-creek-bath-salts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286341 Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/accelerating-gpt-5-6-sol-ultrafast-with-openai https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289844 Choose Boring Technology (2015) https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289512 Mistral OCR 4.1 https://docs.mistral.ai/models/ocr-4-1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49288889 Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data https://current.org/2026/08/nine-pbs-sues-iron-mountain-over-blocked-access-to-archival-data/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285418 Understanding is the new bottleneck https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2026/07/02/understanding-is-the-new-bottleneck https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49290299 Ordinary Abundance https://ordinaryabundance.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285770 Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory https://donkeybas.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289465

    • Chapters
  • #567
    August 13 · 13 min

    8.13.26 | Tracked 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813, Qwen3.8-2.4T

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 13, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:21) - We tracked down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug (01:47) - DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (03:07) - Qwen3.8-2.4T (04:26) - Delta (05:50) - Grok 4.6 (07:17) - 2026 Eclipse Webcams (08:15) - uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook (09:29) - Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome (10:48) - Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot (12:30) - Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died (13:33) - Outro We tracked down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug https://tailscale.com/blog/sqlite-wal-reset-bug https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272832 DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274600 Qwen3.8-2.4T https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273478 Delta https://zed.dev/blog/introducing-delta https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49276574 Grok 4.6 https://x.ai/news/grok-4-6 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274027 2026 Eclipse Webcams https://jonty.github.io/2026_eclipse_webcams/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49270953 uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook https://digitalescapetools.com/2026/08/ublock-origin-stops-chasing-facebook-ads.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49270726 Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome https://guillaumetech.github.io/posts/jpg-scaling-chrome/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272549 Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot https://knownagents.com/insights https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272569 Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-08-00070-EN.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272655

    • Chapters
  • #566
    August 12 · 13 min

    8.12.26 | Stealing reasoning traces from proprietary LLM APIs, England aims to eliminate hepatitis C, compression is prediction

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 12, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs (01:43) - England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C (03:02) - Compression is prediction (04:16) - OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining (05:26) - Mojo 1.0 (06:42) - Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering (07:59) - London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces (09:24) - Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo (10:40) - Grok Bot (11:57) - Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard (13:15) - Outro Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs https://stolen-thoughts.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257876 England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75gk620r22o https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257377 Compression is prediction https://ngrok.com/blog/compression-is-prediction https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263497 OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining https://www.ft.com/content/e49dfb75-f841-4466-a577-f7aaff8779a0 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257160 Mojo 1.0 https://www.modular.com/blog/modular-26-5-mojo-1-0-is-here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261128 Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering https://developers.googleblog.com/why-go-is-an-ideal-language-for-ai-assisted-software-engineering/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261133 London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces https://www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/news/england/btp-expands-live-facial-recognition-lfr-trial-into-london-underground-stations/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255496 Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo https://photosynthesis.camera https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226623 Grok Bot https://x.ai/bot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261514 Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nemotron-lightning-switchyard-rtx-dgx/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263340

    • Chapters
  • #565
    August 11 · 13 min

    8.11.26 | Muse Glimmer optimized for local agent workflows, Mark Zuckerberg criticizes closed AI rivals as Meta reverts to open models, Sonic Pi v5

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 11, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows (01:57) - Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models (03:20) - Sonic Pi v5 (04:16) - Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots (05:41) - Squeak 6.1 (07:00) - Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead (08:02) - Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes (09:37) - Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb (11:06) - H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon (12:24) - Rust SIMD on the GPU (13:52) - Outro Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-glimmer-open-agentic-model https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49241679 Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models https://www.ft.com/content/4e3957f8-ea7c-4c46-a3de-cdce8e526878 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49243880 Sonic Pi v5 https://www.patreon.com/samaaron/posts/sonic-pi-v5-166001392 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208296 Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots https://cactuscompute.com/needle https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246804 Squeak 6.1 https://squeak.org/release_notes/6.1/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49242653 Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead https://stowaway.live/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209918 Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes https://ethw.org/Milestones:Parametron,_1954 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49241846 Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb https://kuber.studio/blog/Reflections/Humanising-LLM-Outputs-is-Actually-Dumb https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49243474 H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon https://github.com/antirez/h3.c https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252179 Rust SIMD on the GPU https://www.vectorware.com/blog/simd-on-gpu/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247477

    • Chapters
  • #564
    August 10 · 13 min

    8.10.26 | Learning with LLMs, Windows 11 Weather app RAM usage, Recording of activities

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 10, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - How I use LLMs to learn complex topics (01:33) - Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM (03:14) - Everything you do is being recorded (04:35) - Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's (05:59) - Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) (07:02) - Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) (08:22) - What Happened to HackerOne? (09:35) - Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code (10:49) - Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 (11:57) - OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment (13:02) - Outro How I use LLMs to learn complex topics https://laurentiugabriel.github.io/blog/articles/how-i-use-llms-to-learn/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234675 Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-s-built-in-Weather-app-wastes-more-than-1-GB-of-RAM.1364205.0.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232138 Everything you do is being recorded https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-wearable-surveillance-countermeasures/687203/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230477 Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spatial-reasoning-protect-your-brain-286650 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232253 Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233423 Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231809 What Happened to HackerOne? https://blog.teknogeek.io/posts/what-happened-to-hackerone/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238561 Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code https://claude.com/blog/auto-mode-default-in-claude-code https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49239021 Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 https://oskrim.github.io/hardware/2026/08/09/remarkable-over-ssh.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230514 OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment https://openchamber.dev/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233448

    • Chapters
  • #563
    August 9 · 13 min

    8.9.26 | Code not the hard part, for-sale DNS records, Fastmail EU data region

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 9, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:22) - “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (01:35) - _for-sale DNS records (02:57) - Fastmail offers EU data region (04:16) - Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength (05:18) - My server is a phone now (06:29) - Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding (07:46) - Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (09:07) - Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled (10:41) - Dithered QR Codes (11:51) - Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (13:00) - Outro “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222189 _for-sale DNS records https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221668 Fastmail offers EU data region https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223082 Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength https://twitter.com/un1c0rnioz/status/2084686552299634805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49215786 My server is a phone now https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226636 Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/heuristics/differential.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49079995 Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU https://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221711 Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226536 Dithered QR Codes https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226742 Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse https://eclipsefan.org/?v=2&t=max&layers=eclipse%2Cbesselian%2Cumbra-live%2Cshadow-3d%2Ccloud-projection%2Cosm&lat=43.4623&lon=-3.8099&opacity=besselian%3A0.2%2Cumbra-live%3A0.2&zoom=6&palier=minute https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49225139

    • Chapters
Showing 1–20 of 36 episodes