Daily Podcast – 2026-11-10
Welcome to the daily technology briefing for November tenth, twenty twenty six. I'm your host, and today we have a packed lineup covering hardware security, AI model releases, privacy controversies, semiconductor milestones, algorithmic advances, and a few surprising side projects. Let's dive in. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:20 I deleted all my SSH keys 1:54 Horible public key tricks 3:18 A primer on GPUs and kernel optimization 4:24 The first 300-millimeter power silicon carbide (SiC) wafer 6:01 E-means: Outperforming k-means in one-tenth the epochs 7:37 Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 8:15 Claude Fable 5.2 scores 65 on Artificial Analysis, highest so far 10:25 Fable 5.2 one-shotted my nephew's dream game 12:37 Google Gemini routes personal Drive files and emails to human annotators 15:08 AlphaProof Code 16:50 Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider 19:05 AI usage generates a fragile codebase 20:22 Smart home devices should work without the internet 22:31 Val Town is winding down 24:24 Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives 26:57 Synaptics patent claims stop work on DisplayLink drivers 28:52 Locating the source of a mysterious beep 30:44 Your TV can see through walls (2025) 32:33 Outro