This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 15, 2025. What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes? https://www.seangoedecke.com/model-on-a-mbp/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44875848 Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3-270m/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44902148 Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...
Aug 15, 2025•13 min•Ep. 203
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 14, 2025. FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/13ce36fef98a3f4e6d8360c24d6b8434cbb8869b https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44886647 Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol https://blog.nginx.org/blog/native-support-for-acme-protocol https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44889941 PYX: The next step in Python packaging https://astral.sh/blog/introducing-pyx https://news.ycombinator.com/item...
Aug 14, 2025•13 min•Ep. 202
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 13, 2025. Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context https://www.anthropic.com/news/1m-context https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44878147 Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings https://blog.wilsonl.in/search-engine/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44878151 Search all text in New York City https://www.alltext.nyc/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44883304 Training language models to ...
Aug 13, 2025•12 min•Ep. 201
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 12, 2025. GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44865560 I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file https://www.al3rez.com/todo-txt-journey https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864134 Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act https://www.bbc.com/news/...
Aug 12, 2025•12 min•Ep. 200
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 11, 2025. Fight Chat Control https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44856426 How I code with AI on a budget/free https://wuu73.org/blog/aiguide1.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44850913 Try and https://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/try-and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44855079 GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2 https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/from-gpt-2-to-gp...
Aug 11, 2025•12 min•Ep. 199
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 9, 2025. Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation https://github.com/Nicholas-L-Johnson/flip-card https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44835879 I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace https://instavm.io/blog/building-my-offline-ai-workspace https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44840013 Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/acting-nasa-administrator-reflects-on-legacy-of-astro...
Aug 09, 2025•12 min•Ep. 198
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 8, 2025. GPT-5 https://openai.com/gpt-5/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44826997 Vibechart https://www.vibechart.net/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44830684 GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/7/gpt-5/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44827794 GPT-5 for Developers https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-for-developers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44827101 Histo...
Aug 08, 2025•11 min•Ep. 197
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 7, 2025. Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs https://github.com/manzaltu/claude-code-ide.el https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44811567 We replaced passwords with something worse https://blog.danielh.cc/blog/passwords https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44819917 Automerge 3.0 https://automerge.org/blog/automerge-3/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44777086 Jules, our asynchronous coding agent https://blog.google/technology/google...
Aug 07, 2025•13 min•Ep. 196
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 6, 2025. Open models by OpenAI https://openai.com/open-models/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44800746 Genie 3: A new frontier for world models https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/genie-3-a-new-frontier-for-world-models/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44798166 uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari https://apps.apple.com/app/ublock-origin-lite/id6745342698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44795825 Things that helped...
Aug 06, 2025•12 min•Ep. 195
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 5, 2025. Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44785636 Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display https://benholmen.com/blog/kilopixel/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44787902 Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rende...
Aug 05, 2025•12 min•Ep. 194
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 4, 2025. If you're remote, ramble https://stephango.com/ramblings https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44775563 Modern Node.js Patterns https://kashw1n.com/blog/nodejs-2025/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44778936 Writing a good design document https://grantslatton.com/how-to-design-document https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44779428 Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models https://www.anthr...
Aug 04, 2025•12 min•Ep. 193
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 3, 2025. Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/27539-helsinki-records-zero-traffic-deaths-for-full-year.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44736025 Telo MT1 https://www.telotrucks.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44769039 We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/21/ai-is-about-to-solve-loneline...
Aug 03, 2025•12 min•Ep. 192
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 2, 2025. Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others https://drawafish.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44719222 At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery https://www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah-cairo-solved-a-major-math-mystery-20250801/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44759152 Cerebras Code https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/introducing-cerebras-code https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44762959 Our Farewell ...
Aug 02, 2025•12 min•Ep. 191
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 1, 2025. Slow https://michaelnotebook.com/slow/index.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44748934 Face it: you're a crazy person https://www.experimental-history.com/p/face-it-youre-a-crazy-person https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44710651 How was the Universal Pictures 1936 opening logo created? https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/128020/how-was-the-universal-pictures-1936-opening-logo-created https://news.ycombinator.com...
Aug 01, 2025•12 min•Ep. 190
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 31, 2025. Fast https://www.catherinejue.com/fast https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44736967 Our $100M Series B https://oxide.computer/blog/our-100m-series-b https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44733817 Vibe code is legacy code https://blog.val.town/vibe-code https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44739556 Ollama's new app https://ollama.com/blog/new-app https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44739632 Australia widens teen social media ban...
Jul 31, 2025•12 min•Ep. 189
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 30, 2025. Study mode https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-study-mode/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44725764 M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000qw60/executive https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44729865 My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air) https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/29/space-invaders/ https://news.ycombin...
Jul 30, 2025•12 min•Ep. 188
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 29, 2025. Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server https://github.com/9001/copyparty https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44711519 Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act https://use-their-id.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44716106 Claude Code weekly rate limits https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44713757 Tao on “blue team” vs. “red team” LLMs https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/114915...
Jul 29, 2025•12 min•Ep. 187
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 28, 2025. Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork https://github.com/segmentationf4u1t/trae_telemetry_research https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44703164 Dumb Pipe https://www.dumbpipe.dev/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44701555 EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/s/YxmPgFes8a https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44705240 Tom L...
Jul 28, 2025•12 min•Ep. 186
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 27, 2025. Rust running on every GPU https://rust-gpu.github.io/blog/2025/07/25/rust-on-every-gpu/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44692876 How we rooted Copilot https://research.eye.security/how-we-rooted-copilot/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44695098 Purple Earth hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Earth_hypothesis https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44665644 The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank...
Jul 27, 2025•12 min•Ep. 185
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 26, 2025. Do not download the app, use the website https://idiallo.com/blog/dont-download-apps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44689059 Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope https://www.wired.com/story/steam-itchio-are-pulling-porn-games-censorship/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44685011 It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/its-time-for-modern-css...
Jul 26, 2025•13 min•Ep. 184
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 25, 2025. Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1030004/898017c7953c0946/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44676691 There is no memory safety without thread safety https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2025/07/24/memory-safety.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44672003 AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-23/amd-ceo-su-sees-chips...
Jul 25, 2025•13 min•Ep. 183
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 24, 2025. CARA – High precision robot dog using rope https://www.aaedmusa.com/projects/cara https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44661846 Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right https://trytender.app/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44664873 Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom https://www.androidauthority.com/why-i-use-grapheneos-on-pixel-3575477/ https://n...
Jul 24, 2025•12 min•Ep. 182
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 23, 2025. Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen3-coder/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44653072 Don't animate height https://www.granola.ai/blog/dont-animate-height https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44619206 TODOs aren't for doing https://sophiebits.com/2025/07/21/todos-arent-for-doing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44646801 More than you wanted to know about how Game Boy cartridges wor...
Jul 23, 2025•12 min•Ep. 181
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 22, 2025. Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/20/microsoft-sharepoint-hack/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44629710 TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale https://github.com/KrishKrosh/TrackWeight https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44635808 AccountingBench: Evaluating LLMs on real long-horizon business task...
Jul 22, 2025•13 min•Ep. 180
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 21, 2025. XMLUI https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/07/18/introducing-xmlui/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44625292 Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update https://antirez.com/news/154 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44623953 New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes https://dynomight.net/colors/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44594808 FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly co...
Jul 21, 2025•13 min•Ep. 179
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 20, 2025. Nobody knows how to build with AI yet https://worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/nobody-knows-how-to-build-with-ai https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44616479 Death by AI https://davebarry.substack.com/p/death-by-ai https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44615801 Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-cashes-techno-authoritarianism-and-mass-sur...
Jul 20, 2025•12 min•Ep. 178
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 19, 2025. Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/valve-confirms-credit-card-companies-pressured-it-to-delist-certain-adult-games-from-steam/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44606184 AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics https://paulkedrosky.com/honey-ai-capex-ate-the-economy/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44609130 My Self-H...
Jul 19, 2025•13 min•Ep. 177
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 17, 2025. Altermagnets: The first new type of magnet in nearly a century https://www.newscientist.com/article/2487013-weve-discovered-a-new-kind-of-magnetism-what-can-we-do-with-it/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583171 Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/ex-waymo-engineers-launch-bedrock-robotics-with-80m-to-automate-construction/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...
Jul 17, 2025•12 min•Ep. 176
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 16, 2025. Reflections on OpenAI https://calv.info/openai-reflections https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44573195 Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL https://www.matthieulc.com/posts/shoggoth-mini https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44572377 To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head https://the-nerve-blog.ghost.io/to-be-a-better-programmer-write-little-proofs-in-your-head/ https://ne...
Jul 16, 2025•12 min•Ep. 175
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 15, 2025. Kiro: A new agentic IDE https://kiro.dev/blog/introducing-kiro/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44560662 LLM Inevitabilism https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44567857 Happy 20th Birthday, Django https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/jul/13/happy-20th-birthday-django/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44552500 Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf https://cognition.a...
Jul 15, 2025•13 min•Ep. 174
