This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 14, 2025. OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-asks-white-house-relief-100000706.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43352531 The Lost Art of Logarithms https://www.lostartoflogarithms.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43356314 "Normal" engineers are the key to great teams https://spectrum.ieee.org/10x-engineer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43356995 IO Devices an...
Mar 14, 2025•12 min•Ep. 52
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 13, 2025. Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43347662 Gemini Robotics https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gemini-robotics-brings-ai-into-the-physical-world/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43344082 The DuckDB Local UI https://duckdb.org/2025/03/12/duckdb-ui.htm...
Mar 13, 2025•11 min•Ep. 51
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 12, 2025. A 10x Faster TypeScript https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-port/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332830 Happy 20th Birthday, Y Combinator https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1899092996702048709 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332658 Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories https://jackhopkins.github.io/factorio-learning-environment/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...
Mar 12, 2025•11 min•Ep. 50
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 11, 2025. Canon EF and RF Lenses – All Autofocus Motors https://exclusivearchitecture.com/03-technical-articles-CLT-12-autofocus-systems.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43320230 Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/music-labels-will-regret-coming-for-the-internet-archive-sound-historian-says/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322245 Trees ...
Mar 11, 2025•11 min•Ep. 49
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 10, 2025. It is as if you were on your phone https://pippinbarr.com/it-is-as-if-you-were-on-your-phone/info/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43308994 Tesla created secret team to suppress driving range complaints (2023) https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43314781 I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days https://twitter.com/Steve_Yegge/status/18986742...
Mar 10, 2025•12 min•Ep. 48
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 9, 2025. AI tools are spotting errors in research papers https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00648-5 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43295692 Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/volkswagen-reintroducing-physical-controls-vital-functions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43298271 The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome https://www.wired.com/story/th...
Mar 09, 2025•12 min•Ep. 47
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 8, 2025. Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/first-porn-now-skin-cream-age-verification-bills-are-out-control https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292820 Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI https://techstartups.com/2025/03/07/microsoft-is-plotting-a-future-without-openai/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292946 Introducing command And commandfor In HTML https://develope...
Mar 08, 2025•13 min•Ep. 46
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 7, 2025. Mistral OCR https://mistral.ai/fr/news/mistral-ocr https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43282905 Succinct Data Structures https://blog.startifact.com/posts/succinct/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43282995 Anime fans stumbled upon a mathematical proof https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-surprisingly-difficult-mathematical-proof-that-anime-fans-helped-solve/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43282133 Show HN: C...
Mar 07, 2025•12 min•Ep. 45
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 6, 2025. Apple M3 Ultra https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/03/apple-reveals-m3-ultra-taking-apple-silicon-to-a-new-extreme/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43266453 Tailscale is pretty useful https://blog.6nok.org/tailscale-is-pretty-useful/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43270835 MacBook Air M4 https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43266537 Apple takes UK to court over 'backdoor' order https:...
Mar 06, 2025•12 min•Ep. 44
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 5, 2025. Show HN: Bayleaf – Building a low-profile wireless split keyboard https://www.graz.io/articles/bayleaf-wireless-keyboard https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43255529 Why fastDOOM is fast https://fabiensanglard.net/fastdoom/index.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43258709 Mox – modern, secure, all-in-one email server https://www.xmox.nl/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43261729 ARC-AGI without pretraining https://ili...
Mar 05, 2025•12 min•Ep. 43
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 4, 2025. Apple's Software Quality Crisis https://www.eliseomartelli.it/blog/2025-03-02-apple-quality https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243075 Repairable Flatpack Toaster https://www.kaseyhou.com/#/repairable-flatpack-toaster/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43246892 The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils (2022) https://notes.stlartsupply.com/the-golden-age-of-japanese-pencils-1952-1967/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243716 ...
Mar 04, 2025•12 min•Ep. 42
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 3, 2025. Blender-made movie Flow takes Oscar https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/flow-wins-best-animated-feature-film-oscar-2025-03-03/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43237273 Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon https://www.cnn.com/science/live-news/moon-landing-blue-ghost-03-02-25/index.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43228816 Solarpunk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarpunk https://news.ycombinator....
Mar 03, 2025•12 min•Ep. 41
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 2, 2025. The most unhinged video wall, made out of Chromebooks https://varun.ch/posts/videowall/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43221697 Why it's so hard to build a jet engine https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-its-so-hard-to-build-a-jet-engine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43212952 Making o1, o3, and Sonnet 3.7 hallucinate for everyone https://bengarcia.dev/making-o1-o3-and-sonnet-3-7-hallucinate-for-everyone https:/...
Mar 02, 2025•12 min•Ep. 40
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 1, 2025. Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c625ex282zzt https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43208973 How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps https://kibty.town/blog/todesktop/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43210858 400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure https://azsh.it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43210536 Violence alters human genes for gene...
Mar 01, 2025•11 min•Ep. 39
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 28, 2025. GPT-4.5 https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-4-5/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43197872 EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43197131 Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200604 Mozilla owns "informatio...
Feb 28, 2025•12 min•Ep. 38
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 27, 2025. TypeScript types can run DOOM [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mCsluv5FXA https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43184291 Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43186406 The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18394 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43182325 Show HN: Breakout with a roguelite/vampire surv...
Feb 27, 2025•12 min•Ep. 37
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 26, 2025. I Went to SQL Injection Court https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2025/02/09/fixing-illinois-foia/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43175628 Hyperspace https://hypercritical.co/2025/02/25/hyperspace https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43173462 Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/framework-known-for-upgradable-laptops-intros-not-particularly-upgradable-desktop/...
Feb 26, 2025•12 min•Ep. 36
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 25, 2025. Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-7-sonnet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43163011 Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass https://touchgrass.now/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43158660 Breaking into apartment buildings in five minutes on my phone https://www.ericdaigle.ca/posts/breaking-into-dozens-of-apartments-in-five-minutes/ https://news.ycombin...
Feb 25, 2025•12 min•Ep. 35
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 24, 2025. But good sir, what is electricity? https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/but-good-sir-what-is-electricity https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43148438 Vietnamese Graphic Design https://vietgd.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43149266 WhiteSur: macOS-like theme for GTK desktops https://github.com/vinceliuice/WhiteSur-gtk-theme https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43151294 DeepSeek Open Source FlashMLA – MLA Decoding Kernel for...
Feb 24, 2025•12 min•Ep. 34
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 23, 2025. DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/upshot/doge-musk-trump-errors.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43138238 FFmpeg School of Assembly Language https://github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lessons/blob/main/lesson_01/index.md https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43140614 'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/feb/22...
Feb 23, 2025•13 min•Ep. 33
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 22, 2025. Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43128253 I found a backdoor into my bed https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/removing-jeff-bezos-from-my-bed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43129439 Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life https://johnnydecimal.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43128093 20 years wo...
Feb 22, 2025•13 min•Ep. 32
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 21, 2025. Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco https://vincentwoo.com/3d/sutro_tower/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43120582 Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us" https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/2025021954-flaccid-pucker-f7d9@gregkh/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43101204 DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days https://github.com/deepseek-ai/o...
Feb 21, 2025•12 min•Ep. 31
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 20, 2025. When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines https://jazco.dev/2025/02/19/imperfection/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43105028 Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/broken-legs-and-ankles-heal-better-if-you-walk-on-them-within-weeks/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43101383 Show HN: Mastra – Open-source JS agent framework, by the d...
Feb 20, 2025•12 min•Ep. 30
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 19, 2025. Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code https://github.com/ValveSoftware/source-sdk-2013/commit/0759e2e8e179d5352d81d0d4aaded72c1704b7a9 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43094260 Pi-hole v6 https://pi-hole.net/blog/2025/02/18/introducing-pi-hole-v6/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093328 A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate https://www.bitecode.dev/p/a-year-of-uv-pros-cons-and-should https://news.ycombinator.c...
Feb 19, 2025•12 min•Ep. 29
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 18, 2025. You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023) https://www.infobip.com/developers/blog/seniors-working-on-a-legacy-project https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43047341 I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs https://nyanpasu64.gitlab.io/blog/amdgpu-sleep-wake-hang/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43071983 Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport https://www.cbc.ca...
Feb 18, 2025•12 min•Ep. 28
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 17, 2025. “A calculator app? Anyone could make that” https://chadnauseam.com/coding/random/calculator-app https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43066953 Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has died https://www.eurogamer.net/half-life-2-and-dishonored-art-lead-viktor-antonov-dies-aged-just-52 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43069514 All Kindles can now be jailbroken https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/WinterBreak/ htt...
Feb 17, 2025•11 min•Ep. 27
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 16, 2025. My Life in Weeks https://weeks.ginatrapani.org/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43061498 Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-carbon-capture-renewables.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43058997 Jane Street's Figgie card game https://www.figgie.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43057344 Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System https://j...
Feb 16, 2025•12 min•Ep. 26
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 15, 2025. Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43045835 We were wrong about GPUs https://fly.io/blog/wrong-about-gpu/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053844 AI is stifling new tech adoption? https://vale.rocks/posts/ai-is-stifling-tech-adoption https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43047792 The hardest working f...
Feb 15, 2025•12 min•Ep. 25
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 14, 2025. Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43040521 LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/libreoffice_wasm_zetaoffice/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43038200 Phind 2: AI search with visual answers and multi-step reasoning https://www.phind.com/blog/phind-2 https://new...
Feb 14, 2025•12 min•Ep. 24
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 13, 2025. Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k https://brutecat.com/articles/leaking-youtube-emails https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43024221 Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji https://paulbutler.org/2025/smuggling-arbitrary-data-through-an-emoji/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43023508 US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/02/us-and-uk-refuse-to-sign-ai-safety-...
Feb 13, 2025•12 min•Ep. 23
