This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 14, 2025. The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1922100771392520710 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971464 Multiple security issues in GNU Screen https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971716 Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting branch predictor race conditions https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/m...
May 14, 2025•13 min•Ep. 113
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 13, 2025. The Barbican https://arslan.io/2025/05/12/barbican-estate/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43964136 Firefox moves to GitHub https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43969827 A community-led fork of Organic Maps https://www.comaps.app/news/2025-05-12/3/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43961908 Can you trust that permission pop-up on macOS? https://wts.dev/posts/tcc-who/ https://new...
May 13, 2025•12 min•Ep. 112
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 12, 2025. Plain Vanilla Web https://plainvanillaweb.com/index.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43954896 One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software https://mrbruh.com/asusdriverhub/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43951588 A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math rules https://tixy.land https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43942881 Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war https://insideevs.com/feature...
May 12, 2025•12 min•Ep. 111
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 10, 2025. ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC https://www.home.cern/news/news/physics/alice-detects-conversion-lead-gold-lhc https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43937214 Sofie: open-source web based system for automating live TV news production https://nrkno.github.io/sofie-core/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43936408 Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools https://theorthagonist.substack.com/p/...
May 10, 2025•11 min•Ep. 110
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 9, 2025. From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you." https://blog.hayman.net/2025/05/06/from-steve-jobs-great-idea.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43929724 Void: Open-source Cursor alternative https://github.com/voideditor/void https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43927926 First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/new-pope-conclave-day-two-05-08-25 https://news.ycombinator.c...
May 09, 2025•12 min•Ep. 109
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 8, 2025. Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server https://github.com/astral-sh/ty https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43918484 Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O https://pganalyze.com/blog/postgres-18-async-io https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43916577 Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem https://mistral.ai/news/le-chat-enterprise https://news.ycombinator.co...
May 08, 2025•12 min•Ep. 108
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 7, 2025. Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs https://felixrieseberg.github.io/clippy/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905942 Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-2-5-pro-io-improved-coding-performance/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43906018 OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-06/openai-reaches-agreement-to-buy-startup-windsurf-for-...
May 07, 2025•12 min•Ep. 107
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 6, 2025. Evolving OpenAI's Structure https://openai.com/index/evolving-our-structure/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43897772 The vocal effects of Daft Punk https://bjango.com/articles/daftpunkvocaleffects/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43893601 Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency https://github.com/KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43899028 I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt...
May 06, 2025•12 min•Ep. 106
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 5, 2025. I'd rather read the prompt https://claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888803 Design for 3D-Printing https://blog.rahix.de/design-for-3d-printing/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888117 An Alabama landline that keeps ringing https://oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/the-alabama-landline-that-keeps-ringing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43886243 Why Archers Didn't Volley Fire https://acoup.b...
May 05, 2025•12 min•Ep. 105
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 4, 2025. Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor https://breezepdf.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43880962 We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails https://hardcover.app/blog/part-1-how-we-fell-out-of-love-with-next-js-and-back-in-love-with-ruby-on-rails-inertia-js https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43881035 Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/...
May 04, 2025•12 min•Ep. 104
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 3, 2025. Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics https://anukari.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43873074 Old Soviet Venus descent craft nearing Earth reentry https://www.leonarddavid.com/old-soviet-venus-descent-craft-nearing-earth-reentry/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43873531 The language brain matters more for programming than the math brain? (2020) https://massivesci.com/articles/programming-math-language-...
May 03, 2025•12 min•Ep. 103
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 2, 2025. Redis is open source again https://antirez.com/news/151 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43859446 Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/judge-rules-apple-executive-lied https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43856795 Claude Integrations https://www.anthropic.com/news/integrations https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43859536 Third party cookies must be r...
May 02, 2025•13 min•Ep. 102
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 1, 2025. Someone at YouTube needs glasses https://jayd.ml/2025/04/30/someone-at-youtube-needs-glasses.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43846487 Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-violated-antitrust-ruling-federal-judge-finds-66b85957 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43852145 I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors https://habr.com/en/articles/905812...
May 01, 2025•12 min•Ep. 101
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 30, 2025. I use zip bombs to protect my server https://idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43826798 Firefox tab groups are here https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/tab-groups-community/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43834101 Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule https://fuelarc.com/cars/only-tesla-exempt-from-new-auto-tariffs-thanks-to-85-domestic-content-r...
Apr 30, 2025•12 min•Ep. 100
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 29, 2025. Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8xrvd9t https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43819791 Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python https://www.runpyxl.com/gpio https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43820228 Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen3/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43825900 Migrating away from Rust https://deadmoney.gg/news/a...
Apr 29, 2025•12 min•Ep. 99
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 28, 2025. Internet in a Box https://internet-in-a-box.org/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43814433 How a single line of code could brick your iPhone https://rambo.codes/posts/2025-04-24-how-a-single-line-of-code-could-brick-your-iphone https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43814360 Business co-founders in tech startups are less valuable than they think https://verdikapuku.com/posts/business-founders-are-less-valuable-than-they-think/...
Apr 28, 2025•13 min•Ep. 97
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 27, 2025. Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/o3-photo-locations/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43803243 An end to all this prostate trouble? https://yarchive.net/blog/prostate/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43801906 Cloth https://www.cloudofoz.com/verlet-test/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43801179 Show HN: My self-written hobby OS is final...
Apr 27, 2025•12 min•Ep. 96
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 26, 2025. A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen https://www.theverge.com/electric-cars/655527/slate-electric-truck-price-paint-radio-bezos https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43794284 Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/25/wikipedia-nonprofit-ed-martin-letter/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43799302 Writing "/etc/hosts" br...
Apr 26, 2025•12 min•Ep. 95
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 25, 2025. I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) https://code.mendhak.com/gpl-v2-address-letter/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43781888 OpenAI releases image generation in the API https://openai.com/index/image-generation-api/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43786506 Instant SQL for results as you type in DuckDB UI https://motherduck.com/blog/introducing-instant-sql/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4378...
Apr 25, 2025•12 min•Ep. 94
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 24, 2025. How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2 https://cookieplmonster.github.io/2025/04/23/gta-san-andreas-win11-24h2-bug/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43772311 You wouldn't steal a font https://fedi.rib.gay/notes/a6xqityngfubsz0f https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43775926 DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/doge-workers-code-supports-nlrb-whistlebl...
Apr 24, 2025•13 min•Ep. 93
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 23, 2025. Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run https://blog.atuin.sh/atuin-desktop-runbooks-that-run/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766200 Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS (Homebrew replacement) https://github.com/alexykn/sapphire https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43765011 ClickHouse gets lazier and faster: Introducing lazy materialization https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-gets-lazier-and-faster-introducing-lazy...
Apr 23, 2025•12 min•Ep. 92
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 22, 2025. Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue https://github.com/nari-labs/dia https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43754124 Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43754953 Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move https://www.servethehome.com/synology-lost-the-plot-with-hard-dri...
Apr 22, 2025•13 min•Ep. 91
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 21, 2025. Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemma-3-quantized-aware-trained-state-of-the-art-ai-to-consumer-gpus/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43743337 Things Zig comptime won't do https://matklad.github.io/2025/04/19/things-zig-comptime-wont-do.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43744591 The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users' Emotional State https://w...
Apr 21, 2025•13 min•Ep. 90
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 20, 2025. Librarians are dangerous https://bradmontague.substack.com/p/librarians-are-dangerous https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43736791 Raspberry Pi Lidar Scanner https://github.com/PiLiDAR/PiLiDAR https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43738561 Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-best-practices https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43735550 Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons a...
Apr 20, 2025•12 min•Ep. 89
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 19, 2025. Show HN: I made a Doom-like game fit inside a QR code https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/backdooms https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43729683 Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional https://www.404media.co/judge-rules-blanket-search-of-cell-tower-data-unconstitutional/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43730545 Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consum...
Apr 19, 2025•12 min•Ep. 88
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 18, 2025. Gemini 2.5 Flash https://developers.googleblog.com/en/start-building-with-gemini-25-flash/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43720845 Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/technology/google-ad-tech-antitrust-ruling.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43717705 An intro to DeepSeek's distributed file system https://maknee.github.io/blog/2025/3FS-Performanc...
Apr 18, 2025•12 min•Ep. 87
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 17, 2025. Attention K-Mart Shoppers https://archive.org/details/attentionkmartshoppers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43706706 TLS certificate lifetimes will officially reduce to 47 days https://www.digicert.com/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will-officially-reduce-to-47-days https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43693900 OpenAI o3 and o4-mini https://openai.com/index/introducing-o3-and-o4-mini/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...
Apr 17, 2025•12 min•Ep. 86
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 16, 2025. Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations https://old.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1jyy5am/psa_cursor_now_restricts_logins_to_a_single/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43683012 CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract https://www.csoonline.com/article/3963190/cve-program-faces-swift-end-after-dhs-fails-to-renew-contract-leaving-security-flaw-tracking-in-limbo.html https:/...
Apr 16, 2025•13 min•Ep. 85
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 15, 2025. Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2025/the-promise-of-american-higher-education/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43684536 A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/04/12/how-i-made-a-useful-ai-assistant-with-one-sqlite-table-and-a-handful-of-cron-jobs https://news.ycombinator.com/item...
Apr 15, 2025•12 min•Ep. 84
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 14, 2025. Googler... ex-Googler https://nerdy.dev/ex-googler https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43658089 Open guide to equity compensation https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43675126 The dark side of the Moomins https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2025/04/dark-side-of-the-moomins-tove-jansson https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43672593 Why Fennel? https://fennel-lang.org/rationa...
Apr 14, 2025•10 min•Ep. 83
