This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 14, 2025. If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014) https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44266828 I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it https://philmckinney.substack.com/p/i-convinced-hps-board-to-buy-palm https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44270709 Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not just a des...
Jun 14, 2025•12 min•Ep. 143
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 13, 2025. A receipt printer cured my procrastination https://www.laurieherault.com/articles/a-thermal-receipt-printer-cured-my-procrastination https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44256499 Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure https://tailscale.com/blog/frequent-reath-security https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44261777 US-backed Israeli company's spyware used to target European journalists https://apnews.com/article/spyware-ital...
Jun 13, 2025•12 min•Ep. 142
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 12, 2025. Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/blogs/space-cosmology-and-the-universe/what-if-the-big-bang-wasnt-the-beginning-our-research-suggests-it-may-have-taken-place-inside-a-black-hole https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44251047 How I Program with Agents https://crawshaw.io/blog/programming-with-agents https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44221655 Chatte...
Jun 12, 2025•12 min•Ep. 141
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 11, 2025. Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI https://mistral.ai/news/magistral https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44236997 Launch HN: Vassar Robotics (YC X25) – $219 robot arm that learns new skills https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44240302 OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80% https://twitter.com/sama/status/1932434606558462459 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44239359 Low-background Steel: content without AI c...
Jun 11, 2025•12 min•Ep. 140
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 10, 2025. Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226145 Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/apple-supercharges-its-tools-and-technologies-for-developers/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226978 Apple introduces a universal design across platforms https://www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
Jun 10, 2025•12 min•Ep. 139
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 9, 2025. The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/six-months-in-llms/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44215352 Kagi Reaches 50k Users https://kagi.com/stats?stat=members https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44221450 Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy https://helentoner.substack.com/p/supercomputers-for-autocrats https://news.ycombinator....
Jun 09, 2025•13 min•Ep. 138
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 8, 2025. Bill Atkinson has died https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/07/bill-atkinson-rip https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210606 Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex) https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/07/035249/washington-posts-privacy-tip-stop-using-chrome-delete-metas-apps-and-yandex https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210689 Getting Past Procrastination https://spectrum.ieee....
Jun 08, 2025•12 min•Ep. 137
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 7, 2025. The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs https://qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-code-trump-section-174-microsoft-meta-1851783502 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180533 Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/campaigns/meta-shut-down-your-invasive-ai-discover-feed-now/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201872 How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 ho...
Jun 07, 2025•11 min•Ep. 136
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 6, 2025. Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/self-hosting-your-own-media-considered-harmful https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44197932 The impossible predicament of the death newts https://crookedtimber.org/2025/06/05/occasional-paper-the-impossible-predicament-of-the-death-newts/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44191620 Show HN: Air Lab – A portable and open a...
Jun 06, 2025•12 min•Ep. 135
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 5, 2025. OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/openai-says-court-forcing-it-to-save-all-chatgpt-logs-is-a-privacy-nightmare/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44185913 FFmpeg merges WebRTC support https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/commit/167e343bbe75515a80db8ee72ffa0c607c944a00 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182186 IRS Direct File on GitHub ...
Jun 05, 2025•12 min•Ep. 134
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 4, 2025. Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored https://rachel.fast.ai/posts/2025-06-04-enzyme-ml-fails/index.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44174965 Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android https://localmess.github.io/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44169115 DiffX – Next-Generation Extensible Diff Format https://diffx.org/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176737 Merlin Bird ID http...
Jun 04, 2025•12 min•Ep. 133
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 3, 2025. My AI skeptic friends are all nuts https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163063 Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-oauth-provider/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44159166 Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello https://github.com/kanbn/kan https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44157177 Show HN: Onlook – Op...
Jun 03, 2025•10 min•Ep. 132
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 2, 2025. Root shell on a credit card terminal https://stefan-gloor.ch/yomani-hack https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44150803 Cinematography of “Andor” https://www.pushing-pixels.org/2025/05/20/cinematography-of-andor-interview-with-christophe-nuyens.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44149718 The Visual World of 'Samurai Jack' https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-visual-world-of-samurai-jack https://news.ycombinator.com...
Jun 02, 2025•12 min•Ep. 131
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 1, 2025. Precision Clock Mk IV https://mitxela.com/projects/precision_clock_mk_iv https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44144750 Progressive JSON https://overreacted.io/progressive-json/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44147945 A Lean companion to Analysis I https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/a-lean-companion-to-analysis-i/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44145517 RenderFormer: Neural rendering of triangle meshes with glob...
Jun 01, 2025•12 min•Ep. 130
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 31, 2025. Photos taken inside musical instruments https://www.dpreview.com/photography/5400934096/probe-lenses-and-focus-stacking-the-secrets-to-incredible-photos-taken-inside-instruments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44139626 The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/business/anthropic-amodei-ai-jobs-nightcap https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44136117 Systems Correctness Prac...
May 31, 2025•13 min•Ep. 129
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 30, 2025. WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator https://weatherstar.netbymatt.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127109 Human coders are still better than LLMs https://antirez.com/news/153 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127739 FLUX.1 Kontext https://bfl.ai/models/flux-kontext https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44128322 Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook https://commandline.stribny.name/ https://news....
May 30, 2025•12 min•Ep. 128
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 29, 2025. Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust https://desktopdocs.com/?v=2025 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44118023 Japan Post launches 'digital address' system https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/05/27/companies/japan-post-digital-address/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117779 Compiler Explorer and the promise of URLs that last forever https://xania.org/202505/compiler-explorer-urls-forever https://news....
May 29, 2025•12 min•Ep. 127
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 28, 2025. Square Theory https://aaronson.org/blog/square-theory https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44107942 How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/05/23/street-smarts-hawk-use-traffic-signals-hunting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105965 Show HN: My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or plugins https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/27/llm-tools/ https:...
May 28, 2025•12 min•Ep. 126
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 27, 2025. CSS Minecraft https://benjaminaster.com/css-minecraft/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100148 Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/hacker-news-now-runs-on-top-of-common-lisp/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099006 Owls in Towels https://owlsintowels.org/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44101349 A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air https://...
May 27, 2025•12 min•Ep. 125
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 26, 2025. Claude 4 System Card https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/claude-4-system-card/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44085920 At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/business/amazon-ai-coders.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44087150 Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS https://github.com/ossu/computer-science ...
May 26, 2025•12 min•Ep. 124
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 25, 2025. I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation https://sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/how-i-used-o3-to-find-cve-2025-37899-a-remote-zeroday-vulnerability-in-the-linux-kernels-smb-implementation/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44081338 Reinvent the Wheel https://endler.dev/2025/reinvent-the-wheel/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44083467 Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears https:/...
May 25, 2025•12 min•Ep. 123
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 24, 2025. Postgres IDE in VS Code https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgresql/announcing-a-new-ide-for-postgresql-in-vs-code-from-microsoft/4414648 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44073588 Find Your People https://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/find-your-people https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44074017 How to live on $432 a month in America https://shagbark.substack.com/p/how-to-live-on-432-a-month-in-america https://n...
May 24, 2025•11 min•Ep. 122
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 23, 2025. Claude 4 https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063703 Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063662 That fractal that's been up on my wall for years https://chriskw.xyz/2025/05/21/Fractal/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063248 Improving performance of rav1d video decoder https://ohadravi...
May 23, 2025•12 min•Ep. 121
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 22, 2025. OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/openai-to-buy-apple-veteran-jony-ive-s-ai-device-startup-in-6-5-billion-deal https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44053518 Devstral https://mistral.ai/news/devstral https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44051733 Gemini Diffusion https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/gemini-diffusion/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44057820 For algorith...
May 22, 2025•13 min•Ep. 120
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 21, 2025. Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow https://blog.google/technology/ai/generative-media-models-io-2025/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44044043 Deep Learning Is Applied Topology https://theahura.substack.com/p/deep-learning-is-applied-topology https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44041738 My new hobby: watching AI slowly drive Microsoft employees insane https://old.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comm...
May 21, 2025•12 min•Ep. 119
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 20, 2025. The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031385 Zod 4 https://zod.dev/v4 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44030850 Have I Been Pwned 2.0 https://www.troyhunt.com/have-i-been-pwned-2-0-is-now-live/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44035158 GitHub Copilot Coding Agent ht...
May 20, 2025•12 min•Ep. 118
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 18, 2025. Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android https://holdtherobot.com/blog/2025/05/11/linux-on-android-with-ar-glasses/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985513 Mystical https://suberic.net/~dmm/projects/mystical/README.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44016037 O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2025/05/o2-expose-customer-location-call-4g/ ht...
May 18, 2025•12 min•Ep. 117
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 17, 2025. Push Ifs Up and Fors Down https://matklad.github.io/2023/11/15/push-ifs-up-and-fors-down.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44013157 JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management https://v8.dev/features/explicit-resource-management https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44012227 Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful https://aruarian.dance/blog/japan-ic-cards/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43993711 MCP:...
May 17, 2025•12 min•Ep. 116
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 16, 2025. Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/health/gene-editing-personalized-rare-disorders.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43997636 The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use https://sketch.dev/blog/agent-loop https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43998472 A leap year check in three instructions https://hueffner.de/falk/blog/a-leap-year-check-i...
May 16, 2025•13 min•Ep. 115
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 15, 2025. AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985489 What is HDR, anyway? https://www.lux.camera/what-is-hdr/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43983871 A server that wasn't meant to exist https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/05/13/the_server_that_...
May 15, 2025•12 min•Ep. 114
