This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 14, 2025. Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized https://nodaysoff.run https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522683 How does a screen work? https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/how-a-screen-works https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44550572 OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative https://github.com/OpenCut-app/OpenCut https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44553752 GLP-1s are breaking life insurance https://www.glp1dig...
Jul 14, 2025•12 min•Ep. 173
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 13, 2025. MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/macpaint.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44540402 Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update https://0x44.xyz/blog/web-request-blocking/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44544266 New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class? https://jsdate.wtf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44540241 The fish kick may b...
Jul 13, 2025•12 min•Ep. 172
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 12, 2025. OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google https://www.theverge.com/openai/705999/google-windsurf-ceo-openai https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44536988 ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/a-language-model-built-for-the-public-good.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44535637 Bill Atkinson's psychedelic ...
Jul 12, 2025•12 min•Ep. 171
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 11, 2025. Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522772 Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale https://www.recall.ai/blog/postgres-listen-notify-does-not-scale https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490510 Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)" https://si...
Jul 11, 2025•12 min•Ep. 170
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 10, 2025. Tree Borrows https://plf.inf.ethz.ch/research/pldi25-tree-borrows.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510600 Linda Yaccarino is leaving X https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/technology/linda-yaccarino-x-steps-down.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510731 The jank programming language https://jank-lang.org/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44482273 German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European...
Jul 10, 2025•12 min•Ep. 169
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 9, 2025. Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database https://www.generalanalysis.com/blog/supabase-mcp-blog https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44502318 Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business https://projectionlab.com/blog/we-reached-1m-arr-with-zero-funding https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44495428 Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app https://offchess.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...
Jul 09, 2025•12 min•Ep. 168
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 8, 2025. Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists https://www.holovaty.com/writing/chatgpt-fake-feature/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44491071 Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17298 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44489690 I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links https://noperator.dev/posts/o3-pocket-profile/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...
Jul 08, 2025•12 min•Ep. 167
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 7, 2025. I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models https://github.com/BlueFalconHD/apple_generative_model_safety_decrypted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44483485 Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels https://www.freyaindia.co.uk/p/nobody-has-a-personality-anymore https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44484595 Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks h...
Jul 07, 2025•12 min•Ep. 166
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 6, 2025. Local-first software (2019) https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44473135 Hidden interface controls that affect usability https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/july-august-2025/stop-hiding-my-controls-hidden-interface-controls-are-affecting-usability https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44476297 Are We the Baddies? https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/07/05/are-we-t...
Jul 06, 2025•12 min•Ep. 165
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 5, 2025. Nvidia is full of shit https://blog.sebin-nyshkim.net/posts/nvidia-is-full-of-shit/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44468175 Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/mini-nases-marry-nvme-intels-efficient-chip https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44465319 OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D https://www.kbkg.com/feature/house-passes-tax-bill-sending-...
Jul 05, 2025•12 min•Ep. 164
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 4, 2025. Introducing tmux-rs https://richardscollin.github.io/tmux-rs/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44455787 My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated] https://twitter.com/soham_btw/status/1940952786491027886 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44460552 The Rise of Whatever https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44461208 Major reversal in ocean circul...
Jul 04, 2025•13 min•Ep. 163
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 3, 2025. Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024) https://blog.mgdproductions.com/ikko-activebuds/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44443919 Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-national-assessment-nasa-white-house-057cec699caef90832d8b10f21a6ffe8 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44448868 Gene therapy restored hearing in deaf patients https://news.ki.se/ge...
Jul 03, 2025•12 min•Ep. 162
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 2, 2025. The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million https://calvin.sh/blog/fed-lie/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44435484 Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages https://simedw.com/2025/06/23/introducing-spegel/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44433409 Figma files for proposed IPO https://www.figma.com/blog/s1-public/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44437316 OpenFLOW ...
Jul 02, 2025•12 min•Ep. 161
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 1, 2025. The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering https://www.philschmid.de/context-engineering https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44427757 Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/wifi-motion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44426726 Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and consumers https://proton.me/blog/apple-lawsuit htt...
Jul 01, 2025•12 min•Ep. 160
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 30, 2025. I made my VM think it has a CPU fan https://wbenny.github.io/2025/06/29/i-made-my-vm-think-it-has-a-cpu-fan.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44413185 Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed (2021) https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick-russian-hackers-hate/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44415233 Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) https://news....
Jun 30, 2025•12 min•Ep. 159
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 29, 2025. JavaScript Trademark Update https://deno.com/blog/deno-v-oracle4 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44407139 MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System https://worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/mcp-an-accidentally-universal-plugin https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44404905 Engineered Addictions https://masonyarbrough.substack.com/p/engineered-addictions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44405057 We ran a Unix-like OS o...
Jun 29, 2025•12 min•Ep. 158
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 28, 2025. Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights https://jameshard.ing/pilot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44396518 Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos https://www.theverge.com/meta/694685/meta-ai-camera-roll https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44401406 I deleted my second brain https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-my-second-brain https://news.ycombina...
Jun 28, 2025•12 min•Ep. 157
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 27, 2025. AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphagenome-ai-for-better-understanding-the-genome/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44387659 Introducing Gemma 3n https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3n-developer-guide/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44389202 Launch HN: Issen (YC F24) – Personal AI language tutor https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44387828 A...
Jun 27, 2025•12 min•Ep. 156
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 26, 2025. Gemini CLI https://blog.google/technology/developers/introducing-gemini-cli-open-source-ai-agent/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44376919 OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio https://george.mand.is/2025/06/openai-charges-by-the-minute-so-make-the-minutes-shorter/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44376989 A new PNG spec https://www.programmax.net/articles/png-is-back/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...
Jun 26, 2025•12 min•Ep. 155
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 25, 2025. Writing toy software is a joy https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/software-is-joy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44367084 Fun with uv and PEP 723 https://www.cottongeeks.com/articles/2025-06-24-fun-with-uv-and-pep-723 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44369388 A new PNG spec https://www.programmax.net/articles/png-is-back/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44373504 PlasticList – Plastic Levels in Foods https://www.plast...
Jun 25, 2025•12 min•Ep. 154
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 24, 2025. Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto https://thedeletedscenes.substack.com/p/backyard-coffee-and-jazz-in-kyoto https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44356248 Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images https://rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-first-look/cosmic-treasure-chest https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44356890 How I use my terminal https://jyn.dev/how-i-use-my-terminal/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44356646 Fairphone 6 i...
Jun 24, 2025•12 min•Ep. 153
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 23, 2025. Mechanical Watch: Exploded View https://fellerts.no/projects/epoch.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44347425 I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst https://fransskarman.com/phd_thesis_in_typst.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44350322 Klein Bottle Amazon Brand Hijacking (2021) https://www.kleinbottle.com/Amazon_Brand_Hijacking.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44349525 Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an ...
Jun 23, 2025•12 min•Ep. 152
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 22, 2025. U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckg3rzj8emjt https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44341639 Tell HN: Beware confidentiality agreements that act as lifetime non competes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44338562 Airpass – Easily overcome WiFi time limits https://airpass.tiagoalves.me/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44310763 uBlock Origin Lite Beta for Safari iOS https://testflight.apple.c...
Jun 22, 2025•11 min•Ep. 151
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 21, 2025. YouTube's new anti-adblock measures https://iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44329712 Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix https://fly.io/blog/phoenix-new-the-remote-ai-runtime/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44328326 Samsung Embeds IronSource Spyware App on Phones Across WANA https://smex.org/open-letter-to-samsung-end-forced-israeli-app-installations-in-the-wana-region/ https://news.yc...
Jun 21, 2025•12 min•Ep. 150
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 20, 2025. Guess I'm a Rationalist Now https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8908 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44317180 Show HN: I wrote a new BitTorrent tracker in Elixir https://github.com/Dahrkael/ExTracker https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44323253 Compiling LLMs into a MegaKernel: A path to low-latency inference https://zhihaojia.medium.com/compiling-llms-into-a-megakernel-a-path-to-low-latency-inference-cf7840913c17 https://news.y...
Jun 20, 2025•12 min•Ep. 149
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 19, 2025. Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform https://github.com/Snouzy/workout-cool https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44309320 Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEmiRjPEtQ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44314423 Show HN: Unregistry – “docker push” directly to servers without a registry https://github.com/psviderski/unregistry https://news.ycombinator.com...
Jun 19, 2025•13 min•Ep. 148
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 18, 2025. Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket https://global.honda/en/topics/2025/c_2025-06-17ceng.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44300102 The Grug Brained Developer (2022) https://grugbrain.dev/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44303542 Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers https://kianbradley.com/2025/06/15/resurrecting-a-dead-tracker.html https://news.ycombinato...
Jun 18, 2025•13 min•Ep. 147
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 17, 2025. WhatsApp introduces ads in its app https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/technology/whatsapp-ads.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44289412 Nanonets-OCR-s – OCR model that transforms documents into structured markdown https://huggingface.co/nanonets/Nanonets-OCR-s https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44287043 Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser https://chawan.net/news/chawan-0-2-0.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44293...
Jun 17, 2025•12 min•Ep. 146
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 16, 2025. Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014) https://tim.dierks.org/2014/05/security-standards-and-name-changes-in.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44282378 How to modify Starlink Mini to run without the built-in WiFi router https://olegkutkov.me/2025/06/15/how-to-modify-starlink-mini-to-run-without-the-built-in-wifi-router/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44282017 Canyon.mid https://canyonmid.com/ https://news.yc...
Jun 16, 2025•12 min•Ep. 145
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 15, 2025. I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch https://github.com/yousef-rafat/miniDiffusion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44276476 Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/waymo-rides-cost-more-than-uber-or-lyft-and-people-are-paying-anyway/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44258139 TimeGuessr https://timeguessr.com/ https://news.yc...
Jun 15, 2025•12 min•Ep. 144
