Episodes

  • 6.15.25 | Reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 in PyTorch, Waymo rides pricier than Uber/Lyft, TimeGuessr
    Jun 15 2025
    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.ycombinator.com/item?id=44233063

    Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short
    https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/seven-replies-to-the-viral-apple
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44278403

    Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun's poles
    https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_Orbiter/Solar_Orbiter_gets_world-first_views_of_the_Sun_s_poles
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44252717

    SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching (2016)
    http://0x80.pl/notesen/2016-11-28-simd-strfind.html
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44274001

    Last fifty years of integer linear programming: Recent practical advances
    https://inria.hal.science/hal-04776866v1
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44274567

    Infinite Grid of Resistors
    https://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath668/kmath668.htm
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44279181

    The Many Sides of Erik Satie
    https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-many-sides-of-erik-satie/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44216921

    Inside the Apollo “8-Ball” FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator)
    https://www.righto.com/2025/06/inside-apollo-fdai.html
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44277051

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    12 mins
  • 6.14.25 | Solar system model, HP's board buys Palm, Apple's Liquid Glass for AR interfaces
    Jun 14 2025
    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 design refresh
    https://omc345.substack.com/p/from-skeuomorphic-to-liquid-glass
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44271630

    Show HN: Tattoy – a text-based terminal compositor
    https://tattoy.sh
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44268644

    Endometriosis is an interesting disease
    https://www.owlposting.com/p/endometriosis-is-an-incredibly-interesting
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44272933

    Self-Adapting Language Models
    https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10943
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44271284

    Implementing Logic Programming
    https://btmc.substack.com/p/implementing-logic-programming
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44272467

    100 years of Zermelo's axiom of choice: What was the problem with it? (2006)
    https://research.mietek.io/mi.MartinLof2006.html
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44269002

    When random people give money to random other people (2017)
    https://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2017/06/27/when-random-people-give-money-to-random-other-people/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44270144

    Student discovers fungus predicted by Albert Hoffman
    https://wvutoday.wvu.edu/stories/2025/06/02/wvu-student-makes-long-awaited-discovery-of-mystery-fungus-sought-by-lsd-s-inventor
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44243059

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    12 mins
  • 6.13.25 | Receipt printer cured procrastination, Frequent reauth not more secure, US-backed Israeli spyware targeted European journalists
    Jun 13 2025
    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-italy-paragon-meloni-pegasus-f36dd32106f44398ee24001317ccf2bb
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44259398

    Jemalloc Postmortem
    https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44264958

    Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Git
    https://danielsada.tech/blog/carreer-part-7-how-office-moved-to-git-and-i-loved-devex/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44253212

    iPhone 11 emulation done in QEMU
    https://github.com/ChefKissInc/QEMUAppleSilicon
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44258670

    Maximizing Battery Storage Profits via High-Frequency Intraday Trading
    https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06932
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44255728

    Rust compiler performance
    https://kobzol.github.io/rust/rustc/2025/06/09/why-doesnt-rust-care-more-about-compiler-performance.html
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44234080

    Rendering Crispy Text on the GPU
    https://osor.io/text
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44265233

    Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust
    https://tritium.legal/preview
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44256765

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    12 mins
  • 6.12.25 | Big Bang possibly inside black hole, programming with agents, Chatterbox TTS
    Jun 12 2025
    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

    Chatterbox TTS
    https://github.com/resemble-ai/chatterbox
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44251411

    Show HN: Spark, An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for Three.js
    https://sparkjs.dev/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44249565

    Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application
    https://ikuyo.kenrick95.org/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44247029

    Plants hear their pollinators, and produce sweet nectar in response
    https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-51-quirks-and-quarks/clip/16150976-plants-hear-pollinators-produce-sweet-nectar-response
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44211971

    V-JEPA 2 world model and new benchmarks for physical reasoning
    https://ai.meta.com/blog/v-jepa-2-world-model-benchmarks/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44248165

    OpenAI o3-pro
    https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9624314-model-release-notes
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44240999

    AOSP project is coming to an end
    https://old.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/1l8rhon/aosp_project_is_coming_to_an_end/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44254540

    Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player
    https://github.com/rommapp/romm
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44247964

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    12 mins
  • 6.11.25 | Mistral AI's first reasoning model, Vassar Robotics' $219 learning robot arm, OpenAI's 80% price drop for o3
    Jun 11 2025
    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 contamination
    https://blog.jgc.org/2025/06/low-background-steel-content-without-ai.html
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44239481

    Show HN: Chili3d – A open-source, browser-based 3D CAD application
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44238171

    Show HN: I made a 3D printed VTOL drone
    https://www.tsungxu.com/p/i-made-a-3d-printed-vtol-that-can
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44241278

    Mikeal Rogers has died
    https://b.h4x.zip/mikeal/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44236728

    Denuvo Analysis
    https://connorjaydunn.github.io/blog/posts/denuvo-analysis/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226406

    We’re secretly winning the war on cancer
    https://www.vox.com/health/415812/cancer-death-rates-myeloma-immunotherapy-smoking
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44219379

    Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
    https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44237881

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    12 mins
  • 6.10.25 | Tax deduction for US software devs, Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization, Apple introduces universal design
    Jun 10 2025
    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/2025/06/apple-introduces-a-delightful-and-elegant-new-software-design/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226612

    Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS
    https://github.com/apple/containerization
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229348

    Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user
    https://brutecat.com/articles/leaking-google-phones
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44224684

    Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests
    https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/politics/marines-mobilized-los-angeles-protests
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44230182

    Sly Stone has died
    https://abcnews.go.com/US/sly-stone-pioneering-leader-funk-band-sly-family/story?id=122666345
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229841

    Show HN: Munal OS: a graphical experimental OS with WASM sandboxing
    https://github.com/Askannz/munal-os
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226879

    Container: Apple's Linux-Container Runtime
    https://github.com/apple/container
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229239

    Go is a good fit for agents
    https://docs.hatchet.run/blog/go-agents
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44179889

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    12 mins
  • 6.9.25 | LLMs illustrated by pelicans, Kagi hits 50k users, supercomputers for autocrats threaten democracy
    Jun 9 2025
    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.com/item?id=44219519

    FSE meets the FBI
    https://blog.freespeechextremist.com/blog/fse-vs-fbi.html
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44220860

    Why Android can't use CDC Ethernet (2023)
    https://jordemort.dev/blog/why-android-cant-use-cdc-ethernet/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44219405

    Self-hosted x86 back end is now default in debug mode
    https://ziglang.org/devlog/2025/#2025-06-08
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44219857

    Tracking Copilot vs. Codex vs. Cursor vs. Devin PR Performance
    https://aavetis.github.io/ai-pr-watcher/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44188839

    Administering immunotherapy in the morning seems to matter. Why?
    https://www.owlposting.com/p/the-time-of-day-that-immunotherapy
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44217876

    Gaussian integration is cool
    https://rohangautam.github.io/blog/chebyshev_gauss/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44215603

    My first attempt at iOS app development
    https://mgx.me/my-first-attempt-at-ios-app-development
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44188214

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    13 mins
  • 6.8.25 | Bill Atkinson has died, Washington Post advises against Chrome and Meta apps, overcoming procrastination
    Jun 8 2025
    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.org/getting-past-procastination
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44207095

    Convert photos to Atkinson dithering
    https://gazs.github.io/canvas-atkinson-dither/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44212446

    My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle
    https://corentin.trebaol.com/Blog/8.+The+Homelessness+Experiment
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210736

    Joining Apple Computer (2018)
    https://www.folklore.org/Joining_Apple_Computer.html
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44212441

    Low-Level Optimization with Zig
    https://alloc.dev/2025/06/07/zig_optimization
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44208060

    Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own
    https://www.ssp.sh/blog/self-host-self-independence/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44211273

    Why We're Moving on from Nix
    https://blog.railway.com/p/introducing-railpack
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44208968

    What was Radiant AI, anyway?
    https://blog.paavo.me/radiant-ai/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44209497

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    12 mins
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