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9.9.25 | NPM packages compromised, Signal backups secured, iPhone as a dumbphone

Episode 228

Tuesday, September 9, 2025 • Duration 12:10

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 9, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - NPM debug and chalk packages compromised
(01:31) - Signal Secure Backups
(02:35) - iPhone dumbphone
(03:44) - No adblocker detected
(04:54) - Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS
(06:07) - Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG
(07:11) - Mistral AI raises 1.7B€, enters strategic partnership with ASML
(08:16) - Will Amazon S3 Vectors kill vector databases or save them?
(09:32) - Clankers Die on Christmas
(10:46) - The Storm Hits the Art Market
(12:04) - Outro

NPM debug and chalk packages compromised
https://www.aikido.dev/blog/npm-debug-and-chalk-packages-compromised
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169657

Signal Secure Backups
https://signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45170515

iPhone dumbphone
https://stopa.io/post/297
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45171200

No adblocker detected
https://maurycyz.com/misc/ads/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45176206

Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS
https://blog.6nok.org/experimenting-with-local-llms-on-macos/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45168953

Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG
https://kube.io/blog/liquid-glass-css-svg/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45174297

Mistral AI raises 1.7B€, enters strategic partnership with ASML
https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ai-raises-1-7-b-to-accelerate-technological-progress-with-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45178041

Will Amazon S3 Vectors kill vector databases or save them?
https://zilliz.com/blog/will-amazon-s3-vectors-kill-vector-databases-or-save-them
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169624

Clankers Die on Christmas
https://remyhax.xyz/posts/clankers-die-on-christmas/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169275

The Storm Hits the Art Market
https://news.artnet.com/market/intelligence-report-storm-2025-2684512
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45175628

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9.8.25 | MacBook screen hinge sensor, Claude Code modernizes kernel driver, GPT-5 excels in search

Episode 227

Monday, September 8, 2025 • Duration 12:35

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 8, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge
(01:23) - Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver
(02:42) - GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search
(03:56) - I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D
(05:14) - Keeping secrets out of logs (2024)
(06:25) - Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatch
(07:38) - What is the origin of the private network address 192.168.*.*? (2009)
(08:56) - Everything from 1991 Radio Shack ad I now do with my phone (2014)
(10:05) - The demo scene is dying, but that's alright
(11:20) - Formatting code should be unnecessary
(12:30) - Outro

The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge
https://twitter.com/samhenrigold/status/1964428927159382261
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45158968

Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver
https://dmitrybrant.com/2025/09/07/using-claude-code-to-modernize-a-25-year-old-kernel-driver
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45163362

GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/research-goblin/

8.30.25 | Simplest effective solution, Grok Code Fast 1, John Carmack opposes custom XR OS at Meta

Episode 218

Saturday, August 30, 2025 • Duration 11:11

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 30, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:22) - Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
(01:34) - Grok Code Fast 1
(02:51) - John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta
(04:04) - The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch
(05:21) - Flunking my Anthropic interview again
(06:36) - Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition
(07:39) - Deploying DeepSeek on 96 H100 GPUs
(09:00) - Wikipedia as a Graph
(09:58) - How do I get into the game industry
(11:06) - Outro

Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
https://www.seangoedecke.com/the-simplest-thing-that-could-possibly-work/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45068091

Grok Code Fast 1
https://x.ai/news/grok-code-fast-1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45063559

John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1961172409920491849
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066395

The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch
https://positiveblue.substack.com/p/the-web-does-not-need-gatekeepers

5.30.25 | WeatherStar 4000+ simulates Weather Channel, human coders outperform LLMs, FLUX.1 Kontext

Episode 128

Friday, May 30, 2025 • Duration 11:33

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.ycombinator.com/item?id=44126612

The radix 2^51 trick (2017)
https://www.chosenplaintext.ca/articles/radix-2-51-trick.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44132673

I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic
https://wave3.social
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44131513

Buttplug MCP
https://github.com/ConAcademy/buttplug-mcp

5.29.25 | Rewrote Mac Electron app in Rust, Japan Post launches digital address system, Compiler Explorer promises lasting URLs

Episode 127

Thursday, May 29, 2025 • Duration 12:04

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.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117722

Long live American Science and Surplus
https://milwaukeerecord.com/city-life/long-live-american-science-surplus-which-needs-your-help/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44120507

Compiling a neural net to C for a speedup
https://slightknack.dev/blog/difflogic/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44118373

Show HN: Porting Terraria and Celeste to WebAssembly
https://velzie.rip/blog/celeste-wasm

5.28.25 | Square Theory, hawk uses traffic signals for hunting, LLM CLI tool runs tools from Python or plugins

Episode 126

Wednesday, May 28, 2025 • Duration 12:07

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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44110584

Show HN: Lazy Tetris
https://lazytetris.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44103839

Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python's two new Rust-based type checkers
https://blog.edward-li.com/tech/comparing-pyrefly-vs-ty/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44107655

BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-attr-40-junos-arista-session-reset-incident

5.27.25 | CSS Minecraft, Hacker News uses Common Lisp, Owls in Towels

Episode 125

Tuesday, May 27, 2025 • Duration 11:52

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://blog.seas.upenn.edu/penn-engineers-discover-a-new-class-of-materials-that-passively-harvest-water-from-air/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44097144

TIL: timeout in Bash scripts
https://heitorpb.github.io/bla/timeout/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44096395

Lossless video compression using Bloom filters
https://github.com/ross39/new_bloom_filter_repo/blob/main/README.md

5.26.25 | Claude 4 System Card, Amazon coders liken jobs to warehouse work, Open Source Society University offers free CS education

Episode 124

Monday, May 26, 2025 • Duration 11:52

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
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44089150

Google Shared My Phone Number
https://danq.me/2025/05/21/google-shared-my-phone-number/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44094270

Lottie is an open format for animated vector graphics
https://lottie.github.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44088216

Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44090387

Plwm – An X11 window manager written in Prolog

5.25.25 | o3 finds Linux SMB zeroday, Reinvent the Wheel, US scientific conferences leaving due to border fears

Episode 123

Sunday, May 25, 2025 • Duration 12:01

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://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01636-5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44084017

Show HN: Rotary Phone Dial Linux Kernel Driver
https://gitlab.com/sephalon/rotary_dial_kmod
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44080803

Good Writing
https://paulgraham.com/goodwriting.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44081586

Tachy0n: The Last 0day Jailbreak
https://blog.siguza.net/tachy0n/

5.24.25 | Postgres IDE for VS Code, Find Your People, Living on $432 a month in America

Episode 122

Saturday, May 24, 2025 • Duration 10:51

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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44074340

Root for your friends
https://josephthacker.com/personal/2025/05/13/root-for-your-friends.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44077533

Mermaid: Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text
https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44049619

Modification of acetaminophen to reduce liver toxicity and enhance drug efficacy
https://www.societyforscience.org/regeneron-sts/2025-student-finalists/chloe-lee/

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