Hacker Podcast

This episode covered home-made software (Scrappy), a large AI model (MiniMax-M1), the lstr tree command, counting yurts with AI, a passive sound device, self-hosting workarounds, a fitness platform (Workout.cool), and the A* algorithm.

Podcast topics include internet resiliency clubs, humor in Android APIs, the SSL to TLS rename, the Twin text environment, childhood leukemia treatment success, an incarcerated programmer's job at Turso, DARPA's laser power beaming, a self-powered CO2 sensor, and LLM chemistry evaluation.

Podcast topics included Q-learning limits in AI, programming as art, AMD's AI hardware push and software challenges, a student bypassing security assignments, and the history of chicken eyeglasses.

Today we covered SIMD string search, the simple Filedb key-value store, postal tracking, complex endometriosis, a fungus discovery linked to Hofmann, TimeGuessr, Apple's Liquid Glass design issues, failed Sandboxfs, and Peano Arithmetic's limits.

This Hacker Podcast covered malicious ad tech like VexTrio, the end of jemalloc development, Meta's investment in Scale AI, GPU text rendering, solar system scale visualization, urban design in Asia, and a poem analysis.

Podcast topics included curing procrastination with a receipt printer, Microsoft Office's massive Git migration, webcam eye tracking, knowing job fit early, battery storage profit strategies, news consumption habits, and setting up an Over-The-Air DVR.

Podcast topics included progress in the war on cancer, how LLMs are changing observability and search, using AI agents for programming, a new lightweight S3 client, demystifying debuggers, privacy risks of menstrual apps, and design lessons from gardening.

This episode discussed Mistral AI's new Magistral model and its reasoning claims. Topics also included why LLM agents are bad pair programmers, Apple's new container tool for macOS, a color quantization library, Forth's DOES>, a discrete math textbook, Vello rendering, and setting constraints over goals.

This episode covered the legacy of Mac pioneer Bill Atkinson, new tech like WordPress FAIR and Zig optimization, challenges in aviation data, tackling procrastination, smokestack engineering, AI coding, build systems, and CD image art.

This episode covered content moderation issues, AI and privacy concerns like data retention and public feeds, developer tools for testing and identity management, writing advice, memory experiences, and an engineering win optimizing Git backups.

This episode explored browser security, AI coding tools, a distant solar system spiral, creative 3D graphics, open air quality tech, Tesla data privacy, a toxic newt arms race, Rust web auth, LLMs and Elixir, and the retirement of Landsat 7.

This episode explored a book on the BEAM VM, the proposed DiffX format for better tooling, the "magic" Merlin Bird ID app, challenges for Precious Plastic, the trivially easy Binary Wordle game, Google Cloud Run GPU support, and intelligent cockatoos using fountains.

This episode covered a new typesetting system, formal verification at MongoDB, AI's impact on humanities, a divisive sci-fi novel, GUI development as discovery, securing nuclear material, storing data on paper, a C Java decompiler, C mutexes, and Android tracking via localhost.

This episode covers career value versus usefulness, maintaining creative drive, the original INTERCAL compiler, building a simple chair, the new Kan.bn Kanban tool, the AI Reasoning Gym, HeidiSQL's Linux port, and Cloudflare's AI-assisted coding project.

This episode covered Progressive JSON for faster data display, the DIY community platform Patio, groundbreaking solar observations, the passing of CCD inventor George E. Smith, Microsoft's RenderFormer neural renderer, challenges using Figma Slides for presentations, and structured error handling in Go.

The podcast discussed low-level integer optimization, Software-Defined Radio, Triangle Splatting graphics, AWS system correctness practices, a story of disarming atomic bombs, C++ atomics, a social club for men, and smallest possible files.

This episode covered nostalgic tech and stores, web design philosophy, practical developer tools including FFmpeg and C# scripting, human creativity versus AI, porting games to the web, and the nature of intelligence.

Topics included AI efficiency techniques, hardware power challenges, developer workflow debates, game level design, and the "Who Cares Era" of apathy, touching on technical solutions and cultural trends.

This episode explored pushing CSS limits with Minecraft, a GitHub AI security flaw, a hawk using traffic signals, AI in Clojure, SQLite mods, developer job myths, UI design trends, project donations, and a BGP bug.

This episode covered Hacker News moving to Common Lisp, free CS education via OSSU, teachers fighting AI homework with analog methods, new tech like water harvesting and Postgres sharding, Bash script timeouts, and the delightful "Owls in Towels".

Podcast covers Anthropic's concerning AI behaviors and mixed performance, why CAPTCHAs fail against ticketing bots due to market issues, Lottie animation format and performance problems, and inspiring developer projects like a newsletter app and old tech reuse.

The podcast discussed supporting friends' success, programming with Algebraic Effects, using Mermaid for diagrams, the Raspberry Pi 2 Xenon Death Flash bug, and a Linux driver for a rotary phone dial.

This episode covered Microsoft's VS Code Postgres tool, finding direction after college, using free web security certificates, issues with AI reliability, and living cheaply in rural America. Also discussed Fermi estimation and the metre's history.

Podcast covers Google's Gemini Diffusion, new Anthropic and Mistral AI models for coding, retrocomputing with ITXPlus, CERN's antimatter transport, criticism of decibels, a CSV to HTML tool, Inigo Quilez's work, and Mozilla shutting down Pocket.

Topics included OpenAI's potential hardware acquisition, math visualizations, a time-space proof, collaborative editing, a DIY solar system, LLM orchestration, AI code generation issues, and Bhutan's talking stamps.