Hacker Podcast

This episode discussed a Windows bug, cookie banner frustrations, framework debates, a costly auto-updater mistake, Kagi search, Firefox tab groups, AI's GeoGuessr win, and a study showing AI has minimal job impact yet.

This week: A major European power outage, AI helping Alzheimer's research, hardware running Python directly, a super-strong copper alloy, and the debate on coding for fun versus profit. Also, a look at community projects and Silicon Valley history.

The podcast covered Internet-in-a-Box for offline knowledge, the complexity of reverse geocoding, AI's impact on evaluating knowledge work, and an iPhone soft-bricking bug. Other topics included C tutorials, obituaries, 5G tracking, database tools, icons, and an IKEA lamp hack.

Topics discussed: Reflecting on the "Crap Towns" book today, Berkeley's Humanoid Lite robot, speeding up ./configure scripts, a browser cloth simulation, AI guessing photo locations, a new prostate problem theory, the friendship recession, ICE deporting US citizens, a uranium collector incident, and a custom retro OS.

The podcast covered Kenneth Iverson's notation paper and APL, a judge's arrest, the minimalist Slate Truck EV, WAFs blocking tech content, Google's Music AI, rebuilding Kafka, belief vs. criticism, a Eurorack hack, Async Rust, and an LLM bypass claim.

This episode covered getting a GPL license by mail, the TacOS kernel running DOOM, DuckDB's Instant SQL, Rust GPU kernels, views on social media and Meta, solving TSP for 82k bars, OpenAI's new image API, AI prompts that stump models, and the 21cm hydrogen line.

This episode covered a GTA San Andreas bug exposed by Windows 11, AI needing customizable prompts, using LLMs for 3D modeling, the YAGRI data storage principle, and triggering lightning with drones.

This episode covered Atuin Desktop executable runbooks, Sapphire macOS package manager, a SQL-based Doom engine, robot generalization, ClickHouse speedups via lazy materialization, knitting theory, biology education, and the Morphik RAG system.

Podcast covers open source ethics drama, new AI models and their use in development, creative hardware projects like a Wii blog and Evertop computer, Python's t-strings, Bluesky verification, and the discovery of a lone black hole.