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Hacker News Roundup is hosted by Scott Fitsimones. The show has published 24 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "HN Roundup, May 3, 2026: Copilot Commits Backlash, dav2d, Utah's VPN Age Law" (8 May 2026, 12 minutes), "HN Roundup, May 2, 2026: Vercel Breach Fallout, Claude Code at Microsoft, RAM Crunch Deepens" (7 May 2026, 10 minutes), and "Hacker News Roundup, May 1, 2026: Uber's Blown AI Budget, PyTorch Malware, Ubuntu DDoS, cPanel Zero-Day" (6 May 2026, 12 minutes).
Hacker News Roundup publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 12 minutes across 24 episodes.
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Scott Fitsimones hosts Hacker News Roundup, a technology podcast with 24 episodes published.
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Episode #26
VS Code 1.118 silently tags Copilot as co-author; dav2d AV1 decoder surges on HN; Utah SB 73 targets VPN users for age verification starting May 6. Plus Ladybird April update and Mercury's 2M-line Haskell codebase.
Episode #25
Vercel's April security incident aftermath, Claude Code's quiet spread inside Microsoft, multi-year RAM shortage implications for devs, plus a Show HN in-browser Gemma 4 demo and Notion's public-page email leak.
Episode #24
Uber torched its 2026 AI budget by April, PyTorch Lightning 2.6.2-2.6.3 ships credential-stealing malware, Canonical fights off 313 Team DDoS, cPanel CVE-2026-41940 hits all supported versions, plus Grok 4.3 and Rivian...
Episode #23
Supply-chain worm Shai-Hulud found in PyTorch Lightning, Meta dismisses employees over smart-glasses privacy breach, and GCC 16 release status stays murky days after branch freeze. Security, wearables, and compiler...
Episode #22
Linux 7 scheduling halves PostgreSQL TPS on Graviton4, AWS quietly ships OpenAI+Codex on Bedrock, and the BBC piece HN loved argues AI doomism is a market strategy. Infrastructure reality vs. AI hype in one shot.
Episode #21
LocalSend hits 474pts as the AirDrop killer nobody asked Google for. Google signs classified DoD AI deal. Anthropic drops €240k on Blender. GitHub meters Copilot reviews starting June 1. Android sideloading fights back.
Episode #20
Cover Mistral's new code-focused LLM Codestral and its benchmark performance, then pivot to the EU AI Act officially entering force and what compliance means for startups. Rapid takes on both stories, no fluff.
Episode #19
Cover Mistral's new code-focused LLM Codestral and its benchmark performance, then pivot to the EU AI Act's first enforcement phase kicking in and what it means for startups shipping AI products in Europe.
Episode #18
Google locks in $10B now + $30B more for Anthropic at a $350B valuation; OpenAI pays researchers to crack GPT-5.5 biosafety guardrails; a popular audio interface shipped with SSH wide open. Plus: agent hype backlash and...
Episode #17
DeepSeek V4 tops HN with 1,200+ comments challenging OpenAI's freshly launched GPT-5.5. Bitwarden CLI 2026.4.0 compromised via GitHub Actions. Meta slashes 10% of staff. Tesla quietly discloses a $2B AI hardware...
Episode #16
Bitwarden CLI hijacked via Checkmarx CI/CD attack, GitHub multi-service outage hits devs, Apple patches notification cache exposing deleted chats to cops, France ID agency breach hits 19M records, and raylib 6.0 drops...
Episode #13
NSA uses Anthropic's Mythos despite Pentagon ban (344pts), GitHub's purchasable star economy collapses trust, Atlassian reverses its own AI data pledge, plus Deezer's 44% AI-upload flood and EU's 2027...
Episode #12
Vercel confirms unauthorized internal access; Notion allegedly exposes editor emails on public pages; HN erupts over Claude Opus 4.7 token bloat vs 4.6; plus NIST any-wavelength lasers and Blizzard kills Turtle WoW.
Episode #11
Claude Opus 4.7 pricing is up ~45%, HN erupts. Anthropic launches Claude Design to rival Canva/Figma. Devs flee DigitalOcean for Hetzner. Amazon kills Fire TV sideloading on Vega OS. Kdenlive thrives. AI ROI skepticism...
Episode #10
Anthropic's Claude Design tops HN at 323pts, but Opus 4.7's $25/M output tokens sparks backlash. OpenAI Codex hits 961pts. NIST quietly retreats from CVE enrichment. Google's Android CLI promises 3x faster app builds.
Episode #9
Anthropic launches Opus 4.7 for long-running engineering tasks; Qwen3.6-35B-A3B goes open-weight; IPv6 crosses 50% of Google traffic; Cloudflare adds email for agents; dev loses €54k to exposed Firebase key.
Episode #8
Google ships Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 via API, Claude hits its second April outage, a court ruling strips AI chats of legal privilege, Gemma 4 crosses 400M downloads, and TrackSuccession goes live on SEC filings.
Episode #7
30+ WordPress plugins weaponized post-acquisition with RCE backdoors; GitHub's native stacked PR preview hits HN's top; Blackmagic brings pro color grading to photos; Google bans back-button hijacking in Search spam...
Episode #6
Collabora lands mainline video capture for Rockchip RK3588 after five-plus years of upstream work. A quiet but massive win for open embedded Linux. Why does open hardware take this long, and is the pace finally...
Episode #5
Android quietly strips EXIF geotags on photo share. 252 HN points, 215 comments, and a furious debate: is Google protecting users or removing power-user choice? The paternalistic defaults war heats up.
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