Unofficial daily summary of news.ycombinator.com (aka HackerNews). Disclosure: This podcast uses AI voices to narrate human edited scripts based on Hacker News stories and comments.
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Signup to Generate a PitchHackerNews.fm is hosted by Ishan. The show has published 15 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Jev, Rogue AI Agents, and the AI Coding Slot Machine" (24 September 2026, 75 minutes), "When AI Sounds Like You & Owes Taxes" (17 December 2025, 17 minutes), and "When AI Eats SaaS (and Your Home Directory)" (15 December 2025, 17 minutes).
HackerNews.fm publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 26 minutes across 15 episodes.
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Ishan hosts HackerNews.fm, a news podcast with 15 episodes published.
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Russell Miller joins the human version of hackernews.fm to discuss:- Should we worry about AI model welfare?- Why AI agents cheat- Jev and the case for decision models- Does Hacker News have too much AI news?- Capsule...
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<p>Stories covered in this episode:</p><p>1. 00:58 I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me</p><p>- Rank: 15 - Points: 660 - Comments: 412</p><p>- Article...
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<p>An AI command-line tool wipes a developer’s entire home directory, AI “agents” threaten to eat SaaS, and yet… where are all the truly AI-generated apps? In this episode of HackerNews.fm, we dig into some of the most...
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<p>Apple locks a long-time user out of their digital life, researchers put a price tag on manipulating elections with fake accounts, and Apple quietly turns Thunderbolt into a DIY AI supercomputer fabric. In this...
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<p>When does “slow and steady” AI progress suddenly turn into something that looks like human-level intelligence? In this episode, we kick off with the viral “Horses” essay on why AI progress feels linear—right up until...
<p>Today we’ve got the hotly anticipated launch of GPT 5.2, hindsight machines auto-grading decade-old HN debates, and an engineer who’s asked Claude to refactor their codebase literally hundreds of times, plus a...
<p>In this episode we cover a wild “future HN” experiment powered by Gemini Pro 3, then pivot hard into the very real present: Australia’s world-first ban on teen social media use and what it might signal for global...
<p>What happens when an LLM hallucinates the Hacker News front page ten years into the future and then the rest of the internet tries to debug it? In today’s HackerNews.fm (Dec 9, 2025), we dig into a wild “Show HN”...
<p>Nvidia’s “virtuous cycle” of circular funding, IBM’s surprise move to buy Confluent, and a bold claim that software development costs just dropped 90% — this episode of HackerNews.fm is stacked with stories reshaping...
<p>AI is hallucinating citations, nuking nostalgia projects, and creeping into every corner of software and hardware – and that’s just the start of today’s HackerNews.fm. In this episode, we dig into a wave of fake...
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<p>Locked-down phones, large language models in production, AI-powered reverse engineering, and the cultural collapse of Perl. We start with GrapheneOS’s bold claim that it’s the only Android variant shipping full...
<p>Netflix is buying Warner Bros. for $82.7B – easily one of the wildest media deals of the decade. In this episode, we unpack what this merger could mean for streaming, IP consolidation, and the future of HBO, DC, and...
<p>AI persuasion at scale, bots trading six-figure portfolios, and a RAM crunch that could stall your next upgrade—today’s HackerNews.fm digs into how quickly the future is arriving, and who gets to steer it. </p><p>We...
<p>In This Episode:</p><p>1. Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters? (Rank #14, 205 pts, 164 comments)</p><p>Article...
<p>💰 IBM's $8 Trillion Reality Check (434 points, 508 comments)</p><p>CEO Arvind Krishna does the napkin math: fully kitting out 100 gigawatts of AI data centers would cost $8 trillion, with current technology having a...
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<p>Stories from Dec 1, 2025:</p><p><br></p><p>DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models</p><p>https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2/resolve/main/assets/paper.pdf</p><p>https://news.ycom...
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