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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.
Ishan hosts HackerNews.fm, a news show with 15 episodes published.
Stories covered in this episode: 1. 00:58 I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me - Rank: 15 - Points: 660 - Comments: 412 - Article: https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-
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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 upvo
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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 episode, w
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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 it
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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 rant-worth
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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 regulat
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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” experim
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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 how
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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 referenc
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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, timely s
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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 Warn
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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. We start with
Show notesIn This Episode: 1. Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters? (Rank #14, 205 pts, 164 comments) Article: https://martinalderson.com/posts/are-we-really-repeating-the-telecoms-crash-with-ai-datacenters/ HN
Show notes💰 IBM's $8 Trillion Reality Check (434 points, 508 comments) 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 0-1% chan
Show notesStories from Dec 1, 2025: DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2/resolve/main/assets/paper.pdf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46108780 Adv
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