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HackerNews.fm

Hosted by Ishan · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 15 episodes

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About this podcast

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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When AI Sounds Like You & Owes Taxes

Dec 16, 202516m0

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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When AI Eats SaaS (and Your Home Directory)

Dec 15, 202517m0

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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Platforms, Propaganda, and a 100-Year-Old Hacker

Dec 14, 202520m0

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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Horses, Hardware, and Hollywood: AI’s Next Phase

Dec 13, 202519m0

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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AI Models Level Up, Dev Platforms Melt Down, and Tool Names Get Weird

Dec 12, 202520m0

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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Why AGI “Will Not Happen”, Mental Health Benchmarks, and a World-First Social Ban

Dec 11, 202523m0

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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Hacker News in 2035, Training an LLM at home, and Mistral's latest open model

Dec 10, 202522m0

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 Money Cycle, IBM Buys Kafka’s Champion, and 90% Cheaper Software

Dec 9, 202518m0

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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50 Fake Citations, Long-Term AI Memory, and Years Lost to Crypto

Dec 8, 202518m0

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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Secure Phones, Google TPUs, and Why Perl Really Died

Dec 7, 202520m0

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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Streaming Megamerger, Infra Outage, Vision AI, and the People Problem in Tech

Dec 6, 202522m0

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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When AI Sways Voters, Trades Your Portfolio, and Eats Your RAM

Dec 5, 202520m0

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

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AI Reality Check? Bubbles, Billions, and Backlash – Dec 3rd, 2025

Dec 4, 202524m0

In 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

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Anthropic Buys a Runtime, IBM Does the Math, and We All Learn Music in JavaScript

Dec 4, 202528m0

💰 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

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2025-12-01

Dec 3, 202549m0

Stories 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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