Episodes

  • DTF:HN for February 15, 2026

    DTF:HN for February 15, 2026
    Feb 15 2026
    Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for February 15, 2026. Featuring: I Fixed Windows Native Development, I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers, Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved, Show HN: Perlin Noise Terminal Animation in Rust (60 FPS, Truecolor), Amazon, Google Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State, and more. Stories covered: 1. I Fixed Windows Native Development https://marler8997.github.io/blog/fixed-windows/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022891 2. I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers https://k7r.eu/i-love-the-work-of-the-archwiki-maintainers/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020191 3. Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved https://flashpointarchive.org HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021354 4. Show HN: Perlin Noise Terminal Animation in Rust (60 FPS, Truecolor) https://github.com/denisepattenson/perlin-terminal HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47023333 5. Amazon, Google Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State https://greenwald.substack.com/p/amazons-ring-and-googles-nest-unwittingly HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47023238 6. Reversed engineered game Starflight (1986) https://github.com/s-macke/starflight-reverse HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022943 7. RynnBrain https://github.com/alibaba-damo-academy/RynnBrain HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46968964 8. My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker https://aimilios.bearblog.dev/reverse-engineering-sleep-mask/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015294 9. Oat – Ultra-lightweight, semantic, zero-dependency HTML UI component library https://oat.ink/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021980 10. Constraint Propagation for Fun https://eli.li/constraint-propagation-for-fun HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46960305
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    27 mins
  • DTF:HN for February 14, 2026

    DTF:HN for February 14, 2026
    Feb 14 2026
    Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for February 14, 2026. Featuring: MinIO repository is no longer maintained, Monosketch, Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues, MMAcevedo aka Lena by qntm, GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark, and more. Stories covered: 1. MinIO repository is no longer maintained https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/7aac2a2c5b7c882e68c1ce017d8256be2feea27f HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000041 2. Monosketch https://monosketch.io/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47001871 3. Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues https://noheger.at/blog/2026/02/12/resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe-the-saga-continues/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997008 4. MMAcevedo aka Lena by qntm https://qntm.org/mmacevedo HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999224 5. GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex-spark/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992553 6. Cache Monet https://cachemonet.com HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46933020 7. Gemini 3 Deep Think https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-deep-think/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991240 8. Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript) HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996490 9. An AI agent published a hit piece on me https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990729 10. We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/rust_cpp/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46923825
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    33 mins
  • DTF:HN for February 13, 2026

    DTF:HN for February 13, 2026
    Feb 13 2026
    Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for February 13, 2026. Featuring: Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues, GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark, Gemini 3 Deep Think, Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you, AWS Adds support for nested virtualization, and more. Stories covered: 1. Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues https://noheger.at/blog/2026/02/12/resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe-the-saga-continues/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997008 2. GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex-spark/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992553 3. Gemini 3 Deep Think https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-deep-think/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991240 4. Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you https://skipthe.tips/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997519 5. AWS Adds support for nested virtualization https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/commit/3dca5e45d5ad05460b93410087833cbaa624754e HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997133 6. New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf] https://nickbostrom.com/optimal.pdf HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999117 7. An AI agent published a hit piece on me https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990729 8. MMAcevedo aka Lena by qntm https://qntm.org/mmacevedo HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999224 9. Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript) HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996490 10. Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation https://pol.is/home2 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992815
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    29 mins
  • DTF:HN for February 12, 2026

    DTF:HN for February 12, 2026
    Feb 12 2026
    Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for February 12, 2026. Featuring: The "Crown of Nobles" Noble Gas Tube Display, Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed, Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code, The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware, Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass, and more. Stories covered: 1. The "Crown of Nobles" Noble Gas Tube Display https://theshamblog.com/the-crown-of-nobles-noble-gas-tube-display/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987919 2. Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed http://blog.can.ac/2026/02/12/the-harness-problem/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46988596 3. Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code https://github.com/tonyyont/peon-ping HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46985151 4. The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware https://lwn.net/Articles/1055590/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46989117 5. Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass https://age-verifier.kibty.town/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46982421 6. America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out https://www.threathunter.ai/blog/americas-cyber-defense-agency-burning-down/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987963 7. The missing digit of Stela C https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/stela-c/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46986248 8. “Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work https://www.vangemert.dev/blog/nothing HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46933529 9. GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks https://z.ai/blog/glm-5 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46974853 10. Using an engineering notebook https://ntietz.com/blog/using-an-engineering-notebook/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46949814
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    27 mins
  • DTF:HN for February 11, 2026

    DTF:HN for February 11, 2026
    Feb 11 2026
    Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for February 11, 2026. Featuring: Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability, The AI Vampire, The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964), Exploring a Modern SMTPE 2110 Broadcast Truck, The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday, and more. Stories covered: 1. Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-20841 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46971516 2. The AI Vampire https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampire-eda6e4f07163 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46972179 3. The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964) https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958345 4. Exploring a Modern SMTPE 2110 Broadcast Truck https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/exploring-a-modern-smpte-2110-broadcast-truck-with-my-dad/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934318 5. The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday https://campedersen.com/singularity HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46962996 6. Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents https://entire.io/blog/hello-entire-world/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46961345 7. The Day the Telnet Died https://www.labs.greynoise.io/grimoire/2026-02-10-telnet-falls-silent/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967772 8. Signy: Signed URLs for Small Devices https://github.com/golioth/signy HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46911581 9. Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2026/01/21/very-snowy-place/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46913489 10. Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish (2005) https://stevejobsarchive.com/stories/stay-hungry-stay-foolish HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46971248
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    27 mins
  • DTF:HN for February 10, 2026

    DTF:HN for February 10, 2026
    Feb 10 2026
    Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for February 10, 2026. Featuring: Simplifying Vulkan One Subsystem at a Time, Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine, Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs, Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial, Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month, and more. Stories covered: 1. Simplifying Vulkan One Subsystem at a Time https://www.khronos.org/blog/simplifying-vulkan-one-subsystem-at-a-time HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46959418 2. Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine https://code.idtech.space/fn/hl2 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958231 3. Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.20798 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954920 4. Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-jury-told-meta-google-addiction.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46959832 5. Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945663 6. Show HN: Distr 2.0 – A year of learning how to ship to customer environments https://github.com/distr-sh/distr HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958742 7. Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser https://github.com/TrevorS/voxtral-mini-realtime-rs HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954136 8. RLHF from Scratch https://github.com/ashworks1706/rlhf-from-scratch HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958378 9. Pure C, CPU-only inference with Mistral Voxtral Realtime 4B speech to text model https://github.com/antirez/voxtral.c HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954049 10. Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-2.0 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46957198
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    27 mins
  • DTF:HN for February 9, 2026

    DTF:HN for February 9, 2026
    Feb 9 2026
    Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for February 9, 2026. Featuring: Show HN: Algorithmically Finding the Longest Line of Sight on Earth, Thoughts on Generating C, Show HN: Browse Internet Infrastructure, UEFI Bindings for JavaScript, Art of Roads in Games, and more. Stories covered: 1. Show HN: Algorithmically Finding the Longest Line of Sight on Earth https://alltheviews.world HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46943568 2. Thoughts on Generating C https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/02/09/six-thoughts-on-generating-c HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945235 3. Show HN: Browse Internet Infrastructure https://www.wirewiki.com HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46944555 4. UEFI Bindings for JavaScript https://codeberg.org/smnx/promethee HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945348 5. Art of Roads in Games https://sandboxspirit.com/blog/art-of-roads-in-games/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938511 6. Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/09/matrix_element_secure_chat/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46944245 7. Vouch https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930961 8. Jony Ive Designed Ferrari Luce EV Interior https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/official-ferraris-first-ev-called-luce-interior-apples-old-design-boss HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46944978 9. Show HN: Minimal NIST/OWASP-compliant auth implementation for Cloudflare Workers https://github.com/vhscom/private-landing HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46944084 10. Offpunk 3.0 https://ploum.net/2026-02-09-offpunk3.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46943752
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    24 mins
  • DTF:HN for February 8, 2026

    DTF:HN for February 8, 2026
    Feb 8 2026
    Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for February 8, 2026. Featuring: Art of Roads in Games, Vouch, Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2, Custom Firmware for the MZ-RH1 – Ready for Testing, Quartz crystals, and more. Stories covered: 1. Art of Roads in Games https://sandboxspirit.com/blog/art-of-roads-in-games/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938511 2. Vouch https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930961 3. Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2 https://mattst88.com/blog/2026/02/08/Reverse_Engineering_the_PROM_for_the_SGI_O2/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939187 4. Custom Firmware for the MZ-RH1 – Ready for Testing https://sir68k.re/posts/rh1-firmware-available/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46885841 5. Quartz crystals https://www.pa3fwm.nl/technotes/tn13a.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46932444 6. Apple XNU: Clutch Scheduler https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/blob/main/doc/scheduler/sched_clutch_edge.md HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938280 7. Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures https://bobbiec.github.io/cistercian-font.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939312 8. More Mac malware from Google search https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/30/more-malware-from-google-search/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938398 9. Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord https://odd-lots-books.netlify.app/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939685 10. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026) HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937696
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    25 mins