Episodes

  • 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
  • DTF:HN for February 7, 2026

    DTF:HN for February 7, 2026
    Feb 7 2026
    Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for February 7, 2026. Featuring: France's homegrown open source online office suite, British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years, Start all of your commands with a comma (2009), Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly, First Proof, and more. Stories covered: 1. France's homegrown open source online office suite https://github.com/suitenumerique HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46923736 2. British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924813 3. Start all of your commands with a comma (2009) https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46890814 4. Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46923254 5. First Proof https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924591 6. OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III https://openciv3.org/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918612 7. Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46923463 8. Stories from 25 Years of Software Development https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924264 9. The Waymo World Model https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simulation HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46914785 10. Coding agents have replaced every framework I used https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46923543
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    23 mins
  • DTF:HN for February 6, 2026

    DTF:HN for February 6, 2026
    Feb 6 2026
    Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for February 6, 2026. Featuring: I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams, A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content, Show HN: Agent Arena – Test How Manipulation-Proof Your AI Agent Is, Claude Opus 4.6, Invention of DNA "Page Numbers" Opens Up Possibilities for the Bioeconomy, and more. Stories covered: 1. I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46911901 2. A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/a-new-bill-in-new-york-would-require-disclaimers-on-ai-generated-news-content/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46910963 3. Show HN: Agent Arena – Test How Manipulation-Proof Your AI Agent Is https://wiz.jock.pl/experiments/agent-arena/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46911873 4. Claude Opus 4.6 https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902223 5. Invention of DNA "Page Numbers" Opens Up Possibilities for the Bioeconomy https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/invention-dna-page-numbers-synthesis-kaihang-wang HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46911170 6. GPT-5.3-Codex https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902638 7. Things Unix can do atomically (2010) https://rcrowley.org/2010/01/06/things-unix-can-do-atomically.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46909468 8. Systems Thinking http://theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com/2026/02/systems-thinking.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46909439 9. My AI Adoption Journey https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-ai-adoption-journey HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903558 10. Plasma Effect https://www.4rknova.com/blog/2016/11/01/plasma HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867271
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    24 mins
  • DTF:HN for February 5, 2026

    DTF:HN for February 5, 2026
    Feb 5 2026
    Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for February 5, 2026. Featuring: Don't rent the cloud, own instead, When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown, Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw, The Missing Layer, Show HN: Micropolis/SimCity Clone in Emacs Lisp, and more. Stories covered: 1. Don't rent the cloud, own instead https://blog.comma.ai/datacenter/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46896146 2. When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2026/02/03/badnas/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46895972 3. Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw https://github.com/HKUDS/nanobot HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46897737 4. The Missing Layer https://yagmin.com/blog/the-missing-layer/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46898223 5. Show HN: Micropolis/SimCity Clone in Emacs Lisp https://github.com/vkazanov/elcity HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46897332 6. Making Ferrite Core Inductors at Home https://danielmangum.com/posts/making-ferrite-core-inductors-home/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46855057 7. Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science (1999) https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ss-toc2.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845790 8. A Broken Heart https://allenpike.com/2026/a-broken-heart/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844393 9. Wirth's Revenge https://jmoiron.net/blog/wirths-revenge/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46895381 10. Sqldef: Idempotent schema management tool for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite https://sqldef.github.io/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845239
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    27 mins
  • DTF:HN for February 4, 2026

    DTF:HN for February 4, 2026
    Feb 4 2026
    Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for February 4, 2026. Featuring: I miss thinking hard, Data centers in space makes no sense, Show HN: Ghidra MCP Server – 110 tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering, Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product, Brazilian Micro-SaaS Map, and more. Stories covered: 1. I miss thinking hard https://www.jernesto.com/articles/thinking_hard HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46881264 2. Data centers in space makes no sense https://civai.org/blog/space-data-centers HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46876105 3. Show HN: Ghidra MCP Server – 110 tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering https://github.com/bethington/ghidra-mcp HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882389 4. Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product https://www.simonberens.com/p/lessons-learned-shipping-500-units HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46848876 5. Brazilian Micro-SaaS Map https://saas-map.ssr.trapiche.cloud/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46840558 6. Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery https://github.com/puemos/craftplan HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46847690 7. The Mathematics of Tuning Systems https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/tuning_talk/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46834810 8. New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/03/new-york-wants-to-ctrlaltdelete-your-3d-printer/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872540 9. Deno Sandbox https://deno.com/blog/introducing-deno-sandbox HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46874097 10. Agent Skills https://agentskills.io/home HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46871173
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    27 mins
  • DTF:HN for February 3, 2026

    DTF:HN for February 3, 2026
    Feb 3 2026
    Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for February 3, 2026. Featuring: What's up with all those equals signs anyway?, Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition, Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API), The Codex App, LNAI – Define AI coding tool configs once, sync to Claude, Cursor, Codex, etc., and more. Stories covered: 1. What's up with all those equals signs anyway? https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026/02/02/whats-up-with-all-those-equals-signs-anyway/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46868759 2. Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition https://krzysztofjankowski.com/floppinux/floppinux-2025.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866544 3. Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API) https://github.com/whispem/minikv HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867947 4. The Codex App https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-codex-app/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46859054 5. LNAI – Define AI coding tool configs once, sync to Claude, Cursor, Codex, etc. https://github.com/KrystianJonca/lnai HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46868318 6. Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ankis-growing-up/68610 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861313 7. Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB) https://safe-now.live HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46868479 8. How does misalignment scale with model intelligence and task complexity? https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/hot-mess-of-ai/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46864498 9. Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years https://www.millert.dev/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46858577 10. GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations https://www.githubstatus.com?todayis=2026-02-02 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861842
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    28 mins
  • DTF:HN for February 2, 2026

    DTF:HN for February 2, 2026
    Feb 2 2026
    Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for February 2, 2026. Featuring: Termux, Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle, Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works, My fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml, Show HN: Apate API mocking/prototyping server and Rust unit test library, and more. Stories covered: 1. Termux https://github.com/termux/termux-app HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46854642 2. Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle https://dmitrybrant.com/2026/02/01/defeating-a-40-year-old-copy-protection-dongle HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46849567 3. Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works https://neutree.ai/blog/nano-vllm-part-1 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46855447 4. My fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml https://anil.recoil.org/notes/oxcaml-httpz HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46854534 5. Show HN: Apate API mocking/prototyping server and Rust unit test library https://github.com/rustrum/apate HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845097 6. My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs https://journal.rafaelcosta.me/my-thousand-dollar-iphone-cant-do-math/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46849258 7. Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/2/1.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46852096 8. MaliciousCorgi: AI Extensions send your code to China https://www.koi.ai/blog/maliciouscorgi-the-cute-looking-ai-extensions-leaking-code-from-1-5-million-developers HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46855527 9. Ratchets in software development (2021) https://qntm.org/ratchet HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814340 10. Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed https://xikipedia.org HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850803
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    25 mins