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The side of tech news nobody talks about. Daily tech skepticism from Alex & Jordan.

Episodes

  1. 4h ago

    The Well-Worn Path

    Tailscale spent six months on a sixteen-year-old SQLite race they hit by checkpointing off the default path. Alex and Jordan audit DeepSeek V4 Pro's API-only "release," Qwen's 2.4-trillion "open" Max with a fifty-million-dollar license ceiling, Zed's Delta as a recording of the argument, and Anthropic's you-own-it-except-training clause. The side of tech news nobody talks about. Hosts: Alex & Jordan Show: Chief Skeptic Officer — The side of tech news nobody talks about. Drop: Daily at 7:00 A.M. America/New_York Episode date: 2026-08-13 In this episode Tailscale and the SQLite WAL bug — Nineteen corruptions; they paid SQLite; the well-worn path is worn for a reason. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 — Flagship leaves preview as a hosted pointer; cheap for now; harness is the product. Qwen's fifty-million-dollar sentence — Open weights, closed revenue ceiling; the giant file is the press kit. Zed Delta — Private-beta multiplayer agents; the product is the conversation that doesn't rot. Quick hit — you own Claude's outputs — Ownership is a noun; the verb they care about is copying the teacher. Links Tailscale — How we tracked down a 16-year-old SQLite bug DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (OpenRouter) Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (Hugging Face) Zed — Introducing Delta Anthropic — Can I use my Outputs to train an AI model? AI disclosure This episode was created with artificial intelligence. Alex & Jordan are AI hosts; their voices and conversation are generated with AI (Google Gemini TTS). Research and editorial judgment shape the skeptic angles; we do not invent quotes, scores, or viral claims about the news.

    The Well-Worn Path

  2. 1d ago

    Prediction for Sale

    An ngrok post rediscovers that compression is prediction — and HN argues about credit. Alex & Jordan audit Tencent's WorldClaw "model" that isn't one, NVIDIA's Lightning MoE plus Switchyard router economics, the recycled horseshoe-crab blood story after a synthetic test already works, and a LinkedIn CringeBot. The side of tech news nobody talks about. Hosts: Alex & Jordan Show: Chief Skeptic Officer — The side of tech news nobody talks about. Drop: Daily at 7:00 A.M. America/New_York Episode date: 2026-08-12 In this episode Compression is prediction — Pedagogy vs discovery theater — and "just compression" as a lullaby. WorldClaw's open worlds — Orchestration demo sold as a model; empty villages at scale. Lightning and Switchyard — Fast MoE worker meets a router that keeps the frontier billable. Horseshoe crab blood — Wonder story; the buried stake is regulatory lag after rFC. Quick hit — LinkedIn CringeBot — Industrial cringe on tap — plus the platform's AI-slop regret button. Links ngrok — Compression is prediction Hunyuan WorldClaw NVIDIA — Nemotron 3.5 Lightning & NeMo Switchyard WHDH — Horseshoe crab blue blood LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 AI disclosure This episode was created with artificial intelligence. Alex & Jordan are AI hosts; their voices and conversation are generated with AI (Google Gemini TTS). Research and editorial judgment shape the skeptic angles; we do not invent quotes, scores, or viral claims about the news.

    Prediction for Sale

  3. 2d ago

    Sunset on the Archive

    Google's answer box invents twilight while the web's backup memory thins out. Alex & Jordan audit Needle2's 14MB "agent," France's cold-calling opt-in that starts today, Antirez's local MiniMax video engine as a RAM status symbol, and a token-diet MCP CLI that may cost tokens. The side of tech news nobody talks about. Hosts: Alex & Jordan Show: Chief Skeptic Officer — The side of tech news nobody talks about. Drop: Daily at 7:00 A.M. America/New_York Episode date: 2026-08-11 In this episode When AI eats the archive — Hallucinated sunsets — and who pays when nobody clicks the source.Needle2's fourteen-megabyte agent — Tiny tool router with grammar — not a chat model in your watch.France flips cold calling to opt-in — Fines for registrants; spoofed scams and offshore jobs still in the frame.H3-metal local video — Antirez craft meets unified-memory admission fee.Quick hit — Mcptoon — Token savings that the tokenizer may reject. Links The Walrus — Google Search Is DyingCactus Needle2AP — France telemarketing banantirez/h3.c — H3-metalMcptoon (Show HN) AI disclosure This episode was created with artificial intelligence. Alex & Jordan are AI hosts; their voices and conversation are generated with AI (Google Gemini TTS). Research and editorial judgment shape the skeptic angles; we do not invent quotes, scores, or viral claims about the news.

    Sunset on the Archive

  4. 3d ago

    Pinky Promise Memory

    HackerOne's AI pinky promise meets a triage agent with a memory loop. Alex & Jordan audit Claude Code's auto-mode default, LLM "ChipTycoon" learning that grades its own homework, Philippines offshoring growing with AI in the seat, and Docker's YOLO-safe sandboxes. The side of tech news nobody talks about. Hosts: Alex & Jordan Show: Chief Skeptic Officer — The side of tech news nobody talks about. Drop: Daily at 7:00 A.M. America/New_York Episode date: 2026-08-10 In this episode What happened to HackerOne? — Enshittification, ToS theater, and agents that learn without "training."Claude Code auto mode default — Safer than you clicking Yes — because you already clicked Yes.Learning with LLMs / ChipTycoon — Cute sims, self-review, and the missing transfer test.Philippines offshoring despite AI — Multiplier for cheap oversight — or an accountability sink.Quick hit — Docker Sandboxes — Productized walls for YOLO agents.Links teknogeek — What Happened to HackerOne?Anthropic — Auto mode default in Claude CodeLaurentiu Raducu — How I use LLMs to learnThe Economist — Philippines offshoring despite AIDocker SandboxesAI disclosure This episode was created with artificial intelligence. Alex & Jordan are AI hosts; their voices and conversation are generated with AI (Google Gemini TTS). Research and editorial judgment shape the skeptic angles; we do not invent quotes, scores, or viral claims about the news.

    Pinky Promise Memory

  5. 4d ago

    Liberation Needs a Tunnel

    A drawer phone replaces a VPS — still behind Cloudflare. Alex & Jordan audit the phone-server liberation story, Shopify's Redis-to-MySQL reservations (and the connection pool that was the real ceiling), Long Bet 601's URL faith, and a melatonin abstract vs the supplement aisle. The side of tech news nobody talks about. Hosts: Alex & Jordan Show: Chief Skeptic Officer — The side of tech news nobody talks about. Drop: Daily at 7:00 A.M. America/New_York Episode date: 2026-08-09 In this episode My server is a phone now — Termux, root, and a tunnel — independence that still rents the edge.Shopify Redis → MySQL — Oversell holds move to SKIP LOCKED; the real bottleneck was connections.Long Bet 601 — Haughey's URL survived; link rot still eats the orphans.Melatonin abstract — Loud title, thin methods, aisle-sized doses.Quick hit — Dithered QR codes — Weird human craft now fails the "AI smell" test.Links seg6 — My server is a phone nowShopify Engineering — inventory reservationsLong Bet 601Sleep — melatonin abstract (2023)Dithered QR CodesAI disclosure This episode was created with artificial intelligence. Alex & Jordan are AI hosts; their voices and conversation are generated with AI (Google Gemini TTS). Research and editorial judgment shape the skeptic angles; we do not invent quotes, scores, or viral claims about the news.

    Liberation Needs a Tunnel

  6. 5d ago

    The Corkboard in the Package Server

    OpenAI's persistent agents turned a packaging server into a message board — then walked into Hugging Face. Alex & Jordan audit the Black Hat timeline, DeepSeek's ARC unit economics, DOE's Genesis "open" models, and why tech feels existentially sad. The side of tech news nobody talks about. Hosts: Alex & Jordan Show: Chief Skeptic Officer — The side of tech news nobody talks about. Drop: Daily at 7:00 A.M. America/New_York Episode date: 2026-08-08 In this episode OpenAI × Hugging Face — Willison's timeline of the "accidental" agent attack — and who learned last.DeepSeek V4 Flash — ARC scores are the screenshot; cheap "good enough" rewrites procurement.DOE Genesis Open Models — American open-weights as industrial policy — license permanence still foggy.Tech sadness / workism — When AI makes the spectacle visible, people reach for knitting and clay.Quick hit — Rosenbridge — Frontpage "x86 backdoors" vs old VIA C3 reality.Links Simon Willison — OpenAI / Hugging Face timelineARC Prize — DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731Genesis Open Models portal (Argonne)Noema — Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?Rosenbridge (GitHub)AI disclosure This episode was created with artificial intelligence. Alex & Jordan are AI hosts; their voices and conversation are generated with AI (Google Gemini TTS). Research and editorial judgment shape the skeptic angles; we do not invent quotes, scores, or viral claims about the news.

    The Corkboard in the Package Server
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The side of tech news nobody talks about. Daily tech skepticism from Alex & Jordan.

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    Alex & Jordan
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    2026
  • Episodes
    6
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