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  1. قبل يومين

    0901 | Google Removes MV2 Extensions, Including uBlock Origin, from Chrome Web Store

    0901 | Google Removes MV2 Extensions, Including uBlock Origin, from Chrome Web Store Timeline: 00:00:00 Opening 00:00:29 Google yanks Manifest V2 extensions from the Chrome Web Store, including uBlock Origin 00:01:08 A private Snapchat complaint about a workday draws police to a student teacher's school 00:02:53 Researchers break Claude Code Opus 5 auto mode 00:04:32 Agent memory as a file format: commenters say it's just markdown 00:05:15 Is writing the safest job from AI? Commenters split commodity from prestige writing 00:06:41 SK Hynix CEO says memory chip shortage could last until 2030 — commenters smell a vested interest 00:08:45 Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio 00:10:36 A CVE dispute and the social proof of security bugs 00:11:36 C++26 standard library hardening: contracts versus exceptions 00:12:09 Malleable software: should a past no-code miss discredit the thesis? 00:12:38 Pluto's defenders: was the 2006 demotion a mistake? 00:14:42 Blue light and fine detail: a new study, or common knowledge? 00:16:17 The Konrad Zuse museum faces closure over lack of funding 00:16:49 The 12TB Steam teraleak spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history 00:18:53 A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in a single HTML file View episode details → https://bri.so/show/episode/01a05b20-2d8a-749c-b979-2cfa59a419f8 This episode is produced by Bri. Bri uses advanced AI technology to turn the feeds you care about into podcasts made for listening. https://bri.so Contact us at hi@bri.so.

  2. قبل ٤ أيام

    0830 | Record Ocean Heat as El Niño Forms, Flock Cameras, DHS Snooping, Pixel 11 MTE

    This episode dives into a wide-ranging mix of tech, policy, and science stories from the Hacker News front page. Topics include a record ocean heat reading tied to a forming El Niño, how a one-dollar insurance fee quietly funded Flock license-plate cameras, and DHS using an obscure customs statute to demand records from journalists and nonprofits. The hosts also cover the loss of hardware memory tagging on Pixel 11, Tencent's runaway-success Hy4 model, vLLM 0.28.0's big optimizations alongside u Timeline: 00:00:00 Opening 00:00:32 Record ocean heat as a powerful El Niño takes shape 00:01:01 The one-dollar insurance fee that quietly paid for Flock cameras 00:01:49 DHS uses an obscure customs statute to demand records 00:02:35 GrapheneOS: Pixel 11 drops hardware memory tagging 00:03:32 Tencent's Hy4 preview takes off on OpenRouter 00:04:09 vLLM 0.28.0 ships, but users talk about stability 00:06:25 Debian votes to allow 'responsible use' of generative AI 00:07:17 Samsung's processing-in-memory and the open questions 00:08:11 Nancy Grace Roman: the wide-field survey telescope 00:08:49 Quantifying colour — and why the curves matter 00:10:46 Calling nested functions on GCC without an executable stack 00:12:43 Bug blindness: users find workflows you never imagined 00:13:03 Is culture the biggest productivity hack — or just talk? 00:14:03 Burning Man's co-founder says the festival lost its soul 00:14:47 Defrag98: the Windows 98 defragmenter, back with its whirring drive View episode details → https://bri.so/show/episode/01a050d3-b28d-70aa-ab7f-2facbb3095cc This episode is produced by Bri. Bri uses advanced AI technology to turn the feeds you care about into podcasts made for listening. https://bri.so Contact us at hi@bri.so.

    0830 | Record Ocean Heat as El Niño Forms, Flock Cameras, DHS Snooping, Pixel 11 MTE
  3. قبل ٥ أيام

    0829 | Judge Blocks Pentagon's Anthropic Blacklist; OpenAI Ends Cursor Deal; GLM-5.3 Open

    This episode of the podcast covers the week's top stories from Hacker News and the wider tech world. It opens with a federal judge striking down the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic as unlawful, then looks at OpenAI winding down its supply of models to Cursor after the SpaceX acquisition, and the open-weight release of GLM-5.3. The show digs into Jordy Zomer's experiment turning LLM memory into program analysis, the flood of security disclosures hitting open-source maintainers, Luanti's remo Timeline: 00:00:00 Opening 00:00:31 Judge rules Pentagon's Anthropic blacklisting unlawful 00:02:13 OpenAI ends its Cursor partnership after SpaceX acquisition 00:03:58 GLM-5.3 goes open-weight 00:04:35 Turning LLM memory into program analysis 00:06:32 Rumors of bugs fuel an exploit flood 00:07:32 Luanti pulled from Google Play over AI copyright claim 00:09:25 U.S. sanctions hit an Italian hosting collective 00:10:37 9th Circuit sides with states in the Kalshi fight 00:12:34 HTTPX2: a next-generation Python HTTP client 00:13:41 Who decides the map's name? 00:14:32 Small reactors and the 2030 checkpoint 00:15:15 Does the Sumerian King List match paleoclimate events? 00:15:55 The fine print of Windows license refunds View episode details → https://bri.so/show/episode/01a04bac-d250-744d-b00f-3092ef0cd9fa This episode is produced by Bri. Bri uses advanced AI technology to turn the feeds you care about into podcasts made for listening. https://bri.so Contact us at hi@bri.so.

    0829 | Judge Blocks Pentagon's Anthropic Blacklist; OpenAI Ends Cursor Deal; GLM-5.3 Open
  4. قبل ٦ أيام

    0828 | Meta settles 52-AG child-safety suit; PayPal blocks GrapheneOS; FFmpeg bug; small models

    0828 | Meta settles 52-AG child-safety suit; PayPal blocks GrapheneOS; FFmpeg bug; small models Timeline: 00:00:00 Opening 00:00:45 Meta Pays Seventeen Billion Dollars to Help Write Everyone's Kid-Safety Rules 00:02:15 PayPal Crashes on GrapheneOS: Security Policy or Platform Blocking? 00:03:46 A Vibecoded Fuzzer Finds a Division-by-Zero Bug in FFmpeg 00:05:03 Small Models Have Arrived, and HN Is Measuring Them Against Premium Subscriptions 00:06:49 Decompiling a Nintendo 64 Game in Eighty-Four Days, With LLM Help 00:07:37 The Load-Bearing Vocabulary of Claude, and the Words HN Wants Added 00:09:48 Gemini 3.5 Transcribe: A New Transcription Model Meets a Subtitle Question 00:11:46 Autism Mutations and the Dual-Layered Model: What Does It Mean in Practice? 00:12:46 Two Malaria Deaths at a German Airport: Is Malaria Coming to Germany? 00:13:28 Engineered Yeast Turns Plastic and Biomass Into Food — But at What Scale? 00:14:04 Aphantasia: What It's Like to Realize You Can't Picture Anything 00:14:44 How Cloudflare Saved a Hundred Terabytes by Deleting an Unused Field 00:16:29 Suica: The Batteryless Card That Powers Japan's Transit Gates 00:18:20 M5Stack's PaperMono: A Compact E-Ink Terminal With a Software Caveat View episode details → https://bri.so/show/episode/01a04686-d8b7-776a-a037-b22231c05fc6 This episode is produced by Bri. Bri uses advanced AI technology to turn the feeds you care about into podcasts made for listening. https://bri.so Contact us at hi@bri.so.

  5. ٢٦ أغسطس

    0826 | OpenAI Jalapeño beats Nvidia Blackwell; New Mac mini M6, Nitter C&D, Dolly Parton Dies

    This episode rounds up a busy Hacker News day, from AI silicon and model releases to Apple hardware and deep dives into the week's stories. On the AI front, there's talk of OpenAI's Jalapeño accelerator besting Nvidia Blackwell, the imminent Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next release, and a developer running a 35B Qwen model on a Raspberry Pi as an in-car local AI assistant. Apple drops new Mac minis with M6 and M5 Pro chips plus Mac Studios with M5 Max and M5 Ultra. The show also digs into Python's quirky pre Timeline: 00:00:00 Opening 00:00:34 OpenAI Jalapeño: better than Nvidia Blackwell? 00:01:13 Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next: 125B a6B releasing tomorrow 00:02:44 Raspberry Pi running a 35B Qwen as a local car AI 00:03:21 Apple's M6 and M5 Ultra day: Mac mini and Mac Studio 00:04:15 Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird 00:05:55 LatticeDB: a SQLite-style local file for graph databases 00:06:47 Firefox 157 brings JPEG XL by default 00:07:36 Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it 00:08:30 Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices 00:10:17 The black hole singularity is a surface, not a point 00:11:55 Starbase, Louisiana: SpaceX's next big site 00:12:32 FDA authorizes first wearable for ketones and blood sugar 00:13:07 Why some US restaurants are banning tips 00:15:02 Bomb fishing wreaks havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs 00:15:28 My Friend Aaron: a story that turns to prediction markets 00:17:29 Dolly Parton has died 00:17:55 How much of HN is AI? View episode details → https://bri.so/show/episode/01a03c3a-3166-74fb-b6e7-57589f70f873 This episode is produced by Bri. Bri uses advanced AI technology to turn the feeds you care about into podcasts made for listening. https://bri.so Contact us at hi@bri.so.

    0826 | OpenAI Jalapeño beats Nvidia Blackwell; New Mac mini M6, Nitter C&D, Dolly Parton Dies

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A daily Bri podcast briefing on the top Hacker News stories, startup debates, developer tools, and technology discussions worth catching up on.