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When AI Sounds Like You & Owes Taxes
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:…
When AI Eats SaaS (and Your Home Directory)
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…
Platforms, Propaganda, and a 100-Year-Old Hacker
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…
Horses, Hardware, and Hollywood: AI’s Next Phase
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…
AI Models Level Up, Dev Platforms Melt Down, and Tool Names Get Weird
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…
Why AGI “Will Not Happen”, Mental Health Benchmarks, and a World-First Social Ban
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…
Hacker News in 2035, Training an LLM at home, and Mistral's latest open model
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…
Nvidia’s Money Cycle, IBM Buys Kafka’s Champion, and 90% Cheaper Software
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…
50 Fake Citations, Long-Term AI Memory, and Years Lost to Crypto
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…
Secure Phones, Google TPUs, and Why Perl Really Died
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…
Streaming Megamerger, Infra Outage, Vision AI, and the People Problem in Tech
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…
When AI Sways Voters, Trades Your Portfolio, and Eats Your RAM
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…
AI Reality Check? Bubbles, Billions, and Backlash – Dec 3rd, 2025
In This Episode:1. Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters? (Rank #14, 205 pts, 164 comments)Article:…
Anthropic Buys a Runtime, IBM Does the Math, and We All Learn Music in JavaScript
💰 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…
2025-12-01
Stories from Dec 1, 2025:DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language…
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