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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on March 08, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from postingOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47300329&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:56): Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agentsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47301085&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:22): FrameBookOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47298044&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:48): Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortageOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47296302&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:14): The changing goalposts of AGI and timelinesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47299009&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:41): Ask HN: How to be alone?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47296547&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:07): Cloud VM benchmarks 2026Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293119&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:33): I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam MachineOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47296849&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:59): LibreOffice Writer now supports MarkdownOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47298885&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:26): Warn about PyPy being unmaintainedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293415&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on March 07, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passionOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282777&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:56): LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria firstOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283337&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:23): Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta ArguesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285960&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:49): Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the ASTOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47286311&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:16): UUID package coming to Go standard libraryOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283665&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:43): Put the zip code firstOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292485&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:09): Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction marketsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47291406&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:36): A decade of Docker containersOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47289311&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:02): CasNumOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47291292&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:29): Yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in JapanOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47287344&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

Google - basta app senza play store - Fdroid dovrà chiudere a settembre 2026Fdroid annuncia l'ennesima innovazione tecnica come maschera per bloccare l'utilizzo di un dispositivo informatico.Motorola pensa a Graphene OS, ma non possiamo permetterci un mondo android senza libertà di software.https://keepandroidopen.org/it/Mobilitiamoci ora.Ecco cosa possiamo fare per contrastare la chiusura di Android:SviluppatoriResistere: Non registrarsi al programma di verifica di Google.Diffondere il messaggio: Usare forum, social media e blog per sensibilizzare.Incorporare FreeDroidWarn: Avvisare gli utenti delle limitazioni.Segnalare informazioni: Contattare tips@keepandroidopen.org (da dispositivi non Google).UtentiUsare F-Droid: Sostegno agli store alternativi.Fare pressione su Google: Rispondere al sondaggio sui requisiti di verifica.Denunciare manipolazioni: Contrastare la propaganda a favore della chiusura.Stati e AutoritàContattare i regolatori: Segnalare i rischi per la concorrenza e i diritti dei consumatori.Firmare petizioni: Sostegno a iniziative come Keep Android Open.RisorseInformarsi: Leggere editoriali e guide su F-Droid e altri siti.Partecipare: Discutere su forum (Reddit, Hacker News) e condividere link.Motivazione: Google sta violando la promessa di "Android aperto", centralizzando il controllo su app e utenti. L'azione collettiva è l'unica via per difendere la libertà digitale.

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on March 06, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Global warming has accelerated significantlyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275088&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:57): System76 on Age Verification LawsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270784&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:24): Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessionsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278426&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:51): Where things stand with the Department of WarOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47269263&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:19): Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms' might be bad at their jobsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47274676&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:46): Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red TeamOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47273854&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:13): US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in FebruaryOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275035&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:41): Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has ignited a passion againOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282777&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:08): LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editorOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47272799&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:35): Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasmaOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282736&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on March 05, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromiseOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263323&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:58): Google Workspace CLIOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255881&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:26): Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261688&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:54): GPT-5.4Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265045&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:23): The L in "LLM" Stands for LyingOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257394&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:51): No right to relicense this projectOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47259177&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:19): Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain riskOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47266084&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:48): Good software knows when to stopOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261561&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:16): Relicensing with AI-Assisted RewriteOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257803&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:44): A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer MachinesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263595&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on March 04, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): MacBook NeoOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47247645&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:56): Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockableOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241551&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:22): Nobody gets promoted for simplicityOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246110&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:48): Something is afoot in the land of QwenOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249343&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:15): An interactive map of Flock CamsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252049&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:41): Agentic Engineering PatternsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243272&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:07): Building a new FlashOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47253177&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:34): TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241817&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:00): Dario Amodei calls OpenAI's messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies'Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255662&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:26): Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journalsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47248341&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

Onderzoekers van ETH Zürich en Anthropic hebben aangetoond dat AI anonieme online-accounts kan koppelen aan echte identiteiten, met een trefkans die traditionele methoden volledig in de schaduw stelt. De techniek werkt door taalgebruik, onderwerpen en gedragspatronen van een anoniem account te analyseren en daarvan een profiel op te bouwen. Dat profiel wordt vervolgens vergeleken met publieke data op andere platforms, zoals LinkedIn. De onderzoekers koppelden anonieme Hacker News-accounts aan LinkedIn-profielen met een slagingspercentage van 45 procent, bij de strengste nauwkeurigheidsinstelling. Methoden zonder AI komen niet verder dan 0,1 procent. Ook transcripties van anonieme interviews met wetenschappers boden geen bescherming: negen deelnemers werden alsnog geïdentificeerd op basis van hun woordkeuze en gesprekspatronen. De gevolgen reiken verder dan technische nieuwsgierigheid. In autoritaire landen vormt deze technologie een directe bedreiging voor activisten en journalisten die afhankelijk zijn van anonimiteit. Maar ook in democratische landen zijn de risico's reëel: bedrijven kunnen anonieme forumposts koppelen aan klantprofielen, en kwaadwillenden kunnen mensen traceren op basis van hun online activiteit. De onderzoekers roepen AI-bedrijven op om misbruik van hun modellen actief te detecteren en te beperken. Maar de kern van het probleem is structureel: zolang mensen consistent schrijven, consistent onderwerpen kiezen en consistent reageren, laten ze een herkenbaar digitaal spoor achter, ook zonder naam. Online anonimiteit is een stuk kwetsbaarder dan veel gebruikers beseffen. En de drempel om die anonimiteit te doorbreken, is met AI drastisch verlaagd. Verder in deze Tech Update: Meta is teruggefloten door de Europese Commissie, omdat het andere AI-chatbots wilde weren uit Whatsapp. President Trump en justitieminister Pam Bondi juridisch aangeklaagd vanwege overname van de Amerikaanse tak van TikTok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on March 03, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): The Xkcd thing, now interactiveOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47230704&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:56): I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online servicesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232768&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:22): MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 MaxOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232453&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:48): Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47226608&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:14): Claude's Cycles [pdf]Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47230710&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:41): I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source projectOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232158&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:07): Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video]Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47233110&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:33): MacBook Air with M5Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232502&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:59): India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated ordersOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47231261&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:26): Lenovo's new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairabilityOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47240694&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on March 02, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOSOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47214645&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:54): Microsoft bans the word "Microslop" on its Discord, then locks the serverOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47216047&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:19): Meta's AI smart glasses and data privacy concernsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47225130&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:44): /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystemOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47215489&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:09): British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight timeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223620&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:34): How to talk to anyone and why you shouldOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47214864&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:59): If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47212355&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:24): Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules footage public recordOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47213764&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:49): Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternativeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47216037&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:13): Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warningOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218288&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

Corey told me about his AI cat reel problem. He found these AI-genearted cat videos hilarious. Who makes these? He kept sending them to his wife. Then he tried to stop watching and he couldn't. So I went down the rabbit hole of how social media algorithms actually work. It starts simple. Upvote, downvote, sort by time. But by 2017 Facebook has a metric that quietly reshapes what two billion people see. Then a leaked playbook lands, and a CEO takes the stand in Los Angeles. Today is an investigation into what happens when the algorithm knows you better than you know yourself. Episode Page Support The Show Subscribe To The Podcast Join The Newsletter    

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on March 01, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): MicrogptOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47202708&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:58): Ghostty – Terminal EmulatorOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206009&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:26): Switch to Claude without starting overOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204571&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:54): I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supportedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47205890&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:23): Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rulesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204964&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:51): AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer HarderOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206824&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:19): When does MCP make sense vs CLI?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208398&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:48): New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissueOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47207404&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:16): 10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204559&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:44): Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App StoreOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47202032&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

Il 14 gennaio 2026, il traffico Telnet globale è crollato del 65% in un'ora. Nessun annuncio, nessun comunicato. Qualcuno ha staccato la spina al primo protocollo applicativo di ARPANET, la rete che poi è diventata internet, e l'ha fatto 6 giorni prima che il mondo sapesse perché.In questo episodio: la storia di Telnet dal 1969, come funziona davvero il protocollo (dalla RFC 854), il bug rimasto nascosto 11 anni, e il mistero del crollo coordinato.Fonti e approfondimenti:- GreyNoise Grimoire: https://www.labs.greynoise.io/grimoire/2026-02-10-telnet-falls-silent/- GreyNoise "f Around and Find Out": https://www.labs.greynoise.io/grimoire/2026-01-22-f-around-and-find-out-18-hours-of-unsolicited-houseguests/- RFC 854: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc854- The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/22/root_telnet_bug/- The Hacker News: https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/critical-gnu-inetutils-telnetd-flaw.html- TXOne Networks: https://www.txone.com/blog/cve-2026-24061-gnu-inetutils-telnet-exploitation/- Dark Reading: https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/asia-fumbles-telnet-threat-trafficLa mia app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.edodusi.coderoutine&hl=it-it00:00 Intro01:31 Cos'è Telnet e come funziona il protocollo06:18 Il bug che dormiva da 11 anni11:32 Il giorno in cui Telnet è morto19:26 Outro#telnet #security #arpanet #protocolli #greynoise

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 28, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): We Will Not Be DividedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188473&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:55): OpenAI – How to delete your accountOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193478&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:21): OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified networkOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189650&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:47): Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete HegsethOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188697&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:13): The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on IranOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47191232&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:39): How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190997&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:05): The whole thing was a scamOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47197505&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:31): Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 yearsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189535&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:57): Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds ComprehensionOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47196582&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:23): Obsidian Sync now has a headless clientOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47197267&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 27, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain riskOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186677&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:57): We Will Not Be DividedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188473&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:24): Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete HegsethOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188697&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:51): Court finds Fourth Amendment doesn't support broad search of protesters' devicesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181391&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:18): The Hunt for Dark BreakfastOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47176257&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:45): Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainersOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47178371&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:12): A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verificationOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181208&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:39): OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuationOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181211&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:06): Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has diedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47183578&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:34): Leaving Google has actively improved my lifeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47184288&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 26, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of WarOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47173121&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:58): Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to usersOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163885&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:27): Layoffs at BlockOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47172119&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:56): Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation modelOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167858&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:24): Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillanceOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47160226&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:53): RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161160&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:22): Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167931&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:50): AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf]Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167763&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:19): What Claude Code ChoosesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47169757&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:48): Show HN: Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from the Command LineOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47164270&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

Bryan Cantrill is the co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. We discuss why the biggest cloud providers don't use off the shelf hardware, how scaling data centers at samsung's scale exposed problems with hard drive firmware, how the values of NodeJS are in conflict with robust systems, choosing Rust, and the benefits of Oxide Computer's rack scale approach. This is an extended version of an interview posted on Software Engineering Radio. Related links Oxide Computer Oxide and Friends Illumos Platform as a Reflection of Values RFD 26 bhyve CockroachDB Heterogeneous Computing with Raja Koduri Transcript You can help correct transcripts on GitHub. Intro [00:00:00] Jeremy: Today I am talking to Bryan Cantrill. He's the co-founder and CTO of Oxide computer company, and he was previously the CTO of Joyent and he also co-authored the DTrace Tracing framework while he was at Sun Microsystems. [00:00:14] Jeremy: Bryan, welcome to Software Engineering radio. [00:00:17] Bryan: Uh, awesome. Thanks for having me. It's great to be here. [00:00:20] Jeremy: You're the CTO of a company that makes computers. But I think before we get into that, a lot of people who built software, now that the actual computer is abstracted away, they're using AWS or they're using some kind of cloud service. So I thought we could start by talking about, data centers. [00:00:41] Jeremy: 'cause you were. Previously working at Joyent, and I believe you got bought by Samsung and you've previously talked about how you had to figure out, how do I run things at Samsung's scale. So how, how, how was your experience with that? What, what were the challenges there? Samsung scale and migrating off the cloud [00:01:01] Bryan: Yeah, I mean, so at Joyent, and so Joyent was a cloud computing pioneer. Uh, we competed with the likes of AWS and then later GCP and Azure. Uh, and we, I mean, we were operating at a scale, right? We had a bunch of machines, a bunch of dcs, but ultimately we know we were a VC backed company and, you know, a small company by the standards of, certainly by Samsung standards. [00:01:25] Bryan: And so when, when Samsung bought the company, I mean, the reason by the way that Samsung bought Joyent is Samsung's. Cloud Bill was, uh, let's just say it was extremely large. They were spending an enormous amount of money every year on, on the public cloud. And they realized that in order to secure their fate economically, they had to be running on their own infrastructure. [00:01:51] Bryan: It did not make sense. And there's not, was not really a product that Samsung could go buy that would give them that on-prem cloud. Uh, I mean in that, in that regard, like the state of the market was really no different. And so they went looking for a company, uh, and bought, bought Joyent. And when we were on the inside of Samsung. [00:02:11] Bryan: That we learned about Samsung scale. And Samsung loves to talk about Samsung scale. And I gotta tell you, it is more than just chest thumping. Like Samsung Scale really is, I mean, just the, the sheer, the number of devices, the number of customers, just this absolute size. they really wanted to take us out to, to levels of scale, certainly that we had not seen. [00:02:31] Bryan: The reason for buying Joyent was to be able to stand up on their own infrastructure so that we were gonna go buy, we did go buy a bunch of hardware. Problems with server hardware at scale [00:02:40] Bryan: And I remember just thinking, God, I hope Dell is somehow magically better. I hope the problems that we have seen in the small, we just. You know, I just remember hoping and hope is hope. It was of course, a terrible strategy and it was a terrible strategy here too. Uh, and the we that the problems that we saw at the large were, and when you scale out the problems that you see kind of once or twice, you now see all the time and they become absolutely debilitating. [00:03:12] Bryan: And we saw a whole series of really debilitating problems. I mean, many ways, like comically debilitating, uh, in terms of, of showing just how bad the state-of-the-art. Yes. And we had, I mean, it should be said, we had great software and great software expertise, um, and we were controlling our own system software. [00:03:35] Bryan: But even controlling your own system software, your own host OS, your own control plane, which is what we had at Joyent, ultimately, you're pretty limited. You go, I mean, you got the problems that you can obviously solve, the ones that are in your own software, but the problems that are beneath you, the, the problems that are in the hardware platform, the problems that are in the componentry beneath you become the problems that are in the firmware. IO latency due to hard drive firmware [00:04:00] Bryan: Those problems become unresolvable and they are deeply, deeply frustrating. Um, and we just saw a bunch of 'em again, they were. Comical in retrospect, and I'll give you like a, a couple of concrete examples just to give, give you an idea of what kinda what you're looking at. one of the, our data centers had really pathological IO latency. [00:04:23] Bryan: we had a very, uh, database heavy workload. And this was kind of right at the period where you were still deploying on rotating media on hard drives. So this is like, so. An all flash buy did not make economic sense when we did this in, in 2016. This probably, it'd be interesting to know like when was the, the kind of the last time that that actual hard drives made sense? [00:04:50] Bryan: 'cause I feel this was close to it. So we had a, a bunch of, of a pathological IO problems, but we had one data center in which the outliers were actually quite a bit worse and there was so much going on in that system. It took us a long time to figure out like why. And because when, when you, when you're io when you're seeing worse io I mean you're naturally, you wanna understand like what's the workload doing? [00:05:14] Bryan: You're trying to take a first principles approach. What's the workload doing? So this is a very intensive database workload to support the, the object storage system that we had built called Manta. And that the, the metadata tier was stored and uh, was we were using Postgres for that. And that was just getting absolutely slaughtered. [00:05:34] Bryan: Um, and ultimately very IO bound with these kind of pathological IO latencies. Uh, and as we, you know, trying to like peel away the layers to figure out what was going on. And I finally had this thing. So it's like, okay, we are seeing at the, at the device layer, at the at, at the disc layer, we are seeing pathological outliers in this data center that we're not seeing anywhere else. [00:06:00] Bryan: And that does not make any sense. And the thought occurred to me. I'm like, well, maybe we are. Do we have like different. Different rev of firmware on our HGST drives, HGST. Now part of WD Western Digital were the drives that we had everywhere. And, um, so maybe we had a different, maybe I had a firmware bug. [00:06:20] Bryan: I, this would not be the first time in my life at all that I would have a drive firmware issue. Uh, and I went to go pull the firmware, rev, and I'm like, Toshiba makes hard drives? So we had, I mean. I had no idea that Toshiba even made hard drives, let alone that they were our, they were in our data center. [00:06:38] Bryan: I'm like, what is this? And as it turns out, and this is, you know, part of the, the challenge when you don't have an integrated system, which not to pick on them, but Dell doesn't, and what Dell would routinely put just sub make substitutes, and they make substitutes that they, you know, it's kind of like you're going to like, I don't know, Instacart or whatever, and they're out of the thing that you want. [00:07:03] Bryan: So, you know, you're, someone makes a substitute and like sometimes that's okay, but it's really not okay in a data center. And you really want to develop and validate a, an end-to-end integrated system. And in this case, like Toshiba doesn't, I mean, Toshiba does make hard drives, but they are a, or the data they did, uh, they basically were, uh, not competitive and they were not competitive in part for the reasons that we were discovering. [00:07:29] Bryan: They had really serious firmware issues. So the, these were drives that would just simply stop a, a stop acknowledging any reads from the order of 2,700 milliseconds. Long time, 2.7 seconds. Um. And that was a, it was a drive firmware issue, but it was highlighted like a much deeper issue, which was the simple lack of control that we had over our own destiny. [00:07:53] Bryan: Um, and it's an, it's, it's an example among many where Dell is making a decision. That lowers the cost of what they are providing you marginally, but it is then giving you a system that they shouldn't have any confidence in because it's not one that they've actually designed and they leave it to the customer, the end user, to make these discoveries. [00:08:18] Bryan: And these things happen up and down the stack. And for every, for whether it's, and, and not just to pick on Dell because it's, it's true for HPE, it's true for super micro, uh, it's true for your switch vendors. It's, it's true for storage vendors where the, the, the, the one that is left actually integrating these things and trying to make the the whole thing work is the end user sitting in their data center. AWS / Google are not buying off the shelf hardware but you can't use it [00:08:42] Bryan: There's not a product that they can buy that gives them elastic infrastructure, a cloud in their own DC The, the product that you buy is the public cloud. Like when you go in the public cloud, you don't worry about the stuff because that it's, it's AWS's issue or it's GCP's issue. And they are the ones that get this to ground. [00:09:02] Bryan: And they, and this was kind of, you know, the eye-opening moment. Not a surprise. Uh, they are not Dell customers. They're not HPE customers. They're not super micro customers. They have designed their own machines. And to varying degrees, depending on which one you're looking at. But they've taken the clean sheet of paper and the frustration that we had kind of at Joyent and beginning to wonder and then Samsung and kind of wondering what was next, uh, is that, that what they built was not available for purchase in the data center. [00:09:35] Bryan: You could only rent it in the public cloud. And our big belief is that public cloud computing is a really important revolution in infrastructure. Doesn't feel like a different, a deep thought, but cloud computing is a really important revolution. It shouldn't only be available to rent. You should be able to actually buy it. [00:09:53] Bryan: And there are a bunch of reasons for doing that. Uh, one in the one we we saw at Samsung is economics, which I think is still the dominant reason where it just does not make sense to rent all of your compute in perpetuity. But there are other reasons too. There's security, there's risk management, there's latency. [00:10:07] Bryan: There are a bunch of reasons why one might wanna to own one's own infrastructure. But, uh, that was very much the, the, so the, the genesis for oxide was coming out of this very painful experience and a painful experience that, because, I mean, a long answer to your question about like what was it like to be at Samsung scale? [00:10:27] Bryan: Those are the kinds of things that we, I mean, in our other data centers, we didn't have Toshiba drives. We only had the HDSC drives, but it's only when you get to this larger scale that you begin to see some of these pathologies. But these pathologies then are really debilitating in terms of those who are trying to develop a service on top of them. [00:10:45] Bryan: So it was, it was very educational in, in that regard. And you're very grateful for the experience at Samsung in terms of opening our eyes to the challenge of running at that kind of scale. [00:10:57] Jeremy: Yeah, because I, I think as software engineers, a lot of times we, we treat the hardware as a, as a given where, [00:11:08] Bryan: Yeah. [00:11:08] Bryan: Yeah. There's software in chard drives [00:11:09] Jeremy: It sounds like in, in this case, I mean, maybe the issue is not so much that. Dell or HP as a company doesn't own every single piece that they're providing you, but rather the fact that they're swapping pieces in and out without advertising them, and then when it becomes a problem, they're not necessarily willing to, to deal with the, the consequences of that. [00:11:34] Bryan: They just don't know. I mean, I think they just genuinely don't know. I mean, I think that they, it's not like they're making a deliberate decision to kind of ship garbage. It's just that they are making, I mean, I think it's exactly what you said about like, not thinking about the hardware. It's like, what's a hard drive? [00:11:47] Bryan: Like what's it, I mean, it's a hard drive. It's got the same specs as this other hard drive and Intel. You know, it's a little bit cheaper, so why not? It's like, well, like there's some reasons why not, and one of the reasons why not is like, uh, even a hard drive, whether it's rotating media or, or flash, like that's not just hardware. [00:12:05] Bryan: There's software in there. And that the software's like not the same. I mean, there are components where it's like, there's actually, whether, you know, if, if you're looking at like a resistor or a capacitor or something like this Yeah. If you've got two, two parts that are within the same tolerance. Yeah. [00:12:19] Bryan: Like sure. Maybe, although even the EEs I think would be, would be, uh, objecting that a little bit. But the, the, the more complicated you get, and certainly once you get to the, the, the, the kind of the hardware that we think of like a, a, a microprocessor, a a network interface card, a a, a hard driver, an NVME drive. [00:12:38] Bryan: Those things are super complicated and there's a whole bunch of software inside of those things, the firmware, and that's the stuff that, that you can't, I mean, you say that software engineers don't think about that. It's like you, no one can really think about that because it's proprietary that's kinda welded shut and you've got this abstraction into it. [00:12:55] Bryan: But the, the way that thing operates is very core to how the thing in aggregate will behave. And I think that you, the, the kind of, the, the fundamental difference between Oxide's approach and the approach that you get at a Dell HP Supermicro, wherever, is really thinking holistically in terms of hardware and software together in a system that, that ultimately delivers cloud computing to a user. [00:13:22] Bryan: And there's a lot of software at many, many, many, many different layers. And it's very important to think about, about that software and that hardware holistically as a single system. [00:13:34] Jeremy: And during that time at Joyent, when you experienced some of these issues, was it more of a case of you didn't have enough servers experiencing this? So if it would happen, you might say like, well, this one's not working, so maybe we'll just replace the hardware. What, what was the thought process when you were working at that smaller scale and, and how did these issues affect you? UEFI / Baseboard Management Controller [00:13:58] Bryan: Yeah, at the smaller scale, you, uh, you see fewer of them, right? You just see it's like, okay, we, you know, what you might see is like, that's weird. We kinda saw this in one machine versus seeing it in a hundred or a thousand or 10,000. Um, so you just, you just see them, uh, less frequently as a result, they are less debilitating. [00:14:16] Bryan: Um, I, I think that it's, when you go to that larger scale, those things that become, that were unusual now become routine and they become debilitating. Um, so it, it really is in many regards a function of scale. Uh, and then I think it was also, you know, it was a little bit dispiriting that kind of the substrate we were building on really had not improved. [00:14:39] Bryan: Um, and if you look at, you know, the, if you buy a computer server, buy an x86 server. There is a very low layer of firmware, the BIOS, the basic input output system, the UEFI BIOS, and this is like an abstraction layer that has, has existed since the eighties and hasn't really meaningfully improved. Um, the, the kind of the transition to UEFI happened with, I mean, I, I ironically with Itanium, um, you know, two decades ago. [00:15:08] Bryan: but beyond that, like this low layer, this lowest layer of platform enablement software is really only impeding the operability of the system. Um, you look at the baseboard management controller, which is the kind of the computer within the computer, there is a, uh, there is an element in the machine that needs to handle environmentals, that needs to handle, uh, operate the fans and so on. [00:15:31] Bryan: Uh, and that traditionally has this, the space board management controller, and that architecturally just hasn't improved in the last two decades. And, you know, that's, it's a proprietary piece of silicon. Generally from a company that no one's ever heard of called a Speed, uh, which has to be, is written all on caps, so I guess it needs to be screamed. [00:15:50] Bryan: Um, a speed has a proprietary part that has a, there is a root password infamously there, is there, the root password is encoded effectively in silicon. So, uh, which is just, and for, um, anyone who kind of goes deep into these things, like, oh my God, are you kidding me? Um, when we first started oxide, the wifi password was a fraction of the a speed root password for the bmc. [00:16:16] Bryan: It's kinda like a little, little BMC humor. Um, but those things, it was just dispiriting that, that the, the state-of-the-art was still basically personal computers running in the data center. Um, and that's part of what, what was the motivation for doing something new? [00:16:32] Jeremy: And for the people using these systems, whether it's the baseboard management controller or it's the The BIOS or UF UEFI component, what are the actual problems that people are seeing seen? Security vulnerabilities and poor practices in the BMC [00:16:51] Bryan: Oh man, I, the, you are going to have like some fraction of your listeners, maybe a big fraction where like, yeah, like what are the problems? That's a good question. And then you're gonna have the people that actually deal with these things who are, did like their heads already hit the desk being like, what are the problems? [00:17:06] Bryan: Like what are the non problems? Like what, what works? Actually, that's like a shorter answer. Um, I mean, there are so many problems and a lot of it is just like, I mean, there are problems just architecturally these things are just so, I mean, and you could, they're the problems spread to the horizon, so you can kind of start wherever you want. [00:17:24] Bryan: But I mean, as like, as a really concrete example. Okay, so the, the BMCs that, that the computer within the computer that needs to be on its own network. So you now have like not one network, you got two networks that, and that network, by the way, it, that's the network that you're gonna log into to like reset the machine when it's otherwise unresponsive. [00:17:44] Bryan: So that going into the BMC, you can are, you're able to control the entire machine. Well it's like, alright, so now I've got a second net network that I need to manage. What is running on the BMC? Well, it's running some. Ancient, ancient version of Linux it that you got. It's like, well how do I, how do I patch that? [00:18:02] Bryan: How do I like manage the vulnerabilities with that? Because if someone is able to root your BMC, they control the system. So it's like, this is not you've, and now you've gotta go deal with all of the operational hair around that. How do you upgrade that system updating the BMC? I mean, it's like you've got this like second shadow bad infrastructure that you have to go manage. [00:18:23] Bryan: Generally not open source. There's something called open BMC, um, which, um, you people use to varying degrees, but you're generally stuck with the proprietary BMC, so you're generally stuck with, with iLO from HPE or iDRAC from Dell or, or, uh, the, uh, su super micros, BMC, that H-P-B-M-C, and you are, uh, it is just excruciating pain. [00:18:49] Bryan: Um, and that this is assuming that by the way, that everything is behaving correctly. The, the problem is that these things often don't behave correctly, and then the consequence of them not behaving correctly. It's really dire because it's at that lowest layer of the system. So, I mean, I'll give you a concrete example. [00:19:07] Bryan: a customer of theirs reported to me, so I won't disclose the vendor, but let's just say that a well-known vendor had an issue with their, their temperature sensors were broken. Um, and the thing would always read basically the wrong value. So it was the BMC that had to like, invent its own ki a different kind of thermal control loop. [00:19:28] Bryan: And it would index on the, on the, the, the, the actual inrush current. It would, they would look at that at the current that's going into the CPU to adjust the fan speed. That's a great example of something like that's a, that's an interesting idea. That doesn't work. 'cause that's actually not the temperature. [00:19:45] Bryan: So like that software would crank the fans whenever you had an inrush of current and this customer had a workload that would spike the current and by it, when it would spike the current, the, the, the fans would kick up and then they would slowly degrade over time. Well, this workload was spiking the current faster than the fans would degrade, but not fast enough to actually heat up the part. [00:20:08] Bryan: And ultimately over a very long time, in a very painful investigation, it's customer determined that like my fans are cranked in my data center for no reason. We're blowing cold air. And it's like that, this is on the order of like a hundred watts, a server of, of energy that you shouldn't be spending and like that ultimately what that go comes down to this kind of broken software hardware interface at the lowest layer that has real meaningful consequence, uh, in terms of hundreds of kilowatts, um, across a data center. So this stuff has, has very, very, very real consequence and it's such a shadowy world. Part of the reason that, that your listeners that have dealt with this, that our heads will hit the desk is because it is really aggravating to deal with problems with this layer. [00:21:01] Bryan: You, you feel powerless. You don't control or really see the software that's on them. It's generally proprietary. You are relying on your vendor. Your vendor is telling you that like, boy, I don't know. You're the only customer seeing this. I mean, the number of times I have heard that for, and I, I have pledged that we're, we're not gonna say that at oxide because it's such an unaskable thing to say like, you're the only customer saying this. [00:21:25] Bryan: It's like, it feels like, are you blaming me for my problem? Feels like you're blaming me for my problem? Um, and what you begin to realize is that to a degree, these folks are speaking their own truth because the, the folks that are running at real scale at Hyperscale, those folks aren't Dell, HP super micro customers. [00:21:46] Bryan: They're actually, they've done their own thing. So it's like, yeah, Dell's not seeing that problem, um, because they're not running at the same scale. Um, but when you do run, you only have to run at modest scale before these things just become. Overwhelming in terms of the, the headwind that they present to people that wanna deploy infrastructure. The problem is felt with just a few racks [00:22:05] Jeremy: Yeah, so maybe to help people get some perspective at, at what point do you think that people start noticing or start feeling these problems? Because I imagine that if you're just have a few racks or [00:22:22] Bryan: do you have a couple racks or the, or do you wonder or just wondering because No, no, no. I would think, I think anyone who deploys any number of servers, especially now, especially if your experience is only in the cloud, you're gonna be like, what the hell is this? I mean, just again, just to get this thing working at all. [00:22:39] Bryan: It is so it, it's so hairy and so congealed, right? It's not designed. Um, and it, it, it, it's accreted it and it's so obviously accreted that you are, I mean, nobody who is setting up a rack of servers is gonna think to themselves like, yes, this is the right way to go do it. This all makes sense because it's, it's just not, it, I, it feels like the kit, I mean, kit car's almost too generous because it implies that there's like a set of plans to work to in the end. [00:23:08] Bryan: Uh, I mean, it, it, it's a bag of bolts. It's a bunch of parts that you're putting together. And so even at the smallest scales, that stuff is painful. Just architecturally, it's painful at the small scale then, but at least you can get it working. I think the stuff that then becomes debilitating at larger scale are the things that are, are worse than just like, I can't, like this thing is a mess to get working. [00:23:31] Bryan: It's like the, the, the fan issue that, um, where you are now seeing this over, you know, hundreds of machines or thousands of machines. Um, so I, it is painful at more or less all levels of scale. There's, there is no level at which the, the, the pc, which is really what this is, this is a, the, the personal computer architecture from the 1980s and there is really no level of scale where that's the right unit. Running elastic infrastructure is the hardware but also, hypervisor, distributed database, api, etc [00:23:57] Bryan: I mean, where that's the right thing to go deploy, especially if what you are trying to run. Is elastic infrastructure, a cloud. Because the other thing is like we, we've kinda been talking a lot about that hardware layer. Like hardware is, is just the start. Like you actually gotta go put software on that and actually run that as elastic infrastructure. [00:24:16] Bryan: So you need a hypervisor. Yes. But you need a lot more than that. You, you need to actually, you, you need a distributed database, you need web endpoints. You need, you need a CLI, you need all the stuff that you need to actually go run an actual service of compute or networking or storage. I mean, and for, for compute, even for compute, there's a ton of work to be done. [00:24:39] Bryan: And compute is by far, I would say the simplest of the, of the three. When you look at like networks, network services, storage services, there's a whole bunch of stuff that you need to go build in terms of distributed systems to actually offer that as a cloud. So it, I mean, it is painful at more or less every LE level if you are trying to deploy cloud computing on. What's a control plane? [00:25:00] Jeremy: And for someone who doesn't have experience building or working with this type of infrastructure, when you talk about a control plane, what, what does that do in the context of this system? [00:25:16] Bryan: So control plane is the thing that is, that is everything between your API request and that infrastructure actually being acted upon. So you go say, Hey, I, I want a provision, a vm. Okay, great. We've got a whole bunch of things we're gonna provision with that. We're gonna provision a vm, we're gonna get some storage that's gonna go along with that, that's got a network storage service that's gonna come out of, uh, we've got a virtual network that we're gonna either create or attach to. [00:25:39] Bryan: We've got a, a whole bunch of things we need to go do for that. For all of these things, there are metadata components that need, we need to keep track of this thing that, beyond the actual infrastructure that we create. And then we need to go actually, like act on the actual compute elements, the hostos, what have you, the switches, what have you, and actually go. [00:25:56] Bryan: Create these underlying things and then connect them. And there's of course, the challenge of just getting that working is a big challenge. Um, but getting that working robustly, getting that working is, you know, when you go to provision of vm, um, the, all the, the, the steps that need to happen and what happens if one of those steps fails along the way? [00:26:17] Bryan: What happens if, you know, one thing we're very mindful of is these kind of, you get these long tails of like, why, you know, generally our VM provisioning happened within this time, but we get these long tails where it takes much longer. What's going on? What, where in this process are we, are we actually spending time? [00:26:33] Bryan: Uh, and there's a whole lot of complexity that you need to go deal with that. There's a lot of complexity that you need to go deal with this effectively, this workflow that's gonna go create these things and manage them. Um, we use a, a pattern that we call, that are called sagas, actually is a, is a database pattern from the eighties. [00:26:51] Bryan: Uh, Katie McCaffrey is a, is a database reCrcher who, who, uh, I, I think, uh, reintroduce the idea of, of sagas, um, in the last kind of decade. Um, and this is something that we picked up, um, and I've done a lot of really interesting things with, um, to allow for, to this kind of, these workflows to be, to be managed and done so robustly in a way that you can restart them and so on. [00:27:16] Bryan: Uh, and then you guys, you get this whole distributed system that can do all this. That whole distributed system, that itself needs to be reliable and available. So if you, you know, you need to be able to, what happens if you, if you pull a sled or if a sled fails, how does the system deal with that? [00:27:33] Bryan: How does the system deal with getting an another sled added to the system? Like how do you actually grow this distributed system? And then how do you update it? How do you actually go from one version to the next? And all of that has to happen across an air gap where this is gonna run as part of the computer. [00:27:49] Bryan: So there are, it, it is fractally complicated. There, there is a lot of complexity here in, in software, in the software system and all of that. We kind of, we call the control plane. Um, and it, this is the what exists at AWS at GCP, at Azure. When you are hitting an endpoint that's provisioning an EC2 instance for you. [00:28:10] Bryan: There is an AWS control plane that is, is doing all of this and has, uh, some of these similar aspects and certainly some of these similar challenges. Are vSphere / Proxmox / Hyper-V in the same category? [00:28:20] Jeremy: And for people who have run their own servers with something like say VMware or Hyper V or Proxmox, are those in the same category? [00:28:32] Bryan: Yeah, I mean a little bit. I mean, it kind of like vSphere Yes. Via VMware. No. So it's like you, uh, VMware ESX is, is kind of a key building block upon which you can build something that is a more meaningful distributed system. When it's just like a machine that you're provisioning VMs on, it's like, okay, well that's actually, you as the human might be the control plane. [00:28:52] Bryan: Like, that's, that, that's, that's a much easier problem. Um, but when you've got, you know, tens, hundreds, thousands of machines, you need to do it robustly. You need something to coordinate that activity and you know, you need to pick which sled you land on. You need to be able to move these things. You need to be able to update that whole system. [00:29:06] Bryan: That's when you're getting into a control plane. So, you know, some of these things have kind of edged into a control plane, certainly VMware. Um, now Broadcom, um, has delivered something that's kind of cloudish. Um, I think that for folks that are truly born on the cloud, it, it still feels somewhat, uh, like you're going backwards in time when you, when you look at these kind of on-prem offerings. [00:29:29] Bryan: Um, but, but it, it, it's got these aspects to it for sure. Um, and I think that we're, um, some of these other things when you're just looking at KVM or just looks looking at Proxmox you kind of need to, to connect it to other broader things to turn it into something that really looks like manageable infrastructure. [00:29:47] Bryan: And then many of those projects are really, they're either proprietary projects, uh, proprietary products like vSphere, um, or you are really dealing with open source projects that are. Not necessarily aimed at the same level of scale. Um, you know, you look at a, again, Proxmox or, uh, um, you'll get an OpenStack. [00:30:05] Bryan: Um, and you know, OpenStack is just a lot of things, right? I mean, OpenStack has got so many, the OpenStack was kind of a, a free for all, for every infrastructure vendor. Um, and I, you know, there was a time people were like, don't you, aren't you worried about all these companies together that, you know, are coming together for OpenStack? [00:30:24] Bryan: I'm like, haven't you ever worked for like a company? Like, companies don't get along. By the way, it's like having multiple companies work together on a thing that's bad news, not good news. And I think, you know, one of the things that OpenStack has definitely struggled with, kind of with what, actually the, the, there's so many different kind of vendor elements in there that it's, it's very much not a product, it's a project that you're trying to run. [00:30:47] Bryan: But that's, but that very much is in, I mean, that's, that's similar certainly in spirit. [00:30:53] Jeremy: And so I think this is kind of like you're alluding to earlier, the piece that allows you to allocate, compute, storage, manage networking, gives you that experience of I can go to a web console or I can use an API and I can spin up machines, get them all connected. At the end of the day, the control plane. Is allowing you to do that in hopefully a user-friendly way. [00:31:21] Bryan: That's right. Yep. And in the, I mean, in order to do that in a modern way, it's not just like a user-friendly way. You really need to have a CLI and a web UI and an API. Those all need to be drawn from the same kind of single ground truth. Like you don't wanna have any of those be an afterthought for the other. [00:31:39] Bryan: You wanna have the same way of generating all of those different endpoints and, and entries into the system. Building a control plane now has better tools (Rust, CockroachDB) [00:31:46] Jeremy: And if you take your time at Joyent as an example. What kind of tools existed for that versus how much did you have to build in-house for as far as the hypervisor and managing the compute and all that? [00:32:02] Bryan: Yeah, so we built more or less everything in house. I mean, what you have is, um, and I think, you know, over time we've gotten slightly better tools. Um, I think, and, and maybe it's a little bit easier to talk about the, kind of the tools we started at Oxide because we kind of started with a, with a clean sheet of paper at oxide. [00:32:16] Bryan: We wanted to, knew we wanted to go build a control plane, but we were able to kind of go revisit some of the components. So actually, and maybe I'll, I'll talk about some of those changes. So when we, at, For example, at Joyent, when we were building a cloud at Joyent, there wasn't really a good distributed database. [00:32:34] Bryan: Um, so we were using Postgres as our database for metadata and there were a lot of challenges. And Postgres is not a distributed database. It's running. With a primary secondary architecture, and there's a bunch of issues there, many of which we discovered the hard way. Um, when we were coming to oxide, you have much better options to pick from in terms of distributed databases. [00:32:57] Bryan: You know, we, there was a period that now seems maybe potentially brief in hindsight, but of a really high quality open source distributed databases. So there were really some good ones to, to pick from. Um, we, we built on CockroachDB on CRDB. Um, so that was a really important component. That we had at oxide that we didn't have at Joyent. [00:33:19] Bryan: Um, so we were, I wouldn't say we were rolling our own distributed database, we were just using Postgres and uh, and, and dealing with an enormous amount of pain there in terms of the surround. Um, on top of that, and, and, you know, a, a control plane is much more than a database, obviously. Uh, and you've gotta deal with, uh, there's a whole bunch of software that you need to go, right. [00:33:40] Bryan: Um, to be able to, to transform these kind of API requests into something that is reliable infrastructure, right? And there, there's a lot to that. Uh, especially when networking gets in the mix, when storage gets in the mix, uh, there are a whole bunch of like complicated steps that need to be done, um, at Joyent. [00:33:59] Bryan: Um, we, in part because of the history of the company and like, look. This, this just is not gonna sound good, but it just is what it is and I'm just gonna own it. We did it all in Node, um, at Joyent, which I, I, I know it sounds really right now, just sounds like, well, you, you built it with Tinker Toys. You Okay. [00:34:18] Bryan: Uh, did, did you think it was, you built the skyscraper with Tinker Toys? Uh, it's like, well, okay. We actually, we had greater aspirations for the Tinker Toys once upon a time, and it was better than, you know, than Twisted Python and Event Machine from Ruby, and we weren't gonna do it in Java. All right. [00:34:32] Bryan: So, but let's just say that that experiment, uh, that experiment did ultimately end in a predictable fashion. Um, and, uh, we, we decided that maybe Node was not gonna be the best decision long term. Um, Joyent was the company behind node js. Uh, back in the day, Ryan Dahl worked for Joyent. Uh, and then, uh, then we, we, we. [00:34:53] Bryan: Uh, landed that in a foundation in about, uh, what, 2015, something like that. Um, and began to consider our world beyond, uh, beyond Node. Rust at Oxide [00:35:04] Bryan: A big tool that we had in the arsenal when we started Oxide is Rust. Um, and so indeed the name of the company is, is a tip of the hat to the language that we were pretty sure we were gonna be building a lot of stuff in. [00:35:16] Bryan: Namely Rust. And, uh, rust is, uh, has been huge for us, a very important revolution in programming languages. you know, there, there, there have been different people kind of coming in at different times and I kinda came to Rust in what I, I think is like this big kind of second expansion of rust in 2018 when a lot of technologists were think, uh, sick of Node and also sick of Go. [00:35:43] Bryan: And, uh, also sick of C++. And wondering is there gonna be something that gives me the, the, the performance, of that I get outta C. The, the robustness that I can get out of a C program but is is often difficult to achieve. but can I get that with kind of some, some of the velocity of development, although I hate that term, some of the speed of development that you get out of a more interpreted language. [00:36:08] Bryan: Um, and then by the way, can I actually have types, I think types would be a good idea? Uh, and rust obviously hits the sweet spot of all of that. Um, it has been absolutely huge for us. I mean, we knew when we started the company again, oxide, uh, we were gonna be using rust in, in quite a, quite a. Few places, but we weren't doing it by fiat. [00:36:27] Bryan: Um, we wanted to actually make sure we're making the right decision, um, at, at every different, at every layer. Uh, I think what has been surprising is the sheer number of layers at which we use rust in terms of, we've done our own embedded firmware in rust. We've done, um, in, in the host operating system, which is still largely in C, but very big components are in rust. [00:36:47] Bryan: The hypervisor Propolis is all in rust. Uh, and then of course the control plane, that distributed system on that is all in rust. So that was a very important thing that we very much did not need to build ourselves. We were able to really leverage, uh, a terrific community. Um. We were able to use, uh, and we've done this at Joyent as well, but at Oxide, we've used Illumos as a hostos component, which, uh, our variant is called Helios. [00:37:11] Bryan: Um, we've used, uh, bhyve um, as a, as as that kind of internal hypervisor component. we've made use of a bunch of different open source components to build this thing, um, which has been really, really important for us. Uh, and open source components that didn't exist even like five years prior. [00:37:28] Bryan: That's part of why we felt that 2019 was the right time to start the company. And so we started Oxide. The problems building a control plane in Node [00:37:34] Jeremy: You had mentioned that at Joyent, you had tried to build this in, in Node. What were the, what were the, the issues or the, the challenges that you had doing that? [00:37:46] Bryan: Oh boy. Yeah. again, we, I kind of had higher hopes in 2010, I would say. When we, we set on this, um, the, the, the problem that we had just writ large, um. JavaScript is really designed to allow as many people on earth to write a program as possible, which is good. I mean, I, I, that's a, that's a laudable goal. [00:38:09] Bryan: That is the goal ultimately of such as it is of JavaScript. It's actually hard to know what the goal of JavaScript is, unfortunately, because Brendan Ike never actually wrote a book. so that there is not a canonical, you've got kind of Doug Crockford and other people who've written things on JavaScript, but it's hard to know kind of what the original intent of JavaScript is. [00:38:27] Bryan: The name doesn't even express original intent, right? It was called Live Script, and it was kind of renamed to JavaScript during the Java Frenzy of the late nineties. A name that makes no sense. There is no Java in JavaScript. that is kind of, I think, revealing to kind of the, uh, the unprincipled mess that is JavaScript. [00:38:47] Bryan: It, it, it's very pragmatic at some level, um, and allows anyone to, it makes it very easy to write software. The problem is it's much more difficult to write really rigorous software. So, uh, and this is what I should differentiate JavaScript from TypeScript. This is really what TypeScript is trying to solve. [00:39:07] Bryan: TypeScript is like. How can, I think TypeScript is a, is a great step forward because TypeScript is like, how can we bring some rigor to this? Like, yes, it's great that it's easy to write JavaScript, but that's not, we, we don't wanna do that for Absolutely. I mean that, that's not the only problem we solve. [00:39:23] Bryan: We actually wanna be able to write rigorous software and it's actually okay if it's a little harder to write rigorous software that's actually okay if it gets leads to, to more rigorous artifacts. Um, but in JavaScript, I mean, just a concrete example. You know, there's nothing to prevent you from referencing a property that doesn't actually exist in JavaScript. [00:39:43] Bryan: So if you fat finger a property name, you are relying on something to tell you. By the way, I think you've misspelled this because there is no type definition for this thing. And I don't know that you've got one that's spelled correctly, one that's spelled incorrectly, that's often undefined. And then the, when you actually go, you say you've got this typo that is lurking in your what you want to be rigorous software. [00:40:07] Bryan: And if you don't execute that code, like you won't know that's there. And then you do execute that code. And now you've got a, you've got an undefined object. And now that's either gonna be an exception or it can, again, depends on how that's handled. It can be really difficult to determine the origin of that, of, of that error, of that programming. [00:40:26] Bryan: And that is a programmer error. And one of the big challenges that we had with Node is that programmer errors and operational errors, like, you know, I'm out of disk space as an operational error. Those get conflated and it becomes really hard. And in fact, I think the, the language wanted to make it easier to just kind of, uh, drive on in the event of all errors. [00:40:53] Bryan: And it's like, actually not what you wanna do if you're trying to build a reliable, robust system. So we had. No end of issues. [00:41:01] Bryan: We've got a lot of experience developing rigorous systems, um, again coming out of operating systems development and so on. And we want, we brought some of that rigor, if strangely, to JavaScript. So one of the things that we did is we brought a lot of postmortem, diagnos ability and observability to node. [00:41:18] Bryan: And so if, if one of our node processes. Died in production, we would actually get a core dump from that process, a core dump that we could actually meaningfully process. So we did a bunch of kind of wild stuff. I mean, actually wild stuff where we could actually make sense of the JavaScript objects in a binary core dump. JavaScript values ease of getting started over robustness [00:41:41] Bryan: Um, and things that we thought were really important, and this is the, the rest of the world just looks at this being like, what the hell is this? I mean, it's so out of step with it. The problem is that we were trying to bridge two disconnected cultures of one developing really. Rigorous software and really designing it for production, diagnosability and the other, really designing it to software to run in the browser and for anyone to be able to like, you know, kind of liven up a webpage, right? [00:42:10] Bryan: Is kinda the origin of, of live script and then JavaScript. And we were kind of the only ones sitting at the intersection of that. And you begin when you are the only ones sitting at that kind of intersection. You just are, you're, you're kind of fighting a community all the time. And we just realized that we are, there were so many things that the community wanted to do that we felt are like, no, no, this is gonna make software less diagnosable. It's gonna make it less robust. The NodeJS split and why people left [00:42:36] Bryan: And then you realize like, I'm, we're the only voice in the room because we have got, we have got desires for this language that it doesn't have for itself. And this is when you realize you're in a bad relationship with software. It's time to actually move on. And in fact, actually several years after, we'd already kind of broken up with node. [00:42:55] Bryan: Um, and it was like, it was a bit of an acrimonious breakup. there was a, uh, famous slash infamous fork of node called IoJS Um, and this was viewed because people, the community, thought that Joyent was being what was not being an appropriate steward of node js and was, uh, not allowing more things to come into to, to node. [00:43:19] Bryan: And of course, the reason that we of course, felt that we were being a careful steward and we were actively resisting those things that would cut against its fitness for a production system. But it's some way the community saw it and they, and forked, um, and, and I think the, we knew before the fork that's like, this is not working and we need to get this thing out of our hands. Platform is a reflection of values node summit talk [00:43:43] Bryan: And we're are the wrong hands for this? This needs to be in a foundation. Uh, and so we kind of gone through that breakup, uh, and maybe it was two years after that. That, uh, friend of mine who was um, was running the, uh, the node summit was actually, it's unfortunately now passed away. Charles er, um, but Charles' venture capitalist great guy, and Charles was running Node Summit and came to me in 2017. [00:44:07] Bryan: He is like, I really want you to keynote Node Summit. And I'm like, Charles, I'm not gonna do that. I've got nothing nice to say. Like, this is the, the, you don't want, I'm the last person you wanna keynote. He's like, oh, if you have nothing nice to say, you should definitely keynote. You're like, oh God, okay, here we go. [00:44:22] Bryan: He's like, no, I really want you to talk about, like, you should talk about the Joyent breakup with NodeJS. I'm like, oh man. [00:44:29] Bryan: And that led to a talk that I'm really happy that I gave, 'cause it was a very important talk for me personally. Uh, called Platform is a reflection of values and really looking at the values that we had for Node and the values that Node had for itself. And they didn't line up. [00:44:49] Bryan: And the problem is that the values that Node had for itself and the values that we had for Node are all kind of positives, right? Like there's nobody in the node community who's like, I don't want rigor, I hate rigor. It's just that if they had the choose between rigor and making the language approachable. [00:45:09] Bryan: They would choose approachability every single time. They would never choose rigor. And, you know, that was a, that was a big eye-opener. I do, I would say, if you watch this talk. [00:45:20] Bryan: because I knew that there's, like, the audience was gonna be filled with, with people who, had been a part of the fork in 2014, I think was the, the, the, the fork, the IOJS fork. And I knew that there, there were, there were some, you know, some people that were, um, had been there for the fork and. [00:45:41] Bryan: I said a little bit of a trap for the audience. But the, and the trap, I said, you know what, I, I kind of talked about the values that we had and the aspirations we had for Node, the aspirations that Node had for itself and how they were different. [00:45:53] Bryan: And, you know, and I'm like, look in, in, in hindsight, like a fracture was inevitable. And in 2014 there was finally a fracture. And do people know what happened in 2014? And if you, if you, you could listen to that talk, everyone almost says in unison, like IOJS. I'm like, oh right. IOJS. Right. That's actually not what I was thinking of. [00:46:19] Bryan: And I go to the next slide and is a tweet from a guy named TJ Holloway, Chuck, who was the most prolific contributor to Node. And it was his tweet also in 2014 before the fork, before the IOJS fork explaining that he was leaving Node and that he was going to go. And you, if you turn the volume all the way up, you can hear the audience gasp. [00:46:41] Bryan: And it's just delicious because the community had never really come, had never really confronted why TJ left. Um, there. And I went through a couple folks, Felix, bunch of other folks, early Node folks. That were there in 2010, were leaving in 2014, and they were going to go primarily, and they were going to go because they were sick of the same things that we were sick of. [00:47:09] Bryan: They, they, they had hit the same things that we had hit and they were frustrated. I I really do believe this, that platforms do reflect their own values. And when you are making a software decision, you are selecting value. [00:47:26] Bryan: You should select values that align with the values that you have for that software. That is, those are, that's way more important than other things that people look at. I think people look at, for example, quote unquote community size way too frequently, community size is like. Eh, maybe it can be fine. [00:47:44] Bryan: I've been in very large communities, node. I've been in super small open source communities like AUMs and RAs, a bunch of others. there are strengths and weaknesses to both approaches just as like there's a strength to being in a big city versus a small town. Me personally, I'll take the small community more or less every time because the small community is almost always self-selecting based on values and just for the same reason that I like working at small companies or small teams. [00:48:11] Bryan: There's a lot of value to be had in a small community. It's not to say that large communities are valueless, but again, long answer to your question of kind of where did things go south with Joyent and node. They went south because the, the values that we had and the values the community had didn't line up and that was a very educational experience, as you might imagine. [00:48:33] Jeremy: Yeah. And, and given that you mentioned how, because of those values, some people moved from Node to go, and in the end for much of what oxide is building. You ended up using rust. What, what would you say are the, the values of go and and rust, and how did you end up choosing Rust given that. Go's decisions regarding generics, versioning, compilation speed priority [00:48:56] Bryan: Yeah, I mean, well, so the value for, yeah. And so go, I mean, I understand why people move from Node to Go, go to me was kind of a lateral move. Um, there were a bunch of things that I, uh, go was still garbage collected, um, which I didn't like. Um, go also is very strange in terms of there are these kind of like. [00:49:17] Bryan: These autocratic kind of decisions that are very bizarre. Um, there, I mean, generics is kind of a famous one, right? Where go kind of as a point of principle didn't have generics, even though go itself actually the innards of go did have generics. It's just that you a go user weren't allowed to have them. [00:49:35] Bryan: And you know, it's kind of, there was, there was an old cartoon years and years ago about like when a, when a technologist is telling you that something is technically impossible, that actually means I don't feel like it. Uh, and there was a certain degree of like, generics are technically impossible and go, it's like, Hey, actually there are. [00:49:51] Bryan: And so there was, and I just think that the arguments against generics were kind of disingenuous. Um, and indeed, like they ended up adopting generics and then there's like some super weird stuff around like, they're very anti-assertion, which is like, what, how are you? Why are you, how is someone against assertions, it doesn't even make any sense, but it's like, oh, nope. [00:50:10] Bryan: Okay. There's a whole scree on it. Nope, we're against assertions and the, you know, against versioning. There was another thing like, you know, the Rob Pike has kind of famously been like, you should always just run on the way to commit. And you're like, does that, is that, does that make sense? I mean this, we actually built it. [00:50:26] Bryan: And so there are a bunch of things like that. You're just like, okay, this is just exhausting and. I mean, there's some things about Go that are great and, uh, plenty of other things that I just, I'm not a fan of. Um, I think that the, in the end, like Go cares a lot about like compile time. It's super important for Go Right? [00:50:44] Bryan: Is very quick, compile time. I'm like, okay. But that's like compile time is not like, it's not unimportant, it's doesn't have zero importance. But I've got other things that are like lots more important than that. Um, what I really care about is I want a high performing artifact. I wanted garbage collection outta my life. Don't think garbage collection has good trade offs [00:51:00] Bryan: I, I gotta tell you, I, I like garbage collection to me is an embodiment of this like, larger problem of where do you put cognitive load in the software development process. And what garbage collection is saying to me it is right for plenty of other people and the software that they wanna develop. [00:51:21] Bryan: But for me and the software that I wanna develop, infrastructure software, I don't want garbage collection because I can solve the memory allocation problem. I know when I'm like, done with something or not. I mean, it's like I, whether that's in, in C with, I mean it's actually like, it's really not that hard to not leak memory in, in a C base system. [00:51:44] Bryan: And you can. give yourself a lot of tooling that allows you to diagnose where memory leaks are coming from. So it's like that is a solvable problem. There are other challenges with that, but like, when you are developing a really sophisticated system that has garbage collection is using garbage collection. [00:51:59] Bryan: You spend as much time trying to dork with the garbage collector to convince it to collect the thing that you know is garbage. You are like, I've got this thing. I know it's garbage. Now I need to use these like tips and tricks to get the garbage collector. I mean, it's like, it feels like every Java performance issue goes to like minus xx call and use the other garbage collector, whatever one you're using, use a different one and using a different, a different approach. [00:52:23] Bryan: It's like, so you're, you're in this, to me, it's like you're in the worst of all worlds where. the reason that garbage collection is helpful is because the programmer doesn't have to think at all about this problem. But now you're actually dealing with these long pauses in production. [00:52:38] Bryan: You're dealing with all these other issues where actually you need to think a lot about it. And it's kind of, it, it it's witchcraft. It, it, it's this black box that you can't see into. So it's like, what problem have we solved exactly? And I mean, so the fact that go had garbage collection, it's like, eh, no, I, I do not want, like, and then you get all the other like weird fatwahs and you know, everything else. [00:52:57] Bryan: I'm like, no, thank you. Go is a no thank you for me, I, I get it why people like it or use it, but it's, it's just, that was not gonna be it. Choosing Rust [00:53:04] Bryan: I'm like, I want C. but I, there are things I didn't like about C too. I was looking for something that was gonna give me the deterministic kind of artifact that I got outta C. But I wanted library support and C is tough because there's, it's all convention. you know, there's just a bunch of other things that are just thorny. And I remember thinking vividly in 2018, I'm like, well, it's rust or bust. Ownership model, algebraic types, error handling [00:53:28] Bryan: I'm gonna go into rust. And, uh, I hope I like it because if it's not this, it's gonna like, I'm gonna go back to C I'm like literally trying to figure out what the language is for the back half of my career. Um, and when I, you know, did what a lot of people were doing at that time and people have been doing since of, you know, really getting into rust and really learning it, appreciating the difference in the, the model for sure, the ownership model people talk about. [00:53:54] Bryan: That's also obviously very important. It was the error handling that blew me away. And the idea of like algebraic types, I never really had algebraic types. Um, and the ability to, to have. And for error handling is one of these really, uh, you, you really appreciate these things where it's like, how do you deal with a, with a function that can either succeed and return something or it can fail, and the way c deals with that is bad with these kind of sentinels for errors. [00:54:27] Bryan: And, you know, does negative one mean success? Does negative one mean failure? Does zero mean failure? Some C functions, zero means failure. Traditionally in Unix, zero means success. And like, what if you wanna return a file descriptor, you know, it's like, oh. And then it's like, okay, then it'll be like zero through positive N will be a valid result. [00:54:44] Bryan: Negative numbers will be, and like, was it negative one and I said airo, or is it a negative number that did not, I mean, it's like, and that's all convention, right? People do all, all those different things and it's all convention and it's easy to get wrong, easy to have bugs, can't be statically checked and so on. Um, and then what Go says is like, well, you're gonna have like two return values and then you're gonna have to like, just like constantly check all of these all the time. Um, which is also kind of gross. Um, JavaScript is like, Hey, let's toss an exception. If, if we don't like something, if we see an error, we'll, we'll throw an exception. [00:55:15] Bryan: There are a bunch of reasons I don't like that. Um, and you look, you'll get what Rust does, where it's like, no, no, no. We're gonna have these algebra types, which is to say this thing can be a this thing or that thing, but it, but it has to be one of these. And by the way, you don't get to process this thing until you conditionally match on one of these things. [00:55:35] Bryan: You're gonna have to have a, a pattern match on this thing to determine if it's a this or a that, and if it in, in the result type that you, the result is a generic where it's like, it's gonna be either the thing that you wanna return. It's gonna be an okay that contains the thing you wanna return, or it's gonna be an error that contains your error and it forces your code to deal with that. [00:55:57] Bryan: And what that does is it shifts the cognitive load from the person that is operating this thing in production to the, the actual developer that is in development. And I think that that, that to me is like, I, I love that shift. Um, and that shift to me is really important. Um, and that's what I was missing, that that's what Rust gives you. [00:56:23] Bryan: Rust forces you to think about your code as you write it, but as a result, you have an artifact that is much more supportable, much more sustainable, and much faster. Prefer to frontload cognitive load during development instead of at runtime [00:56:34] Jeremy: Yeah, it sounds like you would rather take the time during the development to think about these issues because whether it's garbage collection or it's error handling at runtime when you're trying to solve a problem, then it's much more difficult than having dealt with it to start with. [00:56:57] Bryan: Yeah, absolutely. I, and I just think that like, why also, like if it's software, if it's, again, if it's infrastructure software, I mean the kinda the question that you, you should have when you're writing software is how long is this software gonna live? How many people are gonna use this software? Uh, and if you are writing an operating system, the answer for this thing that you're gonna write, it's gonna live for a long time. [00:57:18] Bryan: Like, if we just look at plenty of aspects of the system that have been around for a, for decades, it's gonna live for a long time and many, many, many people are gonna use it. Why would we not expect people writing that software to have more cognitive load when they're writing it to give us something that's gonna be a better artifact? [00:57:38] Bryan: Now conversely, you're like, Hey, I kind of don't care about this. And like, I don't know, I'm just like, I wanna see if this whole thing works. I've got, I like, I'm just stringing this together. I don't like, no, the software like will be lucky if it survives until tonight, but then like, who cares? Yeah. Yeah. [00:57:52] Bryan: Gar garbage clock. You know, if you're prototyping something, whatever. And this is why you really do get like, you know, different choices, different technology choices, depending on the way that you wanna solve the problem at hand. And for the software that I wanna write, I do like that cognitive load that is upfront. With LLMs maybe you can get the benefit of the robust artifact with less cognitive load [00:58:10] Bryan: Um, and although I think, I think the thing that is really wild that is the twist that I don't think anyone really saw coming is that in a, in an LLM age. That like the cognitive load upfront almost needs an asterisk on it because so much of that can be assisted by an LLM. And now, I mean, I would like to believe, and maybe this is me being optimistic, that the the, in the LLM age, we will see, I mean, rust is a great fit for the LLMH because the LLM itself can get a lot of feedback about whether the software that's written is correct or not. [00:58:44] Bryan: Much more so than you can for other environments. [00:58:48] Jeremy: Yeah, that is a interesting point in that I think when people first started trying out the LLMs to code, it was really good at these maybe looser languages like Python or JavaScript, and initially wasn't so good at something like Rust. But it sounds like as that improves, if. It can write it then because of the rigor or the memory management or the error handling that the language is forcing you to do, it might actually end up being a better choice for people using LLMs. [00:59:27] Bryan: absolutely. I, it, it gives you more certainty in the artifact that you've delivered. I mean, you know a lot about a Rust program that compiles correctly. I mean, th there are certain classes of errors that you don't have, um, that you actually don't know on a C program or a GO program or a, a JavaScript program. [00:59:46] Bryan: I think that's gonna be really important. I think we are on the cusp. Maybe we've already seen it, this kind of great bifurcation in the software that we writ

Oxide raised a truckload of capital a few weeks ago to fund the business for the foreseeable future. Bryan and Steve describe the raise, and Adam poses the best the best (and worst) questions scraped from Hacker News.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide CEO, Steve Tuck.Previously on Oxide and Friends:OxF s01e25 - Tales from the Bringup LabOxF s04e30 - Intel after GelsingerOxF s05e24 - Oxide's $100M Series BOxF s02e18 - Silicon Valley Bank with Eric VishriaOxF s05e28 - Systems Software in the LargeMentioned during the show:Oxide Blog: Our $200M Series COxide is hiring!If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 25, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47149701&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:58): Never buy a .online domainOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47151233&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:26): Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145907&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:54): New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47152085&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:22): Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety PledgeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145963&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:50): Claude Code Remote ControlOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47148454&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:18): US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiativesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47152252&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:46): Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US gridOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154009&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:14): Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineerOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157224&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:42): Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effectiveOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47153798&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

Microsoft just dropped patches for SIX actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities — and that's just the beginning. In this week's Hacking News, we break down the February 2026 Patch Tuesday emergency, North Korea's Lazarus Group poisoning npm and PyPI through fake job recruiters, nation-state hackers weaponizing Google's Gemini AI (including malware that writes its own payloads), a massive Dutch telecom breach affecting 6.2 million people, and a U.S. government contractor breach that ballooned from 4 million to potentially tens of millions affected. This is Exploit Brokers by Forgebound Research — cybersecurity news, threat intelligence, and insights. Whether you're a security analyst, developer, or just someone who wants to stay informed, this episode has something for you.

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 24, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: ReportOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136179&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:56): I'm helping my dog vibe code gamesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139675&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:22): OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machineOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47140632&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:48): Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More EnhancementsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47133313&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:14): Mac mini will be made at a new facility in HoustonOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143152&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:41): Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study showsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47132388&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:07): Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, PersonaOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136036&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:33): I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136604&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:59): How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one weekOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142156&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:26): Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App DistributionOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139765&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 23, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protectionOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47122715&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:55): Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AIOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47120899&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:21): Americans are destroying Flock surveillance camerasOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47127081&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:47): Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartelOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47119530&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:12): Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homiliesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47119210&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:38): Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to IranOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47127396&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:04): Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38%Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121029&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:29): Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producerOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47119274&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:55): FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for meOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47129361&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:21): ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47125349&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community.A financially motivated threat actor known as GS7 is conducting a large-scale phishing campaign called Operation DoppelBrand, targeting Fortune 500 companies by impersonating their corporate login portals.Kaspersky researchers have analyzed a newly identified Android malware strain named Keenadu that provides attackers with remote control over infected devices.Application Programming Interfaces continue to be a primary attack surface, and new research from Wallarm shows the problem is accelerating as AI adoption expands.Hacker News outlines cybersecurity technology priorities for 2026, framing the environment as one of continuous instability rather than periodic disruption.Support our show by sharing your favorite episodes with a friend, subscribe, give us a rating or leave a comment on your podcast platform.This podcast is brought to you by LimaCharlie, maker of the SecOps Cloud Platform, infrastructure for SecOps where everything is built API first. Scale with confidence as your business grows. Start today for free at limacharlie.io.

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 22, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and executionOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106686&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:57): Japanese Woodblock Print SearchOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107781&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:25): Attention Media ≠ Social NetworksOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110515&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:53): A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2POriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106985&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:21): Back to FreeBSD: Part 1Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47108989&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:48): Palantir's secret weapon isn't AI – it's Ontology. An open-source deep diveOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107512&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:16): What Is a Database Transaction?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110473&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:44): Iranian Students Protest as Anger GrowsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47108256&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:12): People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So MuchOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107819&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:39): U.S. Cannot Legally Impose Tariffs Using Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47108538&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 21, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed overOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47098245&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:57): What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102576&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:25): Why is Claude an Electron app?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47104973&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:52): Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47099160&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:20): How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and executionOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106686&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:48): AI uBlock BlacklistOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47098582&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:15): Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agentsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096253&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:43): Acme WeatherOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47098296&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:10): EU mandates replaceable batteries by 2027 (2023)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47098687&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:38): What Is OAuth?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096520&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 20, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme CourtOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47089213&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:56): Keep Android OpenOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47091419&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:23): Facebook is cookedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47091748&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:50): The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47086181&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:16): I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructureOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085483&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:43): Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AIOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47088037&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:10): I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47088181&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:36): An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came ForwardOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47083145&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:03): I found a Vulnerability. They found a LawyerOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092578&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:30): Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive linksOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092006&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 19, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party useOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47069299&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:57): Gemini 3.1 ProOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074735&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:25): Gemini 3.1 ProOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075318&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:53): AI makes you boringOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47076966&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:20): Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminalOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075124&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:48): We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American scienceOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47079222&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:16): Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47072968&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:43): DOGE TrackOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47072967&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:11): Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to VulkanOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47068948&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:39): California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselvesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077844&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 18, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagramOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47057829&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:58): If you're an LLM, please read thisOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47058219&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:27): AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradoxOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055979&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:55): Halt and Catch Fire: TV's best drama you've probably never heard of (2021)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47056314&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:24): Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His TestimonyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47060486&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:52): Terminals should generate the 256-color paletteOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47057824&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:21): Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47059275&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:49): Sizing chaosOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47066552&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:18): Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally availableOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47063005&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:46): Cosmologically Unique IDsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47064490&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 17, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and AppleOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47045612&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:59): Claude Sonnet 4.6Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050488&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:28): Thank HN: You helped save 33k livesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049824&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:57): Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuseOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042396&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:27): CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCCOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049426&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:56): Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowningOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47045804&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:25): Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humansOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051546&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:54): AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yetOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042136&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:24): Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anywayOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051852&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:53): Using go fix to modernize Go codeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049479&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 16, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031580&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:57): 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weightOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038546&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:25): Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting databaseOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034713&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:52): Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal AgentsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47032876&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:20): Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate itOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47033622&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:48): Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WDOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034192&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:15): What your Bluetooth devices revealOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035560&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:43): UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experimentOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035679&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:11): Study: Self-generated Agent Skills are uselessOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040430&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:38): Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein FilesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031334&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

Kennst du diese Situation im Team: Jemand sagt "das skaliert nicht", und plötzlich steht der Datenbankwechsel schneller im Raum als die eigentliche Frage nach dem Warum? Genau da packen wir an. Denn in vielen Systemen entscheidet nicht das nächste hippe Tool von Hacker News, sondern etwas viel Grundsätzlicheres: Datenlayout und Zugriffsmuster.In dieser Episode gehen wir einmal tief runter in den Storage-Stack. Wir schauen uns an, warum Row-Oriented-Datastores der Standard für klassische OLTP-Workloads sind und warum "SELECT id" trotzdem oft fast genauso teuer ist wie "SELECT *". Danach drehen wir die Tabelle um 90 Grad: Column Stores für OLAP, Aggregationen über viele Zeilen, Spalten-Pruning, Kompression, SIMD und warum ClickHouse, BigQuery, Snowflake oder Redshift bei Analytics so absurd schnell werden können.Und dann wird es file-basiert: CSV bekommt sein verdientes Fett weg, Apache Parquet seinen Hype, inklusive Row Groups, Metadaten im Footer und warum das für Streaming und Object Storage so gut passt. Mit Apache Iceberg setzen wir noch eine Management-Schicht oben drauf: Snapshots, Time Travel, paralleles Schreiben und das ganze Data-Lake-Feeling. Zum Schluss landen wir da, wo es richtig weh tut, beziehungsweise richtig Geld spart: Storage und Compute trennen, Tiered Storage, Kafka Connect bis Prometheus und Observability-Kosten.Wenn du beim nächsten "das skaliert nicht" nicht direkt die Datenbank tauschen willst, sondern erst mal die richtigen Fragen stellen möchtest, ist das deine Folge.Bonus: DuckDB als kleines Taschenmesser für CSV, JSON und SQL kann dein nächstes Wochenend-Experiment werden.Unsere aktuellen Werbepartner findest du auf https://engineeringkiosk.dev/partnersDas schnelle Feedback zur Episode:

Is AI making founders more anxious than ever, even in the heart of Silicon Valley? Behind the optimistic LinkedIn posts and fundraising announcements, some of the most successful people in tech are struggling with burnout and an overwhelming pace of change. So what does it actually take to build a resilient, successful startup in 2026?In this episode, Yaniv is joined by Jess Mah, serial founder, Y Combinator alum, and venture creation powerhouse behind Mahway. Jess has founded more than 10 companies — collectively valued at over $1 billion — and was the youngest woman ever accepted into Y Combinator. Fresh from dinners with Fortune 500 CEOs and unicorn founders in San Francisco, she shares what's really happening behind closed doors in the startup world, and why the founders who refuse to get hands-on with AI tools are now at a serious disadvantage.In this episode, you will: Discover why experienced, repeat founders are at the highest risk of falling behind in the AI eraLearn Jess's go-to interview question that instantly reveals whether a hire will stay relevantUnderstand "role collapse", and what should replace traditional siloed positions when the boundaries between product managers, designers, and engineers break downHear why the best founders in 2026 are building clickable prototypes themselves instead of delegating to product teamsFind out why AI has made distribution and competitive moats harder, not easier, and what to do about itExplore why domain expertise has become the most valuable startup superpower when building is cheapGet an honest look at the anxiety, burnout, and 996 culture affecting even the top AI founders in the Bay AreaLearn the AI educators and resources Jess and Yaniv personally rely on to stay aheadConnect with Jess: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessmah/Resources mentioned in this episode:Stratechery by Ben Thompson: https://stratechery.com/Matthew Berman (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/@matthew_bermanHow I AI with Claire Vo: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/s/how-i-aiSteve Yegge / Gastown: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveyegge/Maven (cohort-based learning): https://maven.com/Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/The Pact Honor the Startup Podcast Pact! If you have listened to TSP and gotten value from it, please:Follow, rate, and review us in your listening appSubscribe to the TSP Mailing List to gain access to exclusive newsletter-only content and early access to information on upcoming episodes: https://thestartuppodcast.beehiiv.com/subscribe Secure your official TSP merchandise at https://shop.tsp.show/ Follow us here on YouTube for full-video episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNjm1MTdjysRRV07fSf0yGg Give us a public shout-out on LinkedIn or anywhere you have a social media followingKey linksThis episode of the Startup Podcast is sponsored by .tech domains. Forget weird prefixes and creative misspellings; the availability for .tech domains is simply way better than .com.For a clean and memorable name, go to https://⁠get.tech/tspGet your question in for our next Q&A episode: https://forms.gle/NZzgNWVLiFmwvFA2A The Startup Podcast website: https://www.tsp.show/episodes/Learn more about Chris and YanivWork 1:1 with Chris: http://chrissaad.com/advisory/ Follow Chris on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrissaad/ Follow Yaniv on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ybernstein/Producer: Justin McArthur https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-mcarthurIntro Voice: Jeremiah Owyang https://web-strategist.com/

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 15, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainersOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020191&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:56): EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwearOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025378&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:23): I'm joining OpenAIOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028013&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:49): Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance stateOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47023238&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:16): I fixed Windows native developmentOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022891&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:42): Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI libraryOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021980&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:09): Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has diedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024907&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:36): LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptopOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025399&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:02): Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preservedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021354&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:29): NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020218&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 14, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube ShortsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016443&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:57): An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happenedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009949&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:24): Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer; pulls storyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47013059&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:51): Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest youOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014449&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:18): News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concernsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017138&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:45): My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT brokerOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015294&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:12): Vim 9.2Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015330&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:39): Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations landedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012717&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:06): Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE AccountsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009582&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:33): Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates sayOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015406&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 13, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to AndroidOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47003064&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:59): MonosketchOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47001871&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:28): MinIO repository is no longer maintainedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000041&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:58): Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop youOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997519&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:27): The EU moves to kill infinite scrollingOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007656&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:56): OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its missionOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008560&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:26): GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physicsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006594&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:55): Ring owners are returning their camerasOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999545&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:25): Lena by qntm (2021)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999224&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:54): An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have HappenedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009949&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 12, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): An AI agent published a hit piece on meOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990729&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:59): Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude CodeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46985151&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:28): AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes itOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987559&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:57): Gemini 3 Deep ThinkOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991240&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:26): GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑SparkOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992553&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:55): ai;drOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991394&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:25): Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness ChangedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46988596&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:54): Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace usersOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46989217&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:23): US businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariff costs, New York Fed saysOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990056&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:52): Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuationOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46993345&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 11, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Claude Code is being dumbed down?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978710&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:57): Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46971516&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:25): Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypassOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46982421&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:52): Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillanceOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978966&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:20): Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing dataOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46973083&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:48): Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with FlutterOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46976911&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:15): GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic EngineeringOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46977210&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:43): Why vampires live foreverOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46976443&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:11): Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso AirportOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46972610&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:38): FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flightsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46973647&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 10, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): The Singularity will occur on a TuesdayOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46962996&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:57): Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has BegunOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958399&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:25): Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist Credit Card NumberOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46963804&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:52): I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46960675&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:20): Oxide raises $200M Series COriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46960036&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:47): Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954920&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:15): Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trialOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46959832&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:42): Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agentsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46961345&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:10): Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealismOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46957198&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:37): Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browserOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954136&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 09, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next monthOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945663&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:57): GitHub is down againOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946827&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:25): Why is the sky blue?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946401&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:52): Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clockOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947096&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:20): Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on EarthOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46943568&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:47): Claude's C Compiler vs. GCCOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46941603&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:15): Nobody knows how the whole system worksOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46941882&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:42): Another GitHub outage in the same dayOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46949452&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:10): AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reportsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945497&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:37): Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash riskOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947777&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 08, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): VouchOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930961&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:58): AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about itOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934404&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:27): DoNotNotify is now Open SourceOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46932192&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:55): I am happier writing code by handOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934344&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:24): Slop Terrifies MeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46933067&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:52): Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memoryOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930391&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:21): I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy ColorOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46935791&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:49): OpenClaw is changing my lifeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46931805&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:18): Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementiaOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46935991&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:46): The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in USAOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46931948&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 07, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): France's homegrown open source online office suiteOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46923736&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:57): We mourn our craftOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46926245&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:25): Coding agents have replaced every framework I usedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46923543&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:53): Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourselfOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46922049&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:21): U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recessionOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46925669&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:49): The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere elseOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46922969&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:16): SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46925741&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:44): Why I Joined OpenAIOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46920487&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:12): British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three yearsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924813&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:40): Software factories and the agentic momentOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924426&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 06, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scamsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46911901&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:59): The Waymo World ModelOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46914785&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:28): TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in EuropeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46911869&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:57): A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news contentOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46910963&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:27): OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization IIIOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918612&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:56): Hackers (1995) Animated ExperienceOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46912800&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:25): GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teamsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46908491&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:55): An Update on HerokuOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46913903&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:24): Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OSOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46913793&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:53): Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical InfoOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46914159&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 05, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Claude Opus 4.6Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902223&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:00): GPT-5.3-CodexOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902638&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:31): Don't rent the cloud, own insteadOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46896146&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:02): Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903556&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:33): OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have beenOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46893970&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:04): It's 2026, Just Use PostgresOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46905555&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:35): My AI Adoption JourneyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903558&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:06): We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C CompilerOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903616&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:37): When internal hostnames are leaked to the clownOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46895972&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(14:08): CIA to Sunset the World FactbookOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46899100&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 04, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): I miss thinking hardOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46881264&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:59): Voxtral Transcribe 2Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886735&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:28): FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabledOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886237&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:57): Claude is a space to thinkOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46884883&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:26): AI is killing B2B SaaSOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46888441&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:55): Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886191&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:24): Show HN: Ghidra MCP Server – 110 tools for AI-assisted reverse engineeringOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882389&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:53): A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886440&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:22): OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have beenOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46893970&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:51): The Great UnwindOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46889008&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 03, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the USOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873294&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:58): What's up with all those equals signs anyway?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46868759&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:26): Qwen3-Coder-NextOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872706&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:54): Agent SkillsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46871173&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:22): Data centers in space makes no senseOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46876105&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:51): Deno SandboxOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46874097&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:19): Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hairOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46865275&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:47): New York's budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printersOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872540&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:15): X offices raided in FranceOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872894&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:44): Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in XcodeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46874619&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 02, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actorsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46851548&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:55): The Codex AppOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46859054&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:21): xAI joins SpaceXOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46862170&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:47): Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850803&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:12): Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside MicrosoftOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46854999&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:38): Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 yearsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46858577&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:04): TermuxOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46854642&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:30): The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is IllegalOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46863162&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:55): Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHubOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861313&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:21): Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power constructionOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46863112&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 01, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust NetworkingOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844870&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:57): Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume downOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46848415&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:24): Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actorsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46851548&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:52): What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agentOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844822&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:19): Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongleOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46849567&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:47): List animals until failureOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46842603&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:14): Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure gamesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46846252&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:41): Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolationOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850205&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:09): My thousand dollar iPhone can't do mathOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46849258&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:36): The Book of PF, 4th editionOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844350&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 31, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-nativeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46835336&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:59): Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social mediaOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838417&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:28): Mobile carriers can get your GPS locationOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838597&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:57): Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tonesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832074&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:26): The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on iceOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46831702&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:55): Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46841374&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:24): We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latencyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46834953&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:53): Automatic ProgrammingOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46835208&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:22): Court Filings: ICE App Identifies Protesters; Global Entry, PreCheck Get RevokedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832751&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:51): YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsersOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46834441&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 30, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): MoltbookOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820360&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:56): Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderingsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46829147&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:23): GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native clientOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46821774&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:50): OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed AgainOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820783&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:17): Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate PatronOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46821134&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:44): Tesla's autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human driversOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822632&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:11): How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skillsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820924&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:38): Microsoft 365 now tracks you in real time?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46827003&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:05): Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centersOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46824098&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:31): Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol levelOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46819809&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 29, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressantsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46808251&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:59): Europe's next-generation weather satellite sends back first imagesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46806773&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:28): We can't send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46805665&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:57): Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation trackingOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810282&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:26): Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worldsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812933&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:55): US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: ReportOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812173&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:24): Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa MonicaOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810401&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:53): Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminalOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46804828&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:22): County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse securityOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814614&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:51): PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely IncredibleOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814743&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 28, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Microsoft forced me to switch to LinuxOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46795864&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:58): Amazon cuts 16k jobsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46796745&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:26): Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars inOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46803356&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:54): Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD VanceOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46802067&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:22): ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrantsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46794365&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:50): Airfoil (2024)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46795908&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:18): ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positionsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46792370&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:46): Show HN: The HN ArcadeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46793693&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:14): UK Government's ‘AI Skills Hub' was delivered by PwC for £4.1MOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46803119&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:42): Super Monkey Ball ported to a websiteOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46789961&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai