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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:19) - When did Google get so weird?
• (01:38) - Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
• (02:59) - Ember-1
• (04:30) - Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi
• (05:43) - Don't couple your Go code to GitHub
• (07:11) - In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life
• (08:24) - Self-Hosting on the Dark Web
• (09:26) - Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
• (10:33) - The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026
• (11:58) - Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)
• (13:12) - Outro

Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
https://colo.to/nvidia-stock-narrative.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872723

Ember-1
https://fireworks.ai/blog/ember-1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868830

Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi
https://loficities.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869574

Don't couple your Go code to GitHub
https://iain.rocks/blog/dont-couple-your-go-code-to-github
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868404

In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/science/motel-science-discovery.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866951

Self-Hosting on the Dark Web
https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/self-hosting-on-the-dark-web/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870295

Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/09/27/replacing-the-old-battery-on-rechargeable-bike-lights/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866515

The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026
https://shnatsel.github.io/state-of-simd-rust-2026/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844629

Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)
https://asawicki.info/articles/writing_efficient_cpp_code.php
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849409

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:20) - PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
• (01:42) - Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story
• (03:01) - Does Georgism work? Five years later
• (04:17) - Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things
• (05:34) - ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
• (06:44) - DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)
• (08:05) - How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
• (09:37) - Go Concurrency Distilled
• (10:51) - OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News
• (12:01) - How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments
• (13:14) - Outro

Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story
https://lexontech.org/fifteen-years-later-the-apple-cards-origin-story
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854693

Does Georgism work? Five years later
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-five-years-later
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844657

Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things
https://github.com/reladraw/reladraw
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858513

ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/asml-says-its-sells-absolutely-nothing-in-europe-calls-on-eu-to-help-create-demand
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844663

DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22978
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859112

How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-to-keep-enjoying-programming-in-a-world-of-llms/14705
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854875

Go Concurrency Distilled
https://antonz.org/go-concurrency-distilled/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49856988

OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News
https://authorsguild.org/news/ag-v-openai-top-execs-knew-mass-book-piracy-was-illegal/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49863864

How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments
https://thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com/p/how-i-changed-teaching-after-ai-managed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836579

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:16) - Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
• (01:52) - Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models
• (03:14) - U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
• (04:39) - Plan mode is dead
• (06:03) - First Principles Thinking
• (07:15) - Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case
• (08:42) - What even is an OS now?
• (09:56) - Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red
• (11:00) - Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
• (12:17) - Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
• (13:22) - Outro

Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models
https://ollaya.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49848269

U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/25/pentagon-anthropic-ai-risk-appeals-court.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845977

Plan mode is dead
https://www.aymannadeem.com/artificial/intelligence,/developer/tools/2026/09/24/plan-mode-is-dead.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49840054

First Principles Thinking
https://sunilsadasivan.com/writing/first-principles-thinking/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844736

Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-liable-deceiving-users-cambridge-analytica/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852302

What even is an OS now?
https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/25/what-even-is-an-os-now/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49850305

Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red
https://jev-pokemon.vercel.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845172

Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/gravity-seems-holographic-what-does-that-mean-for-reality-20260925/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845998

Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365insiderblog/put-multiple-values-in-one-cell-with-lists-and-arrays-in-excel/4559395
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849832