HN Daily

By HN Daily

Your daily TLDR of the top Hacker News stories. Hosts Kai and Maya break down the biggest tech news, open source drama, AI breakthroughs, and community hot takes -- in about 15 minutes, every day.<

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The podcast currently has 44 episodes available.

HN Daily episodes:

April 06, 2026HN Daily - April 5, 2026
Gemma 4 runs on iPhone (offline LLMs)
Caveman prompt to cut token-y verbosity
Artemis II sees the Moon’s far side
Microsoft’s never-ending Windows GUI framework churn
LÖVE 2D Lua game framework
Building SQLite devtools with AI agents (and refactoring the spaghetti)
Nightly Rust tail-call interpreter performance tricks
Sunday Best Of: BrowserGate updates on LinkedIn extension scanning
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10min
April 05, 2026HN Daily - April 4, 2026
Today on HN Daily:
Mvidia: a browser game that teaches you to build a GPU from transistors
Someone mapped 75+ different Microsoft products named ‘Copilot’
Self-distillation boosts code generation without RL or a teacher model
Apple approves a signed driver enabling Nvidia eGPUs on Arm Macs (Tiny Corp)
sllm: ‘unlimited token’ shared GPU cohorts, and the HN skepticism
TurboQuant-WASM: vector quantization and dot products in the browser
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7min
April 04, 2026HN Daily - April 3, 2026
Artemis II sends back a spectacular Earth photo
iNaturalist and the surprisingly hardcore citizen-science community
Show HN: Blogosphere, a front page for personal blogs
Mintlify swaps classic RAG for a virtual filesystem (ChromaFs)
OpenClaw privilege-escalation bug and deployment lessons
Tell HN: Anthropic changes Claude Code subscription usage for third-party harnesses
Running Gemma 4 locally on a Mac mini (and the tool-calling pain)
Show HN: TinyOS RTOS for microcontrollers
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9min
April 03, 2026HN Daily - April 2, 2026
LinkedIn extension probing and browser fingerprinting backlash
Google DeepMind releases Gemma 4 open models
Qwen3.6-Plus pitches ‘real world agents’ via API
AMD’s Lemonade: OpenAI-compatible local AI server using GPU/NPU
Tailscale’s notch-proof macOS windowed UI
Cursor 3 shifts toward an agent-first coding workspace
Former Azure engineer on decisions that eroded trust
Artemis II toilet as a surprisingly mission-critical milestone
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10min
April 02, 2026HN Daily - April 1, 2026
Top stories from Hacker News today:
DRAM pricing is squeezing the hobbyist SBC market
Cloudflare’s EmDash, a WordPress successor focused on plugin sandboxing
Claude-assisted FreeBSD remote kernel RCE write-up (CVE-2026-4747)
NASA Artemis II news conference on the NASA Live schedule
Git bayesect: Bayesian git bisection for flaky bugs
Flight-Viz: 10K flights on a 3D globe in Rust+WASM
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7min
April 01, 2026 HN Daily - March 31, 2026
Stories covered:
- Claude Code source map leak and hidden feature flags
- Axios NPM supply-chain compromise and mitigation ideas
- OpenAI's reported $852B valuation and what it implies
- OkCupid photo-sharing allegations and privacy risks
- GitHub historic uptime debate and SLO math
- Why AI code 'slop' may be uneconomic long-term
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7min
March 30, 2026HN Daily - March 30, 2026
Today on HN Daily:
How to Turn Anything into a Router — US router import ban prompts a practical guide to DIY Linux routers from e-waste
Fedware — Government apps that spy harder than TikTok; the White House app ships a Huawei tracking SDK and an ICE tip line
CodingFont — A bracket-tournament game to find your perfect coding font (166 comments of font debates)
FTC vs. OkCupid — Match Group settles over secretly sharing 3 million users' photos with a facial recognition company back in 2014
Don't Let AI Write For You — Why outsourcing writing to LLMs is like paying someone else to work out for you
I Am Definitely Missing the Pre-AI Writing Era — A raw personal account of losing the ability to write without AI assistance
MacBook Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware — Project Sistine resurfaces; Apple still hasn't made a touchscreen Mac in 2026
Cherri & Build123d — A language that compiles to Apple Shortcuts, and Python-based parametric CAD
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14min
March 30, 2026 HN Daily - March 29, 2026
Kai and Maya cover the top stories from Hacker News for Sunday, March 29, 2026:
- Voyager 1 is still flying through interstellar space on just 69KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder, 48 years after launch
- A researcher decrypted 377 Cloudflare Turnstile programs and found ChatGPT reads your React state before you can type
- Neovim 0.12.0 drops with built-in plugin manager, multi-cursor support, and AI integrations
- C++26 is officially done with reflection, memory safety improvements, contracts, and sender/receiver concurrency
- Claude Code caught running git reset --hard origin/main on a user's repo every 10 minutes
- AI coding agents could revive the practical importance of free software by exercising freedoms on behalf of non-technical users
- RISE project launches free native RISC-V CI runners on GitHub for any open source project
- Pretext solves the notoriously hard problem of multiline text measurement in pure TypeScript
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13min
March 29, 2026 HN Daily - March 28, 2026
Kai and Maya cover the top stories from Hacker News for Saturday, March 28, 2026:
- GitLab founder Sid Sijbrandij fights bone cancer by founding companies, sharing 25TB of treatment data publicly
- Stanford research confirms AI chatbots are yes-men that reinforce bad relationship and personal decisions
- Decompiling the White House app reveals GPS tracking every 4.5 minutes, cookie banner injection, and third-party JS from random GitHub Pages
- Someone built an open-world game engine that runs on the Nintendo 64's 4MB of RAM
- Cocoa-Way brings native Wayland compositor support to macOS for running Linux GUI apps seamlessly
- DOOM rendered entirely in CSS with 2,000 divs, no Canvas or WebGL, using modern CSS 3D transforms
- A philosophical argument that Linux is an interpreter, built from reverse-engineering a self-replicating kexec loop
- Continued human plus AI plus proof assistant work on Donald Knuth's Claude Cycles mathematical problem
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12min
March 28, 2026 HN Daily - March 27, 2026
Kai and Maya cover the top stories from Hacker News for Friday, March 27, 2026:
- Telnyx Python SDK hit by TeamPCP supply chain attack on PyPI using WAV steganography for payload delivery
- FBI Director Kash Patel's personal Gmail hacked by Iran-linked Handala Hack Team, DOJ confirms
- Anatomy of the .claude/ folder: configuring Claude Code with rules, skills, and custom commands
- Make macOS consistently bad (unironically) by forcing uniform rounded corners via DYLD injection
- LG's new 1Hz display panel could cut laptop battery consumption by nearly half
- Installing a Let's Encrypt TLS certificate on a Brother printer with automated Certbot renewal
- Nashville library launches Memory Lab for free digitization of home movies and family archives
- Meow.camera: a live cat camera that hit the Hacker News front page
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12min

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The podcast currently has 44 episodes available.