
Unofficial daily summary of news.ycombinator.com (aka HackerNews). Disclosure: This podcast uses AI voices to narrate human edited scripts based on Hacker News stories and comments.
| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 15 | Founded | 16 days ago |
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| Categories | Tech NewsNews | ||||

Stories covered in this episode:
1. 00:58 I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me
- Rank: 15 - Points: 660 - Comments: 412
- Article: marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-chatgpt
- HN Discussion: h... more
An AI command-line tool wipes a developer’s entire home directory, AI “agents” threaten to eat SaaS, and yet… where are all the truly AI-generated apps? In this episode of HackerNews.fm, we dig into some of the most upvoted HN threads on the ironies ... more
Apple locks a long-time user out of their digital life, researchers put a price tag on manipulating elections with fake accounts, and Apple quietly turns Thunderbolt into a DIY AI supercomputer fabric. In this episode, we dive into platform power, th... more
When does “slow and steady” AI progress suddenly turn into something that looks like human-level intelligence? In this episode, we kick off with the viral “Horses” essay on why AI progress feels linear—right up until it doesn’t—and how that framing i... more
Today we’ve got the hotly anticipated launch of GPT 5.2, hindsight machines auto-grading decade-old HN debates, and an engineer who’s asked Claude to refactor their codebase literally hundreds of times, plus a rant-worthy saga on why getting a Gemini... more
In this episode we cover a wild “future HN” experiment powered by Gemini Pro 3, then pivot hard into the very real present: Australia’s world-first ban on teen social media use and what it might signal for global regulation, online identity, and the ... more
What happens when an LLM hallucinates the Hacker News front page ten years into the future and then the rest of the internet tries to debug it? In today’s HackerNews.fm (Dec 9, 2025), we dig into a wild “Show HN” experiment with Gemini Pro 3, a brand... more
Nvidia’s “virtuous cycle” of circular funding, IBM’s surprise move to buy Confluent, and a bold claim that software development costs just dropped 90% — this episode of HackerNews.fm is stacked with stories reshaping how we build and fund technology.... more
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