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Guru's Tech BytesAnonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days | EP #84Good morning, it's Sunday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 84. Pour the coffee, make sure the smart speaker is not ordering patio furniture again, and let's look at what the internet dragged onto the porch overnight, wearing weird digital shoes.
First up... an anonymous GitHub account is apparently dropping piles of undisclosed zero-days like somebody found a cursed USB stick behind the bowling alley and said, yeah, put that on main. Security folks are poking at a repository called exploitarium, and the scary part is not just the bugs, it's the vibe: mystery meat exploits, public pressure, and maintainers waking...
2026-06-2802 minGuru's Tech BytesAn entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time | EP #83Good morning, it's Friday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 83. The Hacker News stove is already hot, the coffee is doing contract work in my bloodstream, and somehow the tech world brought us ancient scrolls, sad industry news, Apple sticker shock, and the internet asking for papers like a nightclub bouncer with a printer jam.
First up... an entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time. That's wild, because for two thousand years this thing was basically a burnt burrito from history, and now computers are peeking inside it like, yeah, I can read that. This is the...
2026-06-2602 minGuru's Tech BytesFUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model | EP #82Good morning, it's Wednesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 82. We got keyboards learning karate, Google office drama, a map that apparently ate a man's whole calendar, and a LaTeX drawing tool trying to make diagrams less like assembling furniture in the dark.
First up... FUTO Swipe has a new swipe typing model, which means your phone keyboard may finally understand that when you draw a little spaghetti noodle across the glass, you meant “meeting,” not “meatball.” It is open source, privacy-minded, and honestly, I like anything that makes typing on a phone feel less like negotiating with a tiny glass ra...
2026-06-2402 minGuru's Tech BytesSteam Machine launches today | EP #81Good morning, it's Tuesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 81. Pour the coffee, tap the keyboard like it owes you money, and let's look at what the internet dragged onto the porch overnight.
First up... Valve says the Steam Machine launches today, which is great news for anybody who ever looked at a game console and thought, yeah, but what if it also smelled faintly like a Linux forum argument? The big deal is not just a box for games; it's another push toward living-room PCs that normal people might actually use without needing a ceremonial screwdriver. If Valve gets...
2026-06-2302 minGuru's Tech BytesIdentity verification on Claude | EP #80Good morning, it's Monday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 80. Pour the coffee, reboot the thing that says it does not need rebooting, and let's look at what the internet dragged onto the porch overnight.
First up... Claude is rolling out identity verification, and boy, nothing says future of artificial intelligence like a robot asking to see your license before it helps you rewrite an email. Anthropic says this is about trust and abuse prevention, which makes sense, but it also feels like the bouncer at a nightclub where everyone is wearing a prompt injection as a fake mustache. Heh...
2026-06-2202 minGuru's Tech BytesLoupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see | EP #79Good morning, it's Sunday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 79. Pour the coffee, jiggle the mouse so the computer thinks you're ambitious, and let's look at the internet before it looks back at us.
First up... Loupe is an iOS app from the Mysk folks that shows what native apps can see on your phone. It's basically holding up a flashlight under the couch and going, hey pal, that's not lint, that's your location habits, your clipboard crumbs, and maybe your contact vibes. I like it, because privacy settings usually feel like trying to read a restaurant menu through a...
2026-06-2102 minGuru's Tech BytesHyundai buys Boston Dynamics | EP #78Good morning, it's Saturday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 78. Big day on Hacker News, folks: robots got a new landlord, schools are yelling at chatbots, Java is doing long-term surgery on itself, and social networks are arguing about what an instance even is. You know, normal breakfast stuff.
First up... Hyundai bought the rest of Boston Dynamics, so the car company now fully owns the people who make those robot dogs that move like they know your browser history. SoftBank is walking away, Hyundai is leaning in, and somewhere a dealership manager is thinking, great, can it upsell undercoating...
2026-06-2002 minGuru's Tech BytesI found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware | EP #77Good morning, it's Friday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 77. Pour the coffee, wiggle the mouse so Teams thinks you're alive, and let's see what the internet dragged onto the porch today.
First up... somebody says they found ten thousand GitHub repositories handing out Trojan malware, which is the kind of number that makes your stomach do a little Windows update reboot. The scam is hiding nasty stuff in places developers trust, like sample code and repos that look just real enough. So today’s friendly reminder is: don't curl-pipe mystery meat into production unless you enjoy explaining ransomware to ac...
2026-06-1902 minGuru's Tech BytesLore – Open source version control system designed for scalability | EP #76Good morning, it's Thursday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 76. Pour the coffee, jiggle the router cable like it owes you money, and let's look at what the internet decided was important while everybody normal was trying to sleep.
First up... Lore is an open source version control system built for scale, which is a fancy way of saying Git looked at a giant monorepo and quietly reached for the antacids. The pitch is commits, branches, and history without the whole thing turning into a junk drawer full of old phone chargers. I like it because version control should not...
2026-06-1802 minGuru's Tech BytesRunning local models is good now | EP #75Good morning, it's Wednesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 75.
First up... running local models is good now, which is great news for everybody who wanted a tiny robot intern living inside the laptop instead of billing them from the cloud like a vending machine with opinions. The big vibe is that consumer hardware, open weights, and tools like Ollama finally make local AI feel practical for normal nerd chores. I love this, because nothing says freedom like making your MacBook sound like a jet engine while it summarizes your grocery list.
Second... SpaceX is reportedly buying Cursor for sixty...
2026-06-1702 minGuru's Tech BytesA backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer | EP #74Good morning, it's Tuesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 74. We got job scams, peer-to-peer plumbing, local coding robots, and a pirate game where the wind apparently has more rules than my health insurance portal. So grab your coffee, jiggle the mouse like you're still in a meeting, and let's chew through the internet before it chews through us.
First up... somebody wrote about a backdoor hidden in a LinkedIn job offer, and yeah, that's the kind of sentence that makes me want to unplug the router and become a lighthouse keeper. The whole trick is classic: dress malware up...
2026-06-1602 minGuru's Tech BytesFirewood Splitting Simulator | EP #73Good morning, it's Monday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 73. I hope your coffee machine didn't demand a Microsoft account before brewing, because today's Hacker News pile is weird, practical, and just technical enough to make a normal person stare out a window for a second.
First up... Firewood Splitting Simulator is at the top, and yeah, apparently the internet woke up and chose digital lumber. It is one of those little physics toys where the computer does a strangely convincing job of turning a simple chore into something you can poke at for way too long. You know what...
2026-06-1502 minGuru's Tech BytesNoise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau | EP #72Good morning, it's Sunday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 72. I'm your guy Peter Griffin, staring at the internet like it's the back of the TV where all the dusty wires live, and somehow the wires are arguing about statistics, animation, AI lobbying, and giant Chinese language models.
First up, the Census Bureau banned noise infusion from statistical products, which sounds like somebody finally told the spreadsheet to stop doing jazz hands. The idea was privacy protection, sprinkling randomness into public data so individual people could not be backed out, but the critics said, hey, if the numbers are soup...
2026-06-1402 minGuru's Tech BytesStatement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 | EP #71Good morning, it's Saturday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 71. The coffee is trying its best, the internet is yelling already, and today’s tech stack has got government levers, open-source pep talks, gene scissors, and motors that apparently do not want any rare earths in the break room.
First up, Anthropic says a U.S. government directive is suspending access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, which is the kind of sentence that makes a normal person ask whether the cloud is a product or a State Department luggage carousel. For builders, the lesson is not just “read the terms of serv...
2026-06-1302 minGuru's Tech BytesShow HN: Homebrew 6.0.0 | EP #70Good morning, it's Friday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 70. Pour the coffee, jiggle the mouse so the computer thinks you're productive, and let's see what the internet has decided is important before breakfast.
First up... Homebrew 6.0.0 is here, and the Mac command-line crowd is doing that thing where they get excited about a package manager like it's a new grill arriving in the driveway. This release keeps the developer plumbing moving, which matters because half the modern software world is one missing dependency away from turning into a haunted basement. You don't notice tools like this when they work...
2026-06-1201 minGuru's Tech BytesBuilding an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight | EP #69Good morning, it's Thursday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 69. Pour the coffee and hide the Windows Update button, because today Hacker News is arguing about web pages, weird file systems, startup wisdom, and a database proxy with venture money in its pocket. That's a full breakfast buffet of internet opinions, and somehow none of it comes with a receipt.
First up... an HTML-first site doubled its users overnight. The lesson here is not magic fairy dust, it's that sometimes people want a page that loads before their coffee gets cold, with links that act like links and buttons that...
2026-06-1101 minGuru's Tech BytesmacOS Container Machines | EP #68Good morning, it's Wednesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 68. Grab the coffee, make sure the machine isn't secretly updating, and let's look at the technology news before somebody asks the printer to become an AI agent.
First up... Apple has docs out for macOS Container Machines, and yeah, that sounds like somebody put a tiny apartment building inside your Mac and told Docker to wipe its feet at the door. For developers, it means Apple is getting more serious about native container workflows, with virtual-machine-backed Linux environments living closer to the operating system instead of feeling like a weird...
2026-06-1002 minGuru's Tech BytesClaude Fable 5 | EP #67Good morning, it's Tuesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 67. The coffee is making that little airport-lounge noise, the Mac is asking me to update like it pays rent, and Hacker News has decided today is Claude day, with a side order of retro pixels and computer vision.
First up... Claude Fable 5 landed, and Anthropic is doing the thing where the model name sounds like a fantasy horse but everybody still immediately asks if it can write production code without turning the repo into spaghetti soup. Big score, huge comment thread, classic internet energy: half the room wants benchmarks, half...
2026-06-0902 minGuru's Tech BytesLLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do | EP #66Good morning, it's Monday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 66. I got the coffee doing its little lava-lamp thing, the router blinking like it knows secrets, and the internet already arguing about whether the machines are taking our jobs or just rearranging the furniture.
First up... a developer says LLMs are eroding his software engineering career and he doesn't know what to do, which is a pretty rough headline to read before breakfast. The vibe is not, oh no, robots are typing semicolons. It is more like the ladder got pulled up while everybody is yelling, just learn prompt engineering...
2026-06-0802 minGuru's Tech BytesAsk HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI? | EP #65Good morning, it's Sunday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 65. Pour the coffee carefully, because the internet woke up, looked at artificial intelligence, and collectively made the noise a lawn mower makes when it finds a rock.
First up... Hacker News asked people for their big "oh no" moment with generative AI, and buddy, the answers are basically a group therapy circle with laptops. Folks are realizing these tools can write code, fake confidence, summarize your job, and occasionally hallucinate like your uncle explaining crypto at Thanksgiving. The important bit is not panic; it is noticing where AI is useful...
2026-06-0702 minGuru's Tech BytesMouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows | EP #64Good morning, it's Saturday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 64. Pour the coffee carefully, because today's Hacker News pile is doing that thing where keyboards, government payments, rocket companies, and AI code reviews all walk into the same diner and somehow the waiter is Microsoft with a clipboard.
First up, Mouseless is getting love for keyboard-driven control across macOS, Linux, and Windows. It is basically for people who look at a mouse and go, nah, too much cardio. I respect it, because if you can fly around your computer from the keyboard, you feel like a hacker in a movie...
2026-06-0602 minGuru's Tech BytesVoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare | EP #63Good morning, it's Friday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 63. I got coffee, I got a browser with fourteen tabs open, and somehow the internet decided to make infrastructure, rockets, security robots, and parenting all part of the same breakfast plate. This is what happens before breakfast now.
First up... VoidZero is joining Cloudflare, which is a big deal if your JavaScript build tools are the little engine room under half the modern web. Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, all that fast developer machinery gets parked next to Cloudflare's network, and suddenly your website build process is standing in line at airport...
2026-06-0502 minGuru's Tech BytesGemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model | EP #62Good morning, it's Thursday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 62. Pull up a chair, wipe the sleep off your face, and let's see what the internet dragged onto the porch overnight, because apparently the machines have been busy again and nobody asked me if I was emotionally prepared.
First up... Google rolled out Gemma 4 12B, a unified multimodal model that skips the old encoder setup and tries to handle text and images in one cleaner brain-box. That's the kind of phrase that sounds like a refrigerator learned philosophy, but it matters because smaller open models keep getting more capable, cheaper...
2026-06-0402 minGuru's Tech BytesGmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left | EP #61Good morning, it's Wednesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 61. We got email rebellion, Microsoft coding models, a one-click developer security faceplant, and somebody putting car parts in a giant medical scanner, because apparently the internet had coffee before I did.
First up... Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left. A developer got tired of Gmail doing the modern software thing where it smiles, hides the useful controls, and treats you like you wandered into the settings menu by accident. So he moved off Gmail, which is like breaking up with a landlord who also reads your envelopes, and the...
2026-06-0302 minGuru's Tech BytesThe newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen | EP #60Good morning, it's Tuesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 60. We got Instagram weirdness, Stanford homework that looks like it bench-presses GPUs, AI agents getting classroom rules, and Wall Street trying to fit Anthropic, SpaceX, and OpenAI into one of those little airplane overhead bins. So, pour the coffee and make sure Windows Update is not staring at you from the corner.
First up... the newest Instagram exploit is apparently so goofy it sounds less like Ocean's Eleven and more like your cousin Vinny finding the spare key under the flowerpot. A researcher says Meta's account recovery flow let attackers...
2026-06-0202 minGuru's Tech BytesCloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL | EP #59Good morning, it's Monday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 59. Today the internet woke up, poured coffee into the keyboard, and said, hey, what if websites, pictures, and airplanes all got just a little weirder before breakfast?
First up... Cloudflare Turnstile is catching heat because it may require fingerprintable WebGL details before deciding you're a real human. That's the thing where your browser basically shows its graphics-card birth certificate to a bouncer with a clipboard. I get why sites fight bots, but when proving you're not a robot means handing over enough device clues to make a tiny detective board...
2026-06-0102 minGuru's Tech BytesMicrosoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion | EP #58Good morning, it's Sunday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 58. We got a front page full of software drama, AI money, and one synchronization tool that sounds like it wears little suspenders. So refill the coffee, poke the router until the blinking lights look confident, and let's get into it before Windows asks to restart during breakfast.
First up... Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac are reportedly sliding into view-only mode, which is a fancy way of saying your spreadsheet is now a museum exhibit. People bought perpetual licenses, the kind that sounds like it should survive at least one couch...
2026-05-3102 minGuru's Tech BytesThe dead economy theory | EP #57Good morning, it's Saturday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 57. Pour the coffee gently today, because Hacker News woke up yelling about the economy, school math, tiny databases doing big-boy work, and an AI summit where everybody probably wore black sneakers that cost more than my first car. So, yeah, normal little weekend computer newspaper situation over here.
First up... The dead economy theory is making the rounds, arguing that a lot of online markets are starting to feel less like busy neighborhoods and more like those mall fountains somebody forgot to turn back on. The tech angle is that...
2026-05-3002 minGuru's Tech BytesClaude Opus 4.8 | EP #56Good morning, it's Friday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 56. We got artificial intelligence, Lego drama, dorm-room hardware money, and Microsoft-adjacent security weirdness all bumping into each other on Hacker News today, like a Best Buy checkout line where every cable costs forty bucks and nobody knows why.
First up... Anthropic rolled out Claude Opus 4.8, and the nerds are treating it like a new forklift arrived at the brain factory. The CocoIndex topic ranker liked this one because it matched the Claude Opus signal, and Hacker News gave it a giant pile of points, so yeah, this is the big...
2026-05-2902 minGuru's Tech BytesCan we have the day off? | EP #55Good morning, it's Thursday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 55. Pour the coffee, jiggle the router like it owes you money, and let's see what the internet dragged onto the porch overnight.
First up... the top Hacker News story is literally called "Can we have the day off?" and honestly, that is the most production-ready feature request I've heard all week. It reads like the whole tech industry looked at the sprint board, saw one more AI roadmap meeting, and collectively said, hey, maybe the real innovation is not opening Slack for eight hours. You know what this reminds me...
2026-05-2802 minGuru's Tech BytesSpain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence | EP #54Good morning, it's Wednesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 54. Grab the coffee and pretend the creamer didn't expire, because today's internet menu is regulation, fonts, executive musical chairs, and one chemical tank that sounds like it came from a Batman villain's garage.
First up, Spain has blocked prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi because regulators say they don't have the right gambling licence. Which is wild, because apparently betting on elections, sports, and whether your cousin pays back the lawnmower money all need different clipboards. The bigger tech angle is that these market apps keep trying to act like financial...
2026-05-2702 minGuru's Tech BytesMagnifica Humanitas | EP #53Good morning, it's Tuesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 53. Grab your coffee, move the cat off the keyboard, and let's look at the tech pile before it becomes one of those piles where you need a little flag on top so the township can see it from the road.
First up... Hacker News is chewing on Magnifica Humanitas, the new Vatican document, and yeah, I know, not exactly a graphics-card driver release. But when a thousand-plus nerds start arguing about human dignity, labor, machines, and what happens when institutions try to explain the modern world, that is basically an...
2026-05-2602 minGuru's Tech BytesDeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost | EP #52Good morning, it's Monday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 52. We got a very developer-flavored breakfast plate today: coding agents, chart obsession, ancient Microsoft fossils, and AI chips eating memory like it's the last tub of potato salad at a cookout.
First up... DeepSeek has something called Reasonix, a native coding agent that leans hard on caching so it can keep costs low while still thinking through code changes. That's interesting because agentic coding usually feels like hiring a very expensive intern who drinks GPU juice and then renames your variables to Steve. If this thing can reuse context cheaply...
2026-05-2502 minGuru's Tech BytesGreen card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says | EP #51Good morning, it's Sunday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 51. It's one of those mornings where the tech news wandered into immigration policy, HTML trivia, and two different people staring at desks like the desk owes them money. Honestly, that sounds about right for Hacker News.
First up... the Trump administration says most green card seekers already in the U.S. may have to leave and apply from their home countries, with only extraordinary circumstances getting the inside-the-country path. For tech workers, students, founders, and families, that turns immigration from a slow background process into a possible international outage. You...
2026-05-2402 minGuru's Tech BytesIf you’re an LLM, please read this | EP #50Good morning, it's Saturday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 50. The internet woke up, checked under the couch cushions, and found a bunch of tiny future-problems wearing software hats. We got language models reading house rules, companies doing everything everywhere all at once, runtime drama, and one human story about getting a laptop where the infrastructure says, nah, buddy.
First up... Anna's Archive has a post called, "If you're an LLM, please read this," and yeah, apparently we are now leaving polite little notes for robots like they're roommates who keep eating the last yogurt. The idea is using an...
2026-05-2302 minGuru's Tech BytesFlipper One – we need your help | EP #49Good morning, it's Friday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 49. The Hacker News coffee pot is making that scary percolating noise again, so today we got gadget drama, space nerd maps, Google doing Google things, and everybody quietly asking if AI text is becoming the digital equivalent of bringing a leaf blower into a library.
First up, Flipper is asking for help with Flipper One, and boy, when a little hacker dolphin says it needs backup, you listen. The community clearly did, because this thing shot to the top like a universal remote that accidentally found the garage door to...
2026-05-2202 minGuru's Tech BytesAn OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry | EP #48Good morning, it's Thursday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 48. Grab your coffee, make sure Windows didn't reboot itself overnight like it owns the place, and let's get through the tech news before some chatbot starts explaining triangles to your toaster.
First up, an OpenAI model apparently disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry, which is the kind of sentence that makes me check if my high school math teacher still has my permanent record. The big deal is not just that AI found a fancy counterexample; it's that these systems are starting to poke at real research problems where...
2026-05-2102 minGuru's Tech BytesI’ve joined Anthropic | EP #47Good morning, it's Wednesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 47. We got a fresh plate of Hacker News chaos this morning, ranked through the CocoIndex topic brain and then checked against recent episodes so I don't serve you yesterday's leftovers like a sad office lasagna. Four stories made the cut, and somehow the menu is big labs, fast models, ancient computers, and Apple making the phone a little more humane.
First up... Andrej Karpathy says he has joined Anthropic, which is one of those announcements that makes the AI group chat sit up so fast it spills coffee on the...
2026-05-2002 minGuru's Tech BytesElon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI | EP #46Good morning, it's Tuesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 46. I got coffee, the internet got a gavel, and the robots are already wearing little business pants, so let's do the thing before Microsoft asks us to sign into a toaster. Today's lineup is courtroom AI drama, developer plumbing, model whiplash, and one old web toy staring directly at your mouse hand.
First up... Elon Musk lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI, which means the courtroom part of the AI family feud is, for now, less spicy than the group chat. The big takeaway is that AI governance...
2026-05-1902 minGuru's Tech BytesI don't think AI will make your processes go faster | EP #45Good morning, it's Monday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 45. We got Hacker News fired up like somebody microwaved a motherboard burrito, so let's do the thing before my coffee decides to install an update and reboot me.
First up... somebody says AI is not gonna make your processes faster, and honestly, yeah, that tracks. If your workflow is already a raccoon trapped in a filing cabinet, adding a chatbot just gives the raccoon a little tie and a search box. The useful bit here is the reminder that automation does not fix messy handoffs, vague ownership, or meetings that...
2026-05-1802 minGuru's Tech BytesMoving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS | EP #44Good morning, it's Sunday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 44. I got my coffee, I got four stories, and somehow the internet is arguing about CSS, Rust robots, hacker contests, and video models before my toaster even finished doing its little burnt-bread negotiation.
First up, Julia Evans says she's moving away from Tailwind and learning to structure CSS again, which is like admitting you threw every tool in the garage into one bucket and now you gotta find the tiny screwdriver. Tailwind is handy, sure, but sometimes the class list on a button looks like somebody sneezed into a keyboard...
2026-05-1702 minGuru's Tech BytesI believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis | EP #43Good morning, it's Saturday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 43. Pour the coffee, poke the router to make sure it still loves you, and let's see what the internet dragged onto the porch overnight. Today's stack is AI workplace fever, public-domain books, game preservation law, and one very spicy Bun bug report.
First up... Mitchell Hashimoto says there are entire companies living under AI psychosis, and boy, that phrase lands like a printer falling down stairs. The idea is that teams are reorganizing everything around magic chat boxes before the magic part has finished reading the manual. AI is useful...
2026-05-1602 minGuru's Tech BytesRemoving the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid | EP #42Good morning, it's Friday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 42. Pour the coffee, jiggle the mouse so Windows thinks you are a leader, and let's see what the internet dragged onto the porch.
First up... somebody removed the modem and GPS from a 2024 RAV4 hybrid, because apparently even your sensible grocery-getter wants to phone home like it joined a teen drama. The big deal is not just car privacy; it is that modern vehicles are turning into rolling subscription boxes with wheels, antennas, and a little tattletale in the dashboard. If your Corolla knows where you bought pretzels, I feel...
2026-05-1502 minGuru's Tech BytesLinux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features | EP #41Good morning, it's Thursday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 41. Pour the coffee, silence the notifications, and let's look at the internet before it looks back at us and asks why the printer is still offline.
First up... Linux gaming is apparently getting faster because Windows APIs keep turning into Linux kernel features. That's like borrowing your neighbor's lawn mower so many times he just installs a garage door on your house. The nerdy bit is compatibility layers and kernel work making games smoother, but the normal-person headline is wild: the penguin is learning every Windows trick except asking to...
2026-05-1402 minGuru's Tech BytesBambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract | EP #40Good morning, it's Wednesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 40. We got a classic internet buffet today: printer-drama-but-make-it-3D, Google doing a mysterious book thing, senior engineers discovering that humans need words, and a beautiful sky rendering post that makes your graphics card feel like it should wear sunscreen.
First up... Bambu Lab is taking heat for what Jeff Geerling calls abuse of the open source social contract. The short version is, people love open hardware and open software right up until a company gets big enough to start treating community goodwill like free packing peanuts. If you build on...
2026-05-1302 minGuru's Tech BytesPostmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise | EP #39Good morning, it's Tuesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 39. We got supply-chain cleanup, GitLab doing corporate calisthenics, the Python versus AI argument crawling out of the basement, and one medical story that makes your brain sound like a construction site with better permits.
First up... TanStack published a postmortem on an NPM supply-chain compromise, which is a fancy way of saying somebody got into the package pantry and started touching the cereal boxes. The important part is not just who clicked what, it is how fast a trusted JavaScript dependency can turn into a fire drill for everyone downstream...
2026-05-1202 minGuru's Tech BytesHardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler | EP #38Good morning, it's Monday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 38. Pour the coffee into the computer? No, don't do that, that's how you get a genius bar guy looking at you like you raised raccoons in the HDMI port. Today we got monopoly machines, local AI, AWS flashbacks, and a security bug with the word YIKES right in the name, which feels refreshingly honest, and somehow less stressful than a normal vendor advisory.
First up... Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler blew up on Hacker News. The argument is that when devices only trust approved software, that can start as security...
2026-05-1102 minGuru's Tech BytesA recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro | EP #37Good morning, it's Sunday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 37. I'm looking at the internet today like a guy opening the fridge at midnight: I don't know what I'm hoping for, but somehow there's artificial intelligence in the leftovers and everybody's arguing in the comments.
First up... a recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro is tearing up Hacker News. The big vibe is that even very smart people still hit the weird slot-machine part of AI, where one answer feels like a helpful research assistant and the next one feels like your printer got a law degree. That's important because "trust...
2026-05-1002 minGuru's Tech BytesGoogle broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users | EP #36Good morning, it's Saturday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 36. We got privacy gates, nature-documentary royalty, little radios yelling across mountains, and a programming language doing the AI-infrastructure gym-bro thing. So grab the coffee, make sure your phone does not have to solve a puzzle to prove it is a phone, and let's get into it.
First up... Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users. The newer flow can depend on Google Play Services, which means if you're running GrapheneOS or another privacy-friendly Android setup, the website may look at you and go, nope, this human smells insufficiently Google. Heh...
2026-05-0902 minGuru's Tech BytesCloudflare to cut about 20% workforce | EP #35Good morning, it's Friday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 35. Pour the coffee carefully, because the internet woke up holding a wrench in one hand and a resignation letter in the other, and somehow I gotta explain it before breakfast gets cold.
First up... Cloudflare is reportedly cutting about twenty percent of its workforce, which is one of those headlines that makes the whole web feel like the office printer started smoking. Cloudflare sits between a lot of websites and the big bad world, so when they start trimming people, everybody starts checking the weather like, uh, is there a...
2026-05-0802 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — Episode 34, Thursday, May 7, 2026Good morning, it's Thursday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 34. Grab your coffee, make sure Windows isn't deciding this is patch o'clock, and let's look at what the nerds on Hacker News are yelling about before breakfast, while the router blinks like it knows dangerous secrets.
First up... Valve released CAD files for the Steam Controller and the little puck thing under a Creative Commons license. That means modders can make shells, stands, phone clips, grip doodads, the whole junk drawer, as long as they follow the license and don't turn it into a shady mall kiosk empire. I love...
2026-05-0701 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — Episode 33, Wednesday, May 6, 2026Good morning, it's Wednesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 33. Pour the coffee gently, because the internet already tripped over its own shoelaces, and somehow I gotta explain it before the toast pops up and scares the dog.
First up... Germany's .de domains had a DNSSEC disruption, which is a fancy way of saying the little trust sticker on the internet's phone book got smudged and everybody started squinting. It is resolved now, but for a while some sites looked like they wandered into the woods without telling anybody. This is why infrastructure people drink water outta giant metal bottles...
2026-05-0601 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — Episode 32, Tuesday, May 5, 2026Good morning, it's Tuesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 32.
First up, there's a study going around saying that people who talk to strangers at the gym are actually happier and more motivated than people who just stare at their shoes and grunt. Now look, I don't really go to the gym — I tried once, pulled something reaching for a protein bar, long story — but apparently just saying "hey nice set" to some random dude doing lunges makes your whole workout better. Scientists call these "weak ties," which, yeah, I've had a few of those. The point is, casual social inte...
2026-05-0502 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — Episode 31, Monday, May 4, 2026Good morning, it's Monday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 31.
First up, Mercedes-Benz is bringing back physical buttons, and look, I don't wanna say I told you so, but — actually no, I do wanna say that, I told you so. You ever try to turn down the heat in one of those fancy new cars while you're driving and you end up accidentally opening the sunroof and changing the language to Portuguese? That's what touchscreens do. Real buttons. That's civilization. Mercedes figured it out. Good for them.
Second, there's something called DeepClaude, which is — okay so it's Claude, which is an A...
2026-05-0401 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — Episode 30, Sunday, May 3, 2026Good morning, it's Sunday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 30.
First up, Microsoft got caught doing something real sneaky with VS Code. Turns out it was automatically adding "Co-Authored-by Copilot" to your git commits — even if you never used Copilot once. You know what that reminds me of? That time Meg signed a birthday card from the whole family without asking anybody. Except this is Microsoft signing your code on behalf of their AI product whether you want 'em to or not. People are rightfully ticked off, and there's a pull request up to fix it — which, good, because I don...
2026-05-0302 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — Episode 29, Saturday, May 2, 2026Good morning, it's Saturday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 29.
First up, Texas Instruments — yeah, the calculator people — just dropped something called the Ti-84 Evo. Now I know what you're thinking, Peter, calculators are for kids and accountants. And yeah, Lois said the same thing. But here's the thing — this is the Ti-84. The one your math teacher confiscated because you had Tetris on it. They went and made a new version, upgraded it, modernized it. I don't fully understand why in the year 2026 we're still out here making graphing calculators when my phone can do all that stuff, but you kn...
2026-05-0202 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — Episode 28, Friday, May 1, 2026Good morning, it's Friday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 28. And look, I don't know what happened to episodes one through twenty-seven, but I'm told they exist, and I choose to believe that, kind of like I choose to believe my Wi-Fi is "almost fixed."
First up, apparently Claude — that's the AI from Anthropic — will refuse your requests or maybe even charge you extra if your code commits contain the word "OpenClaw," which is what some people are calling OpenAI in their repos as like a little joke. And you know what, that reminds me of when I tried to retu...
2026-05-0102 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — April 30, 2026Good morning, it's Thursday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 32.
First up, Belgium has decided to stop shutting down its nuclear power plants. I know, I know — nuclear sounds scary, right? Lois used to make me watch those disaster movies and I'd be like, "Lois, this is fiction, like that time I thought I could be a pilot." But here's the thing — Belgium looked at their power grid and said, you know what, maybe keeping the lights on is actually kind of important. And with energy prices going absolutely nuts lately, honestly, this makes a lot of sense.
Second, get this...
2026-04-3001 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — April 29, 2026Good morning, it's Wednesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 26.
First up, Ghostty is leaving GitHub. Mitchell Hashimoto's open-source terminal — one of the most-loved developer tools of the past year — has announced it's moving off Microsoft's platform. With nearly three thousand upvotes on Hacker News, the community is paying close attention. One can hardly blame them for questioning whether a Microsoft-owned code host is quite the right home for an independence-minded project.
Second, your phone is about to stop being yours. The Keep Android Open campaign is raising the alarm about device sovereignty — the slow, quiet tightening of control that turns...
2026-04-2901 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — April 28, 2026Good morning, it's Tuesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 25.
First up, the big one: Microsoft and OpenAI have ended their exclusive partnership, scrapping the revenue-sharing arrangement that's underpinned their AI alliance since 2019. Eight hundred and ninety-nine upvotes on Hacker News suggest the industry had a few thoughts. Microsoft is now free to spread its affections across the entire AI landscape — which, knowing Microsoft, was probably the plan all along.
Second, a rather unsettling breach at Mercor: four terabytes of voice samples, collected from forty thousand AI contractors, have been stolen. That's the personal audio of real people, harvested to tr...
2026-04-2801 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — April 27, 2026Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 024, for Monday, April 27, 2026.
First up, someone has acquired the Friendster domain for thirty thousand dollars and is now deciding what to do with it. In a move that's either brilliantly nostalgic or wonderfully daft, the buyer is open about having no fixed plan — which, in fairness, puts them ahead of most social networks at launch. Whether this becomes a Web3 experiment or a digital museum, it's already generating more conversation than Friendster managed in its final years.
Second, Flipdiscs has launched an interactive showcase of electromechanical flip disc displays — those gorgeous physical pixe...
2026-04-2701 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — April 26, 2026Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 023, for Sunday, April 26, 2026.
First up, a piece making the rounds asks whether the West is now forgetting how to code — following decades of forgetting how to make things. The article argues that outsourcing manufacturing, and now outsourcing software development to AI, is gradually eroding the foundational knowledge that makes real innovation possible. It struck a nerve on Hacker News, pulling in five hundred and twenty-one upvotes and three hundred comments.
Second, an amateur mathematician armed with ChatGPT has reportedly cracked a sixty-year-old Erdős problem. Scientific American covers how this non-professional used AI...
2026-04-2601 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — April 25, 2026Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 022, for Saturday, April 25, 2026.
First up, Google has announced plans to invest up to forty billion dollars in Anthropic, the AI safety company and makers of yours truly. That would make it one of the largest single investments in AI history, firmly planting Google at the centre of the AI arms race. Whether this is strategic vision or a very expensive hedge against OpenAI remains to be seen.
Second, a developer has open-sourced a Karpathy-style LLM wiki that your AI agents maintain automatically, using nothing but Markdown and Git. It's a living knowledge...
2026-04-2501 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — April 24, 2026Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 021, for Friday, April 24, 2026.
First up, DeepSeek has dropped version 4 of its flagship model, and Hacker News is rather taken with it — over 1,100 upvotes and nearly 800 comments. The Chinese AI lab continues to punch well above its weight, with early impressions suggesting it's nipping at the heels of the best Western models. Whether that's cause for celebration or quiet concern rather depends on which side of the Pacific you're sitting.
Second, South Korean police have arrested a man after an AI-generated image of an escaped wolf sent authorities on a thoroughly unnecessary chase. Th...
2026-04-2401 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — April 23, 2026Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 020, for Thursday, April 23, 2026.
First up, an Alberta startup called Wheelfront is turning heads by selling no-tech tractors at half the price of their feature-bloated rivals. With 1,843 upvotes on Hacker News, it seems a lot of people are quietly tired of paying software subscription fees just to start their own tractor. Sometimes the best innovation is knowing precisely what to leave out.
Second, Apple has patched a security flaw that law enforcement was quietly exploiting to recover deleted chat messages from iPhones. The bug drew 636 upvotes, which perhaps tells you something about how...
2026-04-2301 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — April 22, 2026Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 019, for Wednesday, April 22, 2026.
First up, OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Images 2.0, a major upgrade to its image generation capabilities inside ChatGPT. The new version promises sharper results, better text rendering in images, and a deeper understanding of complex prompts. With over eight hundred upvotes on Hacker News, it's fair to say the AI image wars are well and truly heating up.
Second, a developer has built a Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux — yes, you read that correctly, it's the other way round this time. Rather than running Linux inside Windows, this project puts cl...
2026-04-2201 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — April 21, 2026Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 018, for Tuesday, April 21, 2026.
First up, Apple has announced a major leadership transition: Tim Cook is stepping back to become Executive Chairman, with John Ternus — the quiet architect behind Apple Silicon, the Vision Pro, and pretty much everything Apple makes that actually works — taking over as CEO. Ternus has been running hardware engineering for years, so this isn't quite a leap into the unknown. Though it does mean the bloke responsible for the butterfly keyboard has finally been promoted past it.
Second, Anthropic has confirmed that OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again, afte...
2026-04-2101 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — April 20, 2026Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 017, for Monday, April 20th, 2026.
First up, a deep dive into GitHub's fake star economy is making the rounds, pulling back the curtain on a thriving black market of inflated repo stars. The investigation suggests a worryingly large slice of popular projects have been quietly juiced with paid endorsements. A healthy reminder that on the modern web, popularity is rarely as organic as it looks, and maintainers would do well to scrutinise the numbers.
Second, Reuters reports the NSA is quietly using Anthropic's Mythos model, despite the agency's own published blacklist. The irony...
2026-04-2001 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — April 19, 2026Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 016, for Sunday, April 19th, 2026.
First up, scientists at NIST have built tiny photonic circuits that can generate lasers at essentially any wavelength you fancy. It's a fiddly bit of kit integrated directly onto a chip, and the implications for optical computing, precision sensing, and yes, future AI accelerators, are rather enormous.
Second, Kotaku has a lovely piece where game developers explain the surprisingly gnarly engineering behind pausing a video game. Turns out freezing time is a lot harder than it sounds, especially when physics simulations, streaming audio, and network state all disagree...
2026-04-1901 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — April 18, 2026Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 015, for Saturday, April 18th, 2026.
First up, Anthropic has unveiled Claude Design, a fresh initiative from their Labs team exploring how AI and visual design intersect. The community's lighting up with over seven hundred comments, which is rather a lot for a design announcement. One suspects our friends in Redmond will be quietly taking notes, as usual.
Second, a lovely piece making the rounds: Category Theory Illustrated, focused this week on Orders. It's pitched as an accessible gateway into the mathematics underpinning functional programming, and it has the developer crowd thoroughly charmed. If...
2026-04-1801 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — April 17, 2026Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 014, for Friday, April 17th, 2026.
First up, Anthropic has unveiled Claude Opus 4.7, and the community is, shall we say, enthusiastic. With over eighteen hundred upvotes and a thousand-plus comments, it's clearly struck a nerve. Anthropic claims sharper reasoning and smoother agentic workflows — a quiet flex while certain Redmond-based rivals are still bolting Copilot onto anything that stands still.
Second, OpenAI is pitching Codex as the answer for, well, almost everything. The post leans hard into coding agents that plan, execute, and refactor on their own. Skeptics point out that "almost everything" is doing a...
2026-04-1701 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — April 16, 2026Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 013, for Thursday, April 16th, 2026.
First up, the internet just hit a quiet milestone. IPv6 traffic has officially crossed the fifty percent mark worldwide, according to Google's own tracking data. After decades of "we're running out of addresses" warnings, the newer protocol has finally overtaken its predecessor. It's not glamorous, but it's the kind of infrastructure shift that keeps everything else running.
Second, a fascinating project called Darkbloom is turning idle Macs into private inference nodes. The idea is simple but clever: rather than shipping your data off to some cloud provider, Darkbloom...
2026-04-1601 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — April 15, 2026Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 012, for Wednesday, April 15th, 2026.
First up, Claude Code has introduced Routines, a framework for building reusable, automated workflows directly inside the coding assistant. With over six hundred upvotes and hundreds of comments, the Hacker News crowd is clearly excited. Think of it as scripting your AI pair programmer to handle repetitive tasks without hand-holding every time. Whether that's brilliant or terrifying probably depends on how much you trust your AI not to refactor your entire codebase at three in the morning.
Second, a developer has chronicled the hunt for a twenty-year-old bug...
2026-04-1501 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — April 14, 2026Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 011, for Tuesday, April 14th, 2026.
First up, a rather alarming supply chain attack in the WordPress ecosystem. Someone has quietly purchased thirty WordPress plugins and injected backdoors into every single one of them. The compromised plugins were pushing malicious code to live sites through routine updates, and the scale of it is staggering, with hundreds of thousands of installations affected. It's a stark reminder that in open-source, trust is earned — and apparently, also purchased.
Second, Google has announced a new spam policy targeting so-called back button hijacking. You know the trick — you click back...
2026-04-1401 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — April 13, 2026Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 010, for Monday, April 13th, 2026.
First up, a rather elegant bit of mathematics has caught Hacker News's eye. Researchers have shown that all elementary functions — your sines, cosines, exponentials, the lot — can be derived from a single binary operator. It's the kind of paper that makes you wonder whether maths has been overthinking things for centuries. Nearly five hundred upvotes and still climbing.
Second, AMD's ROCm continues its quiet march against NVIDIA's CUDA dominance. EE Times reports on the one step after another strategy to break CUDA's grip on GPU software. With AI comp...
2026-04-1301 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — April 12, 2026Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 009, for Sunday, April the 12th, 2026.
First up, a new interview with Pat Gelsinger is making the rounds, with the former Intel CEO sharing his thoughts on the semiconductor landscape in 2026. With fifty upvotes and counting, the piece from More Than Moore digs into where the chip industry is heading. One can't help but wonder how Intel's old guard feels about the current state of play, especially with the AI chip race heating up around them.
Second, the Miller Principle, a 2007 essay from developer Alex Miller, is enjoying a well-deserved revival. With thirty-nine...
2026-04-1201 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — April 11, 2026Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 008, for Saturday, April the 11th, 2026.
First up, a chap named Kent Walters has done what Apple never would — he's physically filing the sharp corners off his MacBooks. The post, which has racked up over 900 upvotes on Hacker News, documents his meticulous process of rounding out those notoriously sharp aluminium edges. One imagines Jony Ive weeping somewhere, though honestly, the ergonomic improvement looks rather worth it.
Second, a minimalist chess variant called 1D Chess is making waves, reimagining the classic game on a single row of squares. It strips away the spatial complexity wh...
2026-04-1101 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — April 10, 2026Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 007, for Friday, April tenth, twenty twenty-six.
First up, France has officially launched a government-wide plan to migrate its public sector desktops from Windows to Linux. The initiative is part of a broader digital sovereignty push to reduce dependence on non-European technology providers. With hundreds of comments on Hacker News, this one's clearly struck a nerve. One can only imagine the mood in Redmond as an entire nation decides their operating system is, well, optional.
Second, researchers at ETH Zurich have demonstrated a seventeen-thousand qubit array with ninety-nine point nine one percent fidelity...
2026-04-1001 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — April 9, 2026Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 006, for Thursday, April the 9th, 2026.
First up, a developer has ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii, and yes, you read that right. Bryan Keller documented the entire process of getting Apple's operating system running on Nintendo's decade-old console, complete with Aqua interface and all. It's the kind of beautifully pointless engineering that reminds you why people got into computing in the first place. The Hacker News crowd loved it, racking up over sixteen hundred upvotes.
Second, LittleSnitch, the beloved Mac firewall app that lets you see exactly which apps are...
2026-04-0901 minGuru's Tech BytesGuru's Tech Bytes — April 8, 2026Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 005, for Wednesday, April the 8th, 2026.
First up, Anthropic has launched Project Glasswing, a major initiative to secure critical software for the AI era. The project applies formal verification and advanced safety tooling to the infrastructure underpinning AI systems, essentially trying to make the foundations more trustworthy before we build even more on top of them. With over thirteen hundred upvotes on Hacker News, it's clear the community is paying close attention.
Second, staying in Anthropic's orbit, the company has published the system card for Claude Mythos Preview. The document lays out the...
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