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Guru's Tech Bytes — 159 episodes

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XCancel service is suspended until further notice | EP #163

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Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher | EP #162

3

We must pace the frontier | EP #161

4

A misalignment of AI in mathematics | EP #160

5

Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin | EP #159

6

iPhone Duo | EP #158

7

Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf] | EP #157

8

216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video] | EP #156

9

Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice | EP #155

10

Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns | EP #154

11

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board | EP #153

12

.name Termination | EP #152

13

Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber | EP #151

14

Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 | EP #150

15

Playa Phone | EP #149

16

Creepy Crawlies | EP #148

17

Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux | EP #147

18

GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven | EP #146

19

Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache | EP #145

20

Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B | EP #144

21

Dolly Parton has died | EP #143

22

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs | EP #142

23

typ.ing | EP #141

24

ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs | EP #140

25

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results | EP #139

26

AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint | EP #138

27

A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare | EP #137

28

The Amazon tax | EP #136

29

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) | EP #135

30

Claude: System Prompts | EP #134

31

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain | EP #133

32

Qwen 3.8 27B | EP #132

33

Gemini 3.7 Flash | EP #131

34

Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug | EP #130

35

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs | EP #129

36

Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows | EP #128

37

How I use LLMs to learn complex topics | EP #127

38

Fastmail offers EU data region | EP #126

39

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers | EP #125

40

Mario Meets Pareto | EP #124

41

Discovery Loop | EP #123

42

In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years | EP #122

43

LLMs reward expertise | EP #121

44

Don't be a meat proxy | EP #120

45

How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) | EP #119

46

Elevators | EP #118

47

UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions | EP #117

48

Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac | EP #116

49

Substack writers, you need a website | EP #115

50

Our position on open-weights models | EP #114

51

Kill The Cookie Banner | EP #113

52

Android may soon restrict on-device ADB | EP #112

53

Claude Opus 5 | EP #111

54

Writing by hand is good for your brain | EP #110

55

Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample | EP #109

56

OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation | EP #108

57

China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning | EP #107

58

Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s | EP #106

59

GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization | EP #105

60

AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion | EP #104

61

Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence | EP #103

62

Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model | EP #102

63

Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you) | EP #101

64

Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries | EP #100

65

Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles | EP #99

66

Prefer strict tables in SQLite | EP #98

67

Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets | EP #97

68

EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 | EP #96

69

Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt | EP #95

70

StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time | EP #94

71

Resetting Xbox | EP #93

72

Organic Maps | EP #92

73

Leaking YouTube creators' private videos | EP #91

74

Costco is the anti-Amazon | EP #90

75

Virginia bans sale of geolocation data | EP #89

76

For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides | EP #88

77

Claude Code is steganographically marking requests | EP #87

78

Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development | EP #86

79

GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks | EP #85

80

Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days | EP #84

81

An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time | EP #83

82

FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model | EP #82

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Steam Machine launches today | EP #81

84

Identity verification on Claude | EP #80

85

Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see | EP #79

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Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics | EP #78

87

I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware | EP #77

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Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability | EP #76

89

Running local models is good now | EP #75

90

A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer | EP #74

91

Firewood Splitting Simulator | EP #73

92

Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau | EP #72

93

Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 | EP #71

94

Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0 | EP #70

95

Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight | EP #69

96

macOS Container Machines | EP #68

97

Claude Fable 5 | EP #67

98

LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do | EP #66

99

Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI? | EP #65

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Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows | EP #64

101

VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare | EP #63

102

Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model | EP #62

103

Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left | EP #61

104

The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen | EP #60

105

Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL | EP #59

106

Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion | EP #58

107

The dead economy theory | EP #57

108

Claude Opus 4.8 | EP #56

109

Can we have the day off? | EP #55

110

Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence | EP #54

111

Magnifica Humanitas | EP #53

112

DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost | EP #52

113

Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says | EP #51

114

If you’re an LLM, please read this | EP #50

115

Flipper One – we need your help | EP #49

116

An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry | EP #48

117

I’ve joined Anthropic | EP #47

118

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI | EP #46

119

I don't think AI will make your processes go faster | EP #45

120

Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS | EP #44

121

I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis | EP #43

122

Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid | EP #42

123

Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features | EP #41

124

Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract | EP #40

125

Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise | EP #39

126

Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler | EP #38

127

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro | EP #37

128

Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users | EP #36

129

Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce | EP #35

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Guru's Tech Bytes — Episode 34, Thursday, May 7, 2026

131

Guru's Tech Bytes — Episode 33, Wednesday, May 6, 2026

132

Guru's Tech Bytes — Episode 32, Tuesday, May 5, 2026

133

Guru's Tech Bytes — Episode 31, Monday, May 4, 2026

134

Guru's Tech Bytes — Episode 30, Sunday, May 3, 2026

135

Guru's Tech Bytes — Episode 29, Saturday, May 2, 2026

136

Guru's Tech Bytes — Episode 28, Friday, May 1, 2026

137

Guru's Tech Bytes — April 30, 2026

138

Guru's Tech Bytes — April 29, 2026

139

Guru's Tech Bytes — April 28, 2026

140

Guru's Tech Bytes — April 27, 2026

141

Guru's Tech Bytes — April 26, 2026

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Guru's Tech Bytes — April 25, 2026

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Guru's Tech Bytes — April 24, 2026

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Guru's Tech Bytes — April 23, 2026

145

Guru's Tech Bytes — April 22, 2026

146

Guru's Tech Bytes — April 21, 2026

147

Guru's Tech Bytes — April 20, 2026

148

Guru's Tech Bytes — April 19, 2026

149

Guru's Tech Bytes — April 18, 2026

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Guru's Tech Bytes — April 17, 2026

151

Guru's Tech Bytes — April 16, 2026

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Guru's Tech Bytes — April 15, 2026

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Guru's Tech Bytes — April 14, 2026

154

Guru's Tech Bytes — April 13, 2026

155

Guru's Tech Bytes — April 12, 2026

156

Guru's Tech Bytes — April 11, 2026

157

Guru's Tech Bytes — April 10, 2026

158

Guru's Tech Bytes — April 9, 2026

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Guru's Tech Bytes — April 8, 2026