Best ETH Zurich Podcasts (2025)

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7.12.25 | OpenAI's Windsurf deal canceled, Windsurf CEO joins Google, ETH Zurich and EPFL releasing LLM, Bill Atkinson's psychedelic UI 11:40

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 12, 2025. OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google https://www.theverge.com/openai/705999/google-windsurf-ceo-openai https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44536988 ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-e…

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Understanding What The Extraordinary Relational Tool Of Validation Is & Is Not w/ Caroline Fleck 1:21:39

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As you may have heard on previous episodes here, I’ve grown a distaste for the concept of validation. It seems everyone wants to talk about their feelings and perspectives and then claim their right to be validated, even if their feelings and perspectives are incredibly misguided and harming themselves and others. I began putting my focus on self-v…

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7.21.25 | XMLUI, LLMs in summer 2025 update, new colors without lasers 12:36

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 21, 2025. XMLUI https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/07/18/introducing-xmlui/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44625292 Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update https://antirez.com/news/154 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44623953 New colors without shooting lasers into your eye…

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94 - Urban Racial Politics in Cartagena, Colombia 1:03:22

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Urban Polycrisis Series This episode will be conducted in Spanish, in line with the podcast's aim to de-center urban knowledge production by showcasing distinctive urban perspectives, and linguistic viewpoints. We are thrilled to introduce you to the second episode of our series on Urban Polycrisis!Join us for an episode in Spanish exploring the co…

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7.20.25 | Uncertainty in AI development, AI-related fatalities, Ring's new police live-stream feature 12:26

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 20, 2025. Nobody knows how to build with AI yet https://worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/nobody-knows-how-to-build-with-ai https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44616479 Death by AI https://davebarry.substack.com/p/death-by-ai https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44615801 Ring introducing new …

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7.19.25 | Valve pressured by credit card companies, AI capex impacts economic stats, personal self-hosting setup 12:32

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 19, 2025. Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/valve-confirms-credit-card-companies-pressured-it-to-delist-certain-adult-games-from-steam/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44606184 AI capex is so big th…

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What Does It Take To Really Transform Ourselves w/ Tuesdays With Morrie author Mitch Albom 1:08:38

3d ago1:08:38

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The answer? I fervently believe there is no one answer. After a lifetime pursuing personal performance and human potential, I struggle with anyone who claims to have a so called solution for what it takes to transform us. But, are there principles? And can we gain understanding of core concepts that are nuanced from one person to another? This I do…

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7.17.25 | Altermagnets introduce a new type of magnet, Ex-Waymo engineers create Bedrock Robotics for construction automation, Pgactive offers Postgres active-active replication 12:03

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 17, 2025. Altermagnets: The first new type of magnet in nearly a century https://www.newscientist.com/article/2487013-weve-discovered-a-new-kind-of-magnetism-what-can-we-do-with-it/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583171 Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construct…

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7.16.25 | Reflections on OpenAI, Shoggoth Mini robot powered by GPT-4o, write proofs to improve programming skills 12:29

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 16, 2025. Reflections on OpenAI https://calv.info/openai-reflections https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44573195 Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL https://www.matthieulc.com/posts/shoggoth-mini https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44572377 To be a bett…

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7.15.25 | Kiro IDE launch, LLM inevitabilism discussion, Django's 20th birthday celebration 12:36

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 15, 2025. Kiro: A new agentic IDE https://kiro.dev/blog/introducing-kiro/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44560662 LLM Inevitabilism https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44567857 Happy 20th Birthday, Django https://www.djangoproject.com/web…

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How Music Can Enhance Our Emotions & Elevate Our Experience Of Life w/ Sara Leila Sherman 1:21:32

7d ago1:21:32

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My only family heirloom is my Dad’s 1960s stereo console he had at boarding school. As a kid my parents listened to the music of that time and I’ll always have a special place for the likes of Barbra Striesand, The Bee Gees, and James Taylor. Around the age of seven a family friend gifted me with a transistor radio and though I had a couple dogs, m…

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7.14.25 | Ten years of daily running visualized, Explanation of screen functionality, Open-source alternative to CapCut 12:15

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 14, 2025. Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized https://nodaysoff.run https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522683 How does a screen work? https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/how-a-screen-works https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44550572 OpenCut: The open-source CapCut a…

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7.13.25 | MacPaint Art's enduring appeal, Bypassing Google's adblock update, Understanding JavaScript's Date class 11:55

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 13, 2025. MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/macpaint.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44540402 Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update https://0x44.xyz/blog/web-request-blocking/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4454426…

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Upgrade The Soundtracks That Most Influence Your Life w/ Jon Acuff 1:00:57

10d ago1:00:57

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In the past year and a half much of my research on personal evolution has been around the concept of reality and how we perceive it, or rather, how we do not perceive it. As I gear up to offer you some new and I feel revolutionary concepts, in this episode I’m replaying a conversation I had on the topic of reality, with best selling author Jon Acuf…

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7.11.25 | AI's impact on open-source productivity, Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY scalability issues, Grok searches X for Elon Musk's messages 11:48

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 11, 2025. Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522772 Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale https://www.recall.ai/blog/postgres-listen-notif…

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7.10.25 | Tree Borrows concept, Linda Yaccarino departs X, jank programming language discussed 11:43

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 10, 2025. Tree Borrows https://plf.inf.ethz.ch/research/pldi25-tree-borrows.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510600 Linda Yaccarino is leaving X https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/technology/linda-yaccarino-x-steps-down.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510731 The jank p…

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7.9.25 | Supabase MCP SQL leak, Bootstrapping profitable side project, OffChess offline chess puzzles app 12:20

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 9, 2025. Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database https://www.generalanalysis.com/blog/supabase-mcp-blog https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44502318 Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business https://projectionlab.com/blog/we-reached-1m-arr-with-zero-funding…

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93 - Normative Insurgency: Responses to the Urban Polycrisis from the Global South 1:46:55

12d ago1:46:55

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Polycrisis Series This new Polycrisis series will explore the complex set of protracted, interconnected, and mutually reinforcing crises that disproportionately affect urban centers and urban populations, ranging from housing, democracy, transit, infrastructure, inequality, conflict, the environment, to health.What relevance do discussions of the “…

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7.8.25 | ChatGPT prompts feature addition, Mercury introduces fast diffusion models, o3 profiles from Pocket links 12:11

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 8, 2025. Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists https://www.holovaty.com/writing/chatgpt-fake-feature/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44491071 Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17298 https://news.ycombinator.com/ite…

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Terms and Conditions - Episode 1 with Jochen Lam & Bilge Kobas 18:16

13d ago18:16

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Step into "Terms and Conditions"! The fascinating installation at the entrance of the Architettura Biennale 2025 that sets the tone for the rest of the exhibition. It makes climate change for the visitors immediately tangible. In this first episode host Martin Prösler, engineer Jochen Lam (Transsolar) and architect Bilge Kobas (Technical University…

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How To Do Good In The World In A Way That Fits You & Actually Makes A Difference w/ Neil Ghosh 1:10:06

14d ago1:10:06

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One of the greatest joys and fulfillments of life is helping another person. Not through the base obligations we have to family, but to reach out when we don’t have to and help lift another person up. But I find two problems that arise for most all of us; we don’t know where to plug in to really help others and when we do happen to see opportunitie…

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7.7.25 | Extracted Apple Intelligence safety filters, Loss of individuality in society, Bitchat – decentralized Bluetooth messaging app 12:02

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 7, 2025. I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models https://github.com/BlueFalconHD/apple_generative_model_safety_decrypted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44483485 Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels https://www.freyaindia.co.uk/p/nobody-has…

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7.6.25 | Local-first software, hidden interface controls, questioning morality 12:12

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 6, 2025. Local-first software (2019) https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44473135 Hidden interface controls that affect usability https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/july-august-2025/stop-hiding-my-controls-hidden-interface-controls-are-…

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How To Harness The Power Of Invested Feedback Like The Inklings - C.S. Lewis - J.R.R. Tolkien - w/ Diana Pavlac Glyer 56:52

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Most people have heard of The Inklings, the informal literary discussion group based in Oxford, England in the 1930s and 1940s, known for fostering the writing and development of fantasy and other genres and specifically the greatest writings, and friendships, of authors such as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, of The Chronicles of Narnia and Lord of…

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7.5.25 | Nvidia criticized, Mini NASes combine NVMe and Intel chip, OBBB reinstates R&D expensing in U.S 12:09

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 5, 2025. Nvidia is full of shit https://blog.sebin-nyshkim.net/posts/nvidia-is-full-of-shit/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44468175 Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/mini-nases-marry-nvme-intels-efficient-chip https://news.ycombinat…

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7.4.25 | tmux-rs launched, YC company relicensed my project, The Rise of Whatever 12:48

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 4, 2025. Introducing tmux-rs https://richardscollin.github.io/tmux-rs/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44455787 My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated] https://twitter.com/soham_btw/status/1940952786491027886 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44460552 …

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7.3.25 | Exploiting IKKO Activebuds, US climate report websites down, gene therapy restored hearing 12:02

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 3, 2025. Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024) https://blog.mgdproductions.com/ikko-activebuds/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44443919 Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-national-assessment-nasa-white-hou…

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7.2.25 | Fed miscalculates $1M cube, Spegel is an LLM-based Terminal Browser, Figma files for IPO 12:03

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 2, 2025. The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million https://calvin.sh/blog/fed-lie/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44435484 Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages https://simedw.com/2025/06/23/introducing-spegel/ https://news.ycomb…

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7.1.25 | AI's new skill is context engineering, Xfinity detects motion via WiFi signals, Proton sues Apple for harmful practices 12:07

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 1, 2025. The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering https://www.philschmid.de/context-engineering https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44427757 Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/wifi-motion https://news.ycom…

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Find Out When & Why You Respond As An Adult vs Reacting As A Child w/Michelle Chalfant 1:32:39

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Most of us think of ourselves as adults. But how often are we reacting and functioning with a lesser level of maturity and wisdom than we’d like? Than what is productive? My guest in this show is licensed therapist and holistic life coach, Michelle Chalfant. She has developed a psychological model called, The Adult Chair. She hosts a very popular p…

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6.30.25 | VM simulates CPU fan, ransomware avoids Russian keyboards, HN inquiry on current projects 11:59

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 30, 2025. I made my VM think it has a CPU fan https://wbenny.github.io/2025/06/29/i-made-my-vm-think-it-has-a-cpu-fan.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44413185 Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed (2021) https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/t…

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6.29.25 | JavaScript trademark changes, MCP's universal plugin system, engineered addictions 12:29

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 29, 2025. JavaScript Trademark Update https://deno.com/blog/deno-v-oracle4 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44407139 MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System https://worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/mcp-an-accidentally-universal-plugin https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44404905 E…

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6.28.25 | Airline pilot creates flight graphs, Facebook uses private photos for AI, user deletes second brain 12:05

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 28, 2025. Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights https://jameshard.ing/pilot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44396518 Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos https://www.theverge.com/meta/694685/meta-ai-camera-roll ht…

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How Do I Get My Own Attention? w/ Amishi Jha 1:06:28

24d ago1:06:28

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There is a lot of content out these days about attention, attention spans, and distraction. What is with the seemingly dramatic deficit we have with attention? I know for myself, I seem to look for distraction and struggle to focus, even when I’m greatly interested in what I’m working on. I make it harder for myself when I have access to all my int…

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6.27.25 | AlphaGenome enhances genome understanding, Gemma 3n introduced, Issen is a personal AI language tutor 12:18

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 27, 2025. AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphagenome-ai-for-better-understanding-the-genome/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44387659 Introducing Gemma 3n https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3n-developer-guide…

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6.26.25 | Gemini CLI, OpenAI charges by the minute, new PNG spec 12:02

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 26, 2025. Gemini CLI https://blog.google/technology/developers/introducing-gemini-cli-open-source-ai-agent/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44376919 OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio https://george.mand.is/2025/06/openai-charges-by-the-minute-so-make-the-minutes-short…

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6.25.25 | Joy in toy software, Exploring uv and PEP 723, New PNG spec 12:07

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 25, 2025. Writing toy software is a joy https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/software-is-joy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44367084 Fun with uv and PEP 723 https://www.cottongeeks.com/articles/2025-06-24-fun-with-uv-and-pep-723 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44369388 A new PNG spec …

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6.24.25 | Backyard coffee and jazz in Kyoto, Vera C. Rubin Observatory's first images, personal terminal usage 11:58

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 24, 2025. Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto https://thedeletedscenes.substack.com/p/backyard-coffee-and-jazz-in-kyoto https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44356248 Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images https://rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-first-look/cosmic-treasure-chest https://news.yco…

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8 Steps to Connect & Create Chemistry (or not) w/ Deep Listening Expert Emily Kasriel 1:15:14

28d ago1:15:14

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I find there are few things as intoxicating as someone who is really interested in you. You feel they care about you, they value you, and they are curious to hear about you. This is something you can define and do, if you understand the key components. So I have an expert on listening with us. But before I introduce them, one issue that stuck out t…

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6.23.25 | Mechanical Watch diagram, Typst PhD Thesis, Klein Bottle brand hijacking 12:12

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 23, 2025. Mechanical Watch: Exploded View https://fellerts.no/projects/epoch.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44347425 I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst https://fransskarman.com/phd_thesis_in_typst.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44350322 Klein Bottle Amazon Brand Hijacking (…

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92 - Radically Legal Politics and Housing Expropriation in Berlin 44:46

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Deutsche Wohnen & Co. Enteignen This episode is a talk by Joanna Kusiak at the Think&Drink Colloquium of Georg-Simmel-Centre for Urban Studies at Humboldt University Berlin. It gives insights into her new book Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future (2024). Right in the middle of the German constitution, a group of ordinary citizens discover…

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6.22.25 | U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites, Beware lifetime non-compete confidentiality agreements, Airpass bypasses WiFi time limits 11:10

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 22, 2025. U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckg3rzj8emjt https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44341639 Tell HN: Beware confidentiality agreements that act as lifetime non competes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44338562 Airpass – Easily overcome WiFi time…

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6.21.25 | YouTube's anti-adblock measures, Phoenix.new for remote AI runtime, Samsung embeds IronSource spyware on phones 12:17

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 21, 2025. YouTube's new anti-adblock measures https://iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44329712 Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix https://fly.io/blog/phoenix-new-the-remote-ai-runtime/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44328326 Samsung Embeds IronSou…

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Connecting Your Work To Your Personal Mission w/ Former Chipotle Co-CEO Monty Moran 1:19:23

1M ago1:19:23

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Monty Moran is the former Co-CEO of Chipotle. He joined them when they had 8 stores and left after they had over 2,500 and their valuation grew from a few million to $23 billion over his decade with the company. This isn’t a podcast about business though. I had Monty on the show because he cites his main key to the success from having one-on-one co…

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6.20.25 | Rationalist identity, New BitTorrent tracker in Elixir, LLMs into MegaKernel for low-latency inference 12:17

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 20, 2025. Guess I'm a Rationalist Now https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8908 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44317180 Show HN: I wrote a new BitTorrent tracker in Elixir https://github.com/Dahrkael/ExTracker https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44323253 Compiling LLMs into a MegaKernel: A p…

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Reinventing Haifa for the 21st Century: Einat Kalisch-Rotem’s Urban Vision 26:55

1M ago26:55

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In this episode of We Are ETH, host Susan Kish speaks with Dr. Einat Kalisch-Rotem, the first woman mayor of Haifa and a visionary force in modern urban planning. Trained as an architect at ETH Zurich, Einat shares how her ETH experience shaped the bold strategies she’s using to reimagine Haifa’s future. From creating Israel’s first bilingual schoo…

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6.19.25 | Workout.cool is an open-source fitness platform, Andrej Karpathy discusses software in the AI era, Unregistry allows "docker push" to servers directly 12:45

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 19, 2025. Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform https://github.com/Snouzy/workout-cool https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44309320 Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEmiRjPEtQ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=443…

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