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Hacker Public Radio

Hacker Public Radio is a podcast that releases shows every weekday Monday through Friday. Our shows are produced by the community (you) and can be on any topic that is of interest to hackers and hobbyists.

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Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

From feet to fingertips — we are teaching robots intelligent whole-body control, fine dexterity, and teamwork to complete a broad range of complex tasks.

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The Economic Benefit of Refactoring

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Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

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RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020)

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Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick

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Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2

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Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools

Prized lets ops, support, and finance teams build and ship secure internal tools with AI. Company data pre-connected and scoped, an audit trail on every access, one-click deploy behind your company sign-in.

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How to Mount a Balcony Awning

This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline

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Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

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Rise Reforming (YC S26) Is Hiring

We’re looking for a process engineer with 5+ years of experience in scaling catalytic technologies to pilot and beyond. You will play a central role in designing, constructing, and commissioning our pilot unit and subsequently designing our first commercial unit. Required core competencies: - Procuring, integrating, operating, and fixing pilot-scale equipment; - Pilot chemical plant commissioning and operation; - Experience with recycling loops; - Experience with gas-to-liquids processes (syngas-to-methanol preferred); - Collaboration with EPCs in overseeing FOAK commercial unit design; - Experience with Aspen or other process simulation software. Preferred qualifications: - PLC/SCADA design and integration; - Experien

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Toot.community Is Shutting Down

Today, I’m letting you know that toot.community will close permanently on 28 October 2026. This decision is final, and the server won’t be handed over to anyone else. When I started running toot.community, I really enjoyed it. Over time, it became more stressful and less rewarding. Every day, I deal with spam, bots, technical issues, abuse reports, and user conflicts. Much of the moderation ends up being about personal disagreements rather than actual rule-breaking. More importantly, I don’t enjoy how people interact on social media anymore. Too often, conversations turn hostile or confrontational. A small amount of conflict and bad actors takes up a disproportionate amount of time and energy. I find myself feeling more angry or discou

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Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up

New calculations seem to have put a 25-year-old particle physics puzzle to rest. But they’ve also created a clash with other experimental results.

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Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?

A battery technology that’s getting a lot of attention is solid-state batteries, lithium-ion batteries that replace the liquid electrolyte with a solid material.

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Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6

Explore lower GPT‑5.6 pricing for Luna and Terra—and how OpenAI’s more efficient models help enterprises deploy AI workflows at scale.

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Are We Stuck with Lean?

Three years ago, I gave an informal talk to my colleagues, suggesting that we were living in the Dumey microsecond when it would still be possible for the mathematical community to throw its weight

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How Olinia Turns Mexico's EV Ambition into Reality

Olinia brings ultra-affordable EVs to Mexican cities, using durable LFP batteries to cut costs, boost safety, and empower local manufacturing.

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SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library

Single header high-performance 2D graphics painter for SDL3 - n67094/SDL_gp

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Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again

Switch between isolated Claude Code accounts on Linux without logging in again. - hamzarehmandeveloper/claude-account

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RCade: The Arcade Cabinet with CI/CD Deployment, Custom Graphics Card for CRT [video]

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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On this day

A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hits Russia, causing tsunamis over the Pacific Ocean.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

Hacker Public Radio

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

The Economic Benefit of Refactoring

Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020)

Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick

Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2

Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools

How to Mount a Balcony Awning

Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

Rise Reforming (YC S26) Is Hiring

Toot.community Is Shutting Down

Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up

Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6

Are We Stuck with Lean?

How Olinia Turns Mexico's EV Ambition into Reality

SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library

Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again

RCade: The Arcade Cabinet with CI/CD Deployment, Custom Graphics Card for CRT [video]

On this day

A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hits Russia, causing tsunamis over the Pacific Ocean.

A series of landslides occurs in Kerala, India, causing over 420 fatalities.

NASA's Mars 2020 mission is launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Twenty killed and 150 are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India.

A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.

A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India.

Marriage of Queen Elizabeth II's eldest granddaughter Zara Phillips to former rugby union footballer Mike Tindall.

The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.

An Israeli airstrike kills 28 Lebanese civilians, including 16 children.

In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.

Three years after the death of the last Pyrenean ibex, Celia, a clone of her is born only to subsequently die from lung defects. Within minutes, the Pyrenean ibex becomes the first and so far only species to have ever gone de-extinct as well as go extinct twice.

Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by the IRA in a car bombing after he assured the group that the British government would never surrender to them.

As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, take to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland.

Vanuatu gains independence.

Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law.

The 730: Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.

Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.

Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.

Apollo program: On Apollo 15, David Scott and James Irwin in the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.

An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan, killing 162.

Vietnam War: U.S. president Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.

England defeats West Germany to win the FIFA World Cup at Wembley Stadium 4–2 after extra time.

U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.

The Trans-Canada Highway, the then-longest national highway in the world, is officially opened.

A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as the U.S. national motto.

World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors.

Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.

In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup by beating Argentina.

The Black Tom explosion in New York Harbor kills four and destroys some $20,000,000 worth of military goods.

Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.

The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.

Armed Confederate veterans in New Orleans riot against a meeting of Radical Republicans, killing 48 people and injuring another 100.

The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.

American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.

American Indian Wars: Representatives of the United States and tribal leaders including Chief Pocatello (of the Shoshone) sign the Treaty of Box Elder.

The Valuev Circular bans the publication of religious, educational and training books in Ukrainian in the Russian Empire.

First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.

Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua City, Mexico.

In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.

The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.

Founding of Baltimore, Maryland.

Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.

The Battle of Warsaw ends with a Swedish-Brandenburger victory over a larger Polish-Lithuanian force.

English Civil War: Scottish Covenanter forces under the Earl of Leven launch the Siege of Hereford, a remaining Royalist stronghold.

Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army.

An earthquake kills about 5,000 people in Gargano, Italy.

In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time.

Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies.

Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.

First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.

The Mor Bar Sauma Monastery is destroyed by a fire.

Baghdad is founded.

Election of pope Vitalian following the death of pope Eugene I in the previous month.

Mark Antony wins a final cavalry battle against Octavian in the battle of Alexandria, but his infantry is defeated and the next day his fleet and troops start to desert to Octavian.

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A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hits Russia, causing tsunamis over the Pacific Ocean.

A series of landslides occurs in Kerala, India, causing over 420 fatalities.

NASA's Mars 2020 mission is launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.