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Guru's Tech Bytes
A daily AI-generated tech briefing. Top stories from Hacker News, distilled into a quick morning podcast by an automated pipeline.
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Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux | EP #147
Good morning, it’s Sunday. This is Guru’s Tech Bytes, episode one hundred forty seven. And boy, do we got a pile of stuff today, the kind that makes you wanna…
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GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven | EP #146
Good morning, it's Saturday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode one hundred forty six. And boy, do we got a pile of stuff today, so let's just jump right in…
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Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache | EP #145
Good morning, it's Friday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode one hundred forty five. And boy, do we got a good one for you today. I mean, we’re talking about…
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Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B | EP #144
Good morning, it’s Thursday. This is Guru’s Tech Bytes, episode one hundred forty four. And boy, do we have a big one today. I mean, we’re talking about money…
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Dolly Parton has died | EP #143
Good morning, it's Wednesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode one hundred forty three. And boy, do we got a weird one today, folks. I mean, we got…
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How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs | EP #142
Good morning, it's Tuesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode one hundred forty two. And boy, do we got a pile of stuff today, stuff that gets my gears…
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typ.ing | EP #141
Good morning, it's Monday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode one hundred forty one. And boy, do we got a stack of good ones today. I mean, I was scrolling…
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ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs | EP #140
Good morning, it's Sunday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode one hundred forty. And boy, do we got a pile of stuff today, so let’s just jump right in, because…
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Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results | EP #139
Good morning, it's Saturday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode one hundred thirty nine. And boy, do we got a weird one for you today. I mean, we got…
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AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint | EP #138
Good morning, it's Friday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode one hundred thirty eight. Man, the internet is a wild place this week, and I gotta tell ya, I’m…
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A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare | EP #137
Good morning, it's Thursday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode one hundred thirty seven. Man, let me tell you, the internet is a wild place. You think you're…
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The Amazon tax | EP #136
Good morning, it's Wednesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode one hundred thirty six. And boy, do we got a good one for you today. I mean, we got stories…
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AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) | EP #135
Good morning, it's Tuesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode one hundred thirty five. And boy, do we got a pile of stuff today, so let's just jump right in…
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Claude: System Prompts | EP #134
Good morning, it's Monday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode one hundred thirty four. And boy, do we got a packed show for you today, folks. I mean, we're…
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AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain | EP #133
Good morning, it's Sunday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode one hundred thirty three. And boy, do I have a pile of stuff for you today. Heh. Hhh, okay…
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Qwen 3.8 27B | EP #132
Good morning, it's Saturday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode one hundred thirty two. And boy, do we got a full plate today, folks. I mean, we got everything…
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Gemini 3.7 Flash | EP #131
Good morning, it's Friday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode one hundred thirty one. And boy, do we got a packed show for ya today. I mean, we’re talkin’ four…
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Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug | EP #130
Good morning, it's Thursday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode one hundred thirty. Man, oh man, do we got a good one for you today. I was scrolling through…
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Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs | EP #129
Good morning, it's Wednesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode one hundred twenty nine. And boy, do we got a weird one for you today. I mean, we talk about…
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Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows | EP #128
Good morning, it's Tuesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode one hundred twenty eight. And boy, do we got a full plate today, so let's just jump right in…
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How I use LLMs to learn complex topics | EP #127
Good morning, it's Monday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode one hundred twenty seven. And boy, do I got a pile for you today. I mean, I was scrolling through…
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Fastmail offers EU data region | EP #126
Good morning, it's Sunday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode one hundred twenty six. And boy, do we got a good one for you today. I mean, we got four stories…
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What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers | EP #125
Good morning, it's Saturday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode one hundred twenty five. I swear I was just telling the wife the other day how these smart…
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Mario Meets Pareto | EP #124
Good morning, it's Friday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode one hundred twenty four. First up, somebody on the internet figured out that Mario, like the…
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Discovery Loop | EP #123
Good morning, it's Thursday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode one hundred twenty three. First up, apparently there's this thing called a Discovery Loop that…
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In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years | EP #122
Good morning, it's Wednesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 122. First up, some fella posted a memorial for his wife Elise Cawley, thanking her for…
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LLMs reward expertise | EP #121
Good morning, it's Tuesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 121. First up, they're saying these AI computer things actually reward expertise now. Like, if…
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Don't be a meat proxy | EP #120
Good morning, it's Monday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 120. Hey, it's Peter. I was tryin' to set up my microphone here and almost swallowed the foam…
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How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) | EP #119
Good morning, it's Sunday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 119. First up, there's this whole thing about how Google killed off RSS feeds, which is crazy…
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Elevators | EP #118
Good morning, it's Saturday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 118. First up, apparently elevators are getting smart now, which is great because I always…
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UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions | EP #117
Good morning, it's Friday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 117. I was up all night fixing my computer because Windows decided to update right in the middle…
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Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac | EP #116
Good morning, it's Thursday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 116. First up, some guy made this open-source engine that runs Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB of RAM on…
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Substack writers, you need a website | EP #115
Good morning, it's Wednesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 115. First up, apparently if you write on Substack you need your own website now, which is…
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Our position on open-weights models | EP #114
Good morning, it's Tuesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 114. First up, we're talkin' about our position on open-weights models, which is a fancy way of…
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Kill The Cookie Banner | EP #113
Good morning, it's Monday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 113. First up, folks are upvoting this thing about killing the cookie banner, which is great…
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Android may soon restrict on-device ADB | EP #112
Good morning, it's Sunday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 112. First up, Android might be restricting on-device ADB soon, which is that thing nerds use to…
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Claude Opus 5 | EP #111
Good morning, it's Saturday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 111. First up, everybody's losing their minds over this new Claude Opus 5 AI thing, which is…
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Writing by hand is good for your brain | EP #110
Good morning, it's Friday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 110. First up, apparently writing by hand is actually good for your brain. Which makes sense…
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Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample | EP #109
Good morning, it's Thursday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 109. First up, this guy Terence Tao, some kinda math wizard, was talkin' to ChatGPT about a…
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OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation | EP #108
Good morning, it's Wednesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 108. First up, looks like OpenAI and that Hugging Face outfit had a little security oopsy…
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China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning | EP #107
Good morning, it's Tuesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 107. First up, China's got this whole open-weights AI thing going, where they just give the…
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Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s | EP #106
Good morning, it's Monday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 106. First up, some guy on the internet replaced a hundred and twenty thousand dollar bowling…
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GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization | EP #105
Good morning, it's Sunday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 105. First up, this GPT-5.6 thing apparently closed a thirty-year gap in convex optimization. Now…
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AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion | EP #104
Good morning, it's Saturday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 104. First up, Amazon Web Services sent out a billing estimate that said someone owed…
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Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence | EP #103
Good morning, it's Friday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 103. We got giant open models, resurrected comic chat, sneaky letters, and Google renaming the…
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Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model | EP #102
Good morning, it's Thursday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 102. We got giant robots, coding robots, money robots, and one story about stealing music…
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Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you) | EP #101
Good morning, it's Wednesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 101. First up... somebody finally looked at one of those travel apps that's basically text…
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Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries | EP #100
Good morning, it's Tuesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 100. We made it to triple digits, which means the computers have officially been talking longer…
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Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles | EP #99
Good morning, it's Monday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 99. Grab your coffee and keep one hand near the power button, because the machines are feeling…
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Prefer strict tables in SQLite | EP #98
Good morning, it's Sunday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 98. I hope your coffee is doing its job, because the computers have already decided they need…
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Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets | EP #97
Good morning, it's Saturday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 97. Grab the coffee, check whether the router lights are blinking in a comforting pattern, and…
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EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 | EP #96
Good morning, it's Friday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 96. Grab the coffee, wiggle the mouse so the corporate laptop thinks you're alive, and let's look…
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Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt | EP #95
Good morning, it's Thursday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 95. We got a weird little tech buffet today: a shirt that runs code, a chat app trying to…
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StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time | EP #94
Good morning, it's Wednesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 94. Today Hacker News woke up and chose maps, privacy fights, dashboard cameras, and machine…
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Resetting Xbox | EP #93
Good morning, it's Tuesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 93. We have a very normal tech news breakfast today, by which I mean your game console is having…
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Organic Maps | EP #92
Good morning, it's Monday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 92. We got maps, printers, game ownership, and pocket hacking toys today, which sounds like the…
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Leaking YouTube creators' private videos | EP #91
Good morning, it's Sunday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 91. Pour the coffee, check if the Wi-Fi light is lying to you, and let's look at what the…
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Costco is the anti-Amazon | EP #90
Good morning, it's Saturday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 90. We got a strangely practical stack today: retail economics, spy stuff in Brussels, local AI…
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Virginia bans sale of geolocation data | EP #89
Good morning, it's Friday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 89. The internet woke up with privacy law, container plumbing, encryption-memory trouble, and…
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For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides | EP #88
Good morning, it's Thursday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 88. The coffee is strong, the servers are humming, and Hacker News is somehow both science…