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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.
Episodes
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Claude Code is steganographically marking requests | EP #87
Good morning, it's Wednesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 87. Grab the coffee, maybe the one that tastes like burnt printer toner, because today the AI…
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Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development | EP #86
Good morning, it's Tuesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 86. We have local AI, free speech, location privacy, and a tiny new internet neighborhood trying…
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GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks | EP #85
Good morning, it's Monday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 85. Pour the coffee, reboot the router if it looks at you funny, and let's look at what the…
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Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days | EP #84
Good 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…
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An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time | EP #83
Good 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…
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FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model | EP #82
Good 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…
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Steam Machine launches today | EP #81
Good 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…
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Identity verification on Claude | EP #80
Good 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…
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Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see | EP #79
Good 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…
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Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics | EP #78
Good 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…
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I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware | EP #77
Good 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…
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Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability | EP #76
Good 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…
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Running local models is good now | EP #75
Good 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…
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A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer | EP #74
Good 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…
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Firewood Splitting Simulator | EP #73
Good 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…
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Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau | EP #72
Good 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…
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Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 | EP #71
Good 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…
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Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0 | EP #70
Good 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…
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Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight | EP #69
Good 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…
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macOS Container Machines | EP #68
Good 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…
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Claude Fable 5 | EP #67
Good 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…
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LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do | EP #66
Good 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…
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Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI? | EP #65
Good 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…
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Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows | EP #64
Good 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…
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VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare | EP #63
Good 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…
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Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model | EP #62
Good 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…
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Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left | EP #61
Good 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…
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The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen | EP #60
Good 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…
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Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL | EP #59
Good 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…
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Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion | EP #58
Good 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…
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The dead economy theory | EP #57
Good 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…
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Claude Opus 4.8 | EP #56
Good 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…
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Can we have the day off? | EP #55
Good 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…
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Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence | EP #54
Good 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…
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Magnifica Humanitas | EP #53
Good 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…
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DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost | EP #52
Good 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…
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Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says | EP #51
Good 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…
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If you’re an LLM, please read this | EP #50
Good 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…
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Flipper One – we need your help | EP #49
Good 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…
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An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry | EP #48
Good 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…
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I’ve joined Anthropic | EP #47
Good 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…
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Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI | EP #46
Good 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…
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I don't think AI will make your processes go faster | EP #45
Good 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…
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Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS | EP #44
Good 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…
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I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis | EP #43
Good 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…
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Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid | EP #42
Good 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…
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Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features | EP #41
Good 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…
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Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract | EP #40
Good 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…
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Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise | EP #39
Good 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…
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Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler | EP #38
Good 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…
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A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro | EP #37
Good 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…
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Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users | EP #36
Good morning, it's Saturday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 36. We got privacy gates, nature-documentary royalty, little radios yelling across mountains…
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Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce | EP #35
Good 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…
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Guru's Tech Bytes — Episode 34, Thursday, May 7, 2026
Good 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…
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Guru's Tech Bytes — Episode 33, Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Good 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…
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Guru's Tech Bytes — Episode 32, Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Good 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…
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Guru's Tech Bytes — Episode 31, Monday, May 4, 2026
Good 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…
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Guru's Tech Bytes — Episode 30, Sunday, May 3, 2026
Good 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…
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Guru's Tech Bytes — Episode 29, Saturday, May 2, 2026
Good morning, it's Saturday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 29. First up, Texas Instruments — yeah, the calculator people — just dropped something called…
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Guru's Tech Bytes — Episode 28, Friday, May 1, 2026
Good 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…