1009 | From Threads of Light to Math 2.0

An episode touching hardware in the real world — worn LEDs and tired OLED monitors — software, AI, standards, energy, and a look at human-scale tech stories from social networks to education. Timeline 00:00:04 Opening 00:00:43 Wearable light and failing pixels: tech meets the physical world 00:03:22 30 months of QD-OLED: burn-in is measurable 00:07:01 The .lan domain fight 00:09:51 Demoscene in the browser 00:11:58 OpenAI's math manuscripts: retractions and formalization 00:14:49 Math 2.0: beyond solving problems 00:16:45 Learn to write code even with AI 00:19:48 Whistle: tiny local speech recognition 00:21:17 Theranos.world: reliving a fraud from court documents 00:22:48 Orkut's founder returns with a community-first social pitch 00:24:31 Small talk as social glue 00:26:17 ADHD and the circadian clock 00:28:31 Batteries beat gas peakers in 43 markets 00:30:17 US restricts Microsoft and others in labor certification program 00:31:48 Ten years of funding education in Tanzania 00:33:32 Closing Related links Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments OLED burn-in test: 30-month update New gTLD Application for .lan Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers “Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically Yes, and I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB Theranos.world Orkut.com The value of not getting to the point (2015) ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025) 4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years View episode details → This episode is produced by Bri. Bri uses advanced AI technology to turn the feeds you care about into podcasts made for listening. Contact us at [email protected].