1025 | AI Hype, Hacked TVs and a Very Old Turtle

From AI's missing payoffs and LLM-written code to hacked TVs, exposed brain signals, and a 190-year-old turtle on a coin — a tour of what's new, what's broken, and what it means. Timeline 00:00:04 Opening 00:00:29 AI's ROI problem and what AI can actually build 00:06:05 New tools written by machines, and an old language running out of money 00:09:51 Privacy, security and signals — from your TV to nuclear forces 00:13:42 Bodies and brains, plus tools that keep the lights on 00:17:01 Migration, longevity and unlocked hardware 00:20:04 Understanding the universe — and the animal that outlived us all 00:21:41 Closing Related links No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector We should be more ambitious with the software we build Dream-1 Bbtree: Fastest Ordered Map PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, director says Root shell on Samsung TV Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions SpeedCrunch 1.1 OBS Studio 33 Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab FreeDNS GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards I don't understand quantum physics (2018) The St. Helena 5 pence coin shows Jonathan, a roughly 190 year old tortoise 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].