Best Map Hackers Podcasts (2025)

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HPR4379: Mapping Municipalities' Digital Dependencies

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This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. In this episode, I discuss my ongoing project aimed at mapping the dependencies municipalities have on major third-party digital services, particularly focusing on Microsoft and Google, given their dominance in the market. The aim of this research isn't about debating the quality of these products—it…

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5.13.25 | The Barbican, Firefox on GitHub, community fork of Organic Maps 12:05

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 13, 2025. The Barbican https://arslan.io/2025/05/12/barbican-estate/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43964136 Firefox moves to GitHub https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43969827 A community-led fork of Organic Maps https://www.comaps.app/news…

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5.23.25 | Claude 4, Mozilla shutting down Pocket and Fakespot, long-admired fractal on wall 12:10

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 23, 2025. Claude 4 https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063703 Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063662 That fractal that's been up on my wall for yea…

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HPR4385: Cable un-managment lol

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This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. Some tips that I use for cable management, and keeping a track of stuff. Featuring the elusive "charge master 9000 NGX Pro Enterprise Edition". Links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twist_tie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweezers Provide feedback on this episode.…

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5.22.25 | OpenAI acquires Jony Ive's AI startup, Devstral, Gemini Diffusion 12:35

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 22, 2025. OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/openai-to-buy-apple-veteran-jony-ive-s-ai-device-startup-in-6-5-billion-deal https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44053518 Devstral https://mistral.ai/news/devstral https://news.ycombinator.co…

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HPR4384: Browser and dedicated apps on the mobile phone

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This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Recently I had a discussion on Mastodon about mobile phone applications. The other person stated "the web belongs to web browsers". I agreed to it as a general good approach. Some dedicated apps cannot be substituted with the browser, but some can. I do not have so many apps myself, but anyway that s…

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5.21.25 | Veo 3 and Imagen 4 for filmmaking, Deep Learning in Applied Topology, AI driving Microsoft employees insane 12:06

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 21, 2025. Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow https://blog.google/technology/ai/generative-media-models-io-2025/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44044043 Deep Learning Is Applied Topology https://theahura.substack.com/p/deep-learning-is-applied-topology https:/…

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HPR4383: Changing font in Arch Linux (Wayland)

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This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. font selection Nerd Fonts - Iconic font aggregator, glyphs/icons collection, & fonts patcher Programming Fonts - Test Drive font installation install font package % yay -Sy $font_package update font database % fc-cache --force --verbose verify available fonts % fc-list | grep $font_name change fon…

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5.20.25 | Windows Subsystem for Linux open source, Zod 4, Have I Been Pwned 2.0 11:57

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 20, 2025. The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031385 Zod 4 https://zod.dev/v4 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44030850 Have I B…

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HPR4382: Understanding Antenna Gain and the Decibel scale

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This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Power Measurement and Antenna Gain HPR show by Paulj, May 2025. 1.0 Power expressed in dB (also written as dBW) Power PdB = 10 . log10P Where P is the power expressed in Watts. 2.0 Power expressed in dBm Power PdB = 10 . log10P Where P is the power expressed in milliwatts. 1W = 1000mW Power PdBm = 10…

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#145 - Jack Mayo: Machine Learning Theory, Multi-Armed Bandit RL, Adaptive Learning 1:09:17

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Your Host, DeGatchi: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/DeGatchi⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ DeGatchi's Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://degatchi.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Scraping Bits on Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/scrapingbits⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Guest Speaker:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/JackJMayo1 Keywords: mathematics, math, topology, geometry, game theory, calculus, linear algeb…

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HPR4381: What Omni-Instantness Makes To My Brain and Your Brain?

16h ago

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This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. PROBLEMS: Infinite feeds Notifications Everything virtual...? I hope the program be conducive to make you think straightly about this; short and long term. Links cited: Alzheimer’s Facts and Figures: https://www.alzra.org/alzheimers/facts-and-figures/ How Exercise Protects Your Brain’s Health: https:…

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5.18.25 | AR glasses and Linux on Android, Mystical, O2 VoLTE customer location 12:17

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 18, 2025. Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android https://holdtherobot.com/blog/2025/05/11/linux-on-android-with-ar-glasses/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985513 Mystical https://suberic.net/~dmm/projects/mystical/README.html https://news.ycombinator.…

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#144 - Donato Quiccione: Algebraic Topology, Topological Data Analysis For MRIs, Category Theory 1:02:10

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Your Host, DeGatchi: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/DeGatchi⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ DeGatchi's Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://degatchi.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Scraping Bits on Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/scrapingbits⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Guest Speaker:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/Piovego_ Keywords: mathematics, math, topology, geometry, game theory, calculus, linear algebra, categor…

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5.17.25 | Push Ifs Up, JavaScript's Explicit Resource Management, Japan's IC Cards 11:43

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 17, 2025. Push Ifs Up and Fors Down https://matklad.github.io/2023/11/15/push-ifs-up-and-fors-down.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44013157 JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management https://v8.dev/features/explicit-resource-management https://news.ycombinator.com/it…

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5.16.25 | Baby healed with gene-editing, LLM agent loop effectiveness, leap year check instructions 12:39

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 16, 2025. Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/health/gene-editing-personalized-rare-disorders.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43997636 The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use https://sketch.dev/b…

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HPR4380: Isaac Asimov: The Rest of Asimov's Foundation Stories

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This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Isaac Asimov began with the Foundation series, but then added to it. Early on, he wrote what are called the Empire novels which are prequels to the rise of Trantor. Then he decided to tie his Robot series into his Foundation series. So now we will take a look at these remaining novels. Links: https:/…

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5.15.25 | AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent, HDR explained, an unexpected server 12:26

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 15, 2025. AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985489 What is HDR, anyway? https://www.lux.camera/…

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5.14.25 | Older hardware viable with software optimization, GNU Screen has multiple security issues, Branch Privilege Injection exploits race conditions 12:52

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 14, 2025. The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1922100771392520710 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971464 Multiple security issues in GNU Screen https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/1 h…

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HPR4378: SQL to get the next_free_slot

6d ago

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This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. SQL for find next available Episode Problem https://repo.anhonesthost.net/HPR/hpr_hub/issues/71 We need to get the next_free_slot, and this needs to take into account the Eps and reservations table. Eps table contain recorded and uploaded shows. reservations table reserve episodes that have not been …

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HPR4377: Password store and the pass command

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This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Standard UNIX password manager Password management is one of those computing problems you probably don't think about often, because modern computing usually has an obvious default solution built-in. A website prompts you for a password, and your browser auto-fills it in for you. Problem solved. Howev…

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5.12.25 | Plain Vanilla Web, One-Click RCE in Asus Driver, 16x16 Dot Animation from Math Rules 12:09

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 12, 2025. Plain Vanilla Web https://plainvanillaweb.com/index.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43954896 One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software https://mrbruh.com/asusdriverhub/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43951588 A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math …

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#143 - Colin Roberts: Differential Algebraic Topology, Sheaf Theory, Combinatorics, Cohomology 2:59:41

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Your Host, DeGatchi: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/DeGatchi⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ DeGatchi's Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://degatchi.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Scraping Bits on Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/scrapingbits⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Guest Speaker:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.comAutoparallel⁠ Keywords: mathematics, math, topology, geometry, game theory, calculus, linear algebra, category the…

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HPR4376: Re-research

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This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. Research Tools Harvard Referencing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenthetical_referencing#Author%E2%80%93date_(Harvard_referencing) Google Notebook LM - https://notebooklm.google/ Google Scholar - https://scholar.google.co.uk/ Connected Papers - https://www.connectedpapers.com/ Zotero - https:/…

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#142 - Grant Stenger: Hyperbolic Graph Embeddings For A* Shortest Path, Game Theory, Discrete Math 1:14:07

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Your Host, DeGatchi: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/DeGatchi⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ DeGatchi's Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://degatchi.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Scraping Bits on Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/scrapingbits⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Guest Speaker:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/GrantStenger Keywords: mathematics, math, topology, geometry, game theory, calculus, linear algebra, category theory, signal proces…

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#141 - Kristaps Balodis: Sheaf Theory, Algebraic Topology, Geometry 55:55

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Your Host, DeGatchi: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/DeGatchi⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ DeGatchi's Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://degatchi.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Scraping Bits on Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/scrapingbits⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Guest Speaker:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@k-theory8604 Keywords: mathematics, math, game theory, calculus, linear algebra, category theory, signal processing, sta…

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5.10.25 | ALICE detects lead to gold at LHC, Sofie automates live TV news production, business books as entertainment 10:39

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 10, 2025. ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC https://www.home.cern/news/news/physics/alice-detects-conversion-lead-gold-lhc https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43937214 Sofie: open-source web based system for automating live TV news production https://nrkno.github.io/…

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5.9.25 | Steve Jobs praises idea, Open-source Cursor alternative, First American pope named Pope Leo XIV 11:30

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 9, 2025. From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you." https://blog.hayman.net/2025/05/06/from-steve-jobs-great-idea.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43929724 Void: Open-source Cursor alternative https://github.com/voideditor/void https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43927926 First Ame…

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HPR4375: Long Chain Carbons,Eggs and Dorodango?

14d ago

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Let's make soup while talking about Dorodango. Dorodango (Japanese: 泥だんご, lit. "mud dumpling") is a Japanese art form in which earth and water are combined and moulded, then carefully polished to create a delicate shiny sphere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorodango Links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_drop_soup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do…

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5.8.25 | Ty is a fast Python type checker, Postgres 18 accelerates disk reads with asynchronous I/O, Mistral launches Le Chat, an enterprise AI assistant for on-prem use 12:05

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 8, 2025. Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server https://github.com/astral-sh/ty https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43918484 Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O https://pganalyze.com/blog/postgres-18-async-io https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…

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