• Why I Ditched Claude Code for Pi
    Why I Ditched Claude Code for Pi

    Caleb Software finally called it quits on Claude Code. He is migrating his entire setup to Pi, a minimalist open source alternative. His main complaint is that the product feels like a chaotic pile of features rather than a stable tool. He points out that 244 releases this year mostly just fiddled with system prompts. He also highlights a simple multi-tab bug that has been ignored since December 2025. It is a great reminder that sometimes less really is more in software engineering.

  • HN's YouTube algorithm beats the slop
    HN's YouTube algorithm beats the slop

    Karpathy ditched YouTube for a custom clone built on Hacker News recommendations. He used Opus 5.5 to process comments, filtering spam to find 6,454 videos across 150 topics from 2007 to 2026. The whole build took about two hours. He handled the API keys and VPS setup, but Claude did the heavy lifting. It is a smarter alternative to the current recommendation engine.

  • Samsung TV Root Exploit
    Samsung TV Root Exploit

    log4j posted about owning a 2025 Samsung TV and finding a root shell via a zero day. The firmware was AES encrypted, but they bypassed it. They discovered constant hot mic functionality, automatic content recognition, and geo positioning. It also builds user profiles and shares data with 400 partners. As someone who runs a homelab, I find the amount of telemetry on a $3000 TV horrifying. It is a massive privacy issue.

Why I Ditched Claude Code for Pi

Why I Ditched Claude Code for Pi

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Why I Ditched Claude Code for Pi

I spent the weekend reading Caleb’s post on his move from Claude Code to Pi and it resonated with my setup more than I expected. If you are running your own dev environment, you likely feel the friction he describes. It is a stark reminder that our tools are not just utilities. They are partners that need to respect our workflow. The shift away from the big players toward open source alternatives is accelerating, and for good reason.

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HackerTube and the end of the algorithm

HackerTube and the end of the algorithm

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HackerTube and the end of the algorithm

Andrej Karpathy posted on his blog about a new site called HackerTube. It is a YouTube clone. The difference is that it does not use a recommendation algorithm. It uses Hacker News. Specifically, it lists videos that people on HN recommended between 2007 and 2026. The result is a clean list of 6,454 videos across 150 topics. No slop. No exaggerated thumbnails. Just what smart people actually watched.

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Samsung TVs Ship Root Exploits and Privacy Nightmares

Samsung TVs Ship Root Exploits and Privacy Nightmares

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Samsung TVs Ship Root Exploits and Privacy Nightmares

A security researcher named log4j posted a thread revealing that they gained root shell access on a 2025 Samsung TV. The discovery came after noticing weirdly targeted ads. The firmware was AES encrypted with no visible keys. The researcher had to use UART and JTAG magic to proceed. The result was a full root shell. They found a privacy horror inside the device. The post hit 3.7 million views. It is a stark reminder that smart devices are not secure by default.

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Europe Stopped Treating the Kill Switch as a Conspiracy Theory

Europe Stopped Treating the Kill Switch as a Conspiracy Theory

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Europe Stopped Treating the Kill Switch as a Conspiracy Theory

Steve Blank has spent the last month in London and says he has been listening to policymakers react to a wake up call delivered by Elon Musk. The short version: the United States shut off intelligence and throttled Starshield, the military variant of Starlink, for Ukraine. In the US that was a blip. In Europe it landed as proof of something people had been called paranoid for saying out loud.

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