Episode Details

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:17) - A decade of Docker containers
• (01:25) - Yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan
• (02:43) - CasNum
• (03:40) - Cloud VM benchmarks 2026
• (04:58) - Files are the interface humans and agents interact with
• (06:17) - FLASH radiotherapy's bold approach to cancer treatment
• (07:20) - Dumping Lego NXT firmware off of an existing brick (2025)
• (08:33) - Warn about PyPy being unmaintained
• (09:18) - How to run Qwen 3.5 locally
• (10:37) - The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database
• (12:00) - Outro

Yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260302-the-yoghurt-delivery-women-combatting-loneliness-in-japan
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47287344

CasNum
https://github.com/0x0mer/CasNum
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47291292

Cloud VM benchmarks 2026
https://devblog.ecuadors.net/cloud-vm-benchmarks-2026-performance-price-1i1m.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293119

Files are the interface humans and agents interact with
https://madalitso.me/notes/why-everyone-is-talking-about-filesystems/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47286408

FLASH radiotherapy's bold approach to cancer treatment
https://spectrum.ieee.org/flash-radiotherapy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47288533

Dumping Lego NXT firmware off of an existing brick (2025)
https://arcanenibble.github.io/dumping-lego-nxt-firmware-off-of-an-existing-brick.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47271988

Warn about PyPy being unmaintained
https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/17643
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293415

How to run Qwen 3.5 locally
https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292522

The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database
https://muddy.jprs.me/links/2026-03-06-the-surprising-whimsy-of-the-time-zone-database/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47290198