Episode Details

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:26) - Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)
• (02:01) - OpenRocket
• (03:08) - Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents
• (04:27) - A sufficiently detailed spec is code
• (05:53) - Warranty Void If Regenerated
• (07:13) - Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe
• (08:21) - Nvidia NemoClaw
• (09:29) - Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web
• (10:42) - Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste
• (11:44) - OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)
• (13:19) - Outro

OpenRocket
https://openrocket.info/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47386703

Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents
https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2026/03/18/austins-surge-of-new-housing-construction-drove-down-rents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47433058

A sufficiently detailed spec is code
https://haskellforall.com/2026/03/a-sufficiently-detailed-spec-is-code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47434047

Warranty Void If Regenerated
https://nearzero.software/p/warranty-void-if-regenerated
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47431237

Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe
https://gitlab.com/IsolatedOctopi/nvidia_greenboost
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47388658

Nvidia NemoClaw
https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427027

Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web
https://susam.net/wander/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422759

Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste
https://www.svgbackgrounds.com/set/free-svg-backgrounds-and-patterns/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427299

OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)
https://om.co/2026/03/17/openai-has-new-focus-on-the-ipo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47423976