Episode Details

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:19) - Elevators
• (01:53) - qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work
• (03:10) - Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion
• (04:25) - Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
• (05:47) - Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s
• (07:07) - Big Food vs. the People
• (08:35) - Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio
• (10:21) - The most official water costs $120k a gallon
• (11:35) - How to Exist
• (12:50) - Is AI reasoning right for the wrong reasons?
• (14:42) - Outro

qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work
https://github.com/yc-software/qm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126604

Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion
https://tailscale.com/blog/hugging-face-intrusion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127306

Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
https://blog.google/security/chrome-stronger-with-every-update/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120097

Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s
https://github.com/sqliteai/waste
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123386

Big Food vs. the People
https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/big-food-vs-the-people/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124858

Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/getting-25g-ethernet-mac-thunderbolt/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49125034

The most official water costs $120k a gallon
https://signoregalilei.com/2026/07/26/the-most-official-water-costs-120000-a-gallon/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124042

How to Exist
https://www.raptitude.com/2026/07/how-to-exist/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129990

Is AI reasoning right for the wrong reasons?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-reasoning-right-for-the-wrong-reasons-20260731/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124358