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Back to Episodes8.27.26 | Nvidia acquires Hugging Face, GLM-5.3-Flash, CEO fires developers for AI progress
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- (00:00) - Intro
- (00:19) - Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
- (01:31) - GLM-5.3-Flash
- (02:48) - CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
- (04:01) - Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane
- (05:27) - U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
- (06:49) - Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account
- (08:04) - Nebula Sans
- (09:25) - An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation
- (11:01) - Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30
- (12:15) - Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2
- (13:59) - Outro
Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458161
GLM-5.3-Flash
https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449507
CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
https://github.com/SenteLabsAI/OpenExecutive
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458418
Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane
https://github.com/tailscale/tailcat
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452990
U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/u-s-state-department-pauses-immigrant-visa-applications-25b31b23
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452709
Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account
https://twitterwebviewer.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449576
Nebula Sans
https://www.nebulasans.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450448
An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1089390/46116614cc74b814/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452980
Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30
https://www.mturk.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49457545
Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2
https://asahilinux.org/2026/08/progress-report-7-2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49456851