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Back to Episodes8.31.26 | Creepy crawlies, careful word choice, Haiku R1/beta6 release
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- (00:00) - Intro
- (00:18) - Creepy Crawlies
- (02:06) - “I just chose words carefully”
- (03:19) - Haiku R1/beta6 has been released
- (04:27) - Hacking IKEA Furniture
- (05:39) - Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel
- (07:02) - Understanding ChatGPT Work
- (08:29) - It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
- (09:36) - A 12TB Steam "teraleak" spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history
- (11:03) - Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU
- (12:15) - My hobby of building miniatures and taking pretty pictures
- (13:13) - Outro
Creepy Crawlies
https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491791
“I just chose words carefully”
https://unsung.aresluna.org/i-just-chose-words-carefully/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503601
Haiku R1/beta6 has been released
https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2026-08-26_haiku_r1_beta6
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499867
Hacking IKEA Furniture
https://greenlightning.eu/diy/hacking-ikea-furniture/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497810
Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel
https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/08/29/qsb-118/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49496918
Understanding ChatGPT Work
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/30/understanding-chatgpt-work/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504625
It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
https://blog.vghaisas.com/rube-goldberg-doorbell/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49480091
A 12TB Steam "teraleak" spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/08/a-12tb-steam-teraleak-spills-more-than-a-decade-of-lost-pc-gaming-history/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506182
Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU
https://wilsonharper.net/projects/businesscard/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478426
My hobby of building miniatures and taking pretty pictures
https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/tiny-cafe/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49481141