Episode Details

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:16) - iPhone Duo
• (01:55) - Shopify acquires Tailwind
• (03:11) - What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
• (04:18) - AirPods 5
• (05:50) - Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device
• (07:02) - GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning
• (08:33) - How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
• (09:35) - No Man's Sky Cosmos
• (11:15) - iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
• (12:52) - DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
• (13:39) - Outro

Shopify acquires Tailwind
https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwind-is-joining-shopify
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49626190

What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
https://tautology.town/2026/06/01/card-networks.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49614280

AirPods 5
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-introduces-airpods-5-with-best-in-class-open-ear-active-noise-cancellation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49630253

Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device
https://desertant.com/blog/introducing-desert-ant-labs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624823

GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning
https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/gpt-6-astra-looped-transformers-and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49627370

How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
https://xlii.space/eng/malicious-software-on-google-ads/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624856

No Man's Sky Cosmos
https://www.nomanssky.com/cosmos-update/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49628493

iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-debuts-iphone-18-pro-and-iphone-18-pro-max/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49630151

DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
https://twitter.com/deepseek_ai/status/2097930608790167907
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639090