Matt Daw

@SanJoseSharks That was a beauty!

WENNY🚨🚨🚨

@abu_zafar Great picks!

There's so much great sci-fi out there, you really gotta expand your horizons. Might I suggest: - Ted Chiang's short story collections - A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers - Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie - anything by Ursula K. Le Guin or Octavia Butler

@gidenav City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky

i need GOOD fantasy recs (no booktok fantasy pls)🙏🏻🙏🏻

@thsottiaux Bug: the commit button state / diff pane gets out of sync with the latest changes

With GPT-5.4 out. What should Codex ship or improve next?

Let's welcome it to the world Philly style.

@JustinBleuel @ChatGPTapp Nice! Would love to see thinking effort setting in the macos app.

Another week shipping @ChatGPTapp! Try these out, we're focused on sweating the details, some bigger features coming 🔜 - Edit messages that have an image attachment - Chat search cmd/ctrl+click open results in new tab - Conversation share menu loads faster - Fixed 5.2-thinking bug causing msg streaming errors - Export data viz as images from Code Blocks - Mobile web sidebar actions no longer stick on scroll Android - Auto scroll to bottom on existing convos - Sidebar actions complete faster - Fix voice mode button flicker on conversation open - Dictation mode visual improvements - Keyboard auto-opens when attaching a file Let us know what else you'd like to see

📞 @mschoening and I sometimes have meandering calls about malleable software and AI. This morning we tried recording one! We talked about cognitive debt, why CLIs are having their moment, what comes after files, and reverse-engineering smart homes... 06:55 - How software promotes agency 19:21 - Composable tools 25:00 - Smart home lighting hacks w/ Claude 33:20 - The subtle magic of CLIs 39:35 - Maintenance costs for personal software 43:19 - Avoiding cognitive debt with AI-generated explanations

Do u think they’ll listen

Updating my priors on what's worth automating... Used Gemini 3 Flash to extract data from PDFs for tax prep. Great results, total cost = 12 cents!

@evanwaldner31 Saw him play live in Peterborough last night, really impressed.

Not only was Walton a steal of a pick, he’s quite literally dominating the #OHL for the second straight year. He ranks: - 2nd in goals - 2nd in points - 1st in GWG (9) - 1st in shots (267) For a sixth-round pick? What a steal this is turning out to be. #NHLJets #NHLJetsNation

Finding myself going back to RSS/Atom feeds a lot more recently. There's a lot more higher quality longform and a lot less slop intended to provoke. Any product that happens to look a bit different today but that has fundamentally the same incentive structures will eventually converge to the same black hole at the center of gravity well. We should bring back RSS - it's open, pervasive, hackable. Download a client, e.g. NetNewsWire (or vibe code one) Cold start: example of getting off the ground, here is a list of 92 RSS feeds of blogs that were most popular on HN in 2025: gist.github.com/emschwartz/e6d… Works great and you will lose a lot fewer brain cells. I don't know, something has to change.

@dwarkesh_sp @patrick_oshag Thanks for the rec, enjoying Skipshock!

@patrick_oshag Skipshock amazon.com/Skipshock-Caro…

I need a novel that is a real page turner Any suggestions?

I think we should all strive to be more unapologetically weird this year

Let me give you some ideas from the stuff that I do/did in the past that fall under "intellectually challenging" hobbies: - Puzzle Games: in the recent years, puzzle games are some of the highest quality computer games being released; Thinky Games has a very good curated list: thinkygames.com/lists/thinky-e… Some of my personal favorite: Blue Prince, Golden Idol series, Outer Wilds, Tunic, Baba is You - Board Games: if you're looking for something more social and/or you have kids that are 5+; I started playing in 2024 and currently I have over 60😅Current favorites: Arnak, Dune Uprising, El Dorado, Colt Express (I may have a slight bias towards deck builders) - Logic Puzzles: sudoku & similar things; gmpuzzles.com/blog/ is a good starting point, monthly contests at gp.worldpuzzle.org (requires printer); if you get really good there's World Championship: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Puz… (FYI, I was one of the main organizers in 2022); I may do a longer thread about those in the future since it's surprisingly hard to get started - Escape Rooms: there's a global ranking of ERs at roomfinder.terpeca.com if you leave close to any of the good ones, I highly recommend visiting one (or a dozen 😅) - Puzzle Hunts: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle_hu… the most twisted and uninviting form of puzzling that I know - Blind Racing: something very niche and very weird; it's speedrunning games vs other players, but with games that you see for the very first time; I believe the next annual mystery tournament should be announced soon-ish; more info here: mysteryfun.house - Speedcubing: you can buy a rubik's cube with bluetooth inside that can detect it's own orientation (helpful with initial solving & timekeeping). It takes ~1h for the first solve (with instructions), you can easily get down to 60s within a few hours of practice. Trains dexteriety, memory, pattern matching & overall focus

@FakePsyho @zussini Building up limb independence on drums is fun and challenging

@zussini My physiotherapist would not be happy😅That being said learning guitar and/or drums is on my todo list since... 2020. Thanks for the unintended reminder🙏

So... any recommendations for intellectually challenging hobbies that would be good in 2026? Pretty please.

@tamarawinter Friedkin’s Sorcerer is great but extremely stressful!

Developing a film curriculum for myself (I like movies, but I’m trying to make a serious study of the medium). Is there anything I *definitely* have to include? Interested in the classics, but I’m most curious about films people personally find exceptional.

@yashagw The CMU @andy_pavlo lectures on YouTube are gold.

Looking for recommendations on solid technical books for database internals. I’ve already gone through Database Internals and Database Design & Implementation. What should I read next?

@mschoening Mini Motorways

What’s your favorite iPad game?

@sundayrobotics Move furniture out of the way, vacuum, then move furniture back.

Sunshine is soooo fuckin underrated