Today we’ve got the hotly anticipated launch of GPT 5.2, hindsight machines auto-grading decade-old HN debates, and an engineer who’s asked Claude to refactor their codebase literally hundreds of times, plus a rant-worthy saga on why getting a Gemini API key still feels like pulling teeth.

Stories covered in this episode:

1. 00:54 GPT-5.2

- Rank: 1 - Points: 932 - Comments: 772

- Article: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/latest-model

- HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234788

2. 04:49 Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight

- Rank: 7 - Points: 592 - Comments: 253

- Article: https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/auto-grade-hn/

- HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220540

3. 08:42 Show HN: I've asked Claude to improve codebase quality 200 times

- Rank: 1 - Points: 498 - Comments: 326

- Article: https://gricha.dev/blog/the-highest-quality-codebase

- HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46197930

4. 11:51 Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration

- Rank: 3 - Points: 811 - Comments: 317

- Article: https://ankursethi.com/blog/gemini-api-key-frustration/

- HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223311

5. 14:05 Days since last GitHub incident

- Rank: 1 - Points: 201 - Comments: 118

- Article: https://github-incidents.pages.dev/

- HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46233798

6. 17:03 Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

- Rank: 7 - Points: 244 - Comments: 341

- Article: https://larr.net/p/namings.html

- HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234806