Locked-down phones, large language models in production, AI-powered reverse engineering, and the cultural collapse of Perl. We start with GrapheneOS’s bold claim that it’s the only Android variant shipping full, timely security patches, then jump to how Oxide is actually using LLMs in a serious, safety-critical hardware company. From there, we dive into one-shot decompilation with Claude and what it means for debugging, legacy code, and reverse engineering workflows.

We also unpack a postmortem on Perl’s decline that points the finger not at the language, but at the culture around it. Then we tour Google-style TPUs from a systems engineer’s perspective, and wrap up with Stephen Wolfram’s big swing at “instant supercompute” via Wolfram Compute Services. It’s a mix of security, AI tooling, programming language history, custom accelerators, and cloud-scale math.

Stories in this episode:

1. GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches

- Rank: #2 · Points: 559 · Comments: 248

- Article: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115647408229616018

- HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46173407

2. Using LLMs at Oxide

- Rank: #1 · Points: 283 · Comments: 118

- Article: https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576

- HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178347

3. The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude

- Rank: #7 · Points: 199 · Comments: 106

- Article: https://blog.chrislewis.au/the-unexpected-effectiveness-of-one-shot-decompilation-with-claude/

- HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080498

4. Perl's Decline Was Cultural

- Rank: #1 · Points: 231 · Comments: 287

- Article: https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical

- HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46175112

5. Touching the Elephant – TPUs

- Rank: #3 · Points: 167 · Comments: 49

- Article: https://considerthebulldog.com/tte-tpu/

- HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46172797

6. Wolfram Compute Services

- Rank: #1 · Points: 221 · Comments: 118

- Article: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/12/instant-supercompute-launching-wolfram-compute-services/

- HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46171394