Netflix is buying Warner Bros. for $82.7B – easily one of the wildest media deals of the decade. In this episode, we unpack what this merger could mean for streaming, IP consolidation, and the future of HBO, DC, and Warner’s massive catalog. We also talk through Cloudflare’s global outage and what happens when core internet infrastructure suddenly blinks off for everyone at once.

Then we zoom into the world of builders: Google’s new Gemini 3 Pro for vision AI and what it unlocks for developers, why most “technical” problems are really people and process failures in disguise, and how CSS got a long‑awaited superpower with the new `if()` conditional function. It’s a mix of megadeals, meltdown postmortems, AI frontiers, and real-world engineering wisdom straight from the Hacker News front page.

Stories covered in this episode:

1. Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. In an $82.7B Deal

- Rank: #1 · Points: 1553 · Comments: 1182

- Article: https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros

- HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160315

2. Cloudflare Is Down

- Rank: #10 · Points: 759 · Comments: 462

- Article: https://www.cloudflare.com/

- HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158191

3. Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI

- Rank: #3 · Points: 422 · Comments: 213

- Article: https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-3-pro-vision/

- HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46163308

4. Most Technical Problems Are People Problems

- Rank: #2 · Points: 380 · Comments: 281

- Article: https://blog.joeschrag.com/2023/11/most-technical-problems-are-really.html

- HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160773

5. CSS now has an if() conditional function

- Rank: #12 · Points: 262 · Comments: 222

- Article: https://caniuse.com/?search=if

- HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46092198