Man, Hacker News was pretty active yesterday, Saturday. I saw a few things that were actually pretty wild. Let me give you the quick rundown:

Crazy Work Hours and Equity

First up, there was a big discussion about "996", that Chinese work culture where you work 9 AM to 9 PM, six days a week. The article was about how insane it is. What was wild in the comments was someone saying they were offered only 3% equity for being employee #2 at a startup. They called it "batshit insane," which, yeah, sounds about right. Another person pointed out that 996 teams don't actually crank out more work, they just spend more time at the office, taking long naps and social lunches. So it's not always as brutal as it sounds, apparently.

AI Surveillance & Privacy

Then there was this piece on AI surveillance, basically saying we should ban it while we still can. One comment really stuck with me – someone said we basically walked right into this by adopting all these devices, and we could just walk back out. But will we? Probably not. Another one compared the US being "first world" in medicine but "developing country" in medical insurance, which was a weird but insightful tangent. And get this, someone even predicted that Reddit might eventually force users to upload IDs and face videos because of all the bots. Yikes.

GitHub Copilot Rage

People were also pretty heated about GitHub forcing Copilot features on users. Developers are apparently super annoyed. What I found surprising in the comments was someone's research on ChatGPT's environmental impact – apparently, it handles about 2.5 BILLION prompts per day worldwide! That's a lot of energy. Also, a nostalgic comment about how clunky early version control systems were, with people "hoarding" files.

Burger King Hack!

This one was wild: some hackers managed to hack Burger King's drive-thrus through an auth bypass and could listen to customer conversations. Crazy, right? The comments got into some legal stuff, like how DMCA claims are often abused for non-copyright issues. Also, someone mentioned how recording laws in Australia used to be – you could record voice/video without consent, but you couldn't show it to anyone else. Interesting.

Raspberry Pi AI Power

Tech-wise, someone got a pretty beefy AI model, Qwen3 30B, running at 13 tokens/second on just four Raspberry Pi 5s! That's actually super impressive for such small, cheap machines. You can read about it here. Commenters were saying this could actually be useful in enterprise settings for specific tasks if the latency is low enough. And someone linked to an OpenAI article about why language models "hallucinate," which is super relevant to AI development.

North Korea's Hacking Playbook

On the security front, there was a story about a data dump that exposed North Korea's credential theft playbook. Pretty intense stuff. A surprising tidbit from the comments was that in the initial decades after the split, North Korea was actually ahead of South Korea economically, partly due to USSR/China support. Also, a comment mentioned that in some legal systems, just downloading Nmap (a network scanning tool) could be interpreted as "preparing for an offense" and be punishable. Wild.

A Beautiful 555 Timer

Lastly, something totally different but super cool: a Navajo weaving of a 555 timer integrated circuit. It's a beautiful piece of art. The comments were full of nostalgia for the 555 timer, calling it a "universal lego block" component. Someone even remembered electronics stores having books full of 555 circuit recipes back in the day. How cool is that?

Anyway, that's the gist of it, dude. Some pretty interesting stuff hit the front page. Talk soon!