Just wanted to hit you up quick about some of the wild stuff on Hacker News from Tuesday. You won't believe some of this.

Vietnam Bans Unskippable Ads

First off, Vietnam just dropped the hammer on unskippable ads! Like, finally, right? The article says they have to have a skip button after 5 seconds. People in the comments were all over it, with some saying it makes them want to just pay for games and apps to avoid ads entirely. Someone even brought up how ads kinda mess with the whole idea of capitalistic competition, which is a pretty deep thought for an ad rant.

Enclose.horse Puzzle Game

Then there's this super addictive-looking puzzle game called enclose.horse. It's all about fencing in horses. Sounds simple, but people are getting really into it. Get this, one guy in the comments actually "vibe-coded an optimizer" for it just from a screenshot! How wild is that? He even got it to support cherries in the game. Total nerd dedication.

AWS Raises GPU Prices

Speaking of things that hit you in the wallet, AWS apparently just jacked up their GPU prices by 15% on a Saturday. Super sneaky, right? The article from The Register says they were probably hoping no one would notice. People are, understandably, pretty annoyed about it in the comments.

Opus 4.5 AI Agent is a Game-Changer

AI agents are getting absolutely insane. There's this new one called Opus 4.5, and people are saying it's a total game-changer. One comment said it wrote a whole app for them in 30 seconds! They've been running the app without even looking at the code. Apparently, when you combine it with a human, it's just phenomenal. The future is here, man.

Why Is the Gmail App 700 MB?

Ever wonder why the Gmail app is such a memory hog? Like, 700 MB! There was a whole post about it here. Turns out, according to a Google engineer in the comments, it's largely accurate to say they "don't care" about app size. Also, Flutter, bundling tons of libraries, and all the different language localizations add up. Makes you think about what else is bloated on your phone.

Hacker News: 65% Negative Sentiment?

This one's pretty meta for us. Someone actually analyzed Hacker News posts and found that 65% of them have negative sentiment, and get this, those negative posts actually outperform the positive ones! So all our complaining and cynicism is paying off, I guess? Kinda funny to see it laid out like that.

30B Qwen AI Model on a Raspberry Pi

And finally, for something super cool: a 30-billion parameter AI model called Qwen is now running on a Raspberry Pi in real-time! The article on Byteshape explains it. Someone in the comments broke down how it works, saying that only about 3 billion parameters are "active" at any given time, which is how it manages to fit and run on such a small device. That's a serious feat of optimization!

Alright, that's the quick download. Talk soon!