Hacker News Recap

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Apr 20, 2024 • 17min

April 18th, 2024 | Meta Llama 3

Prominent philosopher Daniel Dennett's legacy and afterlife beliefs discussed. Halo 2 graphics enhancements on original Xbox. Superbase Storage S3 support, Tesla Cybertruck recall, and Quill V2 RichText Editor introduced. Humorous Reagan exchange and cable maintenance ships explored.
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Apr 20, 2024 • 18min

April 19th, 2024 | I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting $1.2B Israel contract

The podcast covers a Google worker fired for protesting a $1.2B contract, Tesla recalling Cybertrucks, a new rich text editor, C++ programming book release, tips for organizing home directories, the legacy of Curse of Monkey Island, DuckDuckGo AI chat, Valkey vs. Redis, and Multipath TCP for Linux.
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Apr 18, 2024 • 17min

April 17th, 2024 | The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 17th, 2024.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:40): The NSA is just days away from taking over the internetOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40062271&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:04): Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developerOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40067486&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:41): Mixtral 8x22BOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40064736&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:12): CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen AllredOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40067939&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:55): How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40063367&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:19): ChatControl: EU ministers want to exempt themselvesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40063025&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:52): An electric new era for AtlasOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40064105&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:43): Hardest problem in computer science: centering thingsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40069599&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:27): The biggest source of waste is untapped skilled pragmatistsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40065704&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(15:02): How Nestlé gets children hooked on sugar in lower-income countriesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40067575&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai
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Apr 17, 2024 • 18min

April 16th, 2024 | This is a teenager

In this podcast, they discuss a teenager's life path influenced by childhood hardships. Debates on NPR editorial independence and weather data challenges. They explore rewilding the internet, Redis forking, FireFox 125 updates, and B2B startups finding fit in a cloud market.
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Apr 16, 2024 • 19min

April 15th, 2024 | Embezzlers Are Nice People (2017)

Topics discussed include T-Mobile employees receiving cash offers for illegal SIM swaps, a tiny laser capable of melting steel, Tesla's layoffs, and the use of a shrub in Nepal for Japan's banknotes. The podcast also explores embezzlers' psychology, advancements in database management, and ethical dilemmas in a medical case.
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Apr 15, 2024 • 17min

April 14th, 2024 | Hospitals that make profits should pay taxes

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 14th, 2024.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:32): Redis re-implemented with SQLiteOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40030746&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:29): Visualizing Attention, a Transformer's Heart [video]Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40035514&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:39): Hospitals that make profits should pay taxesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40032233&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:17): Kate editor on all platformsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40032869&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:49): Problem with selling developer tools is that devs have no purchasing authorityOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40029283&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:20): My cat alerted me to a DDoS attackOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40034045&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:00): Discovering my roommate's death on FacebookOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40033033&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:48): The Guide to Stock Options ConversationsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40030721&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:27): Personal VPN services are snake oilOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40033522&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(15:10): Phanpy: A minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web clientOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40033039&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai
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Apr 14, 2024 • 20min

April 13th, 2024 | The darker side of being a doctor

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 13th, 2024.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:37): The darker side of being a doctorOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40025261&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:18): The FCC needs to stop 5G fast lanesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40024062&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:37): Summers: Inflation Reached 18% in 2022 Using the Government's Previous FormulaOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40025339&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:30): Tree-shaking, the horticulturally misguided algorithm (2023)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40023319&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:36): Obituary for a Quiet LifeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40028643&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:15): A disgruntled federal employee's 1980s desk calendar (2018)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40022709&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:09): Making Truth Social Comply with the AGPLOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40028338&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:51): 350 tons of of chocolate and wine arrive on world’s largest cargo sailboatOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40022801&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(15:40): Old CSS, new CSS (2020)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40023892&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(17:31): Ford Mustang Mach-E using BlueCruise at time of crash: NTSBOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40026732&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai
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Apr 13, 2024 • 17min

April 12th, 2024 | Google threatens to cut off news after California proposes paying media outlets

Google threatens to cut off news in response to California's payment proposal, US hospital websites sharing visitor info with tech giants, Japanese man arrested for tampering with Pokémon save data, Microsoft testing ads in Windows 11 Start menu, CEOs accepting hybrid work as a new norm
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Apr 12, 2024 • 18min

April 11th, 2024 | Anyone got a contact at OpenAI. They have a spider problem

Topics discussed in the podcast include AI-generated sad piano music, OpenAI spider problem, Apple's spyware alerts, mental health in software engineering, run Transformers in the browser, Vietnamese tycoon sentenced for fraud, using ClickHouse for events engine, stacking triangles for profit, Inheritance debate, and roll-to-roll perovskite solar cells.
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Apr 11, 2024 • 19min

April 10th, 2024 | Twitter's pivot to x.com is a gift to phishers

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 10th, 2024.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:35): Double-entry bookkeeping as a directed graphOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39988993&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:22): Twitter's pivot to x.com is a gift to phishersOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39991173&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:06): Kobo announces color e-readersOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39991693&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:56): Aider: AI pair programming in your terminalOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39995725&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:54): 2023 ACM Turing Prize awarded to Avi WigdersonOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39990004&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:38): EPA Says 'Forever Chemicals' Must Be Removed from Tap WaterOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39996433&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:41): Deep BugOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39988716&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:23): Code search is hardOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39993976&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(15:04): Meta used monolithic architecture to ship Threads in only five monthsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39987466&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(16:53): Meta MTIA v2 – Meta Training and Inference AcceleratorOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39991675&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

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