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May 4, 2024 • 18min

May 3rd, 2024 | As private equity dominates wheelchair market, users wait months for repairs

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 3rd, 2024.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:35): DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on AndroidOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40247604&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:20): Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of softwareOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40245601&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:00): Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US productionOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40248627&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:54): As private equity dominates wheelchair market, users wait months for repairsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40250056&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:41): Evidence of price-fixing in the oil industry?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40250226&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:32): How to Use JSON PathOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40245637&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:07): CSS Text Box TrimOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40247871&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:41): Deletion of user accountOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40246171&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:58): Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40248217&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(15:24): Microsoft ties executive pay to security after multiple failures and breachesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40252619&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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May 2, 2024 • 17min

May 1st, 2024 | New startup sells coffee through SSH

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 1st, 2024.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:35): New startup sells coffee through SSHOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40227208&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:27): Better and Faster Large Language Models via Multi-Token PredictionOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40220851&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:02): New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient MarsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40223457&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:36): Car manufacturers break promise about sharing location data with policeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40222499&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:07): At Microsoft, years of security debt come crashing downOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40228212&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:01): The AWS S3 Denial of Wallet Amplification AttackOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40227736&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:39): Tire toxicity faces fresh scrutiny after salmon die-offsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40223253&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:29): Tesla staff say firm's entire Supercharger team firedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40222501&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:38): I've forked neofetch to keep it aliveOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40222213&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(14:59): LLMs can't do probabilityOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40221154&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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May 1, 2024 • 18min

April 30th, 2024 | Dear Europe, please wake up

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 30th, 2024.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:34): US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuanaOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40213591&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:39): Pyinfra: Automate Infrastructure Using PythonOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40211655&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:01): Printing Music with CSS GridOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40216057&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:55): Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to GoOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40211891&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:13): Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months laterOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40211010&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:55): The File Filesystem (2021)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40213731&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:51): Dear Europe, please wake upOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40213400&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:50): Tesla conducting more layoffs, including entire Supercharger teamOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40209382&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(14:40): Tesla failing to deliver Semi-trucks on time to PepsiCo, Sysco, UPS, and WalmartOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40211254&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(16:26): Alice's adventures in a differentiable wonderlandOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40213292&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 30, 2024 • 19min

April 29th, 2024 | Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 29th, 2024.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:35): Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detailOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40199624&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:26): Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across EuropeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40199193&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:10): The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itselfOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40201053&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:58): 93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40197013&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:42): GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40199715&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:36): I made a new backplane for my consumer NASOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40199967&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:06): FCC fines largest wireless carriers for sharing location dataOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40202695&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:53): GitHub Copilot Workspace: Technical PreviewOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40200081&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(14:41): How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40199713&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(16:37): SB-1047 will stifle open-source AI and decrease safetyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40198766&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 29, 2024 • 17min

April 28th, 2024 | TfL's simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 28th, 2024.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:34): A small lathe built in a Japanese prison camp (1949)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40190542&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:02): Zilog Z80 CPU – Modern, free and open source silicon cloneOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40187656&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:47): TfL's simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket salesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40187379&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:25): Williams-Sonoma fined $3.18M for falsely labeling products 'Made in USA'Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40190446&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:59): Did we lose our way in making efficient software?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40189682&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:46): LoRA+: Efficient Low Rank Adaptation of Large ModelsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40188511&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:09): Zed Decoded: Rope and SumTreeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40187971&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:43): The unstallable plane that stalledOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40189346&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:34): Flow Field PathfindingOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40187334&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(14:56): The Myth of the Second ChanceOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40189928&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 29, 2024 • 19min

April 27th, 2024 | What can LLMs never do?

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 27th, 2024.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:37): Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40184673&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:14): What can LLMs never do?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40179232&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:23): Moviecart – Full length color movie and audio cartridges for stock Atari 2600Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40179553&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:10): The walls of Apple's garden are tumbling downOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40180790&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:58): Claiming high user satisfaction, IRS will decide on renewing free tax siteOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40182271&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:39): Burn After WearingOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40184434&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:19): Planes in 3D SpaceOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40179015&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:04): Let's Think Dot by Dot: Hidden Computation in Transformer Language ModelsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40182695&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(14:33): How I stopped worrying and loved MakefilesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40182555&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(16:27): Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS: Noble NumbatOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40179619&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 29, 2024 • 19min

April 26th, 2024 | I rewired my brain to become fluent in math (2014)

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 26th, 2024.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:38): Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 yearsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40172033&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:30): I'm creating PBR Textures and 3D models since 2018 and sharing them for freeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40168519&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:00): I rewired my brain to become fluent in math (2014)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40167163&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:42): Bun's New Crash ReporterOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40171183&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:19): A BSD person tries Alpine LinuxOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40166670&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:08): OpenVoice: Instant Voice CloningOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40166690&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:54): PEP 686 – Make UTF-8 mode defaultOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40168242&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:22): Pharo 12Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40167742&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(14:53): UK's Investigatory Powers Bill to become law despite tech world oppositionOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40168765&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(16:39): Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadbandOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40174424&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 26, 2024 • 17min

April 24th, 2024 | Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 24th, 2024.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:38): Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divestOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40145963&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:06): Piet: Programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings (2002)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40141777&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:33): Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, delayed flightsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40150639&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:23): IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc for $6.4 billionOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40149136&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:36): Snowflake Arctic Instruct (128x3B MoE), largest open source modelOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40146088&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:14): The Basque Country’s Mondragón Corporation is the largest industrial co-opOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40143814&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:13): I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpletonOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40148563&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:04): When do we stop finding new music?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40147534&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:39): Sysadmin friendly high speed Ethernet switchingOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40141967&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(15:21): A feature-rich front-end drag-and-drop component libraryOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40147883&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 26, 2024 • 19min

April 25th, 2024 | Jeff Geerling: Corporate Open Source Is Dead

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 25th, 2024.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:33): We have 4 days to contest KYC being required by internet servicesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40158752&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:16): A useful front-end confetti animation libraryOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40156330&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:03): Open Sourcing DOS 4Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40163405&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:47): TSMC unveils 1.6nm process technology with backside power deliveryOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40156275&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:35): Tiny GPU: A minimal GPU implementation in VerilogOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40153815&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:34): Tribler: An attack-resilient micro-economy for mediaOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40156534&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:31): Start Your Own ISPOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40161697&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:05): No Abstractions: our API design principleOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40161794&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(14:42): Jeff Geerling: Corporate Open Source Is DeadOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40160331&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(16:36): Rust Stream API visualized and exposedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40156890&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 24, 2024 • 19min

April 23rd, 2024 | The man who killed Google Search?

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 23rd, 2024.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:34): The man who killed Google Search?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133976&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:40): FTC announces rule banning noncompetesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40136010&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:23): Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. "Masonry" layoutOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40130148&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:15): Rabbit R1 source code [part 1]Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40135250&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:55): The beautiful dissociation of the Japanese languageOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40132281&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:45): New Foundations is consistent – a difficult mathematical proof proved using LeanOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40130924&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:47): Apple releases CoreNet, a library for training deep neural networksOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40139398&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:25): Apple's risky bet on CarPlayOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40134921&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(15:09): FTC adopts a comprehensive ban on new noncompetes with all workersOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40138824&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(16:52): Reverse engineering a software crackOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40132719&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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