
Hacker News Recap
A podcast that recaps some of the top posts on Hacker News every day. This is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by Wondercraft.ai. Create your own news rundown podcast at app.wondercraft.ai
Latest episodes

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

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.

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

Apr 10, 2024 • 17min
April 9th, 2024 | Beeper acquired by Automattic
Physicist Peter Higgs death, Beeper acquired by Automattic, Intel Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator, replaceable batteries in-ear headphones, US gov mandate safer table saws, Go-based database engine, Google Axion processors for data centers, hackless SSL bypass for Wii U, ScreenAI for UI and visual language understanding

Apr 9, 2024 • 17min
April 8th, 2024 | Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams
Topics include Spotify demonetizing tracks with low streams, Lore Harp McGovern's microcomputer empire, taking down parasite websites, AI's impact on professional Go players, saving Ethernet at Digital Equipment Corp, and Android's Find My Device feature enhancements.

Apr 8, 2024 • 18min
April 7th, 2024 | How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain
Topics include founding a company in Germany, PumpkinOS revival, transformer models, vulnerabilities in computing, 3M settlement on water contamination, Python framework for sentence embeddings, and struggles of a contemporary artist in the art world.

Apr 7, 2024 • 18min
April 6th, 2024 | What I think about when I edit (2019)
Topics discussed include a JavaScript library for cartoon faces, NASA filming sun vortex, fact verification with Loki tool, VPN boom due to porn restrictions, PiVPN v4.6.0 release, and an open-source Btrfs driver for Windows.

Apr 6, 2024 • 20min
April 5th, 2024 | Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse
Israeli spy chief exposes true identity online, Apple permits game emulators, Cloudflare acquires PartyKit, Fortran on WebAssembly challenges, Big Tech's AI training data race

Apr 5, 2024 • 20min
April 4th, 2024 | Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
Topics discussed include the anatomy of a credit card rewards program, German state switching to LibreOffice and Linux, homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar, risks of HTML emails, V8 Sandbox security measures, and HTTP/2 vulnerabilities.

Apr 4, 2024 • 20min
April 3rd, 2024 | 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
Topics include AI directing bombings in Gaza, linking shell companies to owners, improvements in GCC 14 static analysis, PyTorch LLM on Intel, distrust in xz, JPEG coding library, Svelte with LiveView, carbon-neutral natural gas, seafloor mapping progress, and White House proposing Moon time zone.