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Hacker News Recap

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Dec 23, 2023 • 19min

December 22nd, 2023 | How big is YouTube?

Topics discussed include: comprehensive educational platform from NAND to Tetris, implications of Digital Services Act, Biden's marijuana pardon, Google's battle against spam, Blue Sky platform, impact of AI on film restorations, Simbo-SZ80 multitasking operating system and Z80 capabilities, and the connection between the Schrödinger equation and classical mechanics.
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Dec 22, 2023 • 20min

December 21st, 2023 | Apple allows some iOS apps to track user locations via lists of nearby SSIDs

This podcast discusses topics like Apple allowing some iOS apps to track user locations, the battle with Beeper Mini over encrypted chats, a vulnerability in Google OAuth, legal battles over ad blocking extensions, revolutionizing asteroid defense, and enhancing nursing home ownership information.
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Dec 21, 2023 • 17min

December 20th, 2023 | Volkswagen, Porsche, and Audi say they will use Tesla's EV charging plug

Volkswagen, Porsche, and Audi will use Tesla's EV charging plug. Mamba Python library in PyTorch. Advice for new software devs. High-speed large language models on PCs. Wireflow, a tool for user-flow prototypes. On/off switch for breast cancer metastasis. iMessage key verification. KDE Plasma theme resembling Windows 7. What's next for Tor and privacy online?
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Dec 20, 2023 • 18min

December 19th, 2023 | James Webb Space Telescope captures high-resolution image of Uranus

James Webb Space Telescope captures high-resolution image of Uranus. Simulating fluids, fire, and smoke in real-time. Volkswagen brings back physical buttons in new cars. My cat water fountain comes with a spicy USB power adapter. Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36M Xfinity customers. A Lufthansa A350's frustrating Oakland diversion. Tsdocs.dev: Type docs for any JavaScript library. Fedora Asahi Remix provides full support for Apple Silicon devices. Advancements in technology and safety concerns. Debate over emerging technologies, airline policy, and FAA handling.
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Dec 19, 2023 • 18min

December 18th, 2023 | Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger

Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger, Wasm3 enters maintenance phase, someone bought a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for $1, Word2Vec rejected four times, VW adds buttons back in cars, progress toward a GCC-based Rust compiler, exploring the 'Cheap' Web, unbricking MacBook with an email to Tim Cook, 3Blue1Brown Calculus Blog Series, highlights of the year in Servo with over 1000 pull requests
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Dec 18, 2023 • 19min

December 17th, 2023 | The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)

Topics discussed in the podcast include Charlie Chaplin's final speech from The Great Dictator, brain-computer interfaces and controversies surrounding invasive body searches, the effectiveness of prompt engineering for optimizing AI models, breakthroughs in nuclear fusion research, and different options for hosting open source projects.
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Dec 17, 2023 • 20min

December 16th, 2023 | OpenAI suspends ByteDance's account after it used GPT to train its own AI model

OpenAI suspends ByteDance's account over AI model misuse. Discussion on SSH over QUIC and its security implications. NASA study finds potential life on Enceladus. Exploring Shenzhen's electronics scene. MongoDB security breach and transition to event-based systems.
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Dec 16, 2023 • 18min

December 15th, 2023 | Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules

Utah Supreme Court ruling recognizes individuals' right to withhold phone passcodes. Reverse engineering LED light strips and designing LEGO sets. Pros and cons of WebP image format and optimizing large language models. Data breach at Delta Dental affecting 7M people. Discussions on payment systems, SupaBase and Fly.io partnership, productivity habits, and writer.com vulnerability.
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Dec 15, 2023 • 19min

December 14th, 2023 | Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth

Discussions on train sabotage, Voyager 1's communication stop, Mitchell Hashimoto's departure from HashiCorp, and Mozilla's extension support for Firefox for Android. Also, topics include the devaluation of QA teams, Barcelona Supercomputing Center's open-source RISC-V chip, and the role of LLMs in mathematical sciences.
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Dec 14, 2023 • 19min

December 13th, 2023 | Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted

In this podcast, they discuss Google's broken promises of unlimited storage and a journalist's life work being deleted. Other topics include SMERF real-time view synthesis technology, Polish hackers repairing DRM trains threatened by the train company, and comparing Apple Silicon and NVIDIA RTX 4090 in transcribing audio files. They also cover a personal account of poverty and socioeconomic disparities, and the launch and potential uses of LamaFile, an open source project by Mozilla.

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