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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
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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

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

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

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

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

Apr 23, 2024 • 17min
April 22nd, 2024 | No one buys books
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 22nd, 2024.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:37): Meta Horizon OSOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115554&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:10): NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to EarthOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40117599&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:50): No one buys booksOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40119958&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:34): North Korean animation outsourcing for Amazon, HBO Max seriesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40117510&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:13): Curl is just the hobbyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40112383&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:34): Py2wasm – A Python to WASM CompilerOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40114567&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:20): The Performance Impact of C++'s `final` KeywordOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40116644&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:05): Phi-3 Technical ReportOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40127806&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:40): AI for Data Journalism: demonstrating what we can do with this stuffOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40111784&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(15:44): Parquet-WASM: Rust-based WebAssembly bindings to read and write Parquet dataOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115155&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 22, 2024 • 18min
April 21st, 2024 | Programming Is Mostly Thinking (2014)
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 21st, 2024.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:31): Programming Is Mostly Thinking (2014)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40103407&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:31): I should have loved biology (2020)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40103590&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:25): Tiny World MapOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40104774&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:54): Doom-htop: The classic DOOM game over htopOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40104410&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:28): I love programming but I hate the programming industryOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40105121&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:13): From a lorry driver to Ruby on rails developer at 38Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40105773&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:13): Some Fritz!Box modems might have been hijackedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40106336&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:47): Amazon grows to over 750k robots, replacing 100k humansOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40104361&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(14:28): Microsoft is a national security threat: ex-White House cyber policy directorOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40106639&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(16:19): Penzai: JAX research toolkit for building, editing, and visualizing neural netsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40107007&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 21, 2024 • 17min
April 20th, 2024 | Why you should not apply to YC
Discover why applying to Y Combinator may not be the best route to success. Learn about the impact of last names on student grades and explore a new scrolling gadget for Android PC devices. Dive into debates on legislation, Microsoft Exchange integration into Thunderbird, and a rare evolutionary event. Uncover the potential of large language models in finance and troubleshoot PC malfunctions caused by a High-Sense TV.

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.

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.


