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Hacker News Recap

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Oct 14, 2023 • 19min

October 13th, 2023 | Why you shouldn't join Y Combinator

This recap covers the concerns of joining Y Combinator, the absurdities of AI augmented apps, Kai Kraus's contributions to software interfaces and digital art, optimizing language model training and exploring Laura techniques, and the Signal Identification Wiki and its discussions on radio signal analysis.
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Oct 13, 2023 • 19min

October 12th, 2023 | The midwit home

The podcast covers topics such as teaching modern statistics, discovering the first word in an unopened Herculaneum scroll, the midwit home, the Desmos 3D graphing calculator, the Twelve-Factor App methodology, the issue of scrollbars in software interfaces, and how email and Git are essential.
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Oct 12, 2023 • 19min

October 11th, 2023 | Starlink Direct to Cell

This podcast discusses topics such as Starlink direct to cell technology, a free lifetime pass to National Parks for disabled US citizens, a heap overflow in Curl, the suicide crisis among veterinarians, legally pirating every font, Google Cloud Spanner's cost reduction, updates in Krita 5.2, the lightweight Kubernetes option K3s, and its advantages and concerns, including cybersecurity issues.
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Oct 11, 2023 • 19min

October 10th, 2023 | The largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps

Explore the largest DDoS attack in history, the intricacies of coin flipping, the oil sector's lobbying for inefficient hydrogen cars, a novel HTTP/2 DDoS attack, Valve's decision on Counter-Strike 2 for macOS, a breakthrough in reconnecting severed nerves, the next generation of Postgres, Google's default passkeys for users, and simulation islands.
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Oct 10, 2023 • 19min

October 9th, 2023 | John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity

Former CEO of Unity, John Riccitiello, steps down, sparking discussions on the future of Unity. The podcast also covers topics like the innovative Blackmagic Camera for iPhone, ARTER 8.0 app, and features of the ZEMA Board. It delves into the significance of Pivot Tables, ZeroMQ's relicense, Android transitioning to Rust, and advantages of gap buffers in text editing. The chapter also briefly mentions NixOS and the Nix ecosystem.
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Oct 9, 2023 • 18min

October 8th, 2023 | Why I can no longer recommend a Mac to fellow blind computer users

This podcast explores topics such as creating a Flappy Bird game in macOS Finder, security concerns with Chinese IP cameras, frustrations of blind Mac users, Debian's history and software distribution approach, Raspberry Pi 5 and AMD's Zen5 processors, personal growth in C programming.
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Oct 8, 2023 • 19min

October 7th, 2023 | Wired has removed "How Google alters search queries" story

This podcast recap covers topics such as open-source document management systems, allegations of search query manipulation by Google, bird collisions with glass buildings, Shell's partnership with Fortnite and TikTok, the intriguing capability of IE 754 floating point subtractions, and exploring neural networks and large language models.
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Oct 7, 2023 • 19min

October 6th, 2023 | Making Hard Things Easy

This podcast discusses topics such as the competition between CUDA and AMD in AI, NVIDIA's dominance, the digitalization of government departments with Gov.UK forms, cybersecurity concerns, the Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, the release of MS-DOS 6.00, and the transition to a paid model for Unreal Engine.
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Oct 6, 2023 • 19min

October 5th, 2023 | Where does my computer get the time from?

Topics discussed include computer time retrieval, HTTP/3 adoption, self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, Google Docs tracking links, Linux pipe speed, database performance, Krita fund, US Government space debris penalty, NIST elliptic curves bounty, and HP printer legal battle.
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Oct 5, 2023 • 19min

October 4th, 2023 | How US intelligence agencies hid their most shameful experiments

Topics discussed include CRDTs, Amazon antitrust lawsuit, Pixel 8 Pro features, smartphone release cycles, static typing debates, Google's extended phone support, non-replaceable batteries, radio interference from Apple MagSafe charger, OpenSSH 9.5 updates, US intelligence agencies' covert experiments, and the digital world of IPv6.

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