Hacker News Recap

This podcast discusses Code Llama, a state-of-the-art language model for coding. It covers topics such as Hugging Face raising funding, Bitlocker vulnerability, leaving Haskell behind, a JVM written in Go, FreeBSD on Firecracker, adding water to Martian soil, and solving problems with large language models.

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on August 23rd, 2023.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:34): Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37233936&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:10): Common mistakes in salary negotiationOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37239747&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:03): An excruciatingly detailed guide to SSH (but only the things I find useful)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37240187&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:52): Add dir=“auto” to your inputs and textareasOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37233902&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:45): Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in NetherlandsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37235770&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:16): A group of Motherboard folks just spun up their own new independent outletOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37237246&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:06): Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2024Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37241487&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:04): Growing scientific interest in vagus nerve stimulationOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37233977&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(15:00): Coffee grounds make concrete 30% strongerOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37234404&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(16:51): My favorite prime number generatorOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37236099&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

This podcast recap covers topics such as Microsoft integrating Python into Excel, hackers exploiting credit bureaus for doxing, the balance between intuition and KPIs in decision making, a trek across Luxembourg, and efficient CO2 to propane conversion technology.

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on August 21st, 2023.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:45): We’re all just temporarily abledOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37205731&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:23): uBlock Origin Lite now available on FirefoxOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37215557&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:26): GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37208083&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:14): Don't fire your illustratorOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37210953&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:34): Saving LivesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37211230&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:23): I Made Stable Diffusion XL Smarter by Finetuning It on Bad AI-Generated ImagesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37211519&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:16): 5 years ago Valve released ProtonOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37213479&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(14:13): The ideal viewport doesn't existOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37208211&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(16:02): Conferences are inadvertently excluding many attendees from foreign countriesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37206052&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(18:01): Podman Desktop celebrates 500k downloadsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37216800&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

The podcast reflects on the departure of Kris Nóva and discusses VEV2, a groundbreaking data streaming tool. They also touch on cosmology and relativity, highlight the passing of John Warnock, and discuss 'shit life syndrome' and declining coastal towns in the UK. Additionally, they explore a self-study guide for learning physics and discuss successful reinvention in coastal towns. Lastly, they discuss a data set tool and the revival of vintage games like Jazz Jackrabbit and Commander Keen.

Amsterdam plans to use "noise cameras" to combat loud cars. Windy.com, a global weather website, is discussed. The intriguing scent of old books is explored. Stable diffusion in C/C++, self-wiping SanDisk SSDs, and Cheems, the Shiba Inu meme dog's death are mentioned. The ramifications of an Anglo-US coup on Iran and Iraq blocking Telegram are covered. OpenZFS and the lack of copyright protection for AI-generated art are also discussed.

This podcast explores the cultural differences between Ask Culture and Guess Culture, the challenges of identity verification in banking systems, the privacy concerns surrounding FBI's usage of FISA Section 702, a comparative analysis of programming languages and software bugs, and the capabilities of the Textual Framework for modern terminals.

Topics from the podcast include France's controversial internet censorship bill, rescuing data from a faulty drive using woodworking tools, rebuilding trust in relationships, the success of JobCore.gov, age cutoff and brain maturity, an asteroid crater in Australia, the launch of the Mollvad browser, advancements in AI bots solving CAPTCHA puzzles, landing a job at Apple without a degree, and the DIY espresso machine journey.

Debunking room temperature superconductors and aligning academic incentives, development of HTMX library and creation of Debian Linux Release, stories of Naomi Wu and Elena Kostuchenko, groundwater exploitation for agriculture, UI design and gameplay patents.

Mozilla Firefox has surpassed Google Chrome in the SunSpider benchmark, but Chrome leads in Jetstream 2.0; concerns raised about a new license for Terraform; discussions on model quantization and CSS Selectors; advantages of self-hosting language-learning models; analysis of TinyBox and the implications of Project Loom on Java backend libraries.