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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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Aug 5, 2023 • 19min
August 4th, 2023 | (next Rich)
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on August 4th, 2023.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:36): (next Rich)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37000562&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:22): Comcast, CenturyLink fail to derail Utah community-owned gigabit fiber networkOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37001369&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:23): Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search usersOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37006082&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:57): Pay no attention to the USB port behind the “no USB” stickerOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37006705&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:32): LK-99 is an online sensation but replication efforts fall shortOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37001837&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:28): Remote work requires communicating more, but less frequentlyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37000981&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:07): Non-determinism in GPT-4 is caused by Sparse MoEOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37006224&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:14): Reduction of sulfur emissions from ships may be causing rising sea temperaturesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37008034&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(14:59): Mozilla VPN: CVE-2023-4104: vpndaemon wrongly implements Polkit authenticationOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36997067&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(16:47): Ocean Heat Record BrokenOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36997834&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

Aug 4, 2023 • 19min
August 3rd, 2023 | Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked features
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on August 3rd, 2023.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:41): Google’s Plan to DRM the Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood ForOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36981953&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:33): A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome teamOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36982507&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:20): Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebaseOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36984282&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:21): Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked featuresOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36988262&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:58): Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36994214&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:46): Elixir for cynical curmudgeonsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36986769&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:33): Netscape MeteorsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36982856&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:17): A New Mode of Cancer TreatmentOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36982813&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(15:08): FCC fines robocaller a record $300M after blocking billions of their scam callsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36989845&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(16:55): AWS to begin charging for public IPv4 addressesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36989798&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

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Aug 3, 2023 • 20min
August 2nd, 2023 | Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do (2021)
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on August 2nd, 2023.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:41): Open-sourcing AudioCraft: Generative AI for audioOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36972347&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:21): Run Llama 2 uncensored locallyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36973584&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:00): A non-mathematical introduction to Kalman filters for programmersOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36971975&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:53): Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do (2021)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36975143&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:51): The underground world of credit card network exploitationOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36971888&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:49): Apple stole $100s from me, Customer Service says there's nothing they can doOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36974358&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:29): Stopping at 90%Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36967594&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:19): Companies with good ESG scores pollute as much as low-rated rivalsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36973807&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(15:20): Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon MacsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36973287&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(17:08): Australians fight for the right to work from home permanentlyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36974096&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

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Aug 2, 2023 • 19min
August 1st, 2023 | Forget about AI, superconductors are now in
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on August 1st, 2023.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:34): A room-temperature superconductor? New developmentsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36957678&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:19): Jujutsu: A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerfulOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36952796&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:10): Huazhong University demonstrates LK-99 diamagnetismOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36953819&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:47): Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor LK-99 preprint revision 2Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36952894&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:32): Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSDOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36960625&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:16): Nim 2.0Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36955806&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:19): Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouragingOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36959267&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:00): Could the world go PFAS-free? Proposal to ban ‘forever chemicals’ fuels debateOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36958352&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(14:51): Hacker mods an M1 Mac mini to receive power over Ethernet instead of ACOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36961734&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(16:46): Splitting the WebOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36955146&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

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Aug 1, 2023 • 19min
July 31st, 2023 | The BBC on Mastodon
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 31st, 2023.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:36): LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductorOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36940323&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:24): NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36940626&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:57): The BBC on MastodonOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36943866&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:38): A fridge from 70 years ago has better features than the fridge I own nowOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36942266&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:26): Marijuana addiction: those struggling often face skepticismOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36946104&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:18): Semiconducting Transport in LK99 reproduction attemptOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36951140&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:06): Help the Library of Congress create games to improve public knowledge of civicsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36950075&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:54): Origin of correlated isolated flat bands in LK99Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36951815&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(14:51): First new US nuclear reactor in decades enters commercial operation in GeorgiaOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36947393&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(16:55): So, you want to deploy on the edge?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36941299&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

Jul 31, 2023 • 19min
July 30th, 2023 | How the Rich Reap Huge Tax Breaks From Private Nonprofits
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 30th, 2023.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:39): Ffmprovisr – Making FFmpeg EasierOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36929499&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:33): Emacs 29.1Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36929514&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:20): Scientists may have found mechanism behind cognitive decline in agingOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36929090&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:11): I feel hopeless, rejected, and a burden – One week of empathy training (2019)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36932524&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:06): How the Rich Reap Huge Tax Breaks From Private NonprofitsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36929335&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:52): Welcome to WikifunctionsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36927695&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:22): The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work AnymoreOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36931129&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:09): Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulatorOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36934029&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(15:05): Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for LinuxOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36929096&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(16:56): What's up, Python? The GIL removed, a new compiler, optparse deprecatedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36935041&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

Jul 30, 2023 • 19min
July 29th, 2023 | So you want to build your own open source chatbot
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 29th, 2023.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:38): If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignityOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36920622&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:25): IRC is the only viable chat protocol (2022)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36918655&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:11): So you want to build your own open source chatbotOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36918435&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:01): What happened to Vivaldi Social?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36919659&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:45): Critical theory is radicalizing high school debateOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36920566&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:26): Big Tobacco knew radioactive Po210 in cigarettes posed cancer risk, kept quietOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36925019&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:18): Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlementOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36918050&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:06): Gzip beats BERT? Part 2: dataset issues, improved speed, and resultsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36921552&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(14:45): GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to LibrebootOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36926852&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(16:22): Cyberdecks (2013)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36920010&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

Jul 29, 2023 • 19min
July 28th, 2023 | Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 28th, 2023.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:48): Cap'n Proto 1.0Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36908309&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:45): Watch TV from the 90s and earlierOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36906022&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:28): Sci-Hub founder receives EFF award for providing access to scientific knowledgeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36906435&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:18): Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worseOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36907248&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:03): California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got data to study educationOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36908136&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:58): Play deprivation is a major cause of the teen mental health crisisOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36910256&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:54): Why is DNS still hard to learn?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36909427&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:50): “Web Environment Integrity” is an attack on the free InternetOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36910146&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(15:39): The U.K. government is close to eroding encryption worldwideOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36913268&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(17:35): No-GIL mode coming for PythonOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36914401&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

Jul 28, 2023 • 18min
July 27th, 2023 | Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 27th, 2023.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:34): Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaintsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36891642&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:17): BlazingMQ: High-performance open source message queuing systemOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36896034&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:57): Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36892970&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:28): Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36894932&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:22): No one wants to talk to your chatbotOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36899656&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:06): Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify: Checkout XOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36896343&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:54): LLaMA2 Chat 70B outperformed ChatGPTOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36895300&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:37): Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack OverflowOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36889703&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(14:25): Commander Keen's adaptive tile refreshOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36898749&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(16:15): Techdirt has been deleted from Bing and DuckDuckGo [fixed]Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36898217&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

Jul 27, 2023 • 19min
July 26th, 2023 | Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 26th, 2023.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:38): Google is already pushing WEI into ChromiumOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36876301&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:12): Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to beOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36881808&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:00): Unpacking Google’s Web Environment Integrity specificationOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36875940&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:43): Sinead O’Connor has diedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36881814&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:30): Google vs. the Open WebOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36875164&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:40): Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossibleOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36875226&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:30): Mold 2.0Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36876783&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:16): Overture Maps Foundation releases open map datasetOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36879461&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(15:07): Stable Diffusion XL 1.0Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36880756&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(16:55): People over-emphasize the recycling aspect of "reduce, reuse, recycle"Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36873516&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