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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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Jul 16, 2023 • 19min
July 15th, 2023 | We thought Brave was the good guy
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 15th, 2023.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:37): Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 websiteOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36739920&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:36): Signal president says company will not comply with U.K. ‘mass surveillance’ lawOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36737733&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:25): A third of North America’s birds have vanishedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36741910&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:39): Another World ported to FPGAOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36738347&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:16): PostgreSQL: No More Vacuum, No More BloatOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36740921&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:50): The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI trainingOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36735777&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:34): Lets-Plot: An open-source plotting library for statistical dataOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36741476&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:20): Matrices and GraphOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36734771&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(15:09): Receiving unintentional voice transmissions from GPS satellitesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36739320&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(16:47): Snakemake – A framework for reproducible data analysisOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36735616&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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Jul 15, 2023 • 19min
July 14th, 2023 | Driverless taxi incidents skyrocketing
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 14th, 2023.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:35): Internet Archive expands Flash supportOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36728745&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:06): WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in the browserOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36726593&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:38): S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are ‘skyrocketing.’Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36726219&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:41): Dropped iPad implicated in fatal Rotak Chinook helicopter crashOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36724736&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:15): On Becoming a VP of EngineeringOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36721080&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:05): India's Chandrayaan-3 launches to explore moons water rich South PoleOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36721517&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:54): Mandatory enforcement of indirect branch targetsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36722823&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:51): Supermassive Dark Star candidates seen by JWSTOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36723382&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(14:23): The Problem with LangChainOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36725982&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(16:06): COSMIC DE: Desktop environment created for Pop!_OS and other Linux distrosOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36725105&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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Jul 14, 2023 • 19min
July 13th, 2023 | Disney & Netflix partners in evil
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 13th, 2023.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:42): Disney, Netflix, and more are fighting FTC's 'click to cancel' proposalOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36706138&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:19): Passkeys will come at a costOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36712497&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:08): Boston mayor announces residential conversion program for office buildingsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36715504&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:47): The FCC responds to my ATSC 3 encryption complaint – they want to hear from youOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36713037&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:50): B.C. government hit tweet limit amid wildfire evacuationsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36708550&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:02): Cool, but obscure X11 tools (2019)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36708511&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:52): Tax prep firms shared ‘extraordinarily sensitive’ data about taxpayers with MetaOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36707990&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:42): Gzip and KNN Outperforms Transformers on Text ClassificationOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36707193&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(15:26): FDA approves first nonprescription daily oral contraceptiveOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36709912&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(17:20): Brute-forcing a macOS user’s real name from a browser using mDNSOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36712788&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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Jul 13, 2023 • 19min
July 12th, 2023 | I Am Leaving
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 12th, 2023.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:33): I Am LeavingOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36691867&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:31): Creating a search engine with PostgreSQLOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36699016&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:21): Official Mastodon server of the Dutch governmentOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36695635&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:57): Milan Kundera has diedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36692962&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:33): Calls to investigate tax sites for sharing financial information with MetaOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36693994&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:22): Telling the BeesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36699327&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:14): Thunderbird 115 “Supernova”Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36703474&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:01): SF's Anchor Brewing Company shutting down after 127 yearsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36694291&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(14:51): Lifers, Dayjobbers, and the Independently Wealthy: A Letter to a Former StudentOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36693297&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(16:43): Threads: The BBC drama which affected a generation of viewersOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36692047&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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Jul 12, 2023 • 19min
July 11th, 2023 | Claude 2 is out
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 11th, 2023.PG EssaysSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2NodnpVFh51xjE6XxiJcLE?si=a5efbf1561c644a1Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/pg-essays/id1696269981(00:35): Displayport: A Better Video InterfaceOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36681814&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:19): Kelly Rowland couldn't have used the =HYPERLINK() function to message NellyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36686857&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:02): SUSE is forking RHELOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36678079&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:44): Privatisation has been a costly failure in BritainOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36678375&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:24): Newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down requestOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36682509&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:40): Claude 2Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36680755&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:21): GPT-Prompt-EngineerOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36677034&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:20): PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized webOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36679368&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:23): Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUCOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36680674&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(15:13): Classifying customer messages with LLMs vs traditional MLOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36681839&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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Jul 11, 2023 • 18min
July 10th, 2023 | PG Essays now in audio
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 10th, 2023.PG EssaysSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2NodnpVFh51xjE6XxiJcLE?si=a5efbf1561c644a1Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/pg-essays/id1696269981(00:39): Firefox address barOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36666116&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:16): Tuition costs have risen 710% since 1983Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36669253&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:20): Thunderbird 115Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36664113&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:56): First U.S. ban on sale of cellphone location data might be comingOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36667848&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:17): New study reveals most classic video games are unavailableOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36668472&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:14): Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phoneOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36673224&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:57): Lima: A nice way to run Linux VMs on MacOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36668964&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:26): Nitter is working againOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36665406&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:09): We replaced Firecracker with QEMUOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36666782&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(14:38): Apple VisionOS Simulator streaming wirelessly to Meta Quest headsetOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36668732&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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Jul 10, 2023 • 20min
July 9th, 2023 | VC Funding is lame
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 9th, 2023.This podcast was generated by Wondercraft: https://www.wondercraft.ai/?utm_source=hackernews_recap Please ping at team AT wondercraft.ai with feedback.(00:36): Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your CompanyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36654960&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:24): How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36652824&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:20): PoisonGPT: We hid a lobotomized LLM on Hugging Face to spread fake newsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36655885&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:17): Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringementOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36657540&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:13): Defecting from North Korea is now harderOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36653874&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:58): Amateurs obsess over tools, pros over masteryOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36657477&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:57): Using Lidar to map tree shadowsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36658001&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:34): US spies are buying Americans’ data – Congress has a new chance to stop itOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36655620&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(15:38): InfluxDB Cloud shuts down in Belgium; some weren't notified before data deletionOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36657829&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(17:29): Introduction to ActivityPub (2021)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36653740&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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Jul 9, 2023 • 18min
July 8th, 2023 | Langchain Is Pointless
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 8th, 2023.This podcast was generated by Wondercraft: https://www.wondercraft.ai/?utm_source=hackernews_recap Please ping at team AT wondercraft.ai with feedback.(00:42): When an app asks for permissions, it should have a “feed fake data” optionOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36644895&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:04): If PEP 703 is accepted, Meta can commit three engineer-years to no-GIL CPythonOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36643670&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:52): Software engineers hate codeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36642796&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:27): Langchain Is PointlessOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36645575&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:19): Learn electronics by practiceOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36647364&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:48): PdfGptIndexer: Indexing and searching PDF text data using GPT-2 and FAISSOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36648794&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:38): I stopped buying new laptops (2020)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36646791&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:18): Why use Pascal?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36646890&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(14:05): iVentoyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36644806&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(15:49): Train an AI model once and deploy on any cloudOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36642315&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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Jul 8, 2023 • 19min
July 7th, 2023 | Why I Hate Frameworks
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 7th, 2023.This podcast was generated by Wondercraft: https://www.wondercraft.ai/?utm_source=hackernews_recap Please ping at team AT wondercraft.ai with feedback.(00:43): Excellence is a habit, but so is failureOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36628356&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:37): 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36629085&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:42): OpenWorm – A computational model of C. elegans wormOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36628258&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:32): Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36637655&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:27): Meta releases Intermediate Graphics LibraryOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36635526&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:58): Homebrew's analytics have moved to the EU and away from GoogleOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36628013&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:32): TypeScript please give us reflection/runtime typesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36637221&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:39): Mechanical Turk workers are using AI to automate being humanOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36629777&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(15:44): ProtonMail Rewrites Your EmailsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36639530&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(17:24): The underground economy of Glassdoor reviewsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36634529&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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Jul 7, 2023 • 19min
July 6th, 2023 | GPT-4 API General Availability
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 6th, 2023.This podcast was generated by Wondercraft: https://www.wondercraft.ai/?utm_source=hackernews_recap Please ping at team AT wondercraft.ai with feedback.(00:35): GPT-4 API General AvailabilityOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36621120&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:48): Godot 4.1Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36614114&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:59): France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphoneOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36616037&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:54): Air France denied my delay compensation, so I challenged them and wonOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36624294&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:10): InternLM – new open source 7B LLMOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36612306&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:56): {n} times faster than COriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36618344&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:49): Stop trying to make social networks succeedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36614788&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(15:08): Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta saysOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36612434&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(16:57): Scaling Transformers to 1B TokensOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36614774&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