Hacker News Recap

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Oct 21, 2023 • 20min

October 20th, 2023 | In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia (2022)

This podcast covers topics such as cyber espionage, a lawsuit filed against a teenager for invasion of privacy, the resurrection of Healthcare.gov, political comments on the U.S. health care system, criticism of Wikipedia's governance, exploration of architectural space, city planning's impact on crime, manipulation of European Union legislation, downsizing of Bandcamp, potential removal of Python's global interpreter lock (GIL), trends in parallelism, and a security breach on Okta's support unit.
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Oct 20, 2023 • 20min

October 19th, 2023 | Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas

AI misinterpretation leads to Python instructor banned from advertising on Meta. Changes at Bandcamp and concerns about labor laws discussed. Tax reform suggestions and Peter Thiel revealed as FBI informant. Exploring Local Pilot's capabilities for programming. Closure of Convoy Inc raises concerns about job security in tech startups.
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Oct 19, 2023 • 21min

October 18th, 2023 | What is the Demoscene? An interview

Learn about the Demoscene and its impact on the 3D industry. Explore topics like work-life balance, cyber misdeeds, and USB-C chargers. Discover Reflect, a revolutionary multiplayer web app, and a new antiviral pill for COVID-19 symptom relief. Dive into the vulnerability of vision-prompt injection in GPT-4 and server reliability. Explore technology, cybersecurity, malware, and the misuse of blockchain.
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Oct 18, 2023 • 20min

October 17th, 2023 | Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states

This podcast covers various interesting topics including the IRS pilot program for free tax filing, game exploitation and security issues, crossover media discussions with personal reviews of the recent Frasier season, a case of fraudulent IP acquisitions, and an open-source alternative to YouTube called PIPED.
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Oct 17, 2023 • 19min

October 16th, 2023 | LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

This podcast discusses the layoffs at Bandcamp, LinkedIn's layoff of 700 employees, the link between the herbicide Roundup and chronic kidney disease, improvements in Go 1.22 HTTP server routing, the private YouTube client FreeTube, the nature of C programming language, and the importance of Microsoft-verified apps and transitioning to Linux.
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Oct 16, 2023 • 18min

October 15th, 2023 | Finland to vote against the EU mass surveillance and encryption ban directive

Finland voting against EU's mass surveillance and encryption ban directive, Hacker News for retro computing and gaming, Mastercard's data selling practices, Google's negative impact on the internet, Apple's one-on-one sign language interpreting, SSH server and client security auditing, Cloudflare's data migration service, a free, open source read-it-later app called Omnivore, old Mark Twain video, Beagle V single-board computer
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Oct 16, 2023 • 18min

October 14th, 2023 | Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the actual date

The podcast discusses the challenges of displaying time frames on websites. It explores interacting with Chat GPT and the EU Commission's push for surveillance. It also covers the FDA approval of tumor-destroying sound waves and the petition against EU chat control. Additionally, it talks about the Snowden Archive and AMD's driver rollback.
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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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