
Hacker News Recap
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
Latest episodes

Jul 22, 2024 • 13min
July 21st, 2024 | User returns after 100k-hours ban to continue conversation that got them banned
The podcast covers topics like advanced CSS box shadow techniques, RR debugger for C/C++, banned user's return, ChatGPT limitations, and Intel's mobile CPU issues. It also delves into technical discussions on Rust, TXTIE embeddings database, Glisp visual coding tool, and workplace safety concerns.

Jul 21, 2024 • 13min
July 20th, 2024 | Researcher finds flaw in a16z website that exposed some company data
Researcher finds flaw in a16z website exposing data, Typst as Latex alternative, Cuban migration, CrowdStrike's issues with Debian and Rocky Linux, tracking Linux kernel syscalls, CrowdStrike vulnerability roadmap, Minuteman missile communications, public toilet crisis

Jul 20, 2024 • 13min
July 19th, 2024 | Crowdstrike Outage Causing Widespread Issues
Topics discussed include FCC limiting prison telecom charges, Crowdstrike outage, Bangladesh curfew after protests, Ryanair dark patterns, AI paid for by ads, record-breaking methane leak, NASA's Curiosity rover discovery, and BERT and T5 updates.

Jul 19, 2024 • 13min
July 18th, 2024 | GPT-4o mini: advancing cost-efficient intelligence
The podcast discusses a 7-year-old creating a website, Mistral NeMo AI, USPS sharing data with tech giants, GPT-4o Mini AI advancements, dark patterns in design, and the innovative Q-pixel ink display technology.

Jul 19, 2024 • 13min
July 17th, 2024 | Panic at the Job Market
Topics covered in the podcast include panic at the job market, jailbreaking RabbitOS, Apple Watch case with scroll wheel, NVIDIA's transition to open-source Linux GPU kernel modules, the benefits of learning math early, the poetry of PhD acknowledgements, GitLab exploring sale, Puerto Rico filing lawsuit against fossil fuel companies, and the importance of error text in warnings.

Jul 17, 2024 • 13min
July 16th, 2024 | For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default
Explore Firefox's data collection for advertising, coding productivity with Codestral Mamba, and the insights on using the transformer model. Delve into preventing reaction emails, AI safety risks, community growth strategies, and OCaml integration in game development.

Jul 16, 2024 • 13min
July 15th, 2024 | Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive PDF files without permission
Topics discussed include Google's Gemini AI scanning Google Drive files without permission, breakthrough in enabling unmodified CUDA on AMD GPUs, cancer immunotherapy advancements, Firefox 128 privacy features, historical impact of cameras on privacy, Samsung semiconductor workers striking, and pharmaceutical pricing mafia

Jul 15, 2024 • 14min
July 14th, 2024 | Fitting an elephant with four non-zero parameters
Topics discussed include fitting an elephant with parameters, knowing when to leave a job, being wealthy in 2021, creating a BIOS bootloader from scratch, Notion's data lake, dumb ideas in computer security, patch requests over SSH, GPS data processing, hobby OS in Nim, and California's grid success with batteries.

Jul 14, 2024 • 13min
July 13th, 2024 | Disney's Internal Slack Breached? NullBulge Leaks 1.1 TiB of Data
Topics discussed include Disney's internal Slack breach by NullBulge, Firefox's ad tracking controversy, Houston-area power outages, Google location data privacy concerns, Apple approving a PC emulator for iOS, and technical discussions on power line vulnerabilities, AlphaFold 3 architecture, browser privacy solutions, Apple's restrictions, EU regulations, and the performance of Disruptor R library.

Jul 13, 2024 • 13min
July 12th, 2024 | AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach
Topics discussed in the podcast include AT&T's data breach, self-hosted cloud computing frameworks, CPython's transition, async-await in Python, running Windows NT on Power Macintosh, red team exercises in a federal agency, and code optimization strategies.