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Hacker News Recap

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Jun 13, 2024 • 19min

June 12th, 2024 | How Meta trains large language models at scale

Topics include GJK algorithm for collision detection, Elixir 1.17 release, Japan's law on app store competition, Intel's super load transport, Swift compiler issues, ChromeOS on Android, and a botanist fabricating supplement data.
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Jun 11, 2024 • 18min

June 10th, 2024 | Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Topics discussed include Apple's advancements in AI, partnerships with OpenAI, privacy concerns, Apple's stance on emulators, new features on Apple Silicon Macs, window management preferences, ADHD coping strategies, emotional resilience, community bonds, urban design trends, Gainax anime studio's bankruptcy, and industry trends in the anime world.
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Jun 10, 2024 • 18min

June 9th, 2024 | The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs

This podcast discusses topics such as Git push deployments with Piku, critiques of economic monopolies, designing a Lego orrery, a keylogger in an image generator extension, and a $10k mistake with ChatGPT. It also covers a woman sharing her washer collection, ultrasonic investigations in shopping centers, and a unique library dependency tool called Libtree.
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Jun 9, 2024 • 18min

June 8th, 2024 | The Backrooms of the Internet Archive

Topics include detecting a PS2 emulator glitch, Viagra's potential dementia prevention role, gene therapy for deaf children, AI code assistance, Canadian TV shows, huge genome ferns, Mozilla's anti-censorship add-on bans in Russia, chunking in RAG applications, and more.
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Jun 8, 2024 • 17min

June 7th, 2024 | Cancel Adobe if you are a creative under NDA with your clients

The podcast discusses canceling Adobe for creatives under NDA, Microsoft switching off Recall, ASCII Silhouettify, OpenSSH behavior options, GPT-4o image encoding, Tom 7's Badness 0, σ-GPTs autoregressive models, astronaut William Anders' plane crash, Feynman’s Razor, and PID 0 explanation.
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Jun 7, 2024 • 19min

June 6th, 2024 | Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico

Topics discussed in the podcast include SpaceX's Super Heavy splashdown, creating a game engine with Vulkan, a tiling window manager for macOS, Roman Roads, cathedral alignments, AI profiling rights, lsix for images, Qwen2 LLM release, and Don Estridge's role in building the IBM PC.
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Jun 6, 2024 • 19min

June 5th, 2024 | Employees who stay in companies longer than two years get paid 50% less (2014)

Topics discussed in this podcast include the impact of long-term employment on salaries, Israel's use of fake social accounts, Boeing Starliner's crewed mission, Microsoft's AI spying scandal, and the acquisition of the popular Mac app 'Bartender' by an unknown developer.
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Jun 5, 2024 • 19min

June 4th, 2024 | Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it

Topics discussed in the podcast include breakthrough in the Riemann hypothesis, frustrations with LeetCode-style interviews, humorous texts from phone thieves, odd values of electronic components, encryption at rest, Microsoft's crackdown on Windows 11 workaround, and insights on online content creation and Pale Fire.
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Jun 4, 2024 • 17min

June 3rd, 2024 | I Am So Sick of Leetcode-Style Interviews

Topics include hacking modems, critique of Leetcode-style interviews, program synthesis, FBI raid on corporate landlord, DuckDB 1.0.0 release, Industrial Revolution dynamics, and German Minecraft server shutdown.
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Jun 3, 2024 • 19min

June 2nd, 2024 | New head of one of the world’s oldest universities organized a citation cartel

Topics include an academic citation cartel scandal, hacking techniques for SPI Flash, NASA's workmanship standards, intellectual obesity, nuclear material at a hacker camp, and secure embedded operating systems for microcontrollers.

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