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February 6th, 2026 | I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams Feb 07, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 06, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46911901&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:59): The Waymo World Model
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46914785&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:28): TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46911869&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:57): A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46910963&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:27): OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918612&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:56): Hackers (1995) Animated Experience
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46912800&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:25): GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46908491&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:55): An Update on Heroku
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46913903&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:24): Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46913793&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:53): Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46914159&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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February 5th, 2026 | Claude Opus 4.6 Feb 06, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 05, 2026.
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(00:30): Claude Opus 4.6
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902223&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:00): GPT-5.3-Codex
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902638&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:31): Don't rent the cloud, own instead
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46896146&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:02): Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903556&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:33): OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46893970&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:04): It's 2026, Just Use Postgres
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46905555&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:35): My AI Adoption Journey
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903558&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:06): We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903616&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:37): When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46895972&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:08): CIA to Sunset the World Factbook
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46899100&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

February 4th, 2026 | I miss thinking hard Feb 05, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 04, 2026.
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(00:30): I miss thinking hard
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46881264&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:59): Voxtral Transcribe 2
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886735&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:28): FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886237&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:57): Claude is a space to think
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46884883&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:26): AI is killing B2B SaaS
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46888441&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:55): Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886191&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:24): Show HN: Ghidra MCP Server – 110 tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882389&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:53): A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886440&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:22): OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46893970&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:51): The Great Unwind
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46889008&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

February 3rd, 2026 | France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US Feb 04, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 03, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873294&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:58): What's up with all those equals signs anyway?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46868759&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:26): Qwen3-Coder-Next
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872706&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:54): Agent Skills
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46871173&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:22): Data centers in space makes no sense
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46876105&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:51): Deno Sandbox
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46874097&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:19): Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46865275&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:47): New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872540&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:15): X offices raided in France
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872894&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:44): Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46874619&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

February 2nd, 2026 | Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors Feb 03, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 02, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46851548&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:55): The Codex App
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46859054&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:21): xAI joins SpaceX
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46862170&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:47): Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850803&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:12): Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46854999&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:38): Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46858577&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:04): Termux
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46854642&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:30): The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46863162&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:55): Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861313&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:21): Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46863112&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

February 1st, 2026 | Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking Feb 02, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 01, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844870&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:57): Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46848415&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:24): Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46851548&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:52): What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844822&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:19): Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46849567&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:47): List animals until failure
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46842603&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:14): Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46846252&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:41): Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850205&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:09): My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46849258&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:36): The Book of PF, 4th edition
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844350&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

January 31st, 2026 | Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native Feb 01, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 31, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46835336&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:59): Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838417&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:28): Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838597&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:57): Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832074&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:26): The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46831702&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:55): Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46841374&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:24): We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46834953&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:53): Automatic Programming
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46835208&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:22): Court Filings: ICE App Identifies Protesters; Global Entry, PreCheck Get Revoked
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832751&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:51): YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46834441&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

January 30th, 2026 | Moltbook Jan 31, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 30, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Moltbook
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820360&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:56): Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46829147&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:23): GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46821774&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:50): OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820783&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:17): Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46821134&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:44): Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822632&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:11): How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820924&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:38): Microsoft 365 now tracks you in real time?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46827003&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:05): Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46824098&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:31): Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46819809&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

January 29th, 2026 | Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants Jan 30, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 29, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46808251&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:59): Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46806773&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:28): We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46805665&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:57): Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810282&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:26): Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812933&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:55): US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: Report
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812173&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:24): Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810401&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:53): Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminal
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46804828&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:22): County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814614&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:51): PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814743&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

January 28th, 2026 | Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux Jan 29, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 28, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46795864&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:58): Amazon cuts 16k jobs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46796745&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:26): Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46803356&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:54): Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46802067&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:22): ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrants
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46794365&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:50): Airfoil (2024)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46795908&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:18): ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46792370&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:46): Show HN: The HN Arcade
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46793693&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:14): UK Government’s ‘AI Skills Hub’ was delivered by PwC for £4.1M
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46803119&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:42): Super Monkey Ball ported to a website
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46789961&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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