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December 8th, 2025 | The fuck off contact page Dec 09, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 08, 2025.
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(00:30): The fuck off contact page
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46189994&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:52): GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46189692&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:14): Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194615&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:37): IBM to acquire Confluent
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192130&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:59): Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196688&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:21): Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196105&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:44): Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192186&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:06): NVIDIA frenemy relation with OpenAI and Oracle
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196076&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:28): Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192846&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:51): Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192459&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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December 7th, 2025 | Using LLMs at Oxide Dec 08, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 07, 2025.
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(00:30): Using LLMs at Oxide
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178347&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:53): The state of Schleswig-Holstein is consistently relying on open source
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181491&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:17): Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181466&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:40): Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181231&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:04): I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46183294&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:27): Z2 – Lithographically fabricated IC in a garage fab
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178789&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:51): Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181962&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:14): Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178108&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:38): The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46183657&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:01): Discovering the indieweb with calm tech
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178892&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

December 6th, 2025 | GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches Dec 07, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 06, 2025.
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(00:30): GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46173407&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:51): Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46171425&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:12): How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46173383&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:34): Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46173547&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:55): YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46169554&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:17): Sam Altman’s DRAM Deal
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46169224&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:38): Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46170302&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:00): Autism's confusing cousins
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46172443&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:21): Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video]
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46177645&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:42): Wolfram Compute Services
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46171394&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

December 5th, 2025 | Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros Dec 06, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 05, 2025.
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(00:30): Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160315&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:56): Cloudflare was down
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158191&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:22): Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46162656&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:48): Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46155135&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:14): BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46155619&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:40): The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46159193&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:06): Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46163308&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:32): Most technical problems are people problems
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160773&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:58): UniFi 5G
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46157594&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:24): Trick users and bypass warnings – Modern SVG Clickjacking attacks
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46155085&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

December 4th, 2025 | It’s time to free JavaScript (2024) Dec 05, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 04, 2025.
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(00:30): It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46145365&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:55): Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46150715&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:20): PGlite – Embeddable Postgres
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46146133&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:46): How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46145180&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:11): Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46142100&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:36): I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46146451&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:02): Unreal Tournament 2004 is back
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46145834&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:27): Transparent leadership beats servant leadership
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46147540&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:52): Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46148748&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:18): RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46147353&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

December 3rd, 2025 | Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service Dec 04, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 03, 2025.
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(00:30): Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131406&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:50): Ghostty is now non-profit
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138238&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:10): Accepting US car standards would risk European lives
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131330&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:31): “Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46134443&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:51): Everyone in Seattle hates AI
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138952&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:11): Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137514&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:32): Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137783&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:52): RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46136026&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:12): MinIO is now in maintenance-mode
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46136023&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:33): Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46134178&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

December 2nd, 2025 | Anthropic acquires Bun Dec 03, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 02, 2025.
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(00:30): Anthropic acquires Bun
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124267&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:52): Mistral 3 family of models released
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121889&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:15): OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121870&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:37): What will enter the public domain in 2026?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117112&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:00): Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117802&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:22): IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124324&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:45): Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46119500&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:07): 100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124205&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:30): Paged Out
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46126217&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:52): Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46125184&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

December 1st, 2025 | Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release Dec 02, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 01, 2025.
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(00:30): Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46103376&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:50): DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46108780&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:11): India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46104193&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:31): Why xor eax, eax?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46106556&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:52): Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46103532&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:13): It’s been a very hard year
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46103858&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:33): Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46102451&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:54): Advent of Sysadmin 2025
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46102347&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:15): How to Attend Meetings
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46112906&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:35): Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114599&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

November 30th, 2025 | Advent of Code 2025 Dec 01, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on November 30, 2025.
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(00:30): Advent of Code 2025
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46096337&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:54): Show HN: Boing
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46093473&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:19): Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46093518&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:44): Writing a good Claude.md
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46098838&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:09): Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46096556&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:34): Don't push AI down our throats
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46098992&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:59): Migrating Dillo from GitHub
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46096800&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:24): Norway wealth fund to vote for human rights report at Microsoft, against Nadella
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46096555&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:49): Meshtastic
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46092558&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:14): CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46095585&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

November 29th, 2025 | Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out Nov 30, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on November 29, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46086771&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:54): All it takes is for one to work out
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46090433&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:18): Iceland declares ocean-current instability a national security risk
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088192&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:42): System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46084956&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:06): Bazzite: The next generation of Linux gaming
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46091362&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:31): Be Like Clippy
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46090172&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:55): It's Always the Process, Stupid
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46087737&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:19): Every mathematician has only a few tricks (2020)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46084535&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:43): Datacenters in space aren't going to work
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46087616&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:08): Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written by AI
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088236&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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