Hacker News Recap

Latest Episodes:

November 8th, 2025 | I Want You to Understand Chicago Nov 09, 2025

Show notes

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on November 08, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): I Want You to Understand Chicago
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45859402&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:52): Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45852854&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:14): Ticker: Don't die of heart disease
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45857053&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:36): Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45856804&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:59): Apple's "notarisation" – blocking software freedom of developers and users
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45854441&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:21): My friends and I accidentally faked the Ryzen 7 9700X3D leaks
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45855933&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:43): Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45858905&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:06): IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45860654&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:28): Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45852974&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:50): Sam Altman's pants are on fire
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45853292&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

This is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

November 7th, 2025 | Leaving Meta and PyTorch Nov 08, 2025

Show notes

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on November 07, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Leaving Meta and PyTorch
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45843948&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:50): Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45845772&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:11): A Fond Farewell
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45843146&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:32): YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45850963&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:53): Rockstar employee shares account of the company's union-busting efforts
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45849281&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:14): Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45848083&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:35): Vodafone Germany is killing the open internet – one peering connection at a time
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45848484&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:55): Why I love OCaml (2023)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45846517&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:16): Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45850430&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:37): VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45850751&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

November 6th, 2025 | End of Japanese community Nov 07, 2025

Show notes

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on November 06, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): End of Japanese community
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45830770&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:50): FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45836826&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:11): Ratatui – App Showcase
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45830829&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:32): Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45836070&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:53): ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45837342&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:14): You should write an agent
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840088&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:35): Two billion email addresses were exposed
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45839901&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:56): I may have found a way to spot U.S. at-sea strikes before they're announced
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45831541&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:17): What the hell have you built
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45832803&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:38): IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45834980&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

November 5th, 2025 | Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race Nov 06, 2025

Show notes

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on November 05, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45818421&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:53): Solarpunk is happening in Africa
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45827190&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:17): YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45822018&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:41): New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826995&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:04): I’m worried that they put co-pilot in Excel
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45820872&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:28): Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature found in Chinese buses
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45824658&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:52): Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45818319&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:15): iOS 26.2 to allow third-party app stores in Japan ahead of regulatory deadline
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45822302&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:39): Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826266&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:03): The shadows lurking in the equations
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45823141&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

November 3rd, 2025 | Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower Nov 04, 2025

Show notes

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on November 03, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45797242&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:54): Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45795036&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:18): Why Nextcloud feels slow to use
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798681&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:43): Google suspended my company's Google cloud account for the third time
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798827&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:07): Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45800465&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:31): The Case Against PGVector
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798479&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:56): > Htmx – The Fetch()ening
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45803358&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:20): Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45800777&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:45): First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45796421&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:09): AI's Dial-Up Era
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45804377&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

November 2nd, 2025 | Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark Nov 03, 2025

Show notes

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on November 02, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45792503&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:51): How I use every Claude Code feature
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45786738&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:13): Facts about throwing good parties
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45794032&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:35): URLs are state containers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45789474&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:56): Notes by djb on using Fil-C
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45788040&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:18): Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45787993&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:40): Anti-cybercrime laws are being weaponized to repress journalism
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45792209&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:01): Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45789602&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:23): Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45789424&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:45): Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it (2020)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45793466&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

November 1st, 2025 | You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say Nov 02, 2025

Show notes

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on November 01, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45780228&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:54): Chat Control proposal fails again after public opposition
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45783114&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:19): Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS category
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45782136&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:43): Hard Rust requirements from May onward
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45779860&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:08): Visible from space, Sudan's bloodied sands expose a massacre of thousands
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45783699&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:32): SQLite concurrency and why you should care about it
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45781298&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:57): GHC now runs in the browser
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45782981&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:21): Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45783640&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:46): Claude Code can debug low-level cryptography
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45784179&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:10): Visopsys: OS maintained by a single developer since 1997
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45785858&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

October 31st, 2025 | Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain Nov 01, 2025

Show notes

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 31, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771636&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:53): John Carmack on mutable variables
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45767725&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:17): How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771538&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:40): Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45774086&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:04): AMD could enter ARM market with Sound Wave APU built on TSMC 3nm process
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45767916&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:27): Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771870&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:51): Show HN: Strange Attractors
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45777810&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:14): Just use a button
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45774182&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:38): Another European agency shifts off US Tech as digital sovereignty gains steam
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45773974&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:01): Addiction Markets
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45774640&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

October 30th, 2025 | Affinity Studio now free Oct 31, 2025

Show notes

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 30, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Affinity Studio now free
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45761445&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:53): Free software scares normal people
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45760878&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:17): The ear does not do a Fourier transform (2024)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45762259&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:41): US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45760328&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:05): Ventoy: Create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45760340&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:29): A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45766253&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:52): Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45765664&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:16): Falling panel prices lead to global solar boom, except for the US
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45761902&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:40): Language models are injective and hence invertible
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45758093&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:04): NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45755027&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

October 29th, 2025 | Keep Android Open Oct 30, 2025

Show notes

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 29, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Keep Android Open
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45742488&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:50): Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45751400&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:11): Tell HN: Azure outage
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748661&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:32): AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45745281&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:52): Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748879&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:13): YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45744503&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:34): Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45742419&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:55): Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45742907&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:15): uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45742446&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:36): Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45747018&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

Our TOPPODCAST Picks

Follow Us

Stay Connected

Related Podcasts

Links

Stay Connected