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October 28th, 2025 | What we talk about when we talk about sideloading Oct 29, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 28, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): What we talk about when we talk about sideloading
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736479&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:53): Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45734582&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:17): EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45733707&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:40): Washington Post editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45733197&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:04): Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45737338&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:28): Austrian ministry kicks out Microsoft in favor of Nextcloud
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45732485&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:51): The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45733329&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:15): Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45731539&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:38): The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45732350&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:02): Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736925&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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October 27th, 2025 | 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea Oct 28, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 27, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45720376&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:52): It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45722069&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:15): PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721904&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:37): Recall for Linux
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45718231&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:00): Claude for Excel
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45722639&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:22): Rust cross-platform GPUI components
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45719004&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:45): Tags to make HTML work like you expect
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45719140&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:07): What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45718665&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:30): How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45716109&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:52): ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45716296&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

October 26th, 2025 | A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool Oct 27, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 26, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45708292&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:51): You already have a Git server
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45710721&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:13): Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45710006&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:34): Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45711279&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:56): Pico-Banana-400k
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45708524&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:17): I'm drowning in AI features I never asked for and I hate it
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45708066&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:39): Movie posters from Ghana in the 1980s and 90s
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45712807&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:00): Asbestosis
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45710065&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:22): What if tariffs?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45710021&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:43): A definition of AGI
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45713959&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

October 25th, 2025 | Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly Oct 26, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 25, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45701305&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:53): React vs. Backbone in 2025
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45702558&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:16): I'm drowning in AI features I never asked for and I hate it
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45708066&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:39): A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45708292&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:02): California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45706527&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:25): Key IOCs for Pegasus and Predator Spyware Removed with iOS 26 Update
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45700946&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:49): We do not have sufficient links to the UK for Online Safety Act to be applicable
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45705381&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:12): The Journey Before main()
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45706380&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:35): What is intelligence? (2024)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45700663&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:58): Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won't refund API credits
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45702363&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

October 24th, 2025 | Typst 0.14 Oct 25, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 24, 2025.
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(00:30): Typst 0.14
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45693978&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:51): Roc Camera
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45690251&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:12): Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45689241&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:33): The Swift SDK for Android
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45698570&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:54): 'Attention is all you need' coauthor says he's 'sick' of transformers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45690840&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:15): Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45690045&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:36): Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45692984&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:58): First shape found that can't pass through itself
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45694856&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:19): Asahi Linux Still Working on Apple M3 Support, M1n1 Bootloader Going Rust
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45694767&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:40): Poker fraud used X-ray tables, high-tech glasses and NBA players
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45693599&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

October 23rd, 2025 | Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Oct 24, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 23, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45683152&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:52): US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45682169&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:15): VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45678549&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:38): What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45685551&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:01): Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45684934&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:23): Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-East-1 Region
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45677139&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:46): Programming with Less Than Nothing
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45678511&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:09): Claude Memory
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45684134&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:32): PyTorch Monarch
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45680237&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:54): I spent a year making an ASN.1 compiler in D
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45681200&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

October 22nd, 2025 | MinIO stops distributing free Docker images Oct 23, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 22, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): MinIO stops distributing free Docker images
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45665452&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:52): Scripts I wrote that I use all the time
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45670052&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:14): Greg Newby, CEO of Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, has died
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45666510&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:36): Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45667866&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:58): Google flags Immich sites as dangerous
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45675015&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:20): Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45671778&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:42): Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45670443&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:04): AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45668990&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:26): Greenland’s national telco, Tusass, signs new agreement with Eutelsat
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45665796&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:48): French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45665311&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

October 21st, 2025 | ChatGPT Atlas Oct 22, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 21, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): ChatGPT Atlas
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45658479&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:53): Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45661253&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:17): Build your own database
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45657827&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:40): Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45657287&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:04): Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45655161&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:27): Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45651485&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:51): LLMs can get "brain rot"
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45656223&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:15): 60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45652307&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:38): NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45655188&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:02): Apple alerts exploit developer that his iPhone was targeted with gov spyware
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45657302&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

October 20th, 2025 | AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 Oct 21, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 20, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640838&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:52): Space Elevator
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640226&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:15): Major AWS Outage Happening
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640772&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:38): DeepSeek OCR
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640594&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:01): Entire Linux Network stack diagram (2024)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45639995&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:24): Servo v0.0.1
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45643357&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:47): Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45649178&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:10): Claude Code on the web
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45647166&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:33): Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45643163&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:56): BERT is just a single text diffusion step
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45644328&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

October 19th, 2025 | Replacement.ai Oct 20, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 19, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Replacement.ai
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45634095&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:51): Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45635533&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:13): OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45633482&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:35): Xubuntu.org Might Be Compromised
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45634367&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:56): Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45637744&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:18): Airliner hit by possible space debris
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45636285&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:40): US Government Uptime Monitor
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45637049&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:02): Show HN: Duck-UI – Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45633453&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:23): Friendship Begins at Home
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45631503&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:45): Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45635940&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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