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September 18th, 2025 | Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year Sep 19, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 18, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283887&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:51): Nvidia buys $5B in Intel
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45288161&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:12): KDE is now my favorite desktop
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45288690&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:33): Meta Ray-Ban Display
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283306&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:55): Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45284311&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:16): Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45294859&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:37): CERN Animal Shelter for Computer Mice (2011)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45286369&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:58): Grief gets an expiration date, just like us
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45290021&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:20): Apple: SSH and FileVault
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45294440&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:41): Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45295898&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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September 17th, 2025 | Apple Photos app corrupts images Sep 18, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 17, 2025.
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(00:30): Apple Photos app corrupts images
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45274277&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:51): WASM 3.0 Completed
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45279384&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:13): GNU Midnight Commander
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45271481&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:35): Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283887&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:57): The Asus gaming laptop ACPI firmware bug
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45271484&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:19): EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to undecided
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45273854&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:40): About the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45270108&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:02): ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45282482&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:24): YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45276262&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:46): How to motivate yourself to do a thing you don't want to do
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45276987&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

September 16th, 2025 | Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node Sep 17, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 16, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45261163&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:51): Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45260741&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:12): Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45259553&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:33): Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45262835&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:55): Linux phones are more important now than ever
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45256651&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:16): Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45265745&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:37): Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45264562&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:59): I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45256577&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:20): "Your" vs. "My" in user interfaces
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45257627&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:41): Robert Redford has died
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45261159&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

September 15th, 2025 | Hosting a website on a disposable vape Sep 16, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 15, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Hosting a website on a disposable vape
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252817&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:52): Hosting a website on a disposable vape
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45249287&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:14): Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45248802&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:37): PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45249915&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:59): React is winning by default and slowing innovation
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252715&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:21): The Mac app flea market
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45246971&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:44): Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45251690&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:06): Language models pack billions of concepts into 12k dimensions
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45245948&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:28): macOS Tahoe
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252378&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:51): RustGPT: A pure-Rust transformer LLM built from scratch
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45247890&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

September 14th, 2025 | Models of European metro stations Sep 15, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 14, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Models of European metro stations
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45238055&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:52): ChatControl update: blocking minority held but Denmark is moving forward anyway
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45242458&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:15): Repetitive negative thinking associated with cognitive decline in older adults
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45239085&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:38): EPA Seeks to Eliminate Critical PFAS Drinking Water Protections
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45239803&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:01): Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45243635&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:24): Writing an operating system kernel from scratch
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45240682&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:47): Why We Spiral
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45240146&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:10): Grapevine canes can be converted into plastic-like material that will decompose
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45243803&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:33): If my kids excel, will they move away?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45236411&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:56): Bank of Thailand freezes 3M accounts, sets daily transfer limits to curb fraud
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45240304&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

September 13th, 2025 | Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search Sep 14, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 13, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45231378&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:52): SkiftOS: A hobby OS built from scratch using C/C++ for ARM, x86, and RISC-V
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45229414&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:14): AI coding
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45230677&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:37): Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45235648&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:59): Japan sets record of nearly 100k people aged over 100
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45232052&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:21): Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45229799&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:44): Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45228472&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:06): Four-year wedding crasher mystery solved
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45232562&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:29): Magical systems thinking
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45233266&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:51): ‘Overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45231239&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

September 12th, 2025 | EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy Sep 13, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 12, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45224967&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:54): The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45221274&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:18): Qwen3-Next
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45219228&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:42): Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45222695&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:06): Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45223719&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:30): UTF-8 is a brilliant design
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45225098&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:54): Float Exposed
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45217415&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:18): Chat Control faces blocking minority in the EU
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45221580&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:42): QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45224156&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:06): Debian 13, Postgres, and the US time zones
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45218111&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

September 11th, 2025 | Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured Sep 12, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 11, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45209366&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:51): Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45206567&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:12): Behind the scenes of Bun Install
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45210850&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:33): Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45214670&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:54): Nano Banana image examples
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45215869&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:15): GrapheneOS and forensic extraction of data (2024)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45210910&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:36): Gregg Kellogg has died
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45210564&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:58): Seoul says US must fix its visa system if it wants Korea's investments
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45206805&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:19): Claude’s memory architecture is the opposite of ChatGPT’s
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45214908&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:40): Reshaped is now open source
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45209558&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

September 10th, 2025 | I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens Sep 11, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 10, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45199931&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:52): Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45202200&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:14): I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45192655&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:37): Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone"
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45195520&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:59): ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45199713&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:21): KDE launches its own distribution
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45204393&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:44): OrioleDB Patent: now freely available to the Postgres community
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45196173&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:06): Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45206567&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:28): We can’t circumvent the work needed to train our minds
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45198420&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:51): TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45199760&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

September 9th, 2025 | New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child care Sep 10, 2025

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 09, 2025.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child care
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45182372&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:50): iPhone Air
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45186015&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:10): We all dodged a bullet
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45183029&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:30): ICE is using fake cell towers to spy on people's phones
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45184368&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:50): Claude now has access to a server-side container environment
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45182381&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:10): U.S. added 911k fewer jobs in year through March than reported earlier
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45182111&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:30): Memory Integrity Enforcement
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45186265&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:50): E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screens
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45185756&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:10): Immunotherapy drug clinical trial results: half of tumors shrink or disappear
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45188945&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:30): US High school students' scores fall in reading and math
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45182657&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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