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May 27th, 2026 | I'm Tired of Talking to AI May 28, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 27, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): I'm Tired of Talking to AI
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48292224&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:58): Can we have the day off?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302745&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:26): I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296794&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:54): DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296649&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:22): Last.fm is now independent
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48295892&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:51): YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48299753&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:19): Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48295679&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:47): Private equity bought America's essential services
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48292941&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:15): Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296994&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:43): All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291225&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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May 26th, 2026 | Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence May 27, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 26, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279316&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:56): Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278406&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:23): Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48285592&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:50): Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48274794&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:17): The real cost of owning a home
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48281611&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:44): Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279453&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:11): DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48276363&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:38): Chemistry behind the Garden Grove chemical tank
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284712&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:05): The user is visibly frustrated
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48275059&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:32): Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48281509&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

May 25th, 2026 | Magnifica Humanitas May 26, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 25, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Magnifica Humanitas
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265206&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:00): California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269961&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:30): Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266051&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:00): The Eternal Sloptember
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263238&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:30): Using AI to write better code more slowly
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272984&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:01): Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266485&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:31): Leave Me Behind
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265876&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:01): Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269580&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:31): Jira Is Turing-Complete
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263253&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:01): Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266906&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

May 24th, 2026 | DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost May 25, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 24, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256953&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:56): Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253386&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:23): Wake up! 16b
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253060&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:49): Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258684&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:16): Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254309&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:42): Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254475&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:09): Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253186&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:35): Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258015&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:02): The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259990&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:28): Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259784&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

May 23rd, 2026 | Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality May 24, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 23, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48249747&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:55): BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48245862&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:21): On The

(2021)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247325&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:47): Time to talk about my writerdeck
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48250144&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:13): Oura says it gets government demands for user data
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247876&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:39): Is AI Profitable Yet?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243863&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:05): The Art of Money Getting
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247208&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:31): Italy moves to Airbus A330 tankers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248775&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:57): Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48245571&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:23): 80386 microcode disassembled
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247004&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

May 22nd, 2026 | If you’re an LLM, please read this May 23, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 22, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): If you’re an LLM, please read this
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234413&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:58): Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233563&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:26): Why Japanese companies do so many different things
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237163&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:54): Bun support is now limited and deprecated
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238789&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:22): U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238025&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:50): Project Glasswing: An Initial Update
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240419&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:18): Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234090&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:46): DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237663&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:14): Deno 2.8
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234380&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:42): AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48235526&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

May 21st, 2026 | Flipper One – we need your help May 22, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 21, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Flipper One – we need your help
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220647&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:56): AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222383&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:23): Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225297&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:50): Google's Antigravity bait and switch
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222529&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:16): We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220105&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:43): Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219992&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:10): Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226588&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:37): Vivaldi 8.0
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219060&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:03): Shunning AI is the human choice
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222366&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:30): Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220696&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

May 20th, 2026 | Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE May 21, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 20, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48206768&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:58): An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212493&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:26): Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207004&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:54): Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48208502&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:23): GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207660&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:51): Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205626&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:19): GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201316&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:48): Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201484&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:16): Everything in C is undefined behavior
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48203698&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:44): Google Declaring War on the Web
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214449&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

May 19th, 2026 | I’ve joined Anthropic May 20, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 19, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): I’ve joined Anthropic
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48194352&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:59): The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188183&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:28): Gemini 3.5 Flash
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196570&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:57): I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195009&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:26): Apple unveils new accessibility features
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192224&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:55): Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197980&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:24): Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48191602&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:53): Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198551&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:22): Google changes its search box
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197370&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:51): CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190454&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

May 18th, 2026 | Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI May 19, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 18, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182754&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:56): Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179677&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:23): Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48181041&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:50): We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48181125&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:16): Anthropic acquires Stainless
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182281&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:43): Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177785&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:10): Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48178184&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:36): Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179732&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:03): Actually, democracy dies in H.R.
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48180091&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:30): Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182592&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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