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September 5th, 2024 | UE5 Nanite in WebGPU Sep 07, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 5th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:38): UE5 Nanite in WebGPU
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41458987&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:56): AlphaProteo generates novel proteins for biology and health research
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41457331&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:09): Porting systemd to musl Libc-powered Linux
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41454779&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:22): Clojure 1.12.0 is now available
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41460037&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:28): Building a WoW (World of Warcraft) Server in Elixir
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41454741&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:46): Common food dye found to make skin and muscle temporarily transparent
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41459865&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:53): The Early Days of Valve from a Woman Inside
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41460276&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:59): Desed: Demystify and debug your sed scripts
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41453557&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:11): Deploying Rust in Existing Firmware Codebases
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41458508&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:26): serverless-registry: A Docker registry backed by Workers and R2
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41458240&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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September 3rd, 2024 | Synchronizing Pong to music with constrained optimization Sep 07, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 3rd, 2024.
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(00:35): Synchronizing Pong to music with constrained optimization
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41434679&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:48): Steve Ballmer's incorrect binary search interview question
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41434637&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:56): Why bother with argv[0]?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41434315&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:14): Chromatone – Visual Music Language
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41436158&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:26): Mondragon as the new city-state
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41438060&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:42): Economist Eugene Fama: 'Efficient markets is a hypothesis. It's not reality
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41432086&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:59): How the Higgs field gives mass to elementary particles
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41436372&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:11): A photographer captures life in America's last remaining old-growth forests
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41435676&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:24): Interviewing Tim Sweeney and Neal Stephenson
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41441041&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:39): OpenAI Pleads It Can't Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41438162&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

September 2nd, 2024 | The Art of Finishing Sep 03, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 2nd, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:39): The Art of Finishing
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41428705&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:44): Sleep on it: How the brain processes many experiences, even when 'offline'
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41425563&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:52): Greppability is an underrated code metric
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41430772&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:12): Telephone Line Rural Outside Plant
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41423303&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:22): Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41427185&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:37): Upgrading a Toshiba NAS HDD Firmware on Linux
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41423577&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:49): DOjS – A DOS JavaScript Canvas with Sound
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41425259&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:58): Owners of 1-Time Passcode Theft Service Plead Guilty
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41426982&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:16): They don't make 'em like that any more: the 3.5mm headphone jack socket
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41425383&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:41): Microsoft's 'Recall' feature can't be uninstalled after all
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41430757&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

September 1st, 2024 | Founder Mode Sep 02, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 1st, 2024.
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(00:35): Founder Mode
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41415023&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:47): Extreme Pi Boot Optimization
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41420597&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:03): Anarchy in Sudan has spawned the world’s worst famine in 40 years
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41415819&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:20): Honey, I shrunk {fmt}: bringing binary size to 14k and ditching the C++ runtime
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41415238&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:42): Americans' love affair with big cars is killing them
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41418562&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:55): The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41418301&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:06): The web's clipboard, and how it stores data of different types
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41415866&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:23): How a leading chain of psychiatric hospitals traps patients
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41417284&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:39): Godot on iPad, Toolbars, Importers, Embedding, Debugger
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41415077&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:48): Einstein's Other Theory of Everything
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41415647&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

August 31st, 2024 | Nearly half of Nvidia's revenue comes from four mystery whales each buying $3B+ Sep 01, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on August 31st, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:33): Building LLMs from the Ground Up: A 3-Hour Coding Workshop
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41412256&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:40): Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41409503&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:43): Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41408738&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:46): Nearly half of Nvidia's revenue comes from four mystery whales each buying $3B+
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41410450&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:05): Did your car witness a crime?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41409882&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:12): Rust solves the problem of incomplete Kernel Linux API docs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41409475&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:21): Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41407768&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:32): WatchYourLAN: Lightweight Network IP Scanner
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41411281&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:39): AirTags key to discovery of Houston's plastic recycling deception
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41413174&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:52): My fake job in Y2K preparedness
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41409891&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

August 28th, 2024 | Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch Sep 01, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on August 28th, 2024.
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(00:36): Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41386319&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:45): OpenAI is good at unminifying code
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41389185&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:52): Bypassing airport security via SQL injection
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41392128&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:01): Low Cost Mini PCs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41389931&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:15): UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41388888&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:34): HDMI Forum rejects AMD's HDMI 2.1 open-source driver
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41386667&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:45): A post by Guido van Rossum removed for violating Python community guidelines
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41385546&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:57): Twenty Years of Valgrind (2022)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41384118&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:17): Judges rule Big Tech's free ride on Section 230 is over
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41391868&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:27): New 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 has 33% smaller die, 30% idle power savings
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41392142&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

August 27th, 2024 | Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team Aug 28, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on August 27th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:33): Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41371106&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:42): Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41365868&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:51): A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41371170&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:02): The Monospace Web
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41370020&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:11): Sainsbury Wing contractors find 1990 letter from donor
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41368866&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:20): U.S. Ambassador says Canadians are consuming 'unhealthy' amount of American news
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41371117&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:38): Diffusion Models Are Real-Time Game Engines
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41375548&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:50): Faster CRDTs (2021)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41372833&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:12): Blitzortung – real time lightning strikes around the world
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41370187&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:15): Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41369061&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

August 26th, 2024 | NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture Aug 28, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on August 26th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:35): NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41356528&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:46): Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41358020&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:01): Fixing a bug in Google Chrome as a first-time contributor
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41355303&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:13): Dutch DPA fines Uber €290M because of transfers of drivers’ data to the US
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41355021&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:22): Using AI to fight insurance claim denials
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41358132&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:39): Erasure Coding for Distributed Systems
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41361281&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:48): Intel SGX Fuse Key0, a.k.a. Root Provisioning Key Was Extracted by Researchers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41359152&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:55): DOJ Files Antitrust Suit Against RealPage
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41357557&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:54): Linux: We need tiling desktop environments
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41357853&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:09): Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41356239&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

August 25th, 2024 | Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn Aug 26, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on August 25th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:33): Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41347909&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:54): Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41350530&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:00): Study: Air purifier use at daycare centres cut kids' sick days by a third (2023)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41347868&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:12): Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41348659&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:34): Writing a Rust compiler in C
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41351446&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:42): TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41350225&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:52): Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less (2021)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41348149&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:03): The art of programming and why I won't use LLM
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41349443&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:13): Database "sharding" came from Ultima Online? (2009)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41351219&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:21): Rnote – Sketch and take handwritten notes
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41348204&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

August 22nd, 2024 | What is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care Aug 23, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on August 22nd, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:37): What is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41318222&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:44): Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41321063&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:06): Python's Preprocessor
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41322758&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:19): Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41321981&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:23): No "Hello", No "Quick Call", and No Meetings Without an Agenda
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41318408&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:33): Hardware Virtualization
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41318033&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:41): Async2 – The .NET Runtime Async experiment concludes
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41319224&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:53): Ethernet History Deepdive – Why Do We Have Different Frame Types?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41318013&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:12): SwiftUI for Mac 2024
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41318000&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:20): Beastie Boys dismantled their gold record plaque
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41319955&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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