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July 16th, 2024 | For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default Jul 17, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 16th, 2024.
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(00:34): For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40974112&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:40): Codestral Mamba
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40977103&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:00): The Engineer’s Guide to Deep Learning: Understanding the Transformer Model
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40974193&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:13): Private Browsing 2.0
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40977945&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:27): XLSTMTime: Long-Term Time Series Forecasting with xLSTM
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40978372&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:45): Devs need system design tools, not diagramming tools
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40977308&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:06): Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40978073&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:15): OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40974154&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:30): DevRel at HuggingFace
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40979221&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:43): Godotcaml for Godot 4.2
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40975509&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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July 15th, 2024 | Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive PDF files without permission Jul 16, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 15th, 2024.
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(00:33): Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40970560&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:45): Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive PDF files without permission
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40965892&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:06): Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40969901&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:15): Rust for Filesystems
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40966414&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:28): Firefox 128 enables "privacy-preserving" ad measurements by default
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40966312&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:31): I'm not a fan of strlcpy(3)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40967069&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:44): The rise of the camera launched a fight to protect Gilded Age privacy
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40968493&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:58): Congress accidentally legalized THC six years ago
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40967012&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:11): Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40969391&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:21): The Mafia of Pharma Pricing
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40971553&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 14th, 2024 | Fitting an elephant with four non-zero parameters Jul 15, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 14th, 2024.
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(00:41): Fitting an elephant with four non-zero parameters
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40961163&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:49): How to Know When It's Time to Go
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40962675&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:55): Just Be Rich (2021)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40962965&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:11): Writing a BIOS bootloader for 64-bit mode from scratch
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40959742&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:29): Building and scaling Notion's data lake
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40959787&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:41): The six dumbest ideas in computer security (2005)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40959121&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:05): Git-PR: patch requests over SSH
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40959526&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:16): Calculating position from raw GPS data (2017)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40962231&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:38): Fusion – a hobby OS implemented in Nim
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40962767&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:55): California Grid Breezes Through Heatwave with Batteries
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40962942&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 13th, 2024 | Disney's Internal Slack Breached? NullBulge Leaks 1.1 TiB of Data Jul 14, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 13th, 2024.
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(00:39): Disney's Internal Slack Breached? NullBulge Leaks 1.1 TiB of Data
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40955693&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:52): Give people something to link to
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40954879&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:01): Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40956979&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:18): Houston-area residents enter sixth day without power, air conditioning
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40954800&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:40): "Firefox added [ad tracking] and has already turned it on without asking you"
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40954535&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:40): The Illustrated AlphaFold
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40954497&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:54): Dear AWS, please let me be a cloud engineer again
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40955946&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:13): No reasonable expectation of privacy in one's Google location data
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40958458&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:26): After initially rejecting it, Apple has approved the first PC emulator for iOS
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40958465&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:30): Disruptor-rs: better latency and throughput than crossbeam
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40954104&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 12th, 2024 | AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach Jul 13, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 12th, 2024.
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(00:33): AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40944505&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:49): Use a Work Journal to Recover Focus Faster and Clarify Your Thoughts
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40950584&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:03): Tau: Open-source PaaS – A self-hosted Vercel / Netlify / Cloudflare alternative
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40946033&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:13): Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40948806&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:20): Hackers Steal Phone, SMS Records for Nearly All AT&T Customers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40948035&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:18): Windows NT for Power Macintosh
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40945076&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:34): Crafting Interpreters
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40950235&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:41): CISA broke into a US federal agency, and no one noticed for a full 5 months
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40948064&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:54): What could explain the gallium anomaly?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40948202&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:07): Beating the Compiler
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40948353&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 11th, 2024 | Surviving three years in North Korea as a foreigner (2021) Jul 12, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 11th, 2024.
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(00:38): The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40934924&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:06): WebVM is a server-less virtual Linux environment running client-side
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40940225&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:12): Second factor SMS: Worse than its reputation
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40934495&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:24): Surviving three years in North Korea as a foreigner (2021)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40937973&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:41): Microsoft cutting crucial link to Gaza, Palestinians say
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40935971&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:57): FlashAttention-3: Fast and Accurate Attention with Asynchrony and Low-Precision
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40938577&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:11): Majority of sites and apps use dark patterns in the marketing of subscriptions
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40934898&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:22): Shelley Duvall has died
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40938092&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:22): Binance built a 100PB log service with Quickwit
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40935701&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:35): Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40936808&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 10th, 2024 | AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M Jul 11, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 10th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:36): Zed on Linux Is Here
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40928893&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:37): AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40926648&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:47): Scientists discover a cause of lupus, possible way to reverse it
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40931636&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:00): Vision language models are blind
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40926734&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:13): Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, made its inaugural flight
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40924915&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:30): Things I learned while writing an x86 emulator (2013)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40927438&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:54): ML Code Exercises
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40925896&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:04): SimSig: Railway Signalling Simulations
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40925025&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:19): Girls in Tech closes its doors after 17 years
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40925471&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:26): At the Mountains of Madness
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40926439&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 9th, 2024 | Another AI company wrote us and here’s our response Jul 10, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 9th, 2024.
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(00:35): Google Chrome has an API accesible only from *.google.com
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40918052&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:40): PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40915082&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:54): Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40917312&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:08): MobileLLM: Optimizing Sub-Billion Parameter Language Models for On-Device Use
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40915005&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:21): Microsoft's Xandr grants GDPR rights at a rate of 0%
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40913915&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:35): Turbopuffer: Fast search on object storage
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40916786&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:47): Judge dismisses DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40919253&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:03): You Want to Fix Boeing? Prosecute Its Executives
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40915381&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:06): Another AI company wrote us and here’s our response
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40917299&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:10): HP discontinues online-only LaserJet printers in response to backlash
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40914029&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 8th, 2024 | Reverse engineering Ticketmaster's rotating barcodes Jul 10, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 8th, 2024.
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(00:38): Reverse engineering Ticketmaster's rotating barcodes
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40906148&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:55): Google Chrome has an API accesible only from *.google.com
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40918052&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:50): No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40907933&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:53): PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40915082&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:06): The Right Kind of Stubborn
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40907155&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:12): Rye: A Hassle-Free Python Experience
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40911637&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:19): Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40917312&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:28): C++ patterns for low-latency applications including high-frequency trading
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40908273&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:42): DB Browser for SQLite (Windows, macOS, and Most Versions of Linux)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40909076&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:53): Anna's Archive Faces Millions in Damages and a Permanent Injunction
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40908878&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 7th, 2024 | YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixable Jul 08, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 7th, 2024.
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(00:34): YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixable
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40897205&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:41): A reawakening of systems programming meetups
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40897506&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:59): I'm funding Ladybird because I can't fund Firefox
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40900648&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:12): Malloc broke Serenity's JPGLoader, or: how to win the lottery (2021)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40896102&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:23): Mongo but on Postgres and with strong consistency benefits
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40897518&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:35): The internet is already over (2022)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40899761&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:49): Why Italy Fell Out of Love with Cilantro
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40895441&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:59): Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Geometric Perspective
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40899309&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:16): Standard cells: Looking at individual gates in the Pentium processor
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40899393&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:39): Modern-day spying: sometimes old technology is more secure
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40899487&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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