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July 6th, 2024 | Teaching general problem-solving skills is not a substitute for teaching math [pdf] (2010) Jul 07, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 6th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:36): First anode-free sodium solid-state battery
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40891252&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:50): Teaching general problem-solving skills is not a substitute for teaching math [pdf] (2010)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40890847&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:07): How to think in writing
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40892298&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:17): Why privacy is important, and having "nothing to hide" is irrelevant (2016)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40892259&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:32): Properly testing concurrent data structures
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40890035&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:54): Kivy – a cross platform Python UI framework
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40891446&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:00): Fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40891507&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:10): Anxious Generation – How Safetyism and Social Media Are Damaging the Kids
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40890534&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:24): When the CIA turned writers into operatives
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40891498&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:34): Summary of Major Changes Between Python Versions
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40889428&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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July 5th, 2024 | Put the DVD logo in the corner (2023) Jul 07, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 5th, 2024.
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(00:39): Put the DVD logo in the corner (2023)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40883277&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:59): I have no constructor, and I must initialize
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40880932&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:15): PostgreSQL and UUID as Primary Key
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40884878&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:36): Ente Auth: open-source Authy alternative for 2FA
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40883839&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:51): Space Age release date
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40882243&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:59): Let's stop counting centuries
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40884356&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:06): Tao Te Ching translated by Ursula Le Guin (1997)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40886419&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:23): YouTube's eraser tool removes copyrighted music without impacting other audio
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40885155&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:31): Why Vivaldi won't follow the current AI trend?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40880322&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:44): The Software Crisis
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40882583&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 4th, 2024 | Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o Jul 06, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 4th, 2024.
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(00:42): Twilio confirms data breach after hackers leak 33M Authy user phone numbers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40874341&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:53): Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40877136&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:16): SCIM: Ncurses based, Vim-like spreadsheet
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40876848&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:28): Jeffrey Snover and the Making of PowerShell
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40874013&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:53): Batteries: How cheap can they get?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40877337&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:05): Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40877648&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:11): Mechanical computer relies on kirigami cubes, not electronics
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40875924&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:28): The sad state of property-based testing libraries
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40875559&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:46): Gravitational wave researchers cast new light on Antikythera mechanism mystery
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40877042&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:00): NexDock turns your smartphone into a laptop
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40877992&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 3rd, 2024 | AI's $600B Question Jul 04, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 3rd,2024.
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(00:36): Proton launches its own version of Google Docs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40864914&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:51): AI's $600B Question
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40869461&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:11): Do not taunt happy fun branch predictor (2023)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40866374&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:33): The Origins of DS_store (2006)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40870357&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:42): The Cheapest NAS
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40867709&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:58): A practical introduction to constraint programming using CP-SAT and Python
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40867746&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:06): Making a Linux-managed network switch
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40866442&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:15): Voice Isolator: Strip background noise for film, podcast, interview production
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40869421&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:10): The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Understand
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40870280&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:17): Beating NumPy matrix multiplication in 150 lines of C
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40870345&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 2nd, 2024 | Why is Chile so long? Jul 03, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 2nd, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:37): Why is Chile so long?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40856030&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:38): Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40856791&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:42): Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40854836&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:27): Diff-pdf: tool to visually compare two PDFs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40854319&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:34): Meta 3D Gen
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40857517&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:47): With fifth busy beaver, researchers approach computation's limits
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40857041&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:03): Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect co-creator, has died
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40858583&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:13): Google's carbon emissions surge nearly 50% due to AI energy demand
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40859993&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:31): Brazil data regulator bans Meta from mining data to train AI models
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40861057&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:36): Trying Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks in Practice
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40855028&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 1st, 2024 | Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts Jul 02, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 1st, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:38): Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40847963&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:50): RegreSSHion: RCE in OpenSSH's server, on glibc-based Linux systems
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40843778&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:10): My finetuned models beat OpenAI's GPT-4
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40843848&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:32): Welcome to Ladybird
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40845951&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:45): Cities need more trees
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40843720&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:58): My Python code is a neural network
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40845304&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:09): Programmers should never trust anyone, not even themselves
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40842867&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:19): Pharma firms stash profits in Europe's tax havens
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40848797&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:41): Writing HTML by hand is easier than debugging your static site generator
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40845542&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:03): A write-ahead log is not a universal part of durability
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40844825&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

June 30th, 2024 | Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful Jul 01, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on June 30th, 2024.
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(00:34): Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40839208&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:42): Postzegelcode
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40839418&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:56): Rodney Brooks on limitations of generative AI
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40835588&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:08): The weirdest QNX bug I've encountered (2021)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40837411&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:21): Google Arts and Culture site I didn't know existed
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40840699&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:28): Canada 'sleepwalking' into cashless society, consumer advocates warn
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40838515&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:44): How to get root access to your Sleep Number bed
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40838167&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:55): Convolutions, Fast Fourier Transform and polynomials (2022)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40840396&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:05): A live ranking of airlines by how much luggage they are losing
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40838290&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:11): Dev rejects CVE severity, makes his GitHub repo read-only
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40837791&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

June 29th, 2024 | Researchers at ETH Zurich develop the fastest possible flow algorithm Jun 30, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on June 29th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:40): Bytecode Breakdown: Unraveling Factorio's Lua Security Flaws
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40830005&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:59): Inside a $1 radar motion sensor
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40834349&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:13): Researchers at ETH Zurich develop the fastest possible flow algorithm
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40829459&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:26): AirPods fast connect security vulnerability
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40832223&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:36): FUTO Keyboard
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40831489&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:46): The economics of writing technical books
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40830332&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:57): Python toolkit for quantitative finance
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40831991&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:03): Chrome is adding `window.ai` – a Gemini Nano AI model right inside the browser
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40834600&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:00): Thousands of Pablo Picasso’s works in a new online archive
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40832214&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:12): Overleaf: An open-source online real-time collaborative LaTeX editor
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40832930&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

June 28th, 2024 | Supreme Court overturns 40-year-old "Chevron deference" doctrine Jun 29, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on June 28th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:34): Supreme Court overturns 40-year-old "Chevron deference" doctrine
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40820949&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:41): Is Clear Air Turbulence becoming more common?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40819784&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:57): New ways to catch gravitational waves
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40820063&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:14): A Eulogy for DevOps
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40826236&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:22): Apple II graphics: More than you wanted to know
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40820311&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:43): Open source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' exits beta to challenge Visual Studio Code
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40825146&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:49): Parkinson's Link to Gut Bacteria Suggests Unexpected, Simple Treatment
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40818987&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:54): The Rhisotope Project: Insertion of radioisotopes into live rhinoceros
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40819617&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:05): Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40819184&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:14): Supreme Court overrules Chevron deference [pdf]
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40821007&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

June 27th, 2024 | 200 people charged in $2.7B health care fraud crackdown Jun 28, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on June 27th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:41): Remembering Larry Finger, who made Linux wireless work
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40812695&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:52): Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40808820&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:06): 200 people charged in $2.7B health care fraud crackdown
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40815139&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:20): A modern 8 bit design, built using 1950s thermionic valves
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40814011&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:36): Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1996) [pdf]
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40808933&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:53): Eplot: A new package for making charts in Emacs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40807923&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:02): Supreme Court blocks controversial Purdue Pharma opioid settlement
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40813369&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:13): Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size [pdf]
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40810802&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:31): Python grapples with Apple App Store rejections
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40815130&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:42): CriticGPT: Finding GPT-4's mistakes with GPT-4
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40812622&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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