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June 16th, 2024 | Do not try to be the smartest in the room; try to be the kindest Jun 17, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on June 16th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:40): MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40699684&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:11): Do not try to be the smartest in the room; try to be the kindest
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40695997&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:40): The Raspberry Pi 5 Is No Match for a Tini-Mini-Micro PC
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40697831&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:22): NLRB judge declares non-compete clause is an unfair labor practice
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40696992&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:16): Building SimCity: How to put the world in a machine
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40698442&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:05): Experts vs. Imitators
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40699079&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:45): Simple sabotage for software (2023)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40695839&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:13): NumPy 2.0
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40699470&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:52): European Alternatives
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40695754&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:40): Bouba/kiki effect
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40699583&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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June 15th, 2024 | Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent Jun 16, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on June 15th, 2024.
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(00:34): Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40690898&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:22): Tesla's FSD – A Useless Technology Demo
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40688001&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:05): Just Enough Software Architecture
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40691929&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:03): You've Read Your Last Free Article, Such Is the Nature of Mortality
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40691706&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:41): Threescaper: A website for loading Townscaper models into Three.js
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40689296&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:14): Impulse Tracker source code now available on GitHub
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40691999&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:44): A most profound video game: a good cognitive aid for research
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40689759&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:34): Engineer's solar panels are breaking efficiency records
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40690718&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:19): Google, Cloudflare and Cisco will poison DNS to stop piracy block circumvention
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40693451&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:16): Sans Bullshit Sans (2015)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40692197&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

June 14th, 2024 | Microsoft's Recall AI feature is now indefinitely delayed Jun 15, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on June 14th, 2024.
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(00:35): Microsoft's Recall AI feature is now indefinitely delayed
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40683210&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:55): Nvidia Warp: A Python framework for high performance GPU simulation and graphics
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40680737&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:48): I found a 55 year old bug in the first Lunar Lander game
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40680218&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:31): Start presentations on the second slide
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40680648&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:04): The sun's magnetic field is about to flip
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40682401&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:56): Cost of self hosting Llama-3 8B-Instruct
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40681784&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:34): H.264 Is Magic (2016)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40681306&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:23): Sleep deprivation disrupts memory
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40681345&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:56): Map of forest sounds from around the world
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40680107&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:32): Voyager 1 is back online! NASA spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40687660&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

June 13th, 2024 | Microsoft Chose Profit over Security, Whistleblower Says Jun 14, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on June 13th, 2024.
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(00:36): Microsoft Chose Profit over Security, Whistleblower Says
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40667976&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:12): MLow: Meta's low bitrate audio codec
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40670612&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:58): Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40668088&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:58): AMD CEO Lisa Su reminisces about designing the PS3's infamous Cell processor
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40670898&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:42): AMD's MI300X Outperforms Nvidia's H100 for LLM Inference
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40667102&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:16): U.S.-Saudi petrodollar pact ends after 50 years
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40673567&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:53): Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-8 Max Experienced Dutch Roll
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40668504&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:15): Ted Chiang has won the PEN/Faulkner Foundation's short story prize
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40672158&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:53): Arm says it wants all Snapdragon X Elite laptops destroyed
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40667606&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:18): Please maintain eye contact for the duration of the ad
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40671381&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

June 12th, 2024 | How Meta trains large language models at scale Jun 13, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on June 12th, 2024.
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(00:42): The GJK Algorithm: A weird and beautiful way to do a simple thing
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40660761&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:34): Elixir 1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, durations, OTP 27
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40656747&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:23): Japan enacts law to promote competition in smartphone app stores
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40662176&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:26): How Meta trains large language models at scale
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40664339&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:01): Intel is trucking a 916k-pound 'Super Load' across Ohio to its new fab
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40658095&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:02): Serious Sam handled massive amounts of enemies on 56k modem connections
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40657574&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:36): The Swift compiler is slow due to how types are inferred
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40661001&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:00): ChromeOS will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40661703&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:45): Star botanist likely made up data about nutritional supplements, new probe finds
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40658901&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:31): Uncensor any LLM with abliteration
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40665721&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

June 11th, 2024 | Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity Jun 13, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on June 11th, 2024.
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(00:34): Lynn Conway has died
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40648470&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:14): I like the RP2040
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40646061&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:07): Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40654190&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:40): ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40648960&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:39): Microsoft's official Minesweeper app has ads, pay-to-win, and is hundreds of MBs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40647278&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:33): A new term, ‘slop’, has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40645983&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:18): Some people with insomnia think they're awake when they're asleep
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40646602&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:42): Norway discovers Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40646658&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:57): Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40650844&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:31): Self-Serve Dashboards
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40646312&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

June 10th, 2024 | Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac Jun 11, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on June 10th, 2024.
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(00:38): Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40636844&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:01): Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Models
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40639506&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:05): OpenAI and Apple Announce Partnership
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40636980&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:43): Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40639606&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:23): Apple blocks PC emulator in iOS App Store and third-party app stores
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40636331&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:04): macOS Sequoia Preview
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40636854&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:48): 23words.com
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40634042&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:58): Understanding the neuroscience behind burnout (2022)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40631663&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:42): Deterioration of local community a major driver of loss of play-based childhood
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40637102&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:38): Gainax, known for 'Evangelion' anime production, goes bankrupt
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40634465&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

June 9th, 2024 | The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs Jun 10, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on June 9th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:33): Piku: Allows git push deployments to your own servers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40622704&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:03): Economic Termites: Monopolies not noticeable enough for most of us
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40623843&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:39): Designing a Lego orrery
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40626807&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:11): The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40624924&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:02): Keylogger discovered in image generator extension
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40626014&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:39): Ultrasonic investigations in shopping centres
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40624709&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:17): A ChatGPT mistake cost us $10k
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40627558&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:08): Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40627522&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:31): Libtree: Ldd as a tree saying why a library is found or not
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40626969&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:04): A Revolution in Biology?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40626332&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

June 8th, 2024 | The Backrooms of the Internet Archive Jun 09, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on June 8th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:33): The Backrooms of the Internet Archive
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40618079&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:20): Detecting a PS2 Emulator: When 1*X does not equal X
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40618459&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:08): Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40620739&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:53): Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited deafness
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40620056&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:35): LSP-AI: open-source language server serving as back end for AI code assistance
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40617082&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:11): My favorite 1980's Canadian TV show: Bits and Bytes
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40618766&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:38): Tiny fern has the largest genome of any organism on Earth
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40616778&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:31): Mozilla silently bans 2 anti-state-censorship add-ons in Russia
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40621611&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:03): Breaking up is hard to do: Chunking in RAG applications
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40616121&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:34): Beware anti patterns in event driven architecture
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40619521&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

June 7th, 2024 | Cancel Adobe if you are a creative under NDA with your clients Jun 08, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on June 7th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:36): Cancel Adobe if you are a creative under NDA with your clients
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40607442&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:18): Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40610435&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:11): ASCII Silhouettify
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40610641&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:34): OpenSSH introduces options to penalize undesirable behavior
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40610621&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:14): How Does GPT-4o Encode Images?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40608269&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:55): Tom 7: Badness 0 (Three ways)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40608332&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:13): σ-GPTs: A new approach to autoregressive models
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40608413&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:52): Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40614227&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:15): Feynman’s Razor
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40612285&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:54): What Is PID 0?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40613287&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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