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May 17th, 2024 | OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk? May 18, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 17th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:35): Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40390287&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:32): Ex-OpenAI staff must sign lifetime no-criticism contract or forfeit all equity
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40394778&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:29): OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40393121&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:38): Toon3D: Seeing cartoons from a new perspective
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40389445&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:30): Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40392709&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:13): ADSL works over wet string (2017)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40387318&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:06): A Trial HIV Vaccine Triggered Elusive and Essential Antibodies in Humans
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40390820&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:42): HIV Life Cycle – animated and narrated [video]
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40393107&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:00): Beekeeper furious over destruction of $2M honey crop
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40389548&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:39): Multi AI agent systems using OpenAI's assistants API
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40395107&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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May 16th, 2024 | VCs aren’t your friends May 17, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 16th, 2024.
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(00:38): VCs aren’t your friends
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40375548&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:00): Llama 3 implemented in pure NumPy
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40378499&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:28): Slack AI Training with Customer Data
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40383978&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:03): A forged Apple employee badge
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40384013&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:41): Some notes on Rust, mutable aliasing and formal verification
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40375341&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:07): Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40383029&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:23): D3 in Depth
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40378791&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:03): Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition in U.S.
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40379028&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:32): Students invent quieter leaf blower
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40377201&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:53): Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40379488&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

May 15th, 2024 | The Worst Website in the Entire World May 16, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 15th, 2024.
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(00:39): Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40368016&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:33): Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40366062&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:17): Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40367331&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:58): The Worst Website in the Entire World
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40366962&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:44): Translation of Rust's core and alloc crates to Coq for formal verification
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40363744&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:31): Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40366204&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:14): A low budget consumer hardware espionage implant (2018)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40363704&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:22): Proteins in blood could provide early cancer warning 'by more than seven years'
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40366443&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:08): New exponent functions that make SiLU and SoftMax 2x faster, at full accuracy
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40371612&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:05): Fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last 50k years
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40365882&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

May 14th, 2024 | Veo May 15, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 14th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:37): Veo
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40358041&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:18): Glider – open-source eInk monitor with an emphasis on low latency
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40358309&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:46): Gemini Flash
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40358071&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:26): Sir, there's a cat in your mirror dimension
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40357141&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:10): VMware Fusion Pro: Now available free for personal use
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40357271&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:56): Model Explorer: intuitive and hierarchical visualization of model graphs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40357681&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:47): Femtosecond lasers create 3D midair plasma displays you can touch (2015)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40356751&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:19): Firefox search update
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40355982&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:55): The notifier pattern for applications that use Postgres
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40352686&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:30): Fast linked lists
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40355227&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

May 13th, 2024 | GPT-4o May 14, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 13th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:34): GPT-4o
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40345775&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:36): Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40341716&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:09): The USDA's gardening zones shifted, this map shows you what's changed
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40342578&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:49): It’s an age of marvels
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40342188&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:43): Static Chess
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40342803&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:19): Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40346024&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:56): Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40346597&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:15): Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40340642&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:52): Falcon 2
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40344302&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:36): New mRNA cancer vaccine triggers immune response to malignant brain tumor
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40346675&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

May 12th, 2024 | GPUs Go Brrr May 13, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 12th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:39): GPUs Go Brrr
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40337936&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:39): The Alternative Implementation Problem
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40337036&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:24): Homoiconic Python
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40335608&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:57): 23% of bachelor's degrees and 43% of master's degrees have a negative ROI
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40333471&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:49): Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds [video]
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40335209&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:09): Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging at 0.05 Tesla
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40335170&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:02): Professional Corner-Cutting (2016)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40336609&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:58): Yi 1.5
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40335599&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:44): Page Dewarping (2016)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40336095&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:17): I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40337933&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

May 11th, 2024 | Immersive Linear Algebra (2015) May 12, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 11th, 2024.
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(00:34): Immersive Linear Algebra (2015)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40329388&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:06): Why the CORDIC algorithm lives rent-free in my head
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40326563&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:56): PeaZip: Open-source file compression and encryption software
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40327631&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:51): Metabolism of autism reveals developmental origins
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40328616&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:42): Vision Transformers Need Registers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40329675&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:10): Lessons learned reinventing the Python notebook
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40327543&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:11): Unix Viruses 25th Anniversary Edition
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40327236&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:26): She was accused of faking incriminating video of cheerleaders. Nothing was fake
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40327578&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:13): Virtualizing the 6502 on a 6502 with 6o6
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40331886&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:05): All of the bases in DNA and RNA have now been found in meteorites
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40329777&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

May 10th, 2024 | Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora May 12, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 10th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:34): Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40324179&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:05): Jim Simons has died
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40320406&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:49): Immersive Linear Algebra (2015)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40329388&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:33): Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40321821&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:43): Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40318714&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:04): Thread: Tech we can’t use or teach?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40326269&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:40): Popover API
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40317740&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:17): Why the CORDIC algorithm lives rent-free in my head
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40326563&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:08): KeePassXC Debian maintainer has removed all network features
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40320166&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:43): PeaZip: Open-source file compression and encryption software
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40327631&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

May 9th, 2024 | Leaked deck reveals how OpenAI is pitching publisher partnerships May 10, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 9th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:36): Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307138&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:08): It's always TCP_NODELAY
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40310896&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:43): Algebraic Data Types for C99
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307098&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:26): Leaked deck reveals how OpenAI is pitching publisher partnerships
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40310228&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:09): Tracking Illicit Brazilian Beef from the Amazon to Your Burger
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40306249&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:53): Libyear
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40306449&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:30): ESP32 Drum Synth Machine
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40309759&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:00): Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40308261&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:47): No "Zero-Shot" Without Exponential Data
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307832&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:28): Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40313143&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

May 8th, 2024 | AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of life's molecules May 09, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 8th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:35): AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of life's molecules
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40298927&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:15): Development Notes from xkcd's "Machine"
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40300454&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:47): 'Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40297748&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:12): Steve Albini has died
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40300023&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:05): Consistency LLM: converting LLMs to parallel decoders accelerates inference 3.5x
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40302201&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:55): 40 years later, a game for the ZX Spectrum will be again broadcast over FM radio
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40296926&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:34): TimesFM: Time Series Foundation Model for time-series forecasting
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40297946&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:22): Stack Overflow users deleting answers after OpenAI partnership
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40302792&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:53): The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40304453&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:25): The search for easier safe systems programming
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40295624&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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