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April 27th, 2024 | What can LLMs never do? Apr 29, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 27th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:37): Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40184673&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:14): What can LLMs never do?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40179232&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:23): Moviecart – Full length color movie and audio cartridges for stock Atari 2600
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40179553&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:10): The walls of Apple's garden are tumbling down
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40180790&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:58): Claiming high user satisfaction, IRS will decide on renewing free tax site
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40182271&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:39): Burn After Wearing
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40184434&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:19): Planes in 3D Space
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40179015&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:04): Let's Think Dot by Dot: Hidden Computation in Transformer Language Models
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40182695&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:33): How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40182555&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:27): Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS: Noble Numbat
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40179619&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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April 26th, 2024 | I rewired my brain to become fluent in math (2014) Apr 29, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 26th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:38): Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40172033&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:30): I'm creating PBR Textures and 3D models since 2018 and sharing them for free
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40168519&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:00): I rewired my brain to become fluent in math (2014)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40167163&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:42): Bun's New Crash Reporter
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40171183&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:19): A BSD person tries Alpine Linux
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40166670&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:08): OpenVoice: Instant Voice Cloning
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40166690&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:54): PEP 686 – Make UTF-8 mode default
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40168242&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:22): Pharo 12
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40167742&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:53): UK's Investigatory Powers Bill to become law despite tech world opposition
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40168765&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:39): Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40174424&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 25th, 2024 | Jeff Geerling: Corporate Open Source Is Dead Apr 26, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 25th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:33): We have 4 days to contest KYC being required by internet services
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40158752&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:16): A useful front-end confetti animation library
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40156330&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:03): Open Sourcing DOS 4
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40163405&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:47): TSMC unveils 1.6nm process technology with backside power delivery
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40156275&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:35): Tiny GPU: A minimal GPU implementation in Verilog
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40153815&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:34): Tribler: An attack-resilient micro-economy for media
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40156534&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:31): Start Your Own ISP
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40161697&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:05): No Abstractions: our API design principle
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40161794&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:42): Jeff Geerling: Corporate Open Source Is Dead
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40160331&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:36): Rust Stream API visualized and exposed
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40156890&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 24th, 2024 | Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest Apr 26, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 24th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:38): Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40145963&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:06): Piet: Programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings (2002)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40141777&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:33): Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, delayed flights
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40150639&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:23): IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc for $6.4 billion
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40149136&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:36): Snowflake Arctic Instruct (128x3B MoE), largest open source model
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40146088&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:14): The Basque Country’s Mondragón Corporation is the largest industrial co-op
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40143814&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:13): I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40148563&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:04): When do we stop finding new music?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40147534&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:39): Sysadmin friendly high speed Ethernet switching
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40141967&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:21): A feature-rich front-end drag-and-drop component library
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40147883&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 23rd, 2024 | The man who killed Google Search? Apr 24, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 23rd, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:34): The man who killed Google Search?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133976&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:40): FTC announces rule banning noncompetes
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40136010&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:23): Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. "Masonry" layout
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40130148&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:15): Rabbit R1 source code [part 1]
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40135250&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:55): The beautiful dissociation of the Japanese language
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40132281&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:45): New Foundations is consistent – a difficult mathematical proof proved using Lean
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40130924&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:47): Apple releases CoreNet, a library for training deep neural networks
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40139398&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:25): Apple's risky bet on CarPlay
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40134921&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:09): FTC adopts a comprehensive ban on new noncompetes with all workers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40138824&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:52): Reverse engineering a software crack
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40132719&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 22nd, 2024 | No one buys books Apr 23, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 22nd, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:37): Meta Horizon OS
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115554&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:10): NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40117599&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:50): No one buys books
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40119958&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:34): North Korean animation outsourcing for Amazon, HBO Max series
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40117510&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:13): Curl is just the hobby
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40112383&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:34): Py2wasm – A Python to WASM Compiler
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40114567&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:20): The Performance Impact of C++'s `final` Keyword
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40116644&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:05): Phi-3 Technical Report
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40127806&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:40): AI for Data Journalism: demonstrating what we can do with this stuff
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40111784&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:44): Parquet-WASM: Rust-based WebAssembly bindings to read and write Parquet data
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115155&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 21st, 2024 | Programming Is Mostly Thinking (2014) Apr 22, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 21st, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:31): Programming Is Mostly Thinking (2014)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40103407&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:31): I should have loved biology (2020)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40103590&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:25): Tiny World Map
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40104774&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:54): Doom-htop: The classic DOOM game over htop
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40104410&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:28): I love programming but I hate the programming industry
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40105121&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:13): From a lorry driver to Ruby on rails developer at 38
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40105773&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:13): Some Fritz!Box modems might have been hijacked
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40106336&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:47): Amazon grows to over 750k robots, replacing 100k humans
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40104361&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:28): Microsoft is a national security threat: ex-White House cyber policy director
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40106639&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:19): Penzai: JAX research toolkit for building, editing, and visualizing neural nets
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40107007&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 20th, 2024 | Why you should not apply to YC Apr 21, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 20th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:32): Why you should not apply to YC
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40099585&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:11): U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40097375&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:38): Doomscroller.xyz
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40098178&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:22): Senate passes reauthorization of key US surveillance program after midnight
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40096575&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:08): MuPDF WASM Viewer Demo
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40096113&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:31): I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service (2021)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40101885&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:58): Bringing Exchange Support to Thunderbird
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40100672&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:52): Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40101290&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:14): Financial market applications of LLMs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40099344&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:16): Do not buy a Hisense TV (or at least keep them offline)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40096253&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 19th, 2024 | I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting $1.2B Israel contract Apr 20, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 19th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:34): Daniel Dennett has died
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40088106&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:07): Tesla Recalls All Cybertrucks for Faulty Accelerator Pedals
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40085565&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:39): Quill v2 – Rich text editor
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40089460&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:17): 3rd Edition of Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ by Stroustrup
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40086779&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:56): Tips on how to structure your home directory (2023)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40085543&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:58): The Curse of Monkey Island
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40088751&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:28): DuckDuckGo AI Chat
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40086571&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:45): I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting $1.2B Israel contract
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40087063&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:42): Valkey Is Rapidly Overtaking Redis
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092449&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:35): Multipath TCP for Linux (2022)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40089609&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 18th, 2024 | Meta Llama 3 Apr 20, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 18th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:33): Meta Llama 3
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40077533&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:33): Daniel Dennett has died
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40088106&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:04): Calculus Made Easy
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40081541&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:10): I keep a WTF notebook (2021)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40078106&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:48): Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40076345&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:24): Supabase Storage now supports the S3 protocol
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40083807&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:13): Tesla Recalls All Cybertrucks for Faulty Accelerator Pedals
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40085565&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:38): Quill v2 – Rich text editor
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40089460&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:18): My mother declared my bedroom a disaster area (1984)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40075598&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:49): The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40075402&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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