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April 7th, 2024 | How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain Apr 08, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 7th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:36): How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39959368&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:25): PumpkinOS, a Re-Implementation of PalmOS
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39962023&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:01): Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in transformers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39960717&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:48): Did any processor implement an integer square root instruction?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39959946&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:35): Command injection and backdoor account in D-Link NAS devices
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39960107&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:26): Court approves 3M multi-billion dollar settlement over PFAS in drinking water
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39960069&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:25): SentenceTransformers: Python framework for sentence, text and image embeddings
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39959790&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:57): Google Public DNS's approach to fight against cache poisoning attacks
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39960125&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:41): Blog posts, sorted by sleep
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39960645&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:19): It's not what the world needs right now
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39959069&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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April 6th, 2024 | What I think about when I edit (2019) Apr 07, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 6th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:31): What I think about when I edit (2019)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39950760&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:09): Faces.js, a JavaScript library for generating vector-based cartoon faces
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39954422&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:35): Asus refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39951649&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:11): NASA spacecraft films crazy vortex while flying through sun's atmosphere
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39952111&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:45): Loki: An open-source tool for fact verification
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39951571&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:12): Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39955148&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:02): More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with the number of agents
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39955725&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:40): PiVPN v4.6.0: The End
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39953207&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:14): WinBtrfs – an open-source btrfs driver for Windows
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39956008&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:42): How we communicate
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39951086&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 5th, 2024 | Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse Apr 06, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 5th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:38): M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39942880&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:11): So you wanna de-bog yourself
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39942288&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:00): Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39942122&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:50): The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39944496&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:43): An IRC client in your motherboard
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39940975&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:37): Cloudflare acquires PartyKit to allow developers to build real-time multi-user
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39941859&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:30): Apple Updates App Store Guidelines to Permit Game Emulators, EU Music App Links
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39946694&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:19): Fortran on WebAssembly
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39944275&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:15): A Lego model of financial capitalism
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39940959&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:57): Big Tech's underground race to buy AI training data
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39942104&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 4th, 2024 | Anatomy of a credit card rewards program Apr 05, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 4th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:40): Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39928604&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:20): Mario meets Pareto
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39936246&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:07): German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39928173&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:04): German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39936284&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:54): The design philosophy of Great Tables
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39933833&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:44): Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39930195&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:35): Kobold letters: HTML emails are a risk
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39928558&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:24): The V8 Sandbox
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39930809&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:17): Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39927657&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:15): HTTP/2 Continuation Flood: Technical Details
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39930919&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 3rd, 2024 | 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza Apr 04, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 3rd, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:37): 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918245&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:15): Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39919401&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:09): Improvements to static analysis in GCC 14
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39917509&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:53): PyTorch Library for Running LLM on Intel CPU and GPU
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39915594&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:10): Reflections on Distrusting xz
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39914981&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:46): Jpegli: A new JPEG coding library
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39920644&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:08): LiveView Is Best with Svelte
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39916144&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:44): Terraform makes carbon neutral natural gas
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39922006&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:31): New seafloor map only 25% done, with 6 years to go
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39917547&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:18): White House wants Moon to have its own time zone, Coordinated Lunar Time (CLT)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39916102&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 2nd, 2024 | Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores Apr 03, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 2nd, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:37): Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39908579&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:09): CityGaussian: Real-time high-quality large-scale scene rendering with Gaussians
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39907876&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:56): 7.4 earthquake in Taiwan, 34km depth
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39912330&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:36): Python Cloudflare Workers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39905441&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:24): The xz attack shell script
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39903685&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:51): Canoo spent double its annual revenue on the CEO's private jet
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39906924&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:26): Princeton group open sources "SWE-agent", with 12% fix rate for GitHub issues
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39907468&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:02): Debian Git Monorepo
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39903742&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:40): Los Alamos Chess
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39903738&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:14): Tesla releases Q1 2024 deliveries: disastrous results
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39906147&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 1st, 2024 | The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining Apr 02, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 1st, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:33): The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39896371&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:02): Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backdoor
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39895344&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:07): But what is a GPT? Visual intro to Transformers [video]
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39898221&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:35): OpenAI removes Sam Altman's ownership of its Startup Fund
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39895994&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:21): What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39891607&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:07): First-in-human implantation of bionic device to halt Crohn's disease (2023)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39891456&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:38): Bun 1.1
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39895744&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:16): The Hearts of the Super Nintendo
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39891317&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:53): Hosting a Public Website on MS-DOS (2022)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39891415&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:35): Headline Driven Development
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39891948&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

March 31st, 2024 | LLaMA Now Goes Faster on CPUs Apr 01, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on March 31st, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:36): Guess my RGB
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39882018&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:03): Meta's Onavo VPN removed SSL encryption of competitor's analytics traffic
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39881962&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:33): Shutting down the letsblock.it project and its official instance
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39883328&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:13): XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39889286&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:06): LLaMA Now Goes Faster on CPUs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39890262&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:58): A proposal to add signals to JavaScript
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39886328&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:38): The illusion of being stuck
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39884004&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:49): Layout of Rust's u128 and i128 changed
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39881980&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:30): How to graduate your PhD when you have no hope
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39883949&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:32): A. K. Dewdney has died
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39886272&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

March 30th, 2024 | Notes on El Salvador Mar 31, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on March 30th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:33): XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable."
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39877267&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:26): IrfanView
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39874931&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:40): Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39877730&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:07): Xz: Can you spot the single character that disabled Linux landlock?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39874404&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:51): Garbage collection for systems programmers (2023)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39873692&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:37): Xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39878681&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:31): Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in the browser
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39877391&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:24): About the Tailscale.com outage on March 7, 2024
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39875822&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:54): Notes on El Salvador
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39879432&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:04): Prolog language for PostgreSQL proof of concept
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39873272&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

March 29th, 2024 | Simon Riggs has died Mar 31, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on March 29th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:37): Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39865810&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:55): Simon Riggs has died
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39861680&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:05): OpenVoice: Versatile instant voice cloning
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39861578&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:31): Group buys up large tracts of land in Romania to create 'European Yellowstone'
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39864412&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:12): Ross Anderson has died
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39864210&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:37): When new hires get paid more, top performers resign first
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39867160&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:27): Santa Barbara's collective memory, sold for kindling
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39868630&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:17): Apache Guacamole: a clientless remote desktop gateway
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39867702&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:45): Iowa fertilizer spill kills nearly all fish across 60-mile stretch of rivers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39870402&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:07): Everything I Know About the XZ Backdoor
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39868673&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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