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February 26th, 2024 | Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI Feb 27, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 26th, 2024.
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(00:35): Mistral Large
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39511477&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:25): Apache Superset
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39511676&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:05): How to find the AWS account ID of any S3 bucket
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39512896&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:46): Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39511530&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:22): New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39516927&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:20): Pains of building your own billing system
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39510147&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:14): A bad day at the office
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39512332&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:39): Home Screen Advantage
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39508257&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:36): Let's compile like it's 1992 (2014)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39509983&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:12): Xkcd: Greenhouse Effect
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39509379&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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February 25th, 2024 | Hallucination is inevitable: An innate limitation of large language models Feb 26, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 25th, 2024.
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(00:38): Hallucination is inevitable: An innate limitation of large language models
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39499207&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:32): Osquery: An sqlite3 virtual table exposing operating system data to SQL
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39501281&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:53): Marginalia: 3 Years
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39501061&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:44): Earth just experienced its hottest 12 months in recorded history
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39498345&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:35): Coroutines in C (2000)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39502276&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:01): Inside North Korea's Forced Labor Program
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39504981&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:05): Mamba Explained: The State Space Model Taking On Transformers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39501982&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:56): TSMC is having more luck building in Japan than in America
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39498863&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:40): You almost never see a clock at the mall
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39500263&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:55): Microsoft Is Driving Users Away
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39504703&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

February 24th, 2024 | Does offering ChatGPT a tip cause it to generate better text? Feb 25, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 24th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:37): Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39491863&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:09): Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39493770&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:49): Architecture.md (2021)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39494925&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:22): Does offering ChatGPT a tip cause it to generate better text?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39495476&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:07): V Language Review (2023)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39492680&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:57): Some OpenBSD features that aren't widely known
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39493046&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:39): How Does Bluesky Work?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39495355&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:16): How to think about software quality (2022)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39490543&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:54): Coding the anime "woosh" screen on Amiga
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39494227&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:31): A modest update to Qubes OS
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39490264&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

February 23rd, 2024 | Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished Feb 24, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 23rd, 2024.
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(00:41): Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39479001&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:23): Gemma.cpp: lightweight, standalone C++ inference engine for Gemma models
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39481554&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:07): Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39480407&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:56): Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39478551&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:44): Beyond A*: Better Planning with Transformers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39479478&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:53): German Bundestag Passes Cannabis Legalization
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39481188&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:29): Mamba: The Easy Way
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39482428&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:25): Meta's new LLM-based test generator is a sneak peek to the future of development
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39486717&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:05): I Spent a Week with Gemini Pro 1.5–It's Fantastic
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39481670&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:39): Certain dogs are capable of learning the names for more than 100 different toys
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39481805&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

February 22nd, 2024 | Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues Feb 23, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 22nd, 2024.
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(00:36): Stable Diffusion 3
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39466630&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:26): Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39465250&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:06): Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39471116&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:17): Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39472693&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:52): Private company landing on the moon today
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39465230&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:38): Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39465517&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:35): Our Company Is Doing So Well That You're All Fired
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39471568&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:04): Vice website is shutting down
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39476074&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:26): Intuitive Machines successfully lands on the Moon
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39474909&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:02): I turned my ThinkPad into a programmable USB device
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39470381&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

February 21st, 2024 | Gemma: New Open Models Feb 22, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 21st, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:37): Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39452494&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:26): Gemma: New Open Models
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39453271&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:54): The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is video
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39458264&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:34): iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39453660&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:25): ChatGPT went berserk
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39450669&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:21): Stop postponing things by embracing the mess
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39451793&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:55): Pijul is a free and open source (GPL2) distributed version control system
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39452543&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:32): Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39455131&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:05): Useful Uses of cat
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39457875&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:34): Things I don't know about AI
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39453622&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

February 20th, 2024 | I broke IKEA (2023) Feb 21, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 20th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:32): Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39444500&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:12): In Defense of Simple Architectures (2022)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39440179&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:56): I broke IKEA (2023)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39436358&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:22): Microsoft is spying on users of its AI tools
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39442429&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:11): Web Scraping in Python – The Complete Guide
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39442273&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:09): WebKit switching to Skia for 2d graphics rendering
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39438908&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:57): Translating OpenStreetMap data to HTML5 Canvas with Rust and WebAssembly
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39439655&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:50): SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39443679&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:22): Hetzner GPU Server
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39440503&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:54): AI your home on street view
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39439771&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

February 19th, 2024 | The day I canceled my Spotify subscription Feb 20, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 19th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:38): Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39433451&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:28): The day I canceled my Spotify subscription
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39427876&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:16): My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2022)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39432876&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:59): How to make a better default Firefox UI
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39428409&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:44): AstraZeneca unveils successes in treatment of lung cancer
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39430095&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:18): Castle Engine – Free open-source cross-platform 3D/2D game engine using Pascal
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39426631&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:21): Biologists discover four new octopus species
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39427202&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:22): The boundary of neural network trainability is fractal
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39428047&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:04): Gemini 1.5 outshines GPT-4-Turbo-128K on long code prompts, HVM author
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39426452&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:49): OTP at a High Level (2019)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39432085&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

February 18th, 2024 | Lapce Feb 19, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 18th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:37): Lapce
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39421090&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:05): The Layoff
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39416543&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:52): Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39416602&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:22): Apple broke iPhone web apps in the EU for anticompetitive reasons – Tim Sweeney
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39418412&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:27): CorsixTH: Open-source clone of Theme Hospital
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39418283&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:36): Wddbfs – Mount a SQLite database as a filesystem
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39417503&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:26): EU to hit Apple with first ever fine in €500M penalty over music streaming
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39418386&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:18): RoR Debugbar
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39420453&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:07): USGS Historical Topographic Maps
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39419210&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:38): Poland’s PM says previous government illegally used Pegasus spyware
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39422399&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

February 17th, 2024 | Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D Feb 18, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 17th, 2024.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:34): Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39405547&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:35): Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39407631&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:34): Coding in Vision Pro
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39403935&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:12): The Ute Tribe will construct one of the largest solar farms in the US
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39409653&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:07): Air Canada ordered to pay customer who was misled by airline's chatbot
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39404364&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:14): Automated Unit Test Improvement Using Large Language Models at Meta
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39405996&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:58): From engineer to manager: what I love, what I hate
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39406804&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:37): We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39408288&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:30): It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39408196&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:04): Progman: X11 WM modeled after Program Manager from the Windows 3 era
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39406568&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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