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January 26th, 2023 | How I got an O-1 visa as a software engineer Jan 27, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 26th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:35): Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39142748&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:41): ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39143043&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:51): Rook to XSS: How I hacked chess.com with a rookie exploit
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39144906&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:05): The rise of batteries in six charts
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39144978&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:25): ArVid: Russians squeezed 4 hard drives into one VHS tape in the 90s
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39140849&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:22): Untranslatable
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39144710&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:52): How I got an O-1 visa as a software engineer
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39143958&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:26): Lossy CSS compression for fun and loss (or profit)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39143768&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(18:32): Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39151937&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(20:41): Post Office plan to sack Horizon IT reviewer kept secret, documents reveal
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39140390&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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January 25th, 2023 | Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees Jan 26, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 25th, 2023.
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(00:33): Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39127433&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:34): I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39128902&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:26): Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39134349&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:41): Brains are not required to think or solve problems – simple cells can do it
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39127028&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:59): Faircamp is a free Bandcamp alternative
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39129155&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:07): Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39129949&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:06): CVE-2023-40547 – avoid incorrectly trusting HTTP headers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39132300&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:14): New embedding models and API updates
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39132901&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:37): Japan's precision moon lander has hit its target, but appears to be upside-down
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39128977&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(19:47): We build X.509 chains so you don't have to
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39129806&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

January 24th, 2023 | OpenAI scrapped a promise to disclose key documents to the public Jan 25, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 24th, 2023.
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(00:38): Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39119835&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:45): OpenAI scrapped a promise to disclose key documents to the public
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39121521&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:34): Alaska CEO: We found many loose bolts on our Max planes
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39115878&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:04): We made an animated movie in 8kB
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39121101&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:04): Kagi search reached 20k paying members
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39124497&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:47): Scientific journal publishers and editors say they are being offered bribes
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39117525&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:38): Good DevEx increases productivity. Here is the data
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39119141&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:56): IRS Free File is now available for the 2024 filing season
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39119668&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:52): Breaking Free from DRM: Hacking My Air Purifier
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39115837&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(19:41): ZX Spectrum Raytracer
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39118349&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

January 23rd, 2023 | Boeing whistleblower: MAX 9 production line has "enormous volume of defects" Jan 24, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 23rd, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:41): Boeing whistleblower: MAX 9 production line has "enormous volume of defects"
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39102021&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:51): Why are we templating YAML? (2019)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39101828&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:59): Free Godot engine port for Nintendo Switch
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39102002&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:09): Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in the evolving universe?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39103419&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:28): Mozilla's new Firefox Linux package for Ubuntu and Debian derivatives
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39105114&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:53): Apple dials back car's self-driving features and delays launch to 2028
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39107854&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:50): The humble brilliance of Italy's moka coffee pot (2018)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39101165&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:37): Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian deaths, study finds
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39106916&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:50): Gene therapy allows an 11-year-old boy to hear
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39106464&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(20:08): Appeals Court: FBI's Safe-Deposit Box Seizures Violated Fourth Amendment
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39111539&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

January 22nd, 2023 | Kayak's new flight filter allows you to exclude aircraft models Jan 23, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 22nd, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:34): FTC bans TurboTax from advertising 'free' services, calls deceptive advertising
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39097356&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:33): Reading QR codes without a computer
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39087752&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:40): Kayak's new flight filter allows you to exclude aircraft models
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39087274&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:07): My toddler still loves planes, so I upgraded her radar
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39094288&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:03): Meta now lets EU users unlink their Facebook, Messenger and Instagram accounts
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39090879&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:09): Modder re-creates Game Boy Advance games using the audio from crash sounds
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39092505&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:07): Should I open source my company? (2022)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39087837&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:23): LoRA from scratch: implementation for LLM finetuning
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39091777&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:49): What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he's not coming back?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39088991&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(19:58): RubyWM – an X11 window manager in pure Ruby
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39087609&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

January 21st, 2023 | NASA regains contact with mini-helicopter on Mars Jan 22, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 21st, 2023.
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(00:35): NASA regains contact with mini-helicopter on Mars
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39078669&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:51): Password may not contain: select, insert, update, delete, drop
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39078372&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:04): Flipper Zero: Multi-Tool Device for Geeks
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39084137&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:56): Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares to leave N.J. home
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39077867&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:20): Google is tracking you even in incognito mode, new disclaimer is up
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39078417&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:18): Some fish live beyond 100 and get healthier as they age
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39078061&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:26): I believe bestselling author Mark Dawson is a serial plagiarist
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39077223&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:34): C23: A Slightly Better C
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39081948&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(18:45): The Case for Rust in the base system
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39081166&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(21:08): Scientists tame chaotic protein fueling 75% of cancers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39084146&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

January 20th, 2023 | Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client Jan 21, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 20th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:36): Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39066136&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:01): Ubisoft Says Out Loud: We Want People to Get Used to Not Owning What They Bought
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39067974&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:08): Thousands of small businesses are struggling because of R&D amortization
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39066724&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:53): Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39066444&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:01): Anime is a $25B industry that pays its animators pennies
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39074062&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:32): The Bun Shell
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39071688&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:04): Retired teacher's pension stopped as provider refuses to believe she is not dead
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39066012&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:52): Tesla Employees Using Vehicle Cameras to Spy on 'Private Scenes;' Owners Suing (2023)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39067178&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:49): NASA loses contact with Ingenuity Mars helicopter
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39070784&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(19:46): Please don't make me use another QR code restaurant menu
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39070246&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

January 19th, 2023 | What's that touchscreen in my room? Jan 20, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 19th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:38): What's that touchscreen in my room?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39063242&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:42): Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39057502&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:40): Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known "from the start"
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39059307&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:53): Surf the web like it's 1999
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39057862&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:58): Researchers claim first functioning graphene-based chip
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39056169&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:26): Ceph: A Journey to 1 TiB/s
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39060339&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:35): Building a USB SNES Controller
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39054671&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:49): Canadian man stuck in triangle of e-commerce fraud
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39056733&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:43): Sourcehut network outage post-mortem
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39056902&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(19:47): Platform Tilt
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39061587&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

January 18th, 2023 | My AI costs went from $100 to less than $1/day: Fine-tuning Mixtral with GPT4 Jan 19, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 18th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:36): The quiet death of Ello's big dreams
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39043871&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:07): We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39048317&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:16): German developer guilty of 'hacking' for exposing hardcoded credentials in app
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39046838&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:02): The case for single-stair multifamily
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39043956&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:38): Dave Mills has died
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39051246&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:16): Escaping surveillance capitalism, at scale
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39043547&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:31): My AI costs went from $100 to less than $1/day: Fine-tuning Mixtral with GPT4
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39048948&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:38): New cancer drug kinder than chemotherapy
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39044985&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:34): A million ways to die on the web
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39039588&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(20:02): AlphaFold Found Possible Psychedelics
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39049703&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

January 17th, 2023 | Losing my son Jan 18, 2024

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 17th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:41): Losing my son
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39036842&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:36): Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39034160&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:37): AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39029801&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:21): Remote work doesn't seem to affect productivity, Fed study finds
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39037589&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:44): Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39028672&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:06): Hacking into an insurance company by exploiting their premium calculator
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39030302&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:27): John Lasseter drew the BSD daemon logo
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39030991&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:25): FAQ on Leaving Google
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39034277&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(19:07): Apple's bad faith 27% tax on web purchases
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39034951&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(20:35): WhisperSpeech – An open source text-to-speech system built by inverting Whisper
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39036796&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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