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December 17th, 2023 | The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940) Dec 18, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 17th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:37): The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38673292&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:33): 0% of the phrases of the original Wikipedia "Ship of Theseus" article remain
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38677124&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:06): BrainGPT turns thoughts into text
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38673854&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:55): Qatar Airways Bans YouTuber for Negative Review
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38677344&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:27): AMD's CDNA 3 Compute Architecture
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38675258&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:39): Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38678021&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:41): Promptbase: All things prompt engineering
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38673954&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:34): US nuclear-fusion lab enters new era: achieving 'ignition' over and over
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38673654&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:21): “Yes” means “no”: The language of VCs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38677251&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:13): Evaluating new software forges
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38672386&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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December 16th, 2023 | OpenAI suspends ByteDance's account after it used GPT to train its own AI model Dec 17, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 16th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:37): OpenAI suspends ByteDance's account after it used GPT to train its own AI model
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38662160&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:28): SSH3: SSHv2 using HTTP/3 and QUIC
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38664729&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:15): NASA study finds life-sparking energy source and molecule at Enceladus
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38661903&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:04): The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38666032&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:59): MongoDB security notice
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38667596&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:53): Moving from relational data to events
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38664412&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:36): Causal Trees
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38661580&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:33): The falling nutritional value of crops
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38664875&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:17): Sydney man dubbed the 'Annihilator' wins spreadsheet world championship
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38666340&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:59): Solar and Wind to Top Coal Power in US for First Time in 2024
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38667006&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

December 15th, 2023 | Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules Dec 16, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 15th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:37): Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38657577&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:06): I bricked my Christmas lights
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38657126&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:37): How Lego builds a new Lego set
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38653456&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:17): Oxlint – JavaScript linter written in Rust
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38652887&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:05): WebP is so great except it's not (2021)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38653110&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:50): Prompt engineering
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38657029&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:38): Delta Dental says data breach exposed info of 7M people
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38654805&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:20): Fly Postgres, Managed by Supabase
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38653212&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:11): Leave work slightly unfinished for easier flow the next day
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38658262&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:45): Data exfiltration from Writer.com with indirect prompt injection
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38654533&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

December 14th, 2023 | Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth Dec 15, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 14th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:38): Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38638865&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:17): Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38640900&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:04): Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38647484&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:44): Mozilla expands extension support for Firefox for Android
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38644608&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:31): Maybe getting rid of your QA team was bad
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38645856&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:33): Barcelona Supercomputing Center presents Sargantana: new open-source RISC-V chip
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38640406&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:29): Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer (2016)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38645159&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:24): The AI Trust Crisis
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38643046&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:03): FunSearch: Making new discoveries in mathematical sciences using LLMs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38643076&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:33): Security Issue: Cloud Site Manager presented me your consoles, not mine
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38643348&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

December 13th, 2023 | Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted Dec 14, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 13th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:44): Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38627652&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:43): SMERF: Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38632492&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:51): Polish Hackers that repaired DRM trains threatened by train company
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38628635&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:40): Whisper: Nvidia RTX 4090 vs. M1 Pro with MLX
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38628184&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:34): You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal (2020)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38629355&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:22): Bash one-liners for LLMs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38629630&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:25): Tesla FSD Timeline
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38625380&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:55): Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38624873&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:36): Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to your Dropbox
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38629963&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:03): Google Imagen 2
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38628417&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

December 12th, 2023 | 23andMe changed its terms of service to prevent hacked customers from suing Dec 13, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 12th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:37): 23andMe changed its terms of service to prevent hacked customers from suing
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38613386&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:16): YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38611466&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:50): FFmpeg lands CLI multi-threading as its "most complex refactoring" in decades
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38613219&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:27): 'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38616550&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:05): Telecom Industry Is Mad Because the FCC Might Examine High Broadband Prices
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38613552&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:59): MemoryCache: Augmenting local AI with browser data
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38614824&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:55): Today Is One of the Biggest Surveillance Votes. Will the FBI Stop Spying?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38611590&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:45): What will enter the public domain in 2024?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38616753&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:35): The Case for Memory Safe Roadmaps
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38611175&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:10): E3 Is Officially Dead
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38612779&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

December 11th, 2023 | Mistral: Our first AI endpoints are available in early access Dec 12, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 11th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:39): Beeper Mini is back
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38602575&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:28): Mixtral of experts
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38598559&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:23): Mistral: Our first AI endpoints are available in early access
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38598568&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:12): We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38598983&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:54): FISA "reform" bill would greatly expand the entities forced to surveil users
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38605525&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:46): Tohands – Smart calculator for small businesses
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38599270&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:25): Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38607474&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:49): GigaGPT: GPT-3 sized models in 565 lines of code
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38603207&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:57): Earliest Carpenters: 476k-year-old log structure discovered in Zambia
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38598742&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:51): Bad science and bad statistics in the courtroom convict innocent people
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38601960&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

December 10th, 2023 | Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet Dec 11, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 10th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:33): Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38594697&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:46): Bad NEWS, Emacs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38591584&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:20): Write your own retro compiler
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38591662&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:24): Mistral AI Valued at $2B
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38593616&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:16): AST-grep(sg) is a CLI tool for code structural search, lint, and rewriting
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38590984&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:58): Stealthy Linux rootkit found in the wild after going undetected for 2 years
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38590827&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:41): Ratatui
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38593638&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:29): A warrant showing the U.S. government is monitoring push notifications
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38592243&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:21): The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38595245&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:35): Please, expose your RSS
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38595855&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

December 9th, 2023 | Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application Dec 10, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 9th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:38): Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38586767&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:08): W4 Games raises $15M to drive video game development with Godot Engine
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38580742&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:00): Murder is a pixel art ECS game engine in C#
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38581852&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:48): Make Apps for Linux
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38583399&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:37): Firefox Keeps Getting Faster
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38586512&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:24): Vulnerabilities in TETRA radio networks
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38583489&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:21): Amazon Has an Honesty Issue
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38584230&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:01): Deadweight Loss as a Service
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38581373&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:00): Scrambling eggs for Spotify with Knuth's Fibonacci hashing
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38581959&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:46): Sneakers Film Promotional Floppy
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38585213&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

December 8th, 2023 | The pro-Israel information war Dec 09, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 8th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:45): Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38574888&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:40): The pro-Israel information war
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38572675&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:28): Mistral "Mixtral" 8x7B 32k model [magnet]
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38570537&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:00): FDA approves a CRISPR-based medicine for treatment of sickle cell disease
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38571956&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:44): You are never taught how to build quality software
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38570261&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:53): Goodbye, clean code (2020)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38566235&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:32): Judge allows major 'right to repair' lawsuit against John Deere to move forward
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38570677&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:28): The wealth of the 25 richest families in the world soared 43% in the last year
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38570110&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:01): Verizon fell for fake "search warrant," gave victim's phone data to stalker
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38576530&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:11): Paving the way to efficient architectures: StripedHyena-7B
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38573837&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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