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December 7th, 2023 | Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice Dec 08, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 7th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:40): Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38559582&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:01): SVG Tutorial
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38556116&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:35): Making noisy SVGs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38559607&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:21): He blew the whistle on Amazon. He's still paying the price
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38554159&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:53): Google calls Drive data loss "fixed," locks forum threads saying otherwise
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38562726&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:31): Purple Llama: Towards open trust and safety in generative AI
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38556771&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:50): Lithium “shortage” bubble implodes again
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38556456&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:27): Meta's new AI image generator was trained on 1.1B Instagram and FB photos
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38557054&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:13): A lost X-Files song
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38558423&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:55): Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38555115&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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December 6th, 2023 | Gemini AI Dec 07, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 6th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:37): Gemini AI
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38544729&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:15): Gemini: Google's most capable AI model yet
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38544746&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:39): Apple confirms governments using push notifications to surveil users
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38543587&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:12): Mold Course
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38543229&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:07): Rethinking serverless with FLAME
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38542764&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:47): Playstation keeps reminding us why digital ownership sucks
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38543196&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:21): An Open Letter to the Python Software Foundation
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38542330&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:08): Quad9 wins appeal against Sony
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38548209&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:36): Wikifunctions
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38548130&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:27): Just about every Windows/Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38545022&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

December 5th, 2023 | 23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users Dec 06, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 5th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:39): Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530885&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:25): iMessage, explained
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38532167&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:22): 23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38527965&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:00): AI and Mass Spying
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530880&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:49): How does Shazam work? (2022)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38531428&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:30): Fine-tuning Mistral 7B on Magic the Gathering Draft
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38533105&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:17): Common Voice
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38532761&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:12): Sorry, but a new prompt for GPT-4 is not a paper
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530207&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:37): My Fediverse use – I'm hosting everything myself – PeerTube, Mastodon and Lemmy
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530597&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:13): Mounting Git commits as folders with NFS
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38527866&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

December 4th, 2023 | Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17% Dec 05, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 4th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:44): Harvard gutted team examining Facebook Files following $500M Zuckerberg donation
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38519012&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:17): Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38514537&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:54): A decade of Have I Been Pwned
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38519257&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:43): Django 5.0
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38517099&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:26): Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38517550&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:11): Dogbolt Decompiler Explorer
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38520487&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:42): YouTuber sentenced to 6 months in prison for obstructing probe into plane crash
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38523704&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:32): Switch off bad TV settings
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38518994&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:23): Forecasts need to have error bars
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38519277&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:03): A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38518473&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

December 3rd, 2023 | LLM Visualization Dec 04, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 3rd, 2023.
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(00:36): LLM Visualization
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38507672&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:05): LLM Visualization
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38505211&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:41): Learn how modern JavaScript frameworks work by building one
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38510209&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:26): OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38506660&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:15): Lobsters
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38508282&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:53): Report Phone Spam – Shut down robocallers and text spammers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38507446&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:59): The worst thing about Jenkins is that it works (2019)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38507381&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:56): Steel – An embeddable and extensible Scheme dialect
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38508779&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:48): GPT-4 Can Almost Perfectly Handle Unnatural Scrambled Text
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38506140&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:27): The Placeholder Girlfriend
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38510997&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

December 2nd, 2023 | Not a real engineer (2019) Dec 03, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 2nd, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:36): Not a real engineer (2019)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38503486&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:19): Infants understand language via rhythm and tone rather than individual sounds
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38500906&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:11): Clang now makes binaries an original Pi B+ can't run
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38504134&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:08): GQL – Git Query Language
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38498688&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:06): UniFi Express
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38504027&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:44): Cicadas are so loud, fiber optic cables can ‘hear’ them
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38500065&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:45): Is Ada safer than Rust?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38498775&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:45): Can't sign in with FIDO2 key on office.com
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38502340&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:18): Open-source drawing tool – Excalidraw
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38499375&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:55): Mundane emotions: Losing yourself in boredom, time and technology (2022)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38500681&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

December 1st, 2023 | Accidental database programming Dec 02, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 1st, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:36): The Seamless Communication models
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38487359&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:24): Accidental database programming
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38489307&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:08): HTML hacks that shaped the Internet
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38485295&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:06): Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offline
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38487112&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:41): Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38486907&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:22): Star neuroscientist may have manipulated data to support a major stroke trial
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38486539&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:01): Billionaires amass more through inheritance than wealth creation, says UBS
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38489313&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:49): Buggy animation in Atlassian Bitbucket is wasting half a CPU core at all times
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38486259&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:38): RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38485596&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:31): Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38495720&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

November 30th, 2023 | I worked in Amazon HR and was disgusted at what I was seeing with PIP plans Dec 01, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on November 30th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:38): Visual Anagrams: Generating optical illusions with diffusion models
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38477259&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:47): I worked in Amazon HR and was disgusted at what I was seeing with PIP plans
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38471744&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:35): Brickception
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38470764&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:09): The weirdest bug I've seen yet
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38477100&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:34): CSAR: European Parliament rejects mass scanning of private messages
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38472198&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:19): Stanisław Lem's vision of artificial life
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38475545&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:06): XCurl
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38471004&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:59): A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38482085&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:55): Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38473942&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:50): Large language models lack deep insights or a theory of mind
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38474696&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

November 29th, 2023 | Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board Nov 30, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on November 29th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:42): The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38457125&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:14): Rust std fs slower than Python? No, it's hardware
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38457247&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:06): Llamafile lets you distribute and run LLMs with a single file
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38464057&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:45): Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38467850&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:30): Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38457556&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:14): Jaq – A jq clone focused on correctness, speed, and simplicity
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38461249&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:50): Who makes the most reliable new cars?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38463355&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:38): Write shaders for the (sim) Vegas sphere
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38463832&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:58): How to Work Effectively with Someone You Don't Like
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38457100&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:44): Deno Cron
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38461121&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

November 28th, 2023 | Charlie Munger has died Nov 29, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on November 28th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:41): Charlie Munger has died
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38451278&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:08): MeshGPT: Generating triangle meshes with decoder-only transformers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38448653&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:49): My $500M Mars rover mistake
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38452959&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:39): Modern C++ Programming Course
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38444834&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:22): PeerTube v6
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38443855&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:10): Half-Life: 25th Anniversary Documentary [video]
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38444719&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:59): IKEA sensors for doors and windows, motion, water leaks
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38445745&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:55): Microsoft open-sources ThreadX
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38445020&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:49): Reasonable expectation of effectiveness for large dog lifespan extension
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38447491&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:34): How to Read a Paper [pdf]
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38446418&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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