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October 18th, 2023 | What is the Demoscene? An interview Oct 19, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 18th, 2023.
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(00:38): What is the Demoscene? An interview
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37927344&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:38): Hacker leaks millions more 23andMe user records on cybercrime forum
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37931383&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:27): USB-C head-to-head comparison
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37929338&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:14): Reflect – Multiplayer web app framework with game-style synchronization
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37931373&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:11): New pill helps Covid smell and taste loss fade quickly
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37930266&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:55): GPT-4 vision prompt injection
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37927357&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:41): Sweden reports damage to Baltic Sea cable with Estonia
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37927255&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:43): A 1990 experiment to test whether we could discern life on Earth remotely
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37927734&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:33): When was the last time Marc Andreessen talked to a poor person?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37925099&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:17): The fake browser update scam gets a makeover
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37930634&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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October 17th, 2023 | Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states Oct 18, 2023

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New podcast: Bay Area Bytes
Daily pulse on the world of tech and everything San Francisco.
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 17th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:32): Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37920633&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:31): Using Goatse to Stop App Theft
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37917012&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:03): Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37914243&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:50): Encrypting private data and private communications is now an ethical duty
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37913256&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:33): Frasier Fantasy
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37916855&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:59): Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37917597&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:46): Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37911989&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:28): Making CRDTs More Efficient
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37915934&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:04): Patlabor 2, the Movie: realistic portrayal of modern aerial combat
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37916306&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:20): What happened to blogging for the hell of it?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37920697&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

October 16th, 2023 | LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees Oct 17, 2023

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New podcast: Bay Area Bytes
Daily pulse on the world of tech and everything San Francisco.
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 16th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:37): About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37905638&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:19): LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37904518&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:02): Roundup herbicide ingredient connected to epidemic chronic kidney disease
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37905251&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:47): Better HTTP server routing in Go 1.22
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37898999&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:59): FreeTube – The Private YouTube Client
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37897916&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:51): C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37897946&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:38): MemGPT – LLMs with self-editing memory for unbounded context
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37901902&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:23): Windows 10 warns me to use a "Microsoft-verified" app
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37897432&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:05): Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37908268&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:42): Should you be scared of Unix signals? (2016)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37899098&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

October 15th, 2023 | Finland to vote against the EU mass surveillance and encryption ban directive Oct 16, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 15th, 2023.
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(00:37): Finland to vote against the EU mass surveillance and encryption ban directive
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37891886&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:26): "Hacker News" for retro computing and gaming
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37888144&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:12): Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37892684&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:04): Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims DeepMind co-founder
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37887562&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:48): Signtime.apple: One-on-one sign language interpreting by Apple
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37890176&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:28): SSH-audit: SSH server and client security auditing
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37892028&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:56): Cloudflare Sippy: Incrementally Migrate Data from AWS S3 to Reduce Egress Fees
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37888135&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:45): Omnivore – free, open source, read-it-later App
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37890742&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:19): Mark Twain at Stormfield (1909) [video]
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37890369&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:47): BeagleV-Ahead open-source RISC-V single board computer
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37887341&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

October 14th, 2023 | Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the actual date Oct 16, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 14th, 2023.
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(00:39): Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the actual date
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37880818&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:27): ChatGPT’s system prompts
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37879077&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:18): Undermining Democracy: The EU Commission's Controversial Push for Surveillance
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37880635&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:11): Linux Performance
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37879706&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:05): F-Droid version of KDEConnect uninstalled by PlayProtect
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37879935&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:25): Kalman filter from the ground up
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37879715&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:17): Tumor-destroying sound waves receive FDA approval for liver treatment in humans
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37879893&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:51): Petition against EU chat control
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37879723&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:39): Snowden Archive – documents leaked by Snowden
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37880033&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:15): AMD Counter-Strikes itself, pulls driver after anti-lag feature causes CS2 bans
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37879244&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

October 13th, 2023 | Why you shouldn't join Y Combinator Oct 14, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 13th, 2023.
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(00:35): Why you shouldn't join Y Combinator
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37869760&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:29): Every app that adds AI looks like this
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37870437&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:16): TimeGPT-1
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37874891&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:11): The Interface of Kai Krause's Software (2003)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37868493&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:00): Microsoft completes $69B deal to buy Activision Blizzard
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37867881&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:48): CIA publicly acknowledges 1953 coup it backed in Iran was undemocratic
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37873621&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:28): Populating the page: how browsers work (2020)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37868388&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:29): Tainting the CSAM client-side scanning database
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37870557&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:06): Takeaways from hundreds of LLM finetuning experiments with LoRA
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37870930&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:06): Signal Identification Wiki
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37869534&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

October 12th, 2023 | The midwit home Oct 13, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 12th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:32): Introduction to Modern Statistics
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37854846&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:28): First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37857417&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:13): The midwit home
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37859437&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:56): Desmos 3D graphing calculator
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37859085&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:51): The Twelve-Factor App (2011)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37857544&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:44): Scrollbars are becoming a problem
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37864867&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:43): Can't be fucked: Underrated cause of tech debt
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37859311&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:39): Automakers invented the crime of jaywalking (2015)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37859905&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:11): OpenAI is too cheap to beat
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37860819&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:04): Email and Git = <3
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37854995&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

October 11th, 2023 | Starlink Direct to Cell Oct 12, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 11th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:46): Starlink Direct to Cell
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37848212&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:20): US citizens with permanent disabilities get free lifetime pass to National Parks
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37850930&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:05): How I Made a Heap Overflow in Curl
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37841496&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:43): A suicide crisis among veterinarians
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37844225&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:32): We’ll call it AI to sell it, machine learning to build it
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37843595&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:25): How to legally pirate every font
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37846471&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:13): Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37847454&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:19): Mistral 7B
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37842618&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:06): Krita 5.2
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37844478&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:53): K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37845903&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

October 10th, 2023 | The largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps Oct 11, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 10th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:45): The largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37831062&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:37): Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37829926&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:22): Oil sector is lobbying for inefficient hydrogen cars to delay electrification
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37836237&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:11): The novel HTTP/2 'Rapid Reset' DDoS attack
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37830987&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:59): Valve says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS not happening, there aren't enough players
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37831263&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:51): Engineered material can reconnect severed nerves
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37835143&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:42): Postgres: The next generation
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37832319&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:36): Passkeys are now enabled by default for Google users
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37832585&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:29): Simulation Islands
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37829551&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:15): A student asked how I keep us innovative – I don't
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37830980&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

October 9th, 2023 | John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity Oct 10, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 9th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:40): John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37825292&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:17): Blackmagic Camera for iPhone
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37817152&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:01): Ardour 8.0
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37818422&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:04): Zimaboard: The closest thing to my dream home server setup
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37819114&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:54): The pivot table, the spreadsheet's most powerful tool (2020)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37820877&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:38): Medieval staircases were not built going clockwise for the defender's advantage
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37822774&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:25): ZeroMQ – Relicense from LGPL3 and exceptions to MPL 2.0
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37819566&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:07): Bare-metal Rust in Android
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37823377&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:56): Text showdown: Gap Buffers vs. Ropes
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37820532&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:44): NixOS and Flakes Book: An unofficial book for beginners (free)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37818570&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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