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October 8th, 2023 | Why I can no longer recommend a Mac to fellow blind computer users Oct 09, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 8th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:37): Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird Implemented in MacOS Finder
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37810144&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:18): OpenIPC: Alternative open firmware for your IP camera
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37812217&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:56): Why I can no longer recommend a Mac to fellow blind computer users
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37813895&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:42): Why is Debian the way it is?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37809276&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:24): Homebrew to deprecate and add caveat for HashiCorp
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37809721&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:56): A Raspberry Pi 5 is better than two Pi 4S
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37809516&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:45): Zen 5's Leaked Slides
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37812113&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:44): My personal C coding style as of late 2023
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37815674&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:28): The Tailscale Universal Docker Mod
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37812142&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:13): Forty years of programming
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37814748&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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October 7th, 2023 | Wired has removed "How Google alters search queries" story Oct 08, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 7th, 2023.
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(00:34): Paperless-ngx – Open source document management system
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37800951&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:25): Wired has removed "How Google alters search queries" story
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37802116&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:27): The glass at McCormick Place in Chicago is a lethal obstacle for birds
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37800810&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:05): Shell using Fortnite, TikTok, etc. to convince kids fossil fuels are cool
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37800507&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:51): Subtraction is functionally complete
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37800062&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:42): Berry is a ultra-lightweight dynamically typed embedded scripting language
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37801140&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:23): Decomposing Language Models into Understandable Components
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37806861&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:09): Organization probably doesn't want to improve things
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37806870&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:08): Permission Slip: Consumer Reports app to take back control of your data
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37805969&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:52): Sonoma's log gets briefer and more secretive
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37801354&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

October 6th, 2023 | Making Hard Things Easy Oct 07, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 6th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:40): Making Hard Things Easy
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37791002&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:38): AMD may get across the CUDA moat
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37793635&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:27): We’re opening up access to Gov.uk forms
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37789107&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:35): Thread-per-core
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37790745&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:20): CCC Invites to the 37th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37788153&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:10): 23andMe says user data stolen in credential stuffing attack
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37794379&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:56): Narges Mohammadi wins 2023 Nobel Peace Prize
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37788847&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:37): Java 21 VirtualThreads vs. Clojure Lazy Seqs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37792294&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:08): Thirty Years Ago: MS-DOS 6.00
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37790174&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:57): Unreal Engine will no longer be free for all
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37792030&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

October 5th, 2023 | Where does my computer get the time from? Oct 06, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 5th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:43): Where does my computer get the time from?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37778496&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:28): HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37777050&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:22): Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, and torrent search
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37777347&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:38): Google Docs adds tracking to links in document exports
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37776492&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:25): How fast are Linux pipes anyway? (2022)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37782493&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:05): Database Performance at Scale – A free book
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37778069&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:57): Krita fund has no corporate support
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37777301&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:31): US Government issues first-ever space debris penalty to Dish Network
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37777440&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:19): NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37784499&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:20): HP fails to derail claims that it bricks scanners on printers when ink runs low
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37781862&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

October 4th, 2023 | How US intelligence agencies hid their most shameful experiments Oct 05, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 4th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:43): An interactive intro to CRDTs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37764581&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:33): The FTC sues to break up Amazon over an economy-wide “hidden tax”
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37763424&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:19): Pixel 8 Pro
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37766446&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:51): Extracting Hacker News book recommendations with the ChatGPT API
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37761273&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:41): Strong static typing, a hill I'm willing to die on
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37764326&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:31): Pixel 8 to have seven years of Android updates
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37766122&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:13): Eliminating radio interference from Apple charger
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37769139&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:47): OpenSSH 9.5 released with keystroke timing obfuscation
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37765158&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:51): How US intelligence agencies hid their most shameful experiments
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37766711&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:50): Enabling IPv6 support for IPv4-only apps on Linux
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37761350&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

October 3rd, 2023 | Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station Oct 04, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 3rd, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:42): Running Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 in 298MB of RAM
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37752632&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:33): Pgroll: zero-downtime, reversible schema migrations for Postgres
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37752366&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:14): Hey, computer, make me a font
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37750859&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:18): Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37751140&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:01): UltraRAM
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37749207&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:48): Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37749753&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:33): Texas man sent to death row over junk science denied US Supreme Court appeal
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37748408&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:34): Graph Mining Library
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37753442&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:13): Amazon used algorithm to test how much it could raise prices: FTC
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37755648&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:02): I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37753292&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

October 2nd, 2023 | Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It Oct 03, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 2nd, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:42): Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37739376&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:32): What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37735801&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:22): Nomnoml
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37734875&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:56): Python 3.12
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37737519&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:49): Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37736035&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:44): Exploiting the iPhone 4
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37736318&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:45): Microsoft Defender was flagging Tor browser as a trojan and removing it
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37740468&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:26): Efficient streaming language models with attention sinks
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37740932&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:28): Redfin Is Leaving the National Association of Realtors
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37746717&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:15): Weird A.I. Yankovic: a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37739233&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

October 1st, 2023 | Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics Oct 02, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 1st, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:33): Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37726539&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:08): Influxdb made the switch from Go to Rust
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37725778&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:03): Fine, I'll run a regression analysis but it won't make you happy
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37728642&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:57): Mozilla's midlife crisis has taken it from pioneer to Google's weird neighbor
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37724538&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:41): DALL-E 3 is now publicly available inside Bing
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37725498&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:09): DKIM: Rotate and publish your keys
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37723688&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:39): Pulsars, not dark matter, explain the Milky Way’s antimatter
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37725530&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:19): 12,000-year-old realistic human statue was unearthed
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37729163&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:13): Never say no, but rarely say yes (2011)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37724737&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:59): WFH significantly increased workforce participation from those with disabilities
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37727129&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

September 30th, 2023 | Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths Oct 01, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 30th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:41): Flexbox Froggy
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37713530&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:34): Some Pixel owners still can't dial 911 during an emergency
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37714579&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:27): Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37717058&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:10): Drinking diet sodas daily during pregnancy linked to autism in male offspring
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37716167&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:00): A revelation about trees is messing with climate calculations
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37715499&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:57): ChatGPT-4 significantly increased performance of business consultants
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37714343&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:42): PoW gets his life back after 55 years (2000)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37719668&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:19): Canadians have a ‘right to be forgotten’ on Google, Federal Court rules
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37714896&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:19): How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37718999&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:54): PruningRadixTrie – Faster Radix trie for prefix search and auto-complete
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37714829&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

September 29th, 2023 | Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned Sep 30, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 29th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:42): Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37702095&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:41): Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37700847&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:27): RealFill: Image completion using diffusion models
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37708292&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:05): Facebook/Meta blocks accounts for posting link to EFF privacy tips
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37706302&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:48): Privacy washing: Google claims to support privacy while lobbying against it
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37705368&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:29): Visual Node Graph with ImGui
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37702059&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:12): I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37707119&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:01): Norway wants Facebook behavioral advertising banned across Europe
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37704859&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:02): MMO Architecture: Source of truth, Dataflows, I/O bottlenecks and how to solve
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37702632&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:49): 50 years later, is two-phase locking the best we can do?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37706893&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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