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September 18th, 2023 | Data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers Sep 19, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 18th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:34): Data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37556605&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:29): OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37553193&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:35): What if OpenDocument used SQLite? (2014)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37553574&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:23): Apple TV, now with more Tailscale
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37560787&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:23): Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37563231&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:03): NSA Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes (1997)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37554504&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:47): Replanting logged forests with diverse seedlings accelerates restoration
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37556025&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:47): Memory-efficient enum arrays in Zig
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37555028&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:48): The brain is not an onion with a tiny reptile inside (2020)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37555118&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:25): Japan's Hometown Tax (2018)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37555004&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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September 17th, 2023 | Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent‑style Sep 18, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 17th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:40): CatalaLang/catala: Programming language for law specification
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37546874&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:30): Linear Book Scanner – Open-source automatic book scanner (2014)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37544628&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:19): Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent‑style
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37546810&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:30): Close to 2k environmental activists killed over last decade
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37545313&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:39): Things that do not exist in Dimension Apple
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37546766&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:34): Fireball over Iceland
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37542733&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:07): Chili Oil Notes
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37546469&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:53): Bounties Damage Open Source Projects
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37541994&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:43): Changing the Rules of Rust
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37545040&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:28): How the Mac didn’t bring programming to the people
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37546241&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

September 16th, 2023 | Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites Sep 17, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 16th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:40): Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37532973&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:26): Horcrux: Split your file into encrypted fragments
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37534615&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:14): Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37535537&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:00): Java 21 makes me like Java again
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37538333&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:19): Generative Image Dynamics
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37536016&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:58): I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system (2013)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37535814&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:51): Is this fraud? And if so, to what extent am I responsible?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37536361&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:42): The database servers powering Let's Encrypt (2021)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37536103&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:29): Layoffs.fyi
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37538400&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

September 15th, 2023 | I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it Sep 16, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 15th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:41): My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37526047&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:30): Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importance of open source
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37520079&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:11): FindMyCat – Open-Source Pet Tracker
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37520039&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:48): I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37527720&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:26): Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37522858&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:23): TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37521710&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:19): Akiyoshi’s Illusion Pages
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37522106&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:58): Building an economy simulator from scratch
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37527773&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:57): Shrinkflation Tracker
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37524202&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:50): How does Linux start a process
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37521240&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

September 14th, 2023 | The Tyranny of the Marginal User Sep 15, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 14th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:38): The Tyranny of the Marginal User
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37509507&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:32): PostgreSQL 16
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37508471&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:09): Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37510865&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:55): How mobile apps illegally share personal data
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37506386&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:42): Instead of collaborating or supporting me, Google stole my idea
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37514940&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:16): Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37509560&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:58): iNaturalist strikes out on its own
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37515996&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:11): Godot Development Fund
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37516542&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:27): So You've Decided to Move from Unity to Unreal Engine
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37509533&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:17): In a Git repository, where do your files live?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37512888&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

September 13th, 2023 | Bug in macOS 14 Sonoma prevents our app from working Sep 14, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 13th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:44): Bug in macOS 14 Sonoma prevents our app from working
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37498979&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:36): LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37494275&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:15): Stable Audio: Fast Timing-Conditioned Latent Audio Diffusion
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37494620&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:01): A DIY near-IR spectrometer
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37498142&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:04): Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37496589&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:49): Exllamav2: Inference library for running LLMs locally on consumer-class GPUs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37492986&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:37): iPhone 12 withdrawn from French market for non-compliance with EU regulation
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37492752&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:31): When MFA isn't MFA, or how we got phished
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37500895&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:12): Amazon training video on handling unionizing activity (2018) [video]
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37493845&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:01): Don’t mess with a genius (2010)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37501231&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

September 12th, 2023 | We built the fastest CI and it failed Sep 13, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 12th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:40): Quiet – Encrypted P2P team chat with no servers, just Tor
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37477512&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:30): We built the fastest CI and it failed
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37481513&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:47): Unity plan pricing and packaging updates
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37481344&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:41): Chrome: Heap buffer overflow in WebP
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37478403&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:22): New world record with an electric racing car: From 0 to 100 in 0.956 seconds
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37482517&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:10): Credit card debt collection
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37490241&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:11): Sony develops energy harvesting module from electromagnetic wave noise
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37480512&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:13): Vitalik Buterin reveals X account hack was caused by SIM-swap attack
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37479774&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:56): Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schools
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37479472&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:45): The New Godot Development Fund
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37481872&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

September 11th, 2023 | In Germany, 27 people are in 'preventive detention' b/c they 'might do' climate protests Sep 12, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 11th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:37): Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37464574&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:15): The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37466027&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:56): Calculate the difference and intersection of any two regexes
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37470285&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:34): In Germany, 27 are in 'preventive detention' b/c they might do climate protests
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37471048&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:07): The right to data ownership is the only way to take on Big Tech
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37465972&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:00): 9/11 in Realtime
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37467077&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:33): Webb Discovers Methane, Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere of K2-18B
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37468342&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:13): WiFi can read through walls
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37469920&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:00): Blood pressure should be measured lying down: study
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37471354&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:50): uBlock-Origin – 1.52.0
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37472994&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

September 10th, 2023 | Earth had hottest 3-months on record; unprecedented sea temps & extreme weather Sep 11, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 10th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:44): Nginx Unit – Universal web app server
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37453854&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:49): Earth had hottest 3-months on record; unprecedented sea temps & extreme weather
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37455534&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:41): Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37459495&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:26): Peredvizhnikov Engine: Lock-free game engine written in C++20
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37456471&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:16): Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37461449&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:02): I wired up my bike's GPS to order me pizza during a gravel race
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37454766&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:38): How does Linux NAT a ping?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37455621&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:36): “Make” as a static site generator (2022)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37454853&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:15): The Decline of Usability (2020)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37453616&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:52): A Senior Engineer's Check-List (2019)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37458283&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

September 9th, 2023 | Asking 60 LLMs a set of 20 questions Sep 10, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on September 9th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:38): Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by Mozilla
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37443644&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:27): Asking 60 LLMs a set of 20 questions
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37445401&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:16): Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37450915&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:07): Every type of plastic used by LEGO (2022)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37444268&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:38): Morocco earthquake kills more than 1,000
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37445284&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:18): Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US layoffs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37444386&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:04): Public restrooms are hard to find in America
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37446083&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:49): The U.S. housing market vs. the Canadian housing market
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37446790&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:45): Bare-Metal Kubernetes, Part I: Talos on Hetzner
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37443404&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:20): CRISPR used to 'reprogram' cancer cells into healthy muscle in the lab
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37444477&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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