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August 29th, 2023 | A note to young folks: download the things you love Aug 30, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on August 29th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:38): ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37313349&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:44): Keystroke timing obfuscation added to ssh(1)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37307708&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:15): Elixir saves Pinterest $2M a year in server costs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37304851&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:13): Accessible Palette: stop using HSL for color systems (2021)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37307473&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:59): A note to young folks: download the things you love
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37304125&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:33): iFixit Petitions Government for Right to Hack McDonald's Ice Cream Machine
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37311239&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:25): Griffin – A fully-regulated, API-driven bank, with Clojure
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37313183&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:50): New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37306427&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:00): Grave flaws in BGP Error handling
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37305800&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:54): Alexandria: A minimalistic cross-platform eBook reader
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37303960&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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August 28th, 2023 | ChatGPT Enterprise Aug 29, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on August 28th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:39): ChatGPT Enterprise
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37297304&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:32): When your classmates threaten you with felony charges
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37297823&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:18): CLI text processing with GNU awk
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37290356&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:23): What do I think about Community Notes?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37292041&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:11): Amazon acquires Fig
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37296401&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:50): New images and video confirm Austin-made Tesla model Y has cracked front casting
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37292321&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:24): OpenTelemetry in 2023
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37295097&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:16): Fortran
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37291504&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:56): An unexpected find that freed 20GB of unused index space (2021)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37294793&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:43): 3M is paying $5.5B to resolve 300k lawsuits over defective combat earplugs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37297751&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

August 27th, 2023 | I Can Eat Glass Aug 28, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on August 27th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:37): Prisoners of Google Android development
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37280972&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:22): Where do fonts come from? Monotype, mostly
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37283860&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:26): A new method to reprogram human cells to better mimic embryonic stem cells
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37286860&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:03): Overthewire.org
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37281745&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:38): Lie still in bed
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37281060&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:11): Some of the error messages produced by Apple's MPW C compiler (2006)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37283375&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:02): I Can Eat Glass
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37283636&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:37): Python Type Hints – *args and **kwargs (2021)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37282385&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:26): Mother is arrested in Bangladesh after son in US criticizes government online
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37283128&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:08): 111,111.1 meters is reliably 1 degree of latitude
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37284487&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

August 26th, 2023 | A venture-backed startup has quietly bought more than 80 mom-and-pop shops Aug 27, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on August 26th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:36): E-ink is so Retropunk
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37272652&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:23): Slack’s migration to a cellular architecture
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37274871&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:34): 90% of “eco-friendly” paper straws contain traces of toxic forever chemicals
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37275856&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:15): Fish – A friendly interactive shell
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37272611&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:50): If you're interested in eye-tracking, I'm interested in funding you
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37278345&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:36): A venture-backed startup has quietly bought more than 80 mom-and-pop shops
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37272298&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:21): n8n.io - A powerful workflow automation tool
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37274052&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:09): Clean mount lists in Linux
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37271611&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:04): As I get older, I just don't care about new technology
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37271401&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:51): Thoughts about what worked in math circles
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37276502&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

August 25th, 2023 | Giving up the iPad-only travel dream Aug 26, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on August 25th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:41): Factorio: Space Age
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37260637&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:17): OpenTF announces fork of Terraform
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37262440&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:48): Beating GPT-4 on HumanEval with a fine-tuned CodeLlama-34B
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37267597&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:48): Web scraping for me, but not for thee
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37264676&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:36): Unpacking Elixir: Concurrency
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37259225&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:17): The EU's war on behavioral advertising
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37263322&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:58): HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37262857&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:20): Giving up the iPad-only travel dream
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37266957&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:14): The College Board website shares GPAs, SAT scores with TikTok and Facebook
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37260553&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:00): UBC device uses wood dust to trap up to 99.9 per cent of microplastics in water
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37263827&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

August 24th, 2023 | Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding Aug 25, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on August 24th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:37): Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37248494&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:58): Hugging Face raises $235M from investors including Salesforce and Nvidia
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37248895&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:36): Hacker News Guidelines
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37250834&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:32): Bypassing Bitlocker using a cheap logic analyzer on a Lenovo laptop
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37249623&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:08): Leaving Haskell behind
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37246932&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:59): Jacobin: A more than minimal JVM written in Go
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37247394&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:53): FreeBSD on Firecracker
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37253035&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:45): Adding water to Martian soil samples might have been a bad idea
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37249442&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:23): Graph of Thoughts: Solving Elaborate Problems with Large Language Models
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37248694&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

August 23rd, 2023 | Common mistakes in salary negotiation Aug 24, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on August 23rd, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:34): Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37233936&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:10): Common mistakes in salary negotiation
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37239747&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:03): An excruciatingly detailed guide to SSH (but only the things I find useful)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37240187&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:52): Add dir=“auto” to your inputs and textareas
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37233902&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:45): Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37235770&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:16): A group of Motherboard folks just spun up their own new independent outlet
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37237246&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:06): Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2024
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37241487&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:04): Growing scientific interest in vagus nerve stimulation
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37233977&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:00): Coffee grounds make concrete 30% stronger
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37234404&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:51): My favorite prime number generator
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37236099&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

August 22nd, 2023 | Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel Aug 23, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on August 22nd, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:39): The first conformant M1 GPU driver
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37224042&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:41): Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37222191&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:27): Hackers can use credit bureaus to dox nearly anyone in America
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37222672&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:12): A good measurement culture where numbers don’t replace common sense
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37220667&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:28): I walked across Luxembourg
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37218841&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:15): Electrolyzer efficiently converts CO2 into renewable propane fuel
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37218727&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:16): The feds asked TikTok for lots of domestic spying features
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37222393&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:11): Arm Announces Public Filing for Proposed Initial Public Offering
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37219779&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:57): GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning and API updates
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37227139&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:43): Prettymapp – Create maps from OpenStreetMap data in a Streamlit webapp
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37222823&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

August 21st, 2023 | We’re all just temporarily abled Aug 22, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on August 21st, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:45): We’re all just temporarily abled
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37205731&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:23): uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37215557&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:26): GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37208083&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:14): Don't fire your illustrator
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37210953&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:34): Saving Lives
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37211230&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:23): I Made Stable Diffusion XL Smarter by Finetuning It on Bad AI-Generated Images
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37211519&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:16): 5 years ago Valve released Proton
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37213479&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:13): The ideal viewport doesn't exist
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37208211&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:02): Conferences are inadvertently excluding many attendees from foreign countries
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37206052&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(18:01): Podman Desktop celebrates 500k downloads
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37216800&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

August 20th, 2023 | Kris Nóva has died Aug 21, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on August 20th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:42): Kris Nóva has died
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37199495&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:07): The ReMarkable Streaming Tool v2: Elevating Remote Work Efficiency
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37196440&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:04): Shouldn't distant objects appear magnified?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37198954&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:51): John Warnock has died
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37197243&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:27): Shit life syndrome
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37197155&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:15): So you want to learn physics (2021)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37200615&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:56): Welcome to Datasette Cloud
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37196461&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:44): Jazz² Resurrection: Open-source Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37202727&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:23): Debian is at the heart of the most successful Linux distros
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37197220&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:24): Don’t build a general purpose API to power your own front end (2021)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37197257&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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