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July 30th, 2023 | How the Rich Reap Huge Tax Breaks From Private Nonprofits Jul 31, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 30th, 2023.
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(00:39): Ffmprovisr – Making FFmpeg Easier
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36929499&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:33): Emacs 29.1
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36929514&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:20): Scientists may have found mechanism behind cognitive decline in aging
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36929090&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:11): I feel hopeless, rejected, and a burden – One week of empathy training (2019)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36932524&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:06): How the Rich Reap Huge Tax Breaks From Private Nonprofits
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36929335&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:52): Welcome to Wikifunctions
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36927695&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:22): The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36931129&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:09): Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36934029&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:05): Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36929096&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:56): What's up, Python? The GIL removed, a new compiler, optparse deprecated
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36935041&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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July 29th, 2023 | So you want to build your own open source chatbot Jul 30, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 29th, 2023.
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(00:38): If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36920622&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:25): IRC is the only viable chat protocol (2022)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36918655&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:11): So you want to build your own open source chatbot
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36918435&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:01): What happened to Vivaldi Social?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36919659&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:45): Critical theory is radicalizing high school debate
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36920566&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:26): Big Tobacco knew radioactive Po210 in cigarettes posed cancer risk, kept quiet
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36925019&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:18): Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36918050&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:06): Gzip beats BERT? Part 2: dataset issues, improved speed, and results
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36921552&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:45): GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36926852&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:22): Cyberdecks (2013)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36920010&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 28th, 2023 | Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse Jul 29, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 28th, 2023.
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(00:48): Cap'n Proto 1.0
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36908309&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:45): Watch TV from the 90s and earlier
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36906022&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:28): Sci-Hub founder receives EFF award for providing access to scientific knowledge
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36906435&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:18): Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36907248&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:03): California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got data to study education
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36908136&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:58): Play deprivation is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36910256&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:54): Why is DNS still hard to learn?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36909427&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:50): “Web Environment Integrity” is an attack on the free Internet
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36910146&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:39): The U.K. government is close to eroding encryption worldwide
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36913268&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:35): No-GIL mode coming for Python
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36914401&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 27th, 2023 | Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints Jul 28, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 27th, 2023.
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(00:34): Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36891642&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:17): BlazingMQ: High-performance open source message queuing system
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36896034&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:57): Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36892970&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:28): Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36894932&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:22): No one wants to talk to your chatbot
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36899656&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:06): Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify: Checkout X
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36896343&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:54): LLaMA2 Chat 70B outperformed ChatGPT
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36895300&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:37): Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36889703&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:25): Commander Keen's adaptive tile refresh
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36898749&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:15): Techdirt has been deleted from Bing and DuckDuckGo [fixed]
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36898217&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 26th, 2023 | Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible Jul 27, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 26th, 2023.
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(00:38): Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36876301&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:12): Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36881808&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:00): Unpacking Google’s Web Environment Integrity specification
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36875940&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:43): Sinead O’Connor has died
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36881814&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:30): Google vs. the Open Web
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36875164&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:40): Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36875226&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:30): Mold 2.0
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36876783&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:16): Overture Maps Foundation releases open map dataset
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36879461&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:07): Stable Diffusion XL 1.0
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36880756&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:55): People over-emphasize the recycling aspect of "reduce, reuse, recycle"
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36873516&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 25th, 2023 | What we know about LLMs Jul 26, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 25th, 2023.
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(00:44): The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36864624&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:02): Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36862494&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:51): At this company, we are family
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36864476&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:28): OpenAI shuts down its AI Classifier due to poor accuracy
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36862850&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:16): Remote work on HN: Who is hiring? – 69% jobs in 2023 are remote
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36863280&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:19): What we know about LLMs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36860992&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:23): Is technical analysis just stock market astrology?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36864115&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:13): PRQL: Pipelined Relational Query Language
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36866861&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:10): Guide to running Llama 2 locally
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36865495&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:57): From Python to Elixir Machine Learning
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36859785&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 24th, 2023 | Twitter beats Facebook in useless logo change Jul 25, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 24th, 2023.
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(00:39): Zenbleed
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36848680&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:31): Attention Is Off By One
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36851494&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:34): Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36845111&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:17): 40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36850111&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:00): Inkscape 1.3
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36843794&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:38): Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36846076&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:16): Driver.js: Product tours, highlights, contextual help and more
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36846520&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:52): Ubisoft account -including games- can be permanently deleted for inactivity
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36843572&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:48): Bruce Lee and Me
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36843514&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:20): Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36855342&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 23rd, 2023 | A Romanian economist legally gamed the lottery Jul 24, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 23rd, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:42): Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36837273&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:32): All foster kids in California can now attend any state college for free
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36839983&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:24): Llama2.c: Inference llama 2 in one file of pure C
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36838051&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:24): Toyota has been developing a solid-state battery for EVs with a range of 745mi
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36833836&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:12): I found an IT job thanks to this blog
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36833089&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:00): A Romanian economist legally gamed the lottery
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36834415&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:20): Why Host in Kosovo?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36837690&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:18): Deutsche Bank's “dysfunctional” IT division (2018)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36833915&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:13): Icon Buddy – 100K+ Open Source SVG Icons, Fully Customizable
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36837442&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:49): The night an audience member filled in for Keith Moon (2016)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36835735&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 22nd, 2023 | I am dying of squamous cell carcinoma, and potential treatments are out of reach Jul 23, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 22nd, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:38): I am dying of squamous cell carcinoma, and potential treatments are out of reach
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36827438&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:27): Plane – Open-source Jira alternative
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36824450&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:13): Shopify employee breaks NDA to reveal firm replacing laid off workers with AI
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36828409&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:00): FBI improperly used 702 surveillance powers on US senator
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36822654&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:45): Putting the “You” in CPU
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36823605&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:13): Compromised Microsoft key: More impactful than we thought
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36823007&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:18): A Caltech Nobel laureate celebrates his 100th birthday, then gets back to work
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36828811&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:07): AWS networking concepts in a diagram
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36823516&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:53): Important Coding Habits
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36826755&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:38): What we talk about when we talk about system design
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36823375&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 21st, 2023 | For the love of god "Open Source" does not mean "Downloadable Weights" Jul 22, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 21st, 2023.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:40): I have written a JVM in Rust
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36811554&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:23): In the LLM space, "open source" is being used to mean "downloadable weights"
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36815255&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:28): Journalists should be skeptical of all sources including scientists
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36818896&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:38): Web Environment Integrity API Proposal
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817305&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:14): ‘World of Warcraft’ players trick AI-scraping website into publishing nonsense
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36815744&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:46): Dementia risk linked to blood-protein imbalance in middle age
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36813564&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:38): Nanosecond timestamp collisions are common
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36810818&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:17): Llama: Add grammar-based sampling
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36819906&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:13): Quench of LHC inner triplet magnet causes a small leak with major consequences
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36811018&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:03): Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36820469&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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