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July 20th, 2023 | Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption Jul 21, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 20th, 2023.
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(00:31): Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36800297&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:03): FedNow Is Live
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36801491&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:46): No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36799776&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:46): Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36808296&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:38): TypeChat
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36803124&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:30): Accidentally Load Bearing
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36800151&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:19): IRS moves forward with a new free-file tax return system
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36804710&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:58): Anytype – local-first, P2P Notion alternative
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36799548&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:30): JPEG XL: How it started, how it’s going
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36801448&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:15): A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36807108&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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July 19th, 2023 | Kevin Mitnick has died Jul 20, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 19th, 2023.
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(00:38): Kevin Mitnick has died
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36795173&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:17): Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36790301&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:05): Advanced Python Mastery
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36785005&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:41): Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36788274&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:21): Senators to Propose Ban on U.S. Lawmakers, Executive Branch Members Owning Stock
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36785467&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:57): Bookwyrm – A federated social network for reading books
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36785285&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:37): Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript (1995)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36782761&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:41): GPT-4 is getting worse over time, not better
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36786407&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:29): ‘No way out’: how video games use tricks from gambling to attract big spenders
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36787746&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:16): Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny from the EU over Teams, Office 365
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36782918&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 18th, 2023 | Llama 2 Jul 19, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 18th, 2023.
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(00:36): Llama 2
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36774627&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:15): Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36770883&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:46): Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36774940&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:27): Stable Diffusion WebGPU demo
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36766523&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:21): A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36771980&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:55): A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36767092&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:57): Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36770624&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:41): The office is a theatre for work (2019)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36773554&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:34): The Drivers Cooperative: New York’s driver-owned ride-hailing app
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36766844&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:30): Microsoft lost its keys, and the government got hacked
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36770235&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 17th, 2023 | Never waste a midlife crisis Jul 18, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 17th, 2023.
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(00:43): A Firefox-only minimap (2021)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36757542&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:16): Bad numbers in the “gzip beats BERT” paper?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36758433&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:29): The Wikimedia Foundation joins Mastodon and the Fediverse
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36763357&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:58): The force that shapes everything around us: Parking
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36758355&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:46): The C Programming Language: Myths and Reality
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36757798&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:47): Wikipedia-grounded chatbot “outperforms all baselines” on factual accuracy
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36757520&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:32): A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36759882&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:10): Never waste a midlife crisis
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36765479&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:41): Notes on Puzzles
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36757492&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:26): Temporary ban on behavioural advertising on Facebook and Instagram
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36756101&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 16th, 2023 | Discord is not documentation Jul 17, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 16th, 2023.
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(00:49): Discord is not documentation
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36746154&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:27): Who employs your doctor? Increasingly, a private equity firm
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36747572&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:17): How I run my servers (2022)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36744090&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:12): The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36747893&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:51): 6 days to change 1 line of code (2015)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36746014&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:44): How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36743784&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:40): Underwater ears everywhere
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36750716&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:14): SoundStorm: Efficient Parallel Audio Generation
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36749059&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:10): Unauthenticated RCE on a RIGOL oscilloscope
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36745664&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:56): Nuclear fission fuel is inexhaustible (2022)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36744699&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 15th, 2023 | We thought Brave was the good guy Jul 16, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 15th, 2023.
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(00:37): Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36739920&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:36): Signal president says company will not comply with U.K. ‘mass surveillance’ law
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36737733&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:25): A third of North America’s birds have vanished
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36741910&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:39): Another World ported to FPGA
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36738347&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:16): PostgreSQL: No More Vacuum, No More Bloat
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36740921&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:50): The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36735777&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:34): Lets-Plot: An open-source plotting library for statistical data
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36741476&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:20): Matrices and Graph
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36734771&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:09): Receiving unintentional voice transmissions from GPS satellites
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36739320&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:47): Snakemake – A framework for reproducible data analysis
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36735616&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 14th, 2023 | Driverless taxi incidents skyrocketing Jul 15, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 14th, 2023.
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(00:35): Internet Archive expands Flash support
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36728745&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:06): WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in the browser
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36726593&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:38): S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are ‘skyrocketing.’
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36726219&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:41): Dropped iPad implicated in fatal Rotak Chinook helicopter crash
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36724736&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:15): On Becoming a VP of Engineering
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36721080&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:05): India's Chandrayaan-3 launches to explore moons water rich South Pole
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36721517&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:54): Mandatory enforcement of indirect branch targets
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36722823&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:51): Supermassive Dark Star candidates seen by JWST
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36723382&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:23): The Problem with LangChain
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36725982&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:06): COSMIC DE: Desktop environment created for Pop!_OS and other Linux distros
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36725105&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 13th, 2023 | Disney & Netflix partners in evil Jul 14, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 13th, 2023.
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(00:42): Disney, Netflix, and more are fighting FTC's 'click to cancel' proposal
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36706138&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:19): Passkeys will come at a cost
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36712497&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:08): Boston mayor announces residential conversion program for office buildings
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36715504&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:47): The FCC responds to my ATSC 3 encryption complaint – they want to hear from you
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36713037&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:50): B.C. government hit tweet limit amid wildfire evacuations
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36708550&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:02): Cool, but obscure X11 tools (2019)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36708511&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:52): Tax prep firms shared ‘extraordinarily sensitive’ data about taxpayers with Meta
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36707990&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:42): Gzip and KNN Outperforms Transformers on Text Classification
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36707193&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:26): FDA approves first nonprescription daily oral contraceptive
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36709912&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:20): Brute-forcing a macOS user’s real name from a browser using mDNS
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36712788&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 12th, 2023 | I Am Leaving Jul 13, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 12th, 2023.
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(00:33): I Am Leaving
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36691867&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:31): Creating a search engine with PostgreSQL
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36699016&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:21): Official Mastodon server of the Dutch government
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36695635&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:57): Milan Kundera has died
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36692962&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:33): Calls to investigate tax sites for sharing financial information with Meta
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36693994&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:22): Telling the Bees
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36699327&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:14): Thunderbird 115 “Supernova”
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36703474&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:01): SF's Anchor Brewing Company shutting down after 127 years
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36694291&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:51): Lifers, Dayjobbers, and the Independently Wealthy: A Letter to a Former Student
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36693297&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:43): Threads: The BBC drama which affected a generation of viewers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36692047&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 11th, 2023 | Claude 2 is out Jul 12, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 11th, 2023.
PG Essays
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2NodnpVFh51xjE6XxiJcLE?si=a5efbf1561c644a1
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/pg-essays/id1696269981
(00:35): Displayport: A Better Video Interface
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36681814&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:19): Kelly Rowland couldn't have used the =HYPERLINK() function to message Nelly
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36686857&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:02): SUSE is forking RHEL
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36678079&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:44): Privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36678375&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:24): Newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36682509&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:40): Claude 2
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36680755&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:21): GPT-Prompt-Engineer
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36677034&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:20): PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36679368&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:23): Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36680674&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:13): Classifying customer messages with LLMs vs traditional ML
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36681839&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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