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July 10th, 2023 | PG Essays now in audio Jul 11, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 10th, 2023.
PG Essays
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(00:39): Firefox address bar
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36666116&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:16): Tuition costs have risen 710% since 1983
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36669253&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:20): Thunderbird 115
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36664113&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:56): First U.S. ban on sale of cellphone location data might be coming
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36667848&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:17): New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36668472&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:14): Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36673224&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:57): Lima: A nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36668964&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:26): Nitter is working again
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36665406&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:09): We replaced Firecracker with QEMU
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36666782&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:38): Apple VisionOS Simulator streaming wirelessly to Meta Quest headset
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36668732&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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July 9th, 2023 | VC Funding is lame Jul 10, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 9th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by Wondercraft: https://www.wondercraft.ai/?utm_source=hackernews_recap Please ping at team AT wondercraft.ai with feedback.
(00:36): Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36654960&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:24): How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36652824&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:20): PoisonGPT: We hid a lobotomized LLM on Hugging Face to spread fake news
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36655885&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:17): Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36657540&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:13): Defecting from North Korea is now harder
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36653874&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:58): Amateurs obsess over tools, pros over mastery
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36657477&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:57): Using Lidar to map tree shadows
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36658001&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:34): US spies are buying Americans’ data – Congress has a new chance to stop it
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36655620&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:38): InfluxDB Cloud shuts down in Belgium; some weren't notified before data deletion
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36657829&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:29): Introduction to ActivityPub (2021)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36653740&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 8th, 2023 | Langchain Is Pointless Jul 09, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 8th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by Wondercraft: https://www.wondercraft.ai/?utm_source=hackernews_recap Please ping at team AT wondercraft.ai with feedback.
(00:42): When an app asks for permissions, it should have a “feed fake data” option
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36644895&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:04): If PEP 703 is accepted, Meta can commit three engineer-years to no-GIL CPython
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36643670&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:52): Software engineers hate code
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36642796&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:27): Langchain Is Pointless
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36645575&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:19): Learn electronics by practice
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36647364&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:48): PdfGptIndexer: Indexing and searching PDF text data using GPT-2 and FAISS
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36648794&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:38): I stopped buying new laptops (2020)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36646791&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:18): Why use Pascal?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36646890&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:05): iVentoy
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36644806&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:49): Train an AI model once and deploy on any cloud
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36642315&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 7th, 2023 | Why I Hate Frameworks Jul 08, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 7th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by Wondercraft: https://www.wondercraft.ai/?utm_source=hackernews_recap Please ping at team AT wondercraft.ai with feedback.
(00:43): Excellence is a habit, but so is failure
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36628356&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:37): 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36629085&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:42): OpenWorm – A computational model of C. elegans worm
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36628258&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:32): Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36637655&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:27): Meta releases Intermediate Graphics Library
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36635526&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:58): Homebrew's analytics have moved to the EU and away from Google
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36628013&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:32): TypeScript please give us reflection/runtime types
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36637221&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:39): Mechanical Turk workers are using AI to automate being human
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36629777&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:44): ProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36639530&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:24): The underground economy of Glassdoor reviews
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36634529&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 6th, 2023 | GPT-4 API General Availability Jul 07, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 6th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by Wondercraft: https://www.wondercraft.ai/?utm_source=hackernews_recap Please ping at team AT wondercraft.ai with feedback.
(00:35): GPT-4 API General Availability
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36621120&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:48): Godot 4.1
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36614114&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:59): France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36616037&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:54): Air France denied my delay compensation, so I challenged them and won
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36624294&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:10): InternLM – new open source 7B LLM
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36612306&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:56): {n} times faster than C
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36618344&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:49): Stop trying to make social networks succeed
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36614788&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:08): Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36612434&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:57): Scaling Transformers to 1B Tokens
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36614774&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 5th, 2023 | The hardest part of building software is not coding Jul 06, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 5th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by Wondercraft: https://www.wondercraft.ai/?utm_source=hackernews_recap Please ping at team AT wondercraft.ai with feedback.
(00:41): Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in The Netherlands
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36597460&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:34): PhD Simulator
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36597534&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:15): Fast
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36605912&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:08): Why is desalination so difficult?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36602909&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:12): Rejected GitHub profile achievements
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36607439&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:59): Firefox 115 can remotely disable any extension on any site
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36602193&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:45): LLama.cpp now has a web interface
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36603816&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:32): Open Letter from Security Researchers in Relation to the Online Safety Bill [pdf]
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36596610&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:32): News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier (2013)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36600020&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(19:03): The hardest part of building software is not coding, it's requirements
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36597709&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 4th, 2023 | Companies must stop using Google Analytics Jul 05, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 4th, 2023.
This podcast was generated by Wondercraft: https://www.wondercraft.ai/?utm_source=hackernews_recap Please ping at team AT wondercraft.ai with feedback.
(00:43): Companies must stop using Google Analytics
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36583906&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:55): More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36586346&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:58): Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36586632&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:04): How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36591032&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:45): Turning my hobby into a business made me hate it
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36588514&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:52): Dutch rules will soon prevent schoolchildren from having a phone in classroom
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36586127&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:47): A curated list of uBlock origin filters
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36585371&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:31): Makie, a modern and fast plotting library for Julia
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36587875&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:47): ZFS 2.2.0 (RC): Block Cloning merged
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36588240&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(20:02): Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36592930&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 3rd, 2023 | Threads, an Instagram app, with Instagram privacy policies Jul 04, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 3rd, 2023.
Wondercraft as Product of the Day: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/wondercraft-ai
(00:49): Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575003&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:27): Threads, an Instagram app
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36580192&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:56): Joins 13 Ways
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575784&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:57): Where in the USA is this?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575116&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:30): Leaking Bitwarden's Vault with a Nginx vulnerability
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36580417&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:17): An interactive guide to SVG paths
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36574645&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:57): SlowDownAndWasteMemory()
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575712&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:08): Self-driving cars are surveillance cameras on wheels
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36572401&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:03): We are wasting up to 20% of our time on computer problems, says study
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575190&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(18:06): Problems of C, and how Zig addresses them
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36572645&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 2nd, 2023 | Stanford A.I. Courses Jul 03, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 2nd, 2023.
Wondercraft launch: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/wondercraft-ai
(00:36): First 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36563590&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:27): Stanford A.I. Courses
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36562502&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:26): Alt-F4 #65 – Factorio visualizer in Unreal Engine 5
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36561847&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:55): JavaScript Gom Jabbar
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36564010&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:05): Flattening ASTs and other compiler data structures
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36559346&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:02): Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36560136&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:35): Parsing time stamps faster with SIMD instructions
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36561974&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:36): Illegal Life Pro Tip: Want to ruin your competitors business?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36566634&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:46): A Functional Introduction To Computer Science
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36558759&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:45): 64bit computing on a budget
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36560242&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

July 1st, 2023 | Twitter Is DDOSing Itself Jul 03, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 1st, 2023.
Wondercraft launch: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/wondercraft-ai
(00:36): Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36553236&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(02:22): Fake reviews are illegal and subject to big fines under new FTC rules
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36556228&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:05): Gping – ping, but with a graph
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36548676&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:13): A child’s privacy is worth more than likes (2022)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36550582&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:04): VUDA: A Vulkan Implementation of CUDA
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36549637&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:08): Lesser known tricks, quirks and features of C
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36550184&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:42): Orca rams into yacht near Scotland, suggesting the behavior may be spreading
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36551212&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:30): Wazero: Zero dependency WebAssembly runtime written in Go
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36551617&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(15:23): TabDB: Using browser tabs as a database like only a maniac would
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36548055&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(17:09): To make more stingers, U.S. needs to revive production technology from scratch
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36549466&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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