Hacker News Recap

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May 11th, 2023 | AI Reads The Great Gatsby: Claude's 100K Context Window May 12, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 11th, 2023.
(00:31): 100K Context Windows
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35904773
(01:58): Electronics Lab Bench Setup Guide
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35903294
(03:42): Fuck being productive
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35899518
(04:56): Majority of gig economy workers are earning below minimum wage: research
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35901889
(06:47): Pharo 11
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35900891
(08:20): IRS files $44B claims against bankrupt FTX
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35904118
(09:45): BBEdit is 31 years old
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35904320
(10:55): Faster CPython at PyCon, part one
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35902506
(12:01): YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35909203
(13:11): Incident with Issues and Pull Requests
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35901790

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May 10th, 2023 | Google Steps Up: AI and More from Google I/O 2023 May 11, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 10th, 2023.
(00:34): The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35885797
(02:07): YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892512
(03:35): Google I/O 2023
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35886559
(04:51): My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted (2022)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35885342
(05:59): Why I'm done with Mouser Electronics
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892246
(07:47): Infosec company pwned by 4chan user
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35888509
(09:27): PaLM 2 Technical Report [pdf]
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35891444
(10:38): Microsoft Freezes Salaries for 2023
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35889709
(11:55): Google Pixel Fold
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892286
(13:11): Windows 11 in Svelte
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35896505

May 9th, 2023 | Explain Your Reasoning: Language Models can now tell you why they responded the way they did May 10, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 9th, 2023.
(00:34): Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35873732
(01:52): Language models can explain neurons in language models
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35877402
(03:12): Apple just lost its lawsuit trying to ban iOS virtual machines
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35880466
(04:34): UN Human Rights Chief Urges UK to Reverse ‘Deeply Troubling’ Public Order Bill
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35871394
(06:16): James Webb Space Telescope reveals Fomalhaut's disk in detail
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35874704
(07:24): CheerpJ 3.0: a JVM replacement in HTML5 and WASM to run Java on modern browsers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35873552
(09:00): Reduced cancer mortality with daily Vitamin D intake
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35876062
(10:18): Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35879039
(11:27): Do the weirdest thing that feels right
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35876329
(12:41): Health advisory on social media use in adolescence
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35874670

May 8th, 2023 | Espionage Exposed: CIA's Secret Saudi Connection to 9/11 May 09, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 8th, 2023.
(00:51): Ink: React for interactive command-line apps
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35863837
(01:54): FBI agents accuse CIA of 9/11 coverup
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35862656
(03:16): Street Fighter II, paper trails (2021)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35859338
(04:23): KeePassXC pull request to add basic support for WebAuthn
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35859877
(05:47): Please don’t upload my code on GitHub
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35859142
(07:12): Cantonese Font with Pronunciation
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35867275
(08:30): Intel Announces Layoffs After Paying $1.5B in Q1 Dividends
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35862833
(09:51): Ancient Greek terms worth reviving
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35867935
(11:06): GitHub code search is generally available
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35863175
(12:09): Canada extends copyright protection another 20 years to meet trade obligation
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35860401

May 7th, 2023 | The Great Academic Exodus: Sky-High Publishing Fees May 08, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 7th, 2023.
(00:31): Walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35848894
(02:14): I'm never investing in Google's smart home ecosystem again
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35849060
(03:36): Pixel phones are sold with bootloader unlocking disabled
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35852192
(04:58): The Prime Video microservices to monolith story
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35853148
(06:16): EU sends Apple stark warning over USB-C charging on new iPhones
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35849043
(07:45): Burnout
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35849384
(09:04): Contrast Rebellion
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35850044
(10:25): Five Books: The best books on everything
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35853131
(11:52): Passkeys: A Loss of User Control?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35854216
(12:58): AMD promises its new laptop chips will crush the Apple M2 and it’s got receipts
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35851174

May 6th, 2023 | The AI Overlords: The Corporations that Control AI May 07, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 6th, 2023.
(00:42): Intel OEM Private Key Leak: A Blow to UEFI Secure Boot Security
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35843566
(02:04): Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35838751
(03:21): Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35839470
(04:46): AI’s biggest risk is the corporations that control them
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35841542
(06:20): It looks like GPT-4-32k is rolling out
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35841460
(07:20): Using ChatGPT to generate a GPT project end-to-end
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35839536
(08:47): I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35845504
(09:56): FDA Finalizes Rule to Deregulate Hearing Aids
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35842470
(11:29): Ocean-surface temperatures are breaking records
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35841748
(12:44): ACM Software System Award Given to seL4 Microkernel
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35842240

May 5th, 2023 | On Todays' HN Recap: The HN Recap May 06, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 5th, 2023.
(00:41): Show HN: The HN Recap – AI generated daily HN podcast
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35831177
(01:57): Htmx Is the Future
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35829733
(03:37): Build your own private WireGuard VPN with PiVPN
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35828046
(04:58): What is a Vector Database? (2021)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35826929
(06:28): Element is one of fourteen messaging apps blocked by Central Indian Government
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35826946
(07:33): The EARN IT bill is back. We've killed it twice, let's do it again
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35826088
(08:37): Journalist writes about discovering she’d been surveilled by TikTok
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35829294
(09:50): Unlimiformer: Long-Range Transformers with Unlimited Length Input
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35832802
(11:30): Releasing 3B and 7B RedPajama
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35836411
(12:37): U.S. Hits Z-Library with New Domain Name Seizures
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35828664
(13:54): When “free forever” means “free for the next 4 months”
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35836541

(Bonus episode) Learnings from 1 month of running the HackerNews Recap daily podcast May 05, 2023

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This episode is a little bit different. Instead of covering the top HackerNews posts, we'll be diving into the learnings gained by the Wondercraft team after one month of running this podcast. Before we begin, we want to extend our heartfelt thank you for being a loyal listener - your support means the world to us! If you're seeking today's regular episode, simply check the feed.
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May 4th, 2023 | Google's AI Vulnerability: Open Source Threat is Real May 05, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 4rd, 2023.
(00:33): Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813322
(01:49): New Yorkers want to stop landlords from using facial recognition
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35814043
(03:09): Facebook has not been doing enough to comply with a 2020 privacy order: FTC
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35814081
(04:34): EARN IT Act undermines the privacy, security, and safety of law-abiding users
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35814113
(05:56): The seven programming ur-languages (2021)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813496
(07:09): Shopify will be smaller by about 20% and Flexport will buy Shopify Logistics
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813763
(08:17): Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks and 12,000 layoffs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35821927
(09:45): Heavy marijuana use increases schizophrenia in men, study finds
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35817213
(11:20): Europeans drain billions from banks, fed up with shrinking savings
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35815538
(12:29): How companies use dark patterns to keep you subscribed
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35815765

May 3rd, 2023 | Google CEO Thrives, Employees Strive May 04, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 3rd, 2023.
(00:31): MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge and IT admins are angry
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35800158
(01:51): Replit's new Code LLM: Open Source, 77% smaller than Codex, trained in 1 week
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35803435
(03:02): I want to talk about WebGPU
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35800988
(04:23): Passkeys: The beginning of the end of the password
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35801392
(05:32): OpenLLaMA: An Open Reproduction of LLaMA
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35798888
(06:39): The Framework Laptop 13
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35802210
(08:00): JavaScript import maps are now supported cross-browser
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35800711
(09:06): How Does an FPGA Work?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35804935
(10:24): Beware of AI pseudoscience and snake oi
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35800667
(11:57): Google employees complain about CEO's pay raise as cost cuts hit company
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35809807

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