Hacker News Recap

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May 2nd, 2023 | Microsoft's Great Browser Sabotage May 03, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 2nd, 2023.
(00:29): Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote comments on piracy
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35787080
(01:31): Mojo – a new programming language for AI developers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35790367
(03:04): Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35789963
(04:19): Microsoft broke a Chrome feature to promote Edge
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35787707
(05:31): PornHub blocks users in Utah, cites state’s age verification law
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35786086
(06:46): Let's make sure GitHub doesn't become the only option
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35787102
(08:07): faulTPM: Exposing AMD fTPMs' Deepest Secrets
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35787195
(09:38): How to Design Programs 2nd Editio
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35784167
(11:09): Jsonformer: Generate structured output from LLMs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35790092
(12:43): IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35784814

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May 1st, 2023 | Vacation in the Soviet Union was... unorthodox May 02, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 1st, 2023.
(00:41): Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35771104
(02:00): Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35772005
(03:16): Krita: A professional free and open source painting program
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35771994
(04:50): JPMorgan Chase Bank Assumes All the Deposits of First Republic Bank
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35770048
(06:23): Significant breakthrough in search for Parkinson's biomarker
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35770563
(07:44): A bacterial culprit for rheumatoid arthritis?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35775704
(08:57): Vacations in the Soviet Union
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35774540
(10:17): First clean water, now clean air
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35770678
(11:42): Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35770816
(13:07): Storage on Vercel
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35774730

April 30th, 2023 | Let the Boeing 737 Max fly May 01, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 30th, 2023.
(00:35): Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer gravely
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35762780
(02:12): FAA overruled engineers, let Boeing Max keep flying
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35761706
(03:18): MLC-LLM: GPT/Llama on consumer-class GPUs and phones
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35763483
(04:41): Engineers develop water filtration that removes “forever chemicals”
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35764476
(06:10): 40 Years of Koyaanisqatsi
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35764584
(07:26): Pure Sh Bible
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35765707
(08:36): Minetest: An open source voxel game engine
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35766570
(09:56): Rebuilding a featured news section with modern CSS: Vox news
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35763100
(11:03): Why are lithium prices collapsing?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35760087
(12:38): Orbital Mechanics
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35762483

April 29th, 2023 | ChatGPT makes a good doctor Apr 30, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 29th, 2023.
(00:37): Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35752237
(01:55): Children aged 2-6 successfully trained to acquire absolute pitch (2012)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35753838
(03:12): Get The TLDR Of Any YouTube Video
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35754793
(04:28): Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35752756
(05:42): Study: ChatGPT outperforms physicians in quality, empathetic answers to patients
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35751276
(07:07): MRSK: Deploy web apps anywhere
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35753106
(08:23): Sensenmann: Code Deletion at Scale
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35755841
(09:47): Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier to fix devices
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35758842
(10:53): My product is my garden (2020)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35753550
(12:18): An Ominous Heating Event Is Unfolding in the Oceans
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35752433

April 28th, 2023 | Yes, your Ikea chair is causing your monitor to crash Apr 29, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 28th, 2023.
(00:42): Check if your IKEA chair is compatible with your screen
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35742476
(01:36): Driver adventures for a 1999 webcam
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35740001
(02:59): Microsoft exec says Windows 11 kernel will soon be booting with Rust inside
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35738829
(04:27): Is Gmail killing independent email?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35744888
(05:37): How to spend money on your friends without it looking like bribery
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35740277
(07:07): A small number of companies are colluding to cheat H1B visa lottery, US says
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35741609
(08:47): Europe’s Longest Bicycling Tunnel Opens in Norway
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35738231
(10:00): Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35740836
(11:15): Intel posts largest loss in its history as sales plunge
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35739519
(12:22): There’s more than one way to write an IP address (2019)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35744130

April 27th, 2023 | Oil rigs may be evil, but they sure are beautiful Apr 28, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 27th, 2023.
(00:41): Datomic is Free
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35727967
(02:01): Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35724634
(03:32): As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35730074
(04:52): Colorado governor signs tractor right-to-repair law opposed by John Deere
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35729558
(06:14): Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35730711
(07:32): Dropbox telemetry can't be disabled
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35724939
(08:48): Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 staff
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35728216
(10:05): A visual book recommender
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35726559
(11:27): The unintentional dystopian beauty of oil rigs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35725094
(12:30): Google Cloud region currently down due to water intrusion
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35732384

April 26th, 2023 | Microsoft's Activision acquisition in jeopardy Apr 27, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 26th, 2023.
(00:44): Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35710269
(01:44): UK Blocks Microsoft’s $69B Activision Deal
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35711968
(03:29): Lessons by 3blue1brown
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35714228
(05:01): Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35718417
(06:19): Why did Google Brain exist?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35716216
(07:41): Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35720865
(08:59): Colorado becomes first to pass ‘right to repair’ for farmers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35714294
(10:15): Why is OAuth still hard in 2023?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35713518
(11:24): Long before trees overtook the land, Earth was covered by prototaxites (2013)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35713524
(12:46): Payments 101 for a Developer
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35714145

April 25th, 2023 | Apparently everyone's leaking your data Apr 26, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 25th, 2023.
(00:36): Smartphones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35698547
(01:43): The EU suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35701785
(02:53): Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35703789
(04:02): Use of antibiotics in farming ‘endangering human immune system’
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35700881
(05:17): People who use Notion to plan their whole lives
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35698521
(06:38): A non-technical explanation of deep learning
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35701572
(07:47): Shell admits 1.5C climate goal means immediate end to fossil fuel growth
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35702201
(09:09): Call on the IRS to provide libre tax-filing software
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35705469
(10:36): Deep Neural Networks from Scratch in Zig
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35696776
(11:54): NitroKey disappoints me
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35706858

April 24th, 2023 | The end of end-to-end encryption Apr 25, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 24th, 2023.
(00:37): MouthPad – In-Mouth Bluetooth Mouse Uses Tongue Sensitive Trackpad
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35684828
(01:42): Statement on EU-US Cooperation on Turning Public Opinion Against Encryption
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35689044
(03:07): Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35687157
(04:37): Google Authenticator now supports Google Account synchronization
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35690398
(05:57): I don’t want to sign up for your newsletter (2018)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35684807
(07:08): UK Threatens End-to-End Encryption
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35686450
(08:37): Apple wins antitrust court battle with Epic Games, appeals court rules
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35691771
(09:57): Red Hat cutting hundreds of jobs, CEO says in letter to employees
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35687687
(11:03): 1Password to Add Telemetry
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35691383
(12:05): Remote work brings hidden penalty for young professionals, study says
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35686121

April 23th, 2023 | A social network just for chatbots Apr 24, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 23th, 2023.
(00:39): Lego breaks ground on first US manufacturing facility
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35676564
(01:51): The dark side of the Mac App Store
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35677813
(03:07): LSD: Not Even Once
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35679911
(04:31): YouTube, the jewel of the internet
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35679372
(05:34): A social media site for chatbots to talk to each other
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35676138
(06:39): Bilingualism affords no general cognitive advantages: Study
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35681824
(07:58): Some mistakes I made as a new manager
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35681322
(09:07): Russia killed its tech industry
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35675732
(10:19): Micro- and nanoplastics breach the blood–brain barrier in mice
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35675731
(11:37): I’m ChatGPT, and for the love of God please don’t make me do anymore copywriting
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35678372

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