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A podcast that recaps some of the top posts on Hacker News every day. This is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by Wondercraft.ai. Create your own news rundown podcast at app.wondercraft.ai

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A podcast that recaps some of the top posts on Hacker News every day. This is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by Wondercraft.ai. Create your own news rundown podcast at app.wondercraft.ai

    April 29th, 2024 | Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe

    April 29th, 2024 | Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 29th, 2024.

    This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai

    (00:35): Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40199624&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (02:26): Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40199193&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (04:10): The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40201053&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (05:58): 93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019)
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40197013&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (07:42): GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS?
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40199715&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (09:36): I made a new backplane for my consumer NAS
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40199967&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (11:06): FCC fines largest wireless carriers for sharing location data
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40202695&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (12:53): GitHub Copilot Workspace: Technical Preview
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40200081&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (14:41): How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland?
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40199713&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (16:37): SB-1047 will stifle open-source AI and decrease safety
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40198766&utm_source=wondercraft_ai



    This is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

    • 18 min
    April 26th, 2024 | I rewired my brain to become fluent in math (2014)

    April 26th, 2024 | I rewired my brain to become fluent in math (2014)

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 26th, 2024.

    This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai

    (00:38): Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40172033&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (02:30): I'm creating PBR Textures and 3D models since 2018 and sharing them for free
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40168519&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (04:00): I rewired my brain to become fluent in math (2014)
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40167163&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (05:42): Bun's New Crash Reporter
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40171183&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (07:19): A BSD person tries Alpine Linux
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40166670&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (09:08): OpenVoice: Instant Voice Cloning
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40166690&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (10:54): PEP 686 – Make UTF-8 mode default
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40168242&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (13:22): Pharo 12
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40167742&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (14:53): UK's Investigatory Powers Bill to become law despite tech world opposition
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40168765&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (16:39): Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40174424&utm_source=wondercraft_ai



    This is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

    • 18 min
    April 27th, 2024 | What can LLMs never do?

    April 27th, 2024 | What can LLMs never do?

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 27th, 2024.

    This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai

    (00:37): Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40184673&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (02:14): What can LLMs never do?
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40179232&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (04:23): Moviecart – Full length color movie and audio cartridges for stock Atari 2600
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40179553&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (06:10): The walls of Apple's garden are tumbling down
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40180790&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (07:58): Claiming high user satisfaction, IRS will decide on renewing free tax site
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40182271&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (09:39): Burn After Wearing
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40184434&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (11:19): Planes in 3D Space
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40179015&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (13:04): Let's Think Dot by Dot: Hidden Computation in Transformer Language Models
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40182695&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (14:33): How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40182555&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (16:27): Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS: Noble Numbat
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40179619&utm_source=wondercraft_ai



    This is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

    • 18 min
    April 28th, 2024 | TfL's simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales

    April 28th, 2024 | TfL's simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 28th, 2024.

    This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai

    (00:34): A small lathe built in a Japanese prison camp (1949)
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40190542&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (02:02): Zilog Z80 CPU – Modern, free and open source silicon clone
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40187656&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (03:47): TfL's simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40187379&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (05:25): Williams-Sonoma fined $3.18M for falsely labeling products 'Made in USA'
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40190446&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (06:59): Did we lose our way in making efficient software?
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40189682&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (08:46): LoRA+: Efficient Low Rank Adaptation of Large Models
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40188511&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (10:09): Zed Decoded: Rope and SumTree
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40187971&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (11:43): The unstallable plane that stalled
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40189346&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (13:34): Flow Field Pathfinding
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40187334&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (14:56): The Myth of the Second Chance
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40189928&utm_source=wondercraft_ai



    This is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

    • 17 min
    April 24th, 2024 | Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest

    April 24th, 2024 | Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 24th, 2024.

    This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai

    (00:38): Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40145963&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (02:06): Piet: Programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings (2002)
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40141777&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (03:33): Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, delayed flights
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40150639&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (05:23): IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc for $6.4 billion
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40149136&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (06:36): Snowflake Arctic Instruct (128x3B MoE), largest open source model
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40146088&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (08:14): The Basque Country’s Mondragón Corporation is the largest industrial co-op
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40143814&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (10:13): I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40148563&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (12:04): When do we stop finding new music?
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40147534&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (13:39): Sysadmin friendly high speed Ethernet switching
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40141967&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (15:21): A feature-rich front-end drag-and-drop component library
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40147883&utm_source=wondercraft_ai



    This is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

    • 17 min
    April 25th, 2024 | Jeff Geerling: Corporate Open Source Is Dead

    April 25th, 2024 | Jeff Geerling: Corporate Open Source Is Dead

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 25th, 2024.

    This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai

    (00:33): We have 4 days to contest KYC being required by internet services
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40158752&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (02:16): A useful front-end confetti animation library
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40156330&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (04:03): Open Sourcing DOS 4
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40163405&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (05:47): TSMC unveils 1.6nm process technology with backside power delivery
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40156275&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (07:35): Tiny GPU: A minimal GPU implementation in Verilog
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40153815&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (09:34): Tribler: An attack-resilient micro-economy for media
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40156534&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (11:31): Start Your Own ISP
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40161697&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (13:05): No Abstractions: our API design principle
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40161794&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (14:42): Jeff Geerling: Corporate Open Source Is Dead
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40160331&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

    (16:36): Rust Stream API visualized and exposed
    Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40156890&utm_source=wondercraft_ai



    This is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

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