Hacker News Recap

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on June 10th, 2023. This podcast is produced by Wondercraft https://www.wondercraft.ai/ (00:36): Debian 12 “Bookworm” Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36269934 (02:43): MusicGen: Simple and controllable music generation Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36271926 (04:13): OBS merges WebRTC support Original post:...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on June 9th, 2023. This episode was generated by Wondercraft https://www.wondercraft.ai/ (00:36): ArchiveTeam has saved over 11.2B Reddit links Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36254172 (02:15): Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36254086 (03:36): Apollo Back end j...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on June 8th, 2023. Podcast generated by https://www.wondercraft.ai/ (00:34): Apollo will close down on June 30th Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36245435 (01:38): Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36235779 (02:59): iOS 17 automatically removes tracking par...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on June 7th, 2023. (00:37): Notes on Vision Pro Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36219585 (02:05): uBlock Origin 1.50.0 Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36227411 (03:30): Royal Navy says quantum navigation test a success Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36222625 (05:05): Windows 11 calls a z...

Check out the brand new Product Hunt Daily podcast: https://www.wondercraft.ai/podcasts/product-hunt-daily This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on June 6th, 2023. (00:36): Preparing for the Incoming Computer Shopper Tsunami Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36206526 (01:51): Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration Original post: https://ne...

Use #hackernewsrecap and @wondercraft_ai on twitter to drop us feedback. This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on June 5th, 2023. (00:36): Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36201593 (02:19): The Rust I wanted had no future Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36193326 (03:53): Our right to challenge junk...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on June 4th, 2023. (00:39): Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36186176 (02:04): Meta Is Trying, and Failing, to Crush Unions in Kenya Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36185394 (03:26): High prices make textbook ‘piracy’ acceptable to most students Ori...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on June 3rd, 2023. (00:38): Fq: Jq for Binary Formats Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36175000 (02:20): Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36174801 (03:51): Don't let Reddit kill 3rd party apps Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36179853 (05:16): Th...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on June 2nd, 2023. (00:38): Scan iPhone backups for traces of compromise by “Operation Triangulation” Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36164340 (02:01): System76's coreboot open firmware manages to disable Intel ME for Raptor Lake Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36166649 (03:48): The Analog Thing: an ope...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on June 1st, 2023. (00:34): Zig is hard but worth it Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36149462 (01:46): Security.txt file now mandatory for Dutch government websites Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36149004 (03:33): Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3615...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 31st, 2023. (00:32): Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36141083 (01:58): The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it, not the tech itself Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36139852 (03:24): Reddit API Pricing Would Cost Apollo Developer $20M per Year...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 30th, 2023. (00:34): I criticized Amazon’s policies in a blog – their lawyers have subpoenaed me Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36127800 (01:55): Federal judge: Border searches of cell phones require a warrant Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36130166 (03:33): JMAP – a modern email open standard Origi...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 29th, 2023. (00:28): Let us serve you, but don't bring us down Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36110527 (01:43): India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36113551 (03:05): 300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's tot...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 27th, 2023. (00:31): Why I Left Rust Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36101501 (02:11): YouTube removed dislike counts, so this guy made Rotten Tomatoes for YouTube Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36105629 (03:48): Rust: The wrong people are resigning Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 27th, 2023. (00:33): Scar tissues make relationships wear out (2013) Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36093954 (01:59): Tarkovsky's films online for free Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36096652 (03:43): Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused Original post: https://news.y...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 26th, 2023. (00:36): Evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36083620 (02:01): Paper Airplane Designs Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36087442 (03:27): 0AD, an open source historical RTS in development for 22 years Original post: https...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 25th, 2023. (00:35): Everything you always wanted to know about mathematics (2013) [pdf] Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36069847 (02:01): AI Canon Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36072268 (03:24): Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site Original post: https://news.ycombinator....

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 24th, 2023. (00:31): PyPI Was Subpoenaed Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36061407 (02:02): Simple exercise to eliminate gastroesophageal reflux (2022) Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36059247 (03:29): Don’t open the details in a modal window, have it be a separate page Original post: https://news.ycom...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 23rd, 2023. (00:29): FBI misused surveillance powers more than 280k times in a year Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36041059 (02:03): Apple announces multibillion deal with Broadcom to make components in the USA Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36044977 (03:30): Waymo and Uber partner to bring autonomo...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 20th, 2023. (00:36): Memory Allocation Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36029087 (02:02): Meta fined $1.3B over data transfers to U.S. Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36028845 (03:41): Meta AI announces Massive Multilingual Speech code,  models for 1000+ languages Original post: https://news.ycombinato...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 20th, 2023. (00:33): Writing Python like it's Rust Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36018621 (02:02): The end of the accounting search Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36021197 (03:42): GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 20th, 2023. (00:35): Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36012360 (02:11): Rooms.xyz Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36009430 (03:52): People who die by suicide want to stop suffering, not to stop living Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36010975 (05:13): Wri...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 19th, 2023. (00:33): Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Unreal Engine Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36000631 (02:10): Orb Farm Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35999835 (03:16): Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36000407 (04:31): Nyxt: The...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 16th, 2023. (00:32): ChatGPT app for iOS Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35990552 (02:00): Why is my dryer radioactive? Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35990858 (03:39): User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (2018) Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35985240 (04:52): Legend...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 16th, 2023. (00:31): Controlled burns can prevent wildfires; regulations make them nearly impossible Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35976743 (01:46): Americans have never been so unwilling to relocate for a new job Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35973882 (03:17): The Staff Engineer's Path – Boo...