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Hacker News TLDR

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Catch up on all the best stories and discussion on Hacker New each week. Hosted by Colin (a YC-backed founder and typescript fanatic) and Kenny (a human-computer interaction whiz who just wants software to be fast).

Episodes

[#84] Elon crashes crypto for the second time this week

Vaccinated Americans can go without masks in most places, the CDC says Tesla no longer accepting Bitcoin due to climate impact $365B wiped off crypto markets after Tesla stops accepting Bitcoin Midair collision over Denver Notion API in public beta To understand Amazon, we must understand Jeff Bezos...

May 14, 202118 min

[#84] Cracks in the tower of Babel

NTSB: Crashed Tesla couldn't have been using Autopilot Can I Email? Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money? Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter

May 11, 202116 min

[#83] Elon lands on SNL

Elon Musk Monologue - SNL The Hypnotic World of Degenerate Spirals Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then decided not to Crazy New Ideas Simple bank shutdown goes awry, leaving customers without account access...

May 10, 202116 minSeason 1Ep. 83

[#82] Thoughts on Thoughts on Flash

Orbit: an experimental platform for small tasks repeated over time Andy Matuschak notetaking app Apple deletes Steve Jobs's "Thoughts on Flash" Netflix's "Love is Blind" want unpaid photographer for five weddings LiveLeak shuts down...

May 06, 202114 min

[#81] Catch me if you can't

Instagram ads Facebook won't show you (signal.org) Berkshire Hathaway stock price is too high for Nasdaq computers Facebook's "Trump ban" "upheld" by "Oversight Board " Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt New book contends that Catch Me If You Can was mostly made up...

May 05, 202115 min

[#80] Basecamp, What Free Words, and 1 Million Commits

“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today” What3Words sends legal threat to security researcher for sharing an alternative Edward Snowden ousts a scammer during live stream [video] Internal Combustion Engine The Linux kernel has surpassed one million git commits...

May 04, 202116 min

[#79] Sent from my Yayagram

An Update on the UMN Affair Artist faked being a billionaire to photograph New York City’s best views Yayagram

Apr 30, 202115 minSeason 1Ep. 79

[#78] We're still talking about Mighty for some reason

Apple reports second quarter results Mighty makes Google Chrome faster (round 2) Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data Truly unified inbox—Blackberry got it right GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages Dan Kaminsky has died Michael Collins has died...

Apr 29, 202118 min

[#75] Talkin' Oscars (and trains and ice cream)

Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything Red and blue functions are a good thing What color is your function? Investigating why McDonald's ice cream machines are always broken...

Apr 26, 202118 min

[#74] Going postal

The USPS is running a covert program to monitor Americans' social media posts Convicted UK Post Office workers have names cleared Stranded sailor allowed to leave ship after 4 years "Proctorio is expanding their lawsuit against me" EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd The real reason to end the death penalty Wildtype: Sushi grade salmon grown from Pacific Salmon cells...

Apr 23, 202116 min

[#73] New Apple products, new emoji, and new bugs in Linux

We cover the Apple event from Tuesday and the 34th most upvoted HN story of all time: "They introduces kernel bugs on purpose". Apple introduces the AirTag M1 iMac M1 iPad Pro "They introduce kernel bugs on purpose" Linux bans University of Minnesota Unicode proposal for Textile Care symbols List of pending emoji requests...

Apr 22, 202116 min

[#72] The browser wars get a new entrant

Additional details on Tesla crash The Hotdog web browser How often do people copy and paste from Stack Overflow? A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors...

Apr 20, 202116 min

[#71] Teslas, Lambdas, and Bonuses

Patriots' Day Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer experience frustrating? Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon Proposal: Treat FLoC as a security concern...

Apr 19, 202121 minSeason 1Ep. 71

[#70] Lo-fi beats, 3D sites, and IPOs

Actually it's a DPO but who's counting. Show HN: Lofi Cafe SQLite is the only database you will ever need in most cases Coinbase from YC to IPO Yamauchi No.10 family office The value of downvoting, or how Hacker News gets it wrong Higher quality audio makes you sound smarter My simple GitHub project went viral awesome-selfhosted...

Apr 15, 202117 min

[#68] How people get rich and how to just be rich

How People Get Rich Now Just Be Rich Facebook takes down official page for French town of Bitche CEO: Intel in talks to produce chips for automakers within six to nine months Kaboom – JavaScript game programming library and environment RMS addresses the free software community...

Apr 13, 202117 minSeason 1Ep. 68

[#67] 15 technologies I thought my son would never use

Technologies I thought my son would never use Microsoft in advanced talks to buy Nuance Microsoft buys Nuance Clubhouse data leak Tesla hikes solar roof price on contracts signed over a year ago...

Apr 12, 202116 min

[#65] Python packages, working at places, and I hear Facebook leaked some data

Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak How to make a Python package in 2021 34% of remote workers would quit rather than return to full-time office work After working at Google, I’ll never let myself love a job again New Mexico is the second state to ban qualified immunity...

Apr 08, 202115 minSeason 1Ep. 65

[#61] Collectives, cooperatives, and an update on that boat

Plus a weirdly vicious tag team takedown of Google Reader. istheshipstillstuck.com I like that the boat is still stuck permission.site SQLite is not a toy database All my servers have an empty 8gb file on disk RIP Google Reader Funds for open source The Drivers Cooperative...

Mar 26, 202118 min

[#60] Node.js, Y Combinator, and the Suez canal

Plus Colin's 1-sentence review of the new Selena Gomez EP. Links: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship They just moved to Austin. Now the want to end one of its traditions. This music video does not exist I escaped Node Scaling YC...

Mar 24, 202117 minSeason 1Ep. 60

[#59] Beauty quarks, Fagradalsfjall, and the Discord acquisition

Listen to the end to hear Kenny's journalistic deep dive (AKA conspiracy theory) on the Discord acquisition! Links: Live feed from Icelandic volcanic eruption Result from LHCb experiment challenges the standard model Substack UI bug cost me $2k Crystal 1.0 released Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for $10B...

Mar 23, 202117 min

[#58] March 22, 2021

Basketball, Richard Stallman, Menus, and of course, Basketball. Links Cancel We The Web? (2020) Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF My self-study plan for electrical engineering Don't End the Week with Nothing (2014) In Praise of the Unambiguous Click Menu...

Mar 22, 202117 minSeason 1Ep. 58

[#57] March 19, 2021

Apes together strong. But single ape very strong too. Probably too strong to be safely or successfully raised by a rando on Reddit. Show HN: Sorted CSS Colors Audacity 3.0.0 released Super Resolution WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in 6 days...

Mar 19, 202115 min

[#56] March 17, 2021

A Sam Altman deep dive. Also, we talk about Github's name change. Links Moore's Law for Everything GitHub, f*** your name change

Mar 17, 202117 minSeason 1Ep. 56
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