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119 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago -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).
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[#114] The meme of a meme search engine
January 14, 2023 22:12 - 39 minutes - 28 MBWe discuss touchscreens in cars, text to speech, and gail.com. A rant about cross platform libraries is included free of charge. Study finds that buttons in cars are safer and quicker to use than touchscreens Lottie 4.0 for iOS: new render engine with significant performance improvements Building an internet-scale meme search engine Text to Speech: VALLE Text to Speech: Apple Books Text to Speech: This voice does not exist Gail dot com
[#113] Weird websites, dark skies, and spookiness galore
September 27, 2022 01:38 - 40 minutes - 40.6 MBSeptember 15, 2022 Patreon lays off 17% of Staff https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32826610 Twilio to lay off 11% of workforce https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32837802 Don’t be spooky https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32863175 Increase https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32828669 Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32884467 Uber investigating breach of its computer systems https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32860728 Ask H...
[#112] Long live the iPhone Plus Pro Max Ultra
September 09, 2022 07:18 - 50 minutes - 53.3 MBQueen Elizabeth has died https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32768834 dang's "royalist" comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769925 The rise of workplace surveillance [audio] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32603565 An HN profile worth perusing https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=kennethfriedman AirPods Pro 2nd Gen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32754440 Globalstar SEC filing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32754963 I Got Banned for Life from Airbnb (20...
[#111] Google Timer, gone and back again
August 27, 2022 21:15 - 38 minutes - 25.9 MBLinks covered: Reflections on my time in Y Combinator Removal of Heroku free product plans Google Timer is back Design the next iPhone Shazam turns 20 Fakery: An odd discovery on Spotify Fakery: Fake IMDB credits Fakery: More content by people, for people in Search Fakery: The coming tsunami of fakery
[#110] Dots, Buttons, and Booms
August 19, 2022 23:05 - 39 minutes - 38.7 MBEngineering Festivus Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) Is there a spiritual successor to delicious Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds Logistics American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft ~~~~~~~~~ Leave a Review @colinhacks @futurekennysf
[#109] Layoffs, Salt Water, and Drawings
August 06, 2022 00:24 - 36 minutes - 29.6 MBArticles covered: Things I Have Drawn is a site in which the things kids draw are real Dalle-2 Prompt Book Part of my code makes Copilot crash Robinhood lays off 23% of staff Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding MIT invents $4 solar desalination device Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
[#108] The music streaming wars, 1x engineers, and how to lose at Wordle
June 07, 2022 02:34 - 32 minutes - 36 MBSpotify table of songs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31618092 Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31618746 GitHub user sends notification to 400k users https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31627061 Coinbase “Update on hiring plans” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31600505 1x Engineer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31568895 Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31572...
[#107] Metaverses, Selling Homes, and Fusion
November 06, 2021 07:41 - 29 minutes - 25.9 MBWe discuss whether the metaverse is bullshit, is the internet, or is minecraft. What's Sam Altman up to today? And how much money can you lose from automating home sales? Links Physics Student Earns PhD at Age 89 The metaverse is bullshit The metaverse is already here, it's called the internet The metaverse is already here – it's Minecraft Review: The 14-inch MacBook Pro Resets the Timeline Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public Now you can (try t...
[#106] Worldcoin, a 500 Year Old Website, and a stock ticker
October 30, 2021 06:05 - 29 minutes - 23.9 MBThis Word Does Not Exist macOS Monterey Ask HN: Is the Great Resignation in tech real? If so, why? Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years? Edward Snowden on Sam Altman's Worldcoin Greatest single trade of all time Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm Facebook Renames to Meta
[#105] Be smart and look stupid
October 22, 2021 21:43 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MBMacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch Building an ULTRA-BRIGHT water-cooled TV Willingness to look stupid Beyond Smart Facebook chooses profits over people Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand
[#104] Find a cofounder and load a website
July 07, 2021 16:06 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBHaiti’s President Is Assassinated Tell HN: YC will help you find a co-founder Reddit.com weighs 1.39MB. Here’s what that costs around the globe Show HN: Side Quest – An aggregator for not full-time tech jobs Instant water cleaning method ‘millions of times’ better: study
[#103] Copyright, copyleft, and copilot
July 06, 2021 16:42 - 19 minutes - 21.7 MBUS companies hit by 'colossal' cyberattack Copilot regurgitating quake code including sweary comments GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright Music for programming No more movies
[#102] How to work hard
July 02, 2021 15:34 - 17 minutes - 18.8 MBHow to Work Hard GitHub Copilot Simple solar-powered desalination
[#101] McAfee, Javascript, and iPods
June 28, 2021 16:13 - 19 minutes - 15.6 MBJohn McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus YouTube Video John McAfee Fled to Belize, But He Couldn't Escape Himself (2012) JavaScript Is Weird User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment Show HN: iPod.js – An online iPod that connects to Spotify and Apple Music
[#100] What's the show about?
June 24, 2021 15:39 - 15 minutes - 12.1 MBReflecting on 100 episodes.
[#99] Sundar, Andrew, and Loki
June 23, 2021 15:46 - 17 minutes - 19.2 MBGoogle executives see cracks in their company's success Brave Search beta What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it? Disney will send you a copyright strike if you look like Loki
[#98] Test emails, apologies, and thermal shutdowns
June 22, 2021 15:56 - 17 minutes - 15.2 MBHBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users Why I no longer contribute to Racket Apology What it’s like to be cancelled Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit 122° Fahrenheit Rethining TripleByte
[#97] Revery is styling but Reverie is hiring
June 16, 2021 15:46 - 16 minutes - 12.3 MBReverie Labs (YC W18) Is Hiring an ML Lead in Cambridge, MA Utopia, a visual design tool for React, with code as the source of truth Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (2010) GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a GUI application
[#96] Hacks, trolls, and AI dresses
June 15, 2021 15:40 - 17 minutes - 19.5 MB"Please don’t add any of my stuff to this project" Supreme Court revives LinkedIn bid to shield personal data Universities have formed a company that looks a lot like a patent troll Launch HN: Revery.AI (YC S21) Scalable deep learning-based virtual dressing room
[#95] The diver, the whale, and the great resignation
June 14, 2021 15:51 - 17 minutes - 18.6 MB'I was completely inside': Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale Stripe Identity Paul Graham’s Hype Cycle Opinion: The secret gag orders must stop HN “Why Not Simply” “Great resignation” wave coming for companies Forget going back to the office – people are just quitting instead
[#94] Paul, Boom, and Taxes
June 11, 2021 15:36 - 14 minutes - 12.2 MBA Project of One’s Own iOS 15 Humane United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic Linus Torvalds on mRNA Vaccines Stripe Tax
[#93] Replit's Emails, WWDC's Announcements, and Facebook's Watch
June 10, 2021 15:57 - 16 minutes - 12.5 MBReplit used legal threats to kill my open-source project How Universal Control on macOS Monterey Works iOS 15 adds offline Siri for faster query recognition Highlights of new technologies introduced at WWDC 2021 Facebook plans first smartwatch for next summer with two cameras
[#92] Fake twitter trends, Stack Overflow sells, and NEvil hacks meat
June 03, 2021 15:41 - 16 minutes - 11.7 MBBeef Ransomware Followup Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B Kinda a big announcement Etsy to buy fashion reseller Depop Apple asks staff to return to office 3 day a week Almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Turkey are fake – study California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved by Senate
[#91] Working from home, working for yourself, and working on certificates
June 02, 2021 16:43 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBEmployees are quitting instead of giving up working from home Making $100k as an Employee versus Being Self-Employed America Has a Drinking Problem One-Fifth of U.S. Beef Capacity Wiped Out by JBS Cyberattack GQless: A GraphQL client built for rapid iteration W3.org cert expired
[#90] Twitter Blue blows
June 01, 2021 16:34 - 16 minutes - 19 MByoutude-dl can no longer download age restricted videos Twitter confirms Twitter Blue Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate? Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?
[#89] UFOs, Lab Leaks, and boring boring avatars
May 28, 2021 16:58 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBBoring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars Radar data confirms: USS Omaha was surrounded by swarm of UFOs The media's lab leak fiasco Paul Graham Article-Edit Tweet Second-guessing the modern web (2020) Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering
[#88] MDN Plus
May 27, 2021 15:39 - 16 minutes - 18.7 MBOpenAI announces funding for startups MDN Plus Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code? Collusion rings threaten the integrity of CS research
[#87] Links, lions, and Libera
May 26, 2021 15:36 - 17 minutes - 20.6 MBLaunch HN: Fig - Autocomplete for the terminal Stripe Payment Links Upheaval at freenode One week at Libera Chat Amazon acquires MGM for $8.45B Hosted by @colinhacks and @futurekennysf
[#86] You have to serve somebody
May 25, 2021 17:34 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBAirbnb announces a big new update focused on flexibility Sublime Text 4 Why I prefer making useless stuff Gotta Serve Somebody
[#85] Fancy Tools, Flamin Hot Cheetos, and TikTok
May 17, 2021 14:25 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBThe Return of Fancy Tools The man who didn't invent Flamin' Hot Cheetos A URL Lengthener I have a lot to say about Signal’s Cellebrite hack TikTok Remix Culture
[#84] Elon crashes crypto for the second time this week
May 14, 2021 13:56 - 18 minutes - 20.5 MBVaccinated 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
[#84] Cracks in the tower of Babel
May 11, 2021 13:50 - 15 minutes - 17.9 MBNTSB: 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
[#83] Elon lands on SNL
May 10, 2021 14:24 - 16 minutes - 13.1 MBElon 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
[#82] Thoughts on Thoughts on Flash
May 06, 2021 13:53 - 14 minutes - 15.9 MBOrbit: 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
[#81] Catch me if you can't
May 05, 2021 13:54 - 15 minutes - 19.2 MBInstagram 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
[#80] Basecamp, What Free Words, and 1 Million Commits
May 04, 2021 14:06 - 16 minutes - 15 MB“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
[#79] Sent from my Yayagram
April 30, 2021 13:48 - 15 minutes - 13.7 MBAn Update on the UMN Affair Artist faked being a billionaire to photograph New York City’s best views Yayagram
[#78] We're still talking about Mighty for some reason
April 29, 2021 14:04 - 18 minutes - 24.1 MBApple 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
[#77] Mighty is a browser in the cloud
April 28, 2021 14:33 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBAn HNTLDR deep dive: Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster
[#76] Lasers, clean code, and politics at work
April 27, 2021 13:58 - 18 minutes - 14.2 MBFarming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers Changes at Basecamp Nobody cares about your clean code
[#75] Talkin' Oscars (and trains and ice cream)
April 26, 2021 13:52 - 18 minutes - 21.2 MBAmtrak'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
[#74] Going postal
April 23, 2021 15:44 - 16 minutes - 17.7 MBThe 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
[#73] New Apple products, new emoji, and new bugs in Linux
April 22, 2021 13:59 - 15 minutes - 17 MBWe 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
[#72] The browser wars get a new entrant
April 20, 2021 13:55 - 15 minutes - 15.8 MBAdditional 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
[#71] Teslas, Lambdas, and Bonuses
April 19, 2021 14:03 - 20 minutes - 14.9 MBPatriots' 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
[#70] Lo-fi beats, 3D sites, and IPOs
April 15, 2021 13:54 - 16 minutes - 19 MBActually 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
[#69] Vaccines, crypto surveillance, and the marbles that will outlast us all
April 14, 2021 14:02 - 19 minutes - 17 MBUS agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine Marbles (2016) My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable Update on beta testing payments in Signal Bitcoin is a ‘boon for surveillance’, says former CIA director
[#68] How people get rich and how to just be rich
April 13, 2021 13:51 - 17 minutes - 13.5 MBHow 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
[#67] 15 technologies I thought my son would never use
April 12, 2021 13:40 - 15 minutes - 16.8 MBTechnologies 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
[#66] Prince Philip breaks the internet (again)
April 09, 2021 21:05 - 18 minutes - 21.2 MBPrince Philip has died How Prince Philip created the Computer Misuse Act W3C slaps down Google's "same-party cookies" proposal Monkey MindPong You don't need a GUI