Podcasts about Hacker News

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 28, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Microsoft forced me to switch to LinuxOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46795864&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:58): Amazon cuts 16k jobsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46796745&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:26): Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars inOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46803356&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:54): Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD VanceOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46802067&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:22): ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrantsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46794365&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:50): Airfoil (2024)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46795908&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:18): ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positionsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46792370&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:46): Show HN: The HN ArcadeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46793693&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:14): UK Government's ‘AI Skills Hub' was delivered by PwC for £4.1MOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46803119&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:42): Super Monkey Ball ported to a websiteOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46789961&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 27, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issuesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779809&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:57): FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICEOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46783254&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:24): PrismOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46783752&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:52): U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took officeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784263&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:19): Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn'tOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781516&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:47): Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic ModelOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46775961&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:14): 430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever foundOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781530&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:42): I made my own GitOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46778341&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:09): Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICEOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46777652&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:37): Doing the thing is doing the thingOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46776155&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 26, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by handOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46765460&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:56): France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767668&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:23): Television is 100 years old todayOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46766188&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:50): Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46769051&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:17): Qwen3-Max-ThinkingOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46766741&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:44): MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile formatOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46763864&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:11): Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites onlyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761822&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:37): Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queriesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46766031&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:04): Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistantOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760237&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:31): Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findabilityOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46765819&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 25, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid dataOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46756117&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:56): A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k timesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46752151&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:23): Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internetOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751899&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:49): Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: studyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46749198&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:16): A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouchOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46754944&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:42): First, make me careOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46757067&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:09): Yes, It's FascismOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46757822&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:36): Doom has been ported to an earbudOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46753484&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:02): Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollbackOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46757944&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:29): Introduction to PostgreSQL IndexesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751826&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 24, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morningOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745047&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:57): MS confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption key if askedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46743154&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:24): BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsAppOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46746476&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:52): How I estimate workOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46742389&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:19): Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wiresOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46742362&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:46): Claude Code's new hidden feature: SwarmsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46743908&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:14): Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistanceOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46740029&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:41): I added a Bluesky comment section to my blogOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46747366&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:09): Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: studyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46749198&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:36): Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technologyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46748771&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 23, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Bugs Apple lovesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46727587&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:58): Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptopsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735545&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:26): European AlternativesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731976&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:54): Proton Spam and the AI Consent ProblemOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46729368&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:22): AI Usage PolicyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46730504&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:50): I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video]Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46728808&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:18): Proof of CornOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735511&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:46): Booting from a vinyl record (2020)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46730885&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:14): Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scaleOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46734302&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:42): Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month feeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46736683&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 22, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reportsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46717556&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:56): GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papersOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46720395&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:22): Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYCOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46721802&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:49): In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuelsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719491&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:15): Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generationOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719229&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:41): I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46723384&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:08): Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public electionsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713924&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:34): Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719222&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:01): Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46723990&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:27): Bugs Apple LovesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46727587&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 21, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entityOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46703763&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:57): Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourcedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46700594&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:25): Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46706528&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:53): cURL removes bug bountiesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46701733&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:21): Claude's new constitutionOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46707572&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:49): Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterdayOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46707699&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:17): Linux from ScratchOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46709727&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:45): Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public electionsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713924&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:13): Skip is now free and open sourceOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46706906&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:41): How AI destroys institutionsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46705606&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 20, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Danish pension fund divesting US TreasuriesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46692594&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:55): De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46693346&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:21): I'm addicted to being usefulOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46690402&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:46): The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio ButtonOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688971&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:12): Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered carsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46686640&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:37): A 26,000-year astronomical monument hidden in plain sight (2019)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695628&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:03): Nvidia Stock Crash PredictionOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46693205&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:28): Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads trackingOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46686655&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:54): California is free of drought for the first time in 25 yearsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698660&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:20): Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46690907&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community.Security researchers at Check Point have uncovered a previously unknown Linux malware framework named VoidLink, which stands out for its complexity and modular design.Researchers at Trend Micro have identified a new phishing campaign that combines legitimate services and open-source tools to distribute AsyncRAT, a commodity-remote access trojan.New research into Predator spyware reveals a deeper level of sophistication and operational intelligence than previously understood.The widespread adoption of AI agents in enterprise environments is creating a new class of identity and access control risks as highlighted in a new report from The Hacker News.Support our show by sharing your favorite episodes with a friend, subscribe, give us a rating or leave a comment on your podcast platform.This podcast is brought to you by LimaCharlie, maker of the SecOps Cloud Platform, infrastructure for SecOps where everything is built API first. Scale with confidence as your business grows. Start today for free at limacharlie.io.

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 19, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysisOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46680212&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:59): A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over BluetoothOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46675853&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:28): Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employeesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46676276&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:57): Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46678205&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:26): Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46683205&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:55): GLM-4.7-FlashOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46679872&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:24): Level S4 solar radiation eventOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46684056&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:53): What came first: the CNAME or the A record?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46681611&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:22): Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me backOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46673809&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:52): Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and resultsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46680974&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 18, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): jQuery 4Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46664755&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:59): Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music videoOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46670024&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:28): Iconify: Library of Open Source IconsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46665411&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:57): Predicting OpenAI's ad strategyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46668021&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:26): Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UKOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46669025&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:55): A Social FilesystemOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46665839&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:24): Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666085&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:54): Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 ProOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46664631&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:23): The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are InseparableOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46669404&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:52): Police Invested Millions in Shadowy Phone-Tracking Software Won't Say How UsedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46672150&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 17, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII renderingOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46657122&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:55): The recurring dream of replacing developersOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46658345&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:20): If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at designOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46663338&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:46): US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of itOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656903&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:11): PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patchOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656998&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:37): Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite cityOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656834&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:02): ClickHouse acquires LangfuseOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656552&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:28): After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like newsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656911&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:53): Raising money fucked me upOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46660543&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:19): 2025 was the third hottest year on recordOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46659913&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 16, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Cloudflare acquires AstroOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46646645&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:56): STFUOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649142&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:23): Just the BrowserOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46645615&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:49): Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidenceOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46646777&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:16): Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648778&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:42): OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple HypervisorOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642560&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:09): East Germany balloon escapeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648916&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:35): 6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally AvailableOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46647491&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:02): List of individual treesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46641284&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:29): Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46646263&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

Nik and Michael are joined by Radim Marek from boringSQL to talk about RegreSQL, a regression testing tool for SQL queries they forked and improved recently. Here are some links to things they mentioned:Radim Marek https://postgres.fm/people/radim-marekboringSQL https://boringsql.comRegreSQL: Regression Testing for PostgreSQL Queries (blog post by Radim) https://boringsql.com/posts/regresql-testing-queriesDiscussion on Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45924619 Radim's fork of RegreSQL on GitHub https://github.com/boringSQL/regresql Original RegreSQL on GitHub (by Dimitri Fontaine) https://github.com/dimitri/regresql The Art of PostgreSQL (book) https://theartofpostgresql.comHow to make the non-production Postgres planner behave like in production (how-to post by Nik) https://postgres.ai/docs/postgres-howtos/performance-optimization/query-tuning/how-to-imitate-production-planner Just because you're getting an index scan, doesn't mean you can't do better! (Blog post by Michael) https://www.pgmustard.com/blog/index-scan-doesnt-mean-its-fastboringSQL Labs https://labs.boringsql.com~~~What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc!~~~Postgres FM is produced by:Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustardNikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.aiWith credit to:Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 15, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possibleOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46627652&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:57): Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stageOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633488&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:24): Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildoutOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630369&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:52): The Palantir app helping ICE raids in MinneapolisOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633378&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:19): Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46635345&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:47): 25 Years of WikipediaOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46632023&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:14): ‘ELITE': The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raidOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46637127&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:42): To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AIOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629474&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:09): Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voiceOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46628329&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:37): Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629682&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 14, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): FBI raids Washington Post reporter's homeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616745&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:58): Claude Cowork exfiltrates filesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46622328&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:26): Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor salesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618901&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:55): Ask HN: Share your personal websiteOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618714&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:23): I hate GitHub Actions with passionOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46614558&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:52): SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC ViolationOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616488&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:20): 1000 Blank White CardsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46611823&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:48): ASCII CloudsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46611507&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:17): So, you've hit an age gate. What now?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46619030&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:45): I'm leaving Redis for SolidQueueOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46614037&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 13, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Scott Adams has diedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602102&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:56): AI generated music barred from BandcampOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605490&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:22): Apple Creator StudioOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46601157&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:48): Chromium Has Merged JpegXLOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46597927&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:14): Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software FoundationOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46601902&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:40): Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requestsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46603535&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:07): Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to HomeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600850&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:33): We can't have nice things because of AI scrapersOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608840&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:59): Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance riskOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605553&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:25): Network of Scottish X accounts go dark amid Iran blackoutOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46599574&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 12, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Statement from Jerome PowellOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582420&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:51): Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your workOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46593022&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:12): Apple picks Gemini to power SiriOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589675&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:34): Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kidsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587934&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:55): TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46590280&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:16): Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587536&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:38): Date is out, Temporal is inOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589658&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:59): Postal ArbitrageOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46591708&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:20): LLVM: The bad partsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46588837&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:42): Xfce is greatOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46584173&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 11, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): The struggle of resizing windows on macOS TahoeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579864&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:51): I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should tooOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574707&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:13): Don't fall into the anti-AI hypeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574276&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:34): Statement from Jerome PowellOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582420&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:56): CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and funOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580326&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:17): iCloud Photos DownloaderOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578921&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:39): Gentoo Linux 2025 ReviewOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574769&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:00): Anthropic: Developing a Claude Code competitor using Claude Code is bannedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578701&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:22): Meta announces nuclear energy projectsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578497&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:43): My Home Fibre Network DisintegratedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46572679&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 10, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46564696&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:52): I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going greatOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566465&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:15): Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46565132&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:38): Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source projectOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566812&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:00): Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leakOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46568794&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:23): Oh My Zsh adds bloatOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46562790&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:46): Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46567138&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:09): New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysisOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46564762&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:31): UK government exempting itself from cyber law inspires little confidenceOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46565731&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:54): Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 booksOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46567400&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 09, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptionsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46549823&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:50): The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking appOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46555963&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:10): Cloudflare CEO on the Italy finesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46555760&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:30): Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by earOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556210&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:50): European Commission issues call for evidence on open sourceOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46550912&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:10): Mathematics for Computer Science (2018) [pdf]Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46550895&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:31): Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for LinuxOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46553343&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:51): Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 TimesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46555807&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:11): “Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560445&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:31): What happened to WebAssemblyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46551044&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 08, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakersOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541892&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:50): Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSSOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545077&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:11): The Jeff Dean FactsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46540498&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:32): Open Infrastructure MapOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46536866&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:53): Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardwareOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46537489&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:13): Iran Goes Into IPv6 BlackoutOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542683&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:34): How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of CodeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545620&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:55): A closer look at a BGP anomaly in VenezuelaOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46538001&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:16): Minnesota officials say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shootingOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46543457&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:36): Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46536340&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 07, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering teamOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527950&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:50): US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531068&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:10): Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526740&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:31): Eat Real FoodOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46529237&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:51): Shipmap.orgOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527161&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:11): A4 Paper StoriesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46525888&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:32): LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf]Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526933&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:52): US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a YearOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527533&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:12): Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by defaultOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531925&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:33): Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would 'invade' VenezuelaOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521773&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 06, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Vietnam bans unskippable adsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46514677&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:52): enclose.horseOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46509211&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:14): AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attentionOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46511153&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:36): The Post-American InternetOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46509019&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:59): 65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperformOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46512881&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:21): Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus farOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46515696&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:43): C Is Best (2025)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46511470&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:05): Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46514692&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:28): Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phoneOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46517458&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:50): Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilitiesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46511469&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 05, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): It's hard to justify Tahoe iconsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46497712&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:53): Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspensionOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46497164&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:17): There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackoutOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46504963&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:40): Databases in 2025: A Year in ReviewOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46496103&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:04): Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users dieOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46499983&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:28): RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kidsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46499976&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:51): Google broke my heartOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46505518&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:15): During Helene, I just wanted a plain text websiteOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46494734&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:39): Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46496465&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:02): I switched from VSCode to ZedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46498735&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 04, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Lessons from 14 years at GoogleOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488819&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:51): Neural Networks: Zero to HeroOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46485090&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:13): The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a caféOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488355&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:34): Web development is fun againOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488576&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:56): Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488278&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:18): Can I start using Wayland in 2026?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46485989&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:39): Claude Code On-the-GoOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491486&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:01): Anti-aging injection regrows knee cartilage and prevents arthritisOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488711&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:23): Show HN: Terminal UI for AWSOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491749&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:44): Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to HugoOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46487498&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 03, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Trump says Venezuela's Maduro captured after strikesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46473348&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:53): Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over timeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482345&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:17): 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktopOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471199&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:41): The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478377&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:04): Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internetOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46480156&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:28): Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internetOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471081&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:52): The C3 Programming LanguageOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478647&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:15): Explosions reported in Venezuelan capital CaracasOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46473623&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:39): Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every secondOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471171&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:03): The suck is why we're hereOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482877&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 02, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Why users cannot create Issues directlyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46460319&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:46): I'm a developer for a major food delivery appOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46461563&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:02): FracturedJsonOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46464235&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:18): HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 01, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Linux is good nowOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46457770&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:51): Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video]Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46453204&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:12): A website to destroy all websitesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46457784&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:33): Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in RustOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454693&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:54): Cameras and Lenses (2020)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46455872&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:15): iOS allows alternative browser engines in JapanOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46453950&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:36): I rebooted my social lifeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46453114&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:58): Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damagedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46456797&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:19): ACM Is Now Open AccessOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454763&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:40): Python numbers every programmer should knowOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454470&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 31, 2025. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGameOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46445068&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:50): Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decadesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46448705&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:10): I canceled my book dealOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46446815&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:31): Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442245&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:51): 2025: The Year in LLMsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449643&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:12): Tell HN: Happy New YearOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46443744&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:32): Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf]Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442903&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:52): Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphereOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46444076&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:13): The rise of industrial softwareOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442597&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:33): Meta created 'playbook' to fend off pressure to crack down on scammersOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46446838&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 30, 2025. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Netflix Open ContentOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46431560&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:51): Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLiteOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46435308&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:12): Go away PythonOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46431028&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:33): Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432057&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:54): Non-Zero-Sum GamesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432311&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:15): A faster heart for F-DroidOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436409&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:36): OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438390&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:57): FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather ServiceOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436889&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:18): A Vulnerability in LibsodiumOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46435614&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:39): Times New American: A Tale of Two FontsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432862&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 29, 2025. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Kidnapped by Deutsche BahnOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46419970&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:52): Google is dead. Where do we go now?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46425198&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:14): GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founderOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422412&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:36): You can make up HTML tagsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46416945&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:58): Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KBOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46417815&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:20): List of domains censored by German ISPsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46423566&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:42): Tesla's 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46423290&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:05): Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude CodeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46420453&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:27): You can't design software you don't work onOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46418415&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:49): Staying ahead of censors in 2025Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46417844&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 28, 2025. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): CalendarOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46408613&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:46): What an unprocessed photo looks likeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46415225&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:03): Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi DesertOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46408988&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:20): Replacing JavaScript with Just HTMLOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46407337&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:37): Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in DisbeliefOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46409969&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:54): Fathers' choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNAOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46407502&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:10): Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttlingOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46410402&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:27): Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten yearsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414078&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:44): Learn computer graphics from scratch and for freeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46410210&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:01): CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? (2021)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46415488&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 27, 2025. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Floor796Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46401612&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:55): Nvidia's $20B antitrust loopholeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403559&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:21): Apple releases open-source model that instantly turns 2D photos into 3D viewsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46401539&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:47): Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain EnglishOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46400251&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:13): How we lost communication to entertainmentOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46404848&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:39): Gpg.failOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403200&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:05): Publishing your work increases your luckOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397991&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:31): QNX Self-Hosted Developer DesktopOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46398201&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:56): Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403291&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:22): Replacing JavaScript with Just HTMLOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46407337&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 26, 2025. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAIOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46392115&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:50): How uv got so fastOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46393992&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:11): Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works outOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391514&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:31): Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAIOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46389444&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:52): FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHubOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46394327&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:12): Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Glucose MonitorsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46388040&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:33): My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPLOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395184&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:53): Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinationsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46393936&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:14): I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391410&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:34): Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness"Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46394867&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 25, 2025. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 yearsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383552&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:52): Ruby 4.0.0Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46382011&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:14): Alzheimer's disease can be reversed in animal models? StudyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46384919&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:36): I sell onions on the Internet (2019)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46385308&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:58): Maybe the default settings are too highOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46387657&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:20): Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reachedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383675&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:42): Python 3.15's interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% fasterOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46384167&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:04): Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46380758&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:26): Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46384565&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:48): Free Software Foundation receives historic private donationsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46382134&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 24, 2025. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Tell HN: Merry ChristmasOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46380168&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:51): Unifi Travel RouterOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371135&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:12): Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20B in cashOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46379183&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:34): Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in ZigOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46380075&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:55): Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URLOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46378554&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:17): Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creatorOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46377597&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:38): Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf]Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46377862&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:59): When Compilers Surprise YouOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46375384&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:21): Don't Become the MachineOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46372153&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:42): Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning RussianOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371423&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 23, 2025. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video]Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46361024&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:51): Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJSOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367224&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:13): Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its serversOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46366998&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:35): Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46363360&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:57): Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46363921&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:18): We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367475&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:40): Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstatOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46361229&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:02): X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documentsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46369923&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:24): Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminalOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46362655&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:45): 10 years bootstrapped: €6.5M revenue with a team of 13Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46363319&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 22, 2025. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classifiedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357881&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:52): Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked OurselvesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355548&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:15): Cecot – 60 MinutesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46361024&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:38): If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46352930&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:00): Claude Code gets native LSP supportOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355165&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:23): Jimmy Lai Is a Martyr for FreedomOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355888&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:46): The Illustrated TransformerOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357675&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:08): GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding CapabilityOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357287&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:31): Lotusbail npm package found to be harvesting WhatsApp messages and contactsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46359996&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:54): The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46353777&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 21, 2025. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence criticsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46341305&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:52): Logging sucksOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46346796&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:14): The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attemptOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46347080&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:37): I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me aloneOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46347108&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:59): Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46345897&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:22): Ruby website redesignedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46342859&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:44): Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anythingOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46345745&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:07): A guide to local coding modelsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46348329&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:29): You're not burnt out, you're existentially starvingOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46346958&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:52): Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jamsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46342412&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 20, 2025. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Backing Up SpotifyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46338339&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:52): Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein filesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46339600&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:14): Go ahead, self-host PostgresOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46336947&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:37): NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost PowerOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46334299&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:59): Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloudOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46334533&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:21): Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity doesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46334025&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:44): Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k GatesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337438&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:06): Charles ProxyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46333983&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:28): Skills Officially Comes to CodexOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46334424&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:51): Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: StudyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337123&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 19, 2025. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honestOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326588&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:52): Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooksOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324078&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:14): GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in RustOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324543&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:36): Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacentersOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326984&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:58): Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levelsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46321619&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:20): CSS Grid LanesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46331586&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:42): TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything WorseOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46327406&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:04): You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browserOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329696&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:27): Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46322540&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:49): 2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search resultsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46322556&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 18, 2025. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open accessOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46313991&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:53): We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attackOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46317098&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:16): Your job is to deliver code you have proven to workOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46313297&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:39): Classical statues were not painted horriblyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46311856&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:02): Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46313061&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:25): Please just try HTMXOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46312973&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:48): GPT-5.2-CodexOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316367&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:11): Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tellOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307973&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:34): Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreachOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46311355&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:58): History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 textsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46319826&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 17, 2025. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301851&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:51): Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46299934&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:13): AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46302267&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:35): Tell HN: HN was downOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301921&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:57): Coursera to combine with UdemyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301346&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:19): A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened ImagesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46302337&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:41): I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining MoneroOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46305585&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:03): How SQLite is testedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303277&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:25): Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in miceOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46306894&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:47): A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promoteOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303291&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

In the last episode of 2025, Co-hosts Mark Thompson and Steve Little present their predictions for how artificial intelligence will transform genealogy research in 2026. This special episode examines fourteen key trends shaping the future of family history AI.Mark and Steve predict that AI tools will move from enthusiast circles into mainstream genealogy practice, with AI-enhanced apps like NotebookLM becoming more important than the underlying language models that people have focused on for the past three years.They explore how handwritten text recognition will become more accurate and accessible, and that genealogy companies will cautiously integrate new AI features, first focusing on helping us with our research.Timestamps:02:33 Family History AI Goes Mainstream: From Enthusiasts to Everyday Users04:13 Apps Over Models: Why Platform Features Matter More Than LLMs06:17 Reusable Prompting Tools: GPTs, Projects, and Gems Boost Efficiency08:02 AI-Enhanced Research Gains Acceptance Among Serious Genealogists09:53 Handwritten Text Recognition Gets Better, Easier, and Cheaper12:18 Genealogy Companies Take Cautious Approach to Generative AI17:07 AI-Enhanced Browsers Become Standard, Agentic Features Raise Concerns24:25 Voice Interfaces to AI Remain Niche in 202627:36 LLM Vendors Push File and Email Integration for Stickiness31:46 Productivity Tools Embed LLMs Everywhere35:56 The AI Horse Race: Three Leaders Emerge41:15 AI Licensing Deals Change Internet Access Patterns44:34 The AI Bubble Conversation is important to society, but less so to GenealogistsResource Links:The Family History AI Show Academy https://tixoom.app/fhaishowFamily History AI Goes MainstreamWhat Can AI Do for Your Genealogical Research? – James Tanner (Nov 2025) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXmVKy1pUPEFamilySearch Shares Plans for 2025 (Includes AI integration details) https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/familysearch-shares-plans-for-2025Reusable Prompting ToolsCustom GPTs vs. Gemini Gems: Who Wins? - Learn Prompting (Aug 2025) https://learnprompting.org/blog/custom-gpts-vs-gemini-gemsAI-Enhanced ResearchUnlocking Family Histories: How AI Is Breathing New Life into Handwritten Records (South Central APG)https://southcentralapg.org/2025/08/16/unlocking-family-histories-how-ai-is-breathing-new-life-into-handwritten-records/Handwritten Text RecognitionA new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition - Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45887262Cautious AI from Genealogy CompaniesAI-Enhanced BrowsersCompliance alert: Do not use AI browsershttps://vinciworks.com/blog/compliance-alert-do-not-use-ai-browsers/Content Integration with ChatbotsGemini vs Copilot: A Quick Comparison Guide (2025) - Tactiqhttps://tactiq.io/learn/gemini-vs-copilotAI in Office Productivity ToolsMicrosoft Copilot in 2025: What's Changed & What's Next | Aldridgehttps://aldridge.com/microsoft-copilot-in-2025-whats-changed-whats-next/Monthly Round Up: New Features in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Dec 2025)https://dynamicscommunities.com/ug/copilot-ug/monthly-round-up-new-features-in-microsoft-365-copilot/The AI Horse RaceThe Best AI in October 2025? We Compared ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini & Others - FelloAIhttps://felloai.com/the-best-ai-in-october-2025-we-compared-chatgpt-claude-grok-gemini-others/The 2025 AI Coding Models: Comprehensive Guide to the Top 5 Contenders - CodeGPThttps://www.codegpt.co/blog/ai-coding-models-2025-comprehensive-guideAI Licensing DealsContent Licensing Agreements Will Concentrate Markets Without Standardized Access - ProMarket(Nov 2025) https://www.promarket.org/2025/11/20/content-licensing-agreements-will-concentrate-markets-without-standardized-access/The False Hope of Content Licensing at Internet Scale - ProMarkethttps://www.promarket.org/2025/11/19/the-false-hope-of-content-licensing-at-internet-scale/The AI Bubble ConversationThe AI boom will turn to bust in 2026https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai-boom-will-turn-to-bust-next-year-says-this-forecaster-who-offers-his-trade-of-the-year-9c2a2332OUTLOOK 2026 Promise and Pressure - J.P. Morgan (Discusses AI market stability vs bubble risks)https://www.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/jpmorgan/documents/wealth-management/outlook-2026.pdfTags:Artificial Intelligence, Genealogy, Family History, AI Predictions, NotebookLM, HTR, AI Browsers, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 16, 2025. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensionsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284266&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:52): alpr.watchOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290916&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:14): This is not the futureOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46288371&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:36): Pricing Changes for GitHub ActionsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291156&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:58): Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatmentOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46285376&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:21): No Graphics APIOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46293062&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:43): SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single imageOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284658&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:05): Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-DemeoOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46288491&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:27): Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReadersOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46283016&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:50): AI will make formal verification go mainstreamOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294574&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 15, 2025. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emergesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268854&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:54): I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like meOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46273466&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:18): “Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone numberOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46279123&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:42): If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268709&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:06): Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trialOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46276740&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:30): Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticideOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46275079&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:54): Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NESOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46274822&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:18): Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in PostgresOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46272487&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:42): Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food PricesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46280887&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:07): UnsciiOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46270282&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 14, 2025. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spiesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46262524&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:51): Elevated errors across many modelsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46267385&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:13): Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition systemOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46264492&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:35): AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46262816&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:56): Kimi K2 1T model runs on 2 512GB M3 UltrasOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46262734&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:18): GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is overOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46264704&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:40): Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46264491&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:01): Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortemOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46262021&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:23): Claude CLI deleted my home directory and wiped my MacOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268222&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:45): 2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social WebOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46266875&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis 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

The Overtired trio reunites for the first time in ages, diving into a whirlwind of health updates, hilarious anecdotes, and the latest tech obsessions. Christina shares a dramatic spinal saga while Brett and Jeff discuss everything from winning reddit contests to creating a universal markdown processor. Tune in for updates on Mark 3, the magical world of Scrivener, and why Brett’s back on Bing. Don’t miss the banter or the tech tips, and as always, get ready to laugh, learn, and maybe feel a little overtired yourself. Sponsor Shopify is the commerce platform behind 10% of all eCommerce in the US, from household names like Mattel and Gymshark, to brands just getting started. Get started today at shopify.com/overtired. Chapters 00:00 Welcome to the Overtired Podcast 01:09 Christina’s Health Journey 10:53 Brett’s Insurance Woes 15:38 Jeff’s Mental Health Update 24:07 Sponsor Spot: Shopify 24:18 Sponsor: Shopify 26:23 Jeff Tweedy 27:43 Jeff’s Concert Marathon 32:16 Christina Wins Big 36:58 Monitor Setup Challenges 37:13 Ergotron Mounts and Tall Poles 38:33 Review Plans and Honest Assessments 38:59 Current Display Setup 41:30 Thunderbolt KVM and Display Preferences 42:51 MacBook Pro and Studio Comparisons 50:58 Markdown Processor: Apex 01:07:58 Scrivener and Writing Tools 01:11:55 Helium Browser and Privacy Features 01:13:56 Bing Delisting Incident Show Links Danny Brown's 10 in the New York Times (gift link) Indigo Stack Scrivener Helium Bangs Apex Apex Syntax Join the Marked 3 Beta LG 32 Inch UltraFine™evo 6K Nano IPS Black Monitor with Thunderbolt™ 5 Join the Conversation Merch Come chat on Discord! Twitter/ovrtrd Instagram/ovrtrd Youtube Get the Newsletter Thanks! You’re downloading today’s show from CacheFly’s network BackBeat Media Podcast Network Check out more episodes at overtiredpod.com and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. Find Brett as @ttscoff, Christina as @film_girl, Jeff as @jsguntzel, and follow Overtired at @ovrtrd on Twitter. Transcript Brett + 2 Welcome to the Overtired Podcast Jeff: [00:00:00] Hello everybody. This is the Overtired podcast. The three of us are all together for the first time since the Carter administration. Um, it is great to see you both here. I am Jeff Severance Gunzel if I didn’t say that already. Um, and I’m here with Christina Warren and I’m here with Brett Terpstra and hello to both of you. Brett: Hi. Jeff: Great to see you both. Brett: Yeah, it’s good to see you too. I feel like I was really deadpan in the pre-show. I’ll try to liven it up for you. I was a horrible audience. You were cracking jokes and I was just Jeff: that’s true. Christina, before you came on, man, I was hot. I was on fire and Brett was, all Brett was doing was chewing and dropping Popsicle parts. Brett: Yep. I ate, I ate part of a coconut outshine Popsicle off of a concrete floor, but Jeff: It is true, and I didn’t even see him check it [00:01:00] for cat hair, Brett: I did though. Jeff: but I believe he did because he’s a, he’s a very Brett: I just vacuumed in Jeff: He’s a very good American Brett: All right. Christina’s Health Journey Brett: Well, um, I, Christina has a lot of health stuff to share and I wanna save time for that. So let’s kick off the mental health corner. Um, let’s let Christina go first, because if it takes the whole show, it takes the whole show. Go for it. Christina: Uh, I, I will not take this hold show, but thank you. Yeah. So, um, my mental health is okay-ish. Um, I would say the okay-ish part is, is because of things that are happening with my physical health and then some of the medications that I’ve had to be on, um, uh, to deal with it. Uh, prednisone. Fucking sucks, man. Never nev n never take it if you can avoid it. Um, but why Christina, why are you on prednisone or why were you on prednisone for five days? Um, uh, and I’m not anymore to be clear, but that certainly did not help my mental health. Um, at the beginning of November, I woke up and I thought that I’d [00:02:00] slept on my shoulder wrong. And, um, uh, and, and just some, some background. I, I don’t know if this is pertinent to how my injury took place or not, but, but it, I’m sure that it didn’t help. Um, I have scoliosis and in the top and the bottom of my spine, so I have it at the top of my, like, neck area and my lower back. And so my back is like a crooked s um, this will be relevant in a, in a second, but, but I, I thought that I had slept on my back bunny, and I was like, okay, well, all right, it hurts a lot, but fine. Um, and then it, a, a couple of days passed and it didn’t get any better, and then like a week passed and I was at the point where I was like, I almost feel like I need to go to the. Emergency room, I’m in pain. That is that significant. Um, and, you know, didn’t get any better. So I took some of grant’s, Gabapentin, and I took, um, some, some, uh, a few other things and I was able to get in with like a, a, a sports and spine guy. Um, and um, [00:03:00] he looked at me and he was like, yeah, I think that you have like a, a, a bolting disc, also known as a herniated disc. Go to physical therapy. See me later. We’ll, we’ll deal with it. Um. Basically like my whole left side was, was, was really sore and, and I had a lot of pain and then I had numbness in my, my fingers and um, and, and that was a problem the next day, which was actually my birthday. The numbness had at this point spread to my right side and also my lower extremities. And so at this point I called the doctor and he was like, yeah, you should go to the er. And so I went to the ER and, and they weren’t able to do anything for me other than give me, you know, like, um, you know, I was hoping they might give me like, some sort of steroid injection or something. They wouldn’t do anything other than, um, basically, um, they gave me like another type of maybe, maybe pain pill or whatever. Um, but that allowed the doctor to go ahead and. Write, uh, write up an MRI took forever for me to get an MRI, I actually had to get it in Atlanta. [00:04:00] Fun fact, uh, sometimes it is cheaper to just pay and not go through insurance and get an MR MRI and, um, a, um, uh, an x-ray, um, I was able to do it for $450 Jeff: Whoa. Really? Christina: Yeah, $400 for the MR mri. $50 for the x-ray. Jeff: Wow. Christina: Yeah. Yeah. Brett: how I, they, I had an MRI, they charged me like $1,200 and then they failed to bill insurance ’cause I was between insurance. Christina: Yes. Yeah. So what happened was, and and honestly that was gonna be the situation that I was in, not between insurance stuff, but they weren’t even gonna bill insurance. And insurance only approved certain facilities and to get into those facilities is almost impossible. Um, and so, no, there are a lot of like get an MR, I now get a, you know, mammogram, get ghetto, whatever places. And because America’s healthcare system is a HealthScape, you can bypass insurance and they will charge you way less than whatever they bill insurance for. So I, I don’t know if it’s part of the country, you know, like Seattle I think might [00:05:00] probably would’ve been more expensive. But yeah, I was able to find this place like a mile from like, not even a mile from where my parents lived, um, that did the x-rays and the MRI for $450 total. Brett: I, I hate, I hate that. That’s true, but Christina: Me too. Me too. No, no. It pisses me off. Honestly, it makes me angry because like, I’m glad that I was able to do that and get it, you know, uh, uh, expedited. Then I go into the spine, um, guy earlier this week and he looks at it and he’s like, yep, you’ve got a massive bulging disc on, on C seven, which is the, the part of your lower cervical or cervical spine, which is your neck. Um, and it’s where it connects to your ver bray. It’s like, you know, there are a few things you can do. You can do, you know, injections, you can do surgery. He is like, I’m gonna recommend you to a neurosurgeon. And I go to the neurosurgeon yesterday and he was showing me or not, uh, yeah, yesterday he was showing me the, the, the, the scans and, and showing like you up close and it’s, yeah, it’s pretty massive. Like where, where, where the disc is like it is. You could see it just from one view, like, just from like [00:06:00] looking at it like, kind of like outside, like you could actually like see like it was visible, but then when you zoomed in it’s like, oh shit, this, this thing is like massive and it’s pressing on these nerves that then go into my, my hands and other areas. But it’s pressing on both sides. It’s primarily on my left side, but it’s pressing on on my right side too, which is not good. So, um, he basically was like, okay. He was like, you know, this could go away. He was like, the pain isn’t really what I’m wanting to, to treat here. It’s, it’s the, the weakness because my, my left arm is incredibly weak. Like when they do like the, the test where like they, they push back on you to see like, okay, like how, how much can you, what, like, I am, I’m almost immediately like, I can’t hold anything back. Right? Like I’m, I’m, I’m like a toddler in terms of my strength. So, and, and then I’m freaked out because I don’t have a lot of feeling in my hands and, and that’s terrifying. Um, I’m also. Jeff: so terrifying, Christina: I’m, I’m also like in extreme pain because of, of, of where this sits. Like I can’t sleep well. Like [00:07:00] the whole thing sucks. Like the MRI, which was was like the most painful, like 25 minutes, like of my existence. ’cause I was laying flat on my back. I’m not allowed to move and I’m just like, I’m in just incredible pain with that part of, of, of, of my, my side. Like, it, it was. It was terrible. Um, but, uh, but he was like, yeah. Um, these are the sorts of surgical options we have. Um, he’s gonna, um, do basically what what he wants to do is basically do a thing where he would put in a, um, an artificial or, or synthetic disc. So they’re gonna remove the disc, put in a synthetic one. They’ll go in through the, the front of my throat to access the, my, my, my, my spine. Um, put that there and, um, you know, I’ll, I’ll be overnight in the hospital. Um, and then it’ll be a few weeks of recovery and the, the, the pain should go away immediately. Um, but it, it could be up to two years before I get full, you know, feeling back in my arm. So anyway, Jeff: years, Jesus. And Christina: I mean, and hopefully less than that, but, but it could be [00:08:00] up to that. Jeff: there’s no part of this at this point. That’s a mystery to you, right? Christina: The mystery is, I don’t know how this happened. Jeff: You don’t know how it happened, right? Of course. Yeah, of course. Yeah. Yeah. Brett: So tell, tell us about the ghastly surgery. The, the throat thing really threw me like, I can’t imagine that Christina: yeah, yeah. So, well, ’cause the thing is, is that usually if what they just do, like spinal fusion, they’ll go in at the back of your neck, um, and then they’ll remove the, the, um, the, the, the, the disc. And then they’ll fuse your, your, your two bones together. Basically. They’ll, they’ll, they’ll, they’ll fuse this part of the vertebrae, but because they’re going to be replacing the, the disc, they need more room. So that’s why they have to go in through the, through, through basically your throat so that they can have more room to work. Jeff: Good lord. No thank you. Brett: Ugh. Wow. Jeff: Okay. Brett: I am really sorry that is happening. That is, that is, that dwarfs my health concerns. That is just constant pain [00:09:00] and, and it would be really scary. Christina: Yeah. Yeah. It’s not great. It’s not great, but I’m, I’m, I’m doing what I can and, uh, like I have, you know, a small amount of, of Oxycodine and I have like a, a, a, you know, some other pain medication and I’m taking the gabapentin and like, that’s helpful. The bad part is like your body, like every 12, 15 hours, like whatever, like the, the, the cycle is like, you feel it leave your system and like if you’re asleep, you wake up, right? Like, it’s one of those things, like, you immediately feel it, like when it leaves your system. And I’ve never had to do anything for pain management before. And they have me on a very, they have me like on the smallest amount of like, oxycodone you can be on. Um, and I’m using it sparingly because I don’t wanna, you know, be reliant on, on it or whatever. But it, it, but it is one of those things where I’m like, yeah, like sometimes you need fucking opiates because, you know, the pain is like so constant. And the thing is like, what sucks is that it’s not always the same type of pain. Like sometimes it’s throbbing, sometimes it’s sharp, sometimes it’s like whatever. It sucks. But the hardest thing [00:10:00] is like, and. This does impact my mental health. Like it’s hard to sleep. Like, and I’m a side sleeper. I’m a side sleeper, and I’m gonna have to become a back sleeper. So, you know. Yeah. It’s just, it’s, it’s not great. It’s not great, but, you know, that, that, that, that, that’s me. The, the good news is, and I’m very, very gratified, like I have a good surgeon. Um, I’m gonna be able to get in to get this done relatively quickly. He had an appointment for next week. I don’t think that insurance would’ve even been able to approve things fast enough for, for, for that regard. And I have, um, commitments that I can’t make then. And I, and that would also mean that I wouldn’t be able to go visit my family for Christmas. So hopefully I’ll do it right after Christmas. I’m just gonna wait, you know, for, for insurance to, to do its thing, knock on wood, and then schedule, um, from there. But yeah, Jeff: Woof. Christina: so that’s me. Um, uh, who wants to go next? Jeff or, uh, Jeff or Brett? Jeff: It’s like, that’s me. Hot potato throwing it. Brett: I’ll, I’ll go. Brett’s Insurance Woes Brett: I can continue on the insurance topic. Um, I was, for a few months [00:11:00] after getting laid off, I was on Minsu, which is Minnesota’s Medicaid, um, v version of Medicaid. And so basically I paid nothing and I had better insurance than I usually have with, uh, you know, a full deductible and premiums and everything. And it was fantastic. I was getting all the care I needed for all of the health stuff I’m going through. Um, I, they, a, a new doctor I found, ordered the 15 tests and I passed out ’cause it was so much blood and. And it, I was getting, but I was getting all these tests run. I was getting results, we were discovering things. And then my unemployment checks, the income from unemployment went like $300 over the cap for Medicaid. So [00:12:00] all of a sudden, overnight I was cut from Medicaid and I had to do an early sign up, and now I’m on courts and it sucks bad. Like they’re not covering my meds. Last month cost me $600. I was also paying. In addition to that, a $300 premium plus every doctor’s visit is 50 bucks out of pocket. So this will hopefully only last until January, and then it’ll flip over and I will be able to demonstrate basically no income, um, until like Mark makes enough money that it gets reported. Um, and even, uh, until then, like I literally am making under the, the poverty limit. So, um, I hope to be back on Medicaid shortly. I have one more month. I’ll have to pay my $600 to refill. I [00:13:00] cashed out my 401k. Um, like things were, everything was up high enough that I had made, I. I had made tens of thousands of dollars just on the investments and the 401k, but I also have a lot of concerns about the market volatility around Nvidia and the AI bubble in general. Um, so taking my money out of the market just felt okay to me. I paid the 10%, uh, penalty Jeff: Mm-hmm. Brett: and ultimately I, I came out with enough cash that I can invest on my own and be able to cover the next six months. Uh, if I don’t have any other income, which I hope to, I hope to not spend my nest egg. Um, but I did, I did a lot of thinking and calculating and I think I made the right choices. But anyway, [00:14:00] that will help if I have to pay for medical stuff that will help. Um. And then I’ve had insomnia, bad on and off. Right now I’m coming off of two days of good sleep. You’re catching me on a good day. Um, but Jeff: Still wouldn’t laugh at my jokes. Brett: before that it was, well, that’s the thing is like before that, it was four nights where I slept two to four hours per night, and by the end of it, I could barely walk. And so two nights of sleep after a stint like that, like, I’m just super, I’m deadpan, I’m dazed. Um, I could lay down and fall asleep at any time. Um, I, so, so keep me awake. Um, but yeah, that’s, that’s, that’s me. Mental health is good. Like I’m in pretty high spirits considering all this, like financial stuff and everything. Like my mood has been pretty stable. I’ve been getting a lot of coding done. I’ll tell you about projects in [00:15:00] a minute, but, um, but that’s, that’s me. I’m done. Jeff: Awesome. I’m enjoying watching your cat roll around, but clearly cannot decide to lay down at this point. Brett: No, nobody is very persnickety. Jeff: I literally have to put my. Well, you say put a cat down like you used to. When you put a kid down for a nap, you say you wanna put ’em down. Right? That’s where it’s coming from. I now have a chair next to my desk, ’cause I have one cat that walks around Yowling at about 11:00 AM while I’m working. And I have to like, put ’em down for a nap. It’s pathetic. It’s pathetic that I do that. Let’s just be clear. Brett: Yeah. Jeff: soulmate though. Jeff’s Mental Health Update Jeff: Um, I’m doing good. I’m, I’m, I’ve been feeling kind of light lately in a nice way. I’ve had ups and downs, but even with the ups and downs, there’s like a, except for one day last week was, there’s just been feeling kind of good in general, which is remarkable in a way. ’cause it’s just like stressful time. There’s some stressful business stuff, like, [00:16:00] a lot of stuff like that. But I’m feeling good and, and just like, uh, yeah, just light. I don’t know, it’s weird. Like, I’ve just been noticing that I feel kind of light and, uh. And not, not manic, not high light. Brett: Yeah. No, that’s Jeff: uh, and that’s, that’s lovely. So yeah. And so I’m doing good. I’m doing good. I fucking, it’s cold. Which sucks ’cause it just means for everybody that’s heard about my workshop over the years, that I can’t really go out there and have it be pleasant Brett: It’s, it’s been Minnesota thus far. Has had, we’ve had like one, one Sub-Zero day. Jeff: whatever. It’s fucking cold. Christina: Yeah. What one? Brett? Brett. It’s December 6th as we’re recording this one Sub-Zero day. That’s insane. Brett: Is it Jeff: Granted, granted I’ve been dressing warm, so I’m ready to go out the door for ice related things. Meaning, meaning government, ice, Brett: Uh, yeah. Yeah. Jeff: So I like wear my long underwear during [00:17:00] the day. ’cause actually like recently. So at my son’s school, which is like six blocks from here, um, has a lot of Somali immigrants in it. And, and uh, and there was a, at one point there was ice activity in the other direction, um, uh, uh, near me. And so neighbors put out a call here around so that at dismissal time people would pair up at all the intersections surrounding the school. And, um, and like a quick signal group popped up, whatever. It was so amazing because like we all just popped out there. And by the time I got out, uh, everyone was already like, posted up and I was like, I’m a, in these situations, I am a wanderer. You want me roaming? I don’t want to pair up with somebody I don’t like, I just, I grabbed a camera with a Zoom on it and like, I was like, I’m in roam. Um, it’s what I was as an activist, what I was as a reporter, like it’s just my nature. Um, but like. Everybody was out and like, and they were just like, they were ready man. And then we got like the all clear and you could just see people in the [00:18:00] neighborhood just like standing down and going home. But because of the true threat and the ongoing arrests here, now that the Minneapolis stuff has started, like I do, I was like wearing long underwear just, and I have a little bag by the door ready to like pop out if something comes up and I can be helpful. Um, and uh, and I guess what I’m saying is I should use that to go into the garage as well if I’m already prepared. Brett: Right. Jeff: But here’s, okay, so here’s a mental health thing actually. So I, one of the, I’ve gone through a few years of just sort of a little bit of paralysis around being able to just, I don’t know what, like do anything that is kind of project related that takes some thinking, whatever it is, like I’m talking about around the house or things that have kind of broken over the years, whatever. So I’ve had this snowblower and it’s a really good snowblower. It’s got headlights. And, uh, and I used to love snow blowing the entire block. Like it just made me feel good, made me feel useful. Um, and sorry I cough. I left it outside for a [00:19:00] year for a, like a winter and a spring and water got into the gas tank. It rusted out in there. I knew I couldn’t start it or I’d ruin the whole damn engine. So I left it for two years and I felt bad about myself. But this year, just like probably a month before the first big snowfall, I fucking replaced a gas tank and a carburetor on a machine. And I have never done anything like that in my life. And so then we got the snowfall and I, and I snow blowed this whole block Brett: Nice. Jeff: great. ’cause now they all owe me. Brett: I, uh, I have a, uh, so I have a little electric powered, uh, snowblower that can handle like two inches of snow. Um, and, and on big snowfalls, if you get out there every hour and keep up with it, it, it works. But, but I, my back right now, I can’t stand for, I can’t stand still for 10 minutes and I can’t move for more than like five minutes. And so I’m, I’m very disabled and El has good days and bad days, uh, thus [00:20:00] far. L’s been out there with a shovel, um, really being the hero. But we have a next door neighbor with a big gas powered snowblower. And so we went over, brought them gifts, and, um, asked if they would take care of our driveway on days we couldn’t, uh, for like, you know, we’d pay ’em 25 bucks to do the driveway. And, uh, and they were, he was still reluctant to accept money. Um. But, but we both agreed it was better to like make it a, a transaction. Jeff: Oh my God. You don’t want to get into weird Minnesota neighbor relational. Brett: right. You don’t want the you owe me thing. Um, so, so we have that set up. But in the process we made really good friends with our neighbor. Like we sat down in their living room for I think 45 minutes and just like talked about health and politics and it was, it was really fun. They’re, they’re retired. They’re in their [00:21:00] seventies and like act, he always looks super grumpy. I always thought he was a mean old man. He’s actually, he laughs more easily than most people I’ve ever met. Um, he’s actually, when people say, oh, he is actually a teddy bear, this guy really is, he’s just jovial. Uh, he just has resting angry old man face. Jeff: Or like my, I have public mis throat face, like when I’m out and about, especially when I’m shopping, I know that my face is, I’m gonna fucking kill you if you look me in the eye Brett: I used Jeff: is not my general disposition. Brett: people used to tell me that about myself, but I feel like I, I carry myself differently these days than I did when I was younger. Jeff: You know what I learned? Do you, have you both watched Veep, Christina: Yes, Jeff: you know, Richard sp split, right? Um, and, and he always kind of has this sweet like half smile and he is kind of looking up and I, I figured out at one point I was in an airport, which is where my kill everybody face especially comes up. Just to be clear. TSA, it’s just a feeling inside. I [00:22:00] have no desire to act to this out. I realized that if I make the Richard Plet face, which I can try to make for you now, which is something like if I just make the Richard Plet face, my whole disposition Brett: yeah. Yeah. Jeff: uh, and I even feel a little better. And so I just wanna recommend that to people. Look up Richard Spt, look at his face. Christina: Hey, future President Bridges split. Jeff: future President Richard Splat, also excellent in the Detroiters. Um, that’s all, uh, that’s all I wanted to say about that. Brett: I have found that like when I’m texting with someone, if I start to get frustrated, you know, you know that point where you’re still adding smiley emoticons even though you’re actually not, you’re actually getting pissed off, but you don’t wanna sound super bitchy about it, so you’re adding smile. I have found that when I add a smiley emoji in those circumstances, if I actually smile before I send it, it like my [00:23:00] mood will adjust to match, to match the tone I’m trying to convey, and it lessens my frustration with the other person. Jeff: a little joy wrist rocket. Christina: Yeah. Hey, I mean, no, but hey, but, but that, that, that, that, that’s interesting. I mean, they’re, they, they’ve done studies that like show that, right? That like show like, you know, I mean, like, some of this is all like bullshit to a certain extent, but there is something to be said for like, you know, like the power of like positive thinking and like, you know, if you go into things with like, different types of attitudes or even like, even if you like, go into job interviews or other situations, like you act confident or you smile, or you act happy or whatever. Even if you’re not like it, the, the, the, the euphoria, you know, that those sorts of uh, um, endorphin reactions or whatever can be real. So that’s interesting. Brett: Yeah, I found, I found going into job interviews with my usual sarcastic and bitter, um, kind of mindset, Jeff: I already hate this job. Brett: it doesn’t play well. It doesn’t play well. So what are your weaknesses? Fuck off. Um,[00:24:00] Christina: right. Well, well, well, I hate people. Jeff: Yeah. Dealing with motherfuckers like you, that’s one weakness. 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That was Jeff: Yeah. Cha-ching Brett: they got the chorus, they got the Overtired Christina: You did. You got the Overtired Jeff: They didn’t think to ask for it, but that’s our brand. Christina: shopify.com/ Overtired. Jeff Tweedy Jeff: What was, uh, I was watching a Stephen Colbert interview with Jeff Tweedy, who just put out a triple album and, uh, it was a very thoughtful, sweet interview. And then Stephen Colbert said, you know, you’re not supposed to do this. And Jeff Tweety said, it’s all part of my career long effort to leave the public wanting less. Christina: Ha, Jeff: That was a great bit. Christina: that’s a fantastic bit. A side note, there are a couple of really good NPR, um, uh, tiny desks that have come out in the last couple of month, uh, couple of weeks. Um, uh, one is shockingly, I, I’ll, I’ll just be a a, a fucking boomer about it. The Googo dolls. Theirs was [00:27:00] great. It’s fantastic. They did a great job. It already has like millions of views, like it wrecked up like over a million views, I think like in like, like less than 24 hours. They did a great job, but, uh, but Brandy Carlisle, uh, did one, um, the other day and hers is really, really good too. So, um, so yeah. Yeah, exactly. So yeah. Anyway, you said, you saying Jeff pd maybe, I don’t know how I got from Wilco to like, you know, there, Jeff: Yeah. Well, they’ve done some good, he’s done his own good Christina: he has, he has done his own. Good, good. That’s honestly, that’s probably what I was thinking of, but Jeff: It’s my favorite Jeff besides me because Bezos, he’s not in the, he’s not in the game. Christina: No. No, he’s not. No. Um, he, he’s, he’s not on the Christmas card list at all. Jeff: Oh man. Jeff’s Concert Marathon Jeff: Can I just tell you guys that I did something, um, I did something crazy a couple weeks ago and I went to three shows in one week, like I was 20 fucking two, Brett: Good grief. Jeff: and. It was a blast. So, okay, so the background of this is my oldest son [00:28:00] loves hip hop, and when we drive him to college and back, or when I do, it’s often just me. Um, he, he goes deep and he, it’s a lot of like, kind of indie hip hop and a lot. It’s just an interesting, he listens to interesting shit, but he will go deep and he’ll just like, give me a tour through someone’s discography or through all their features somewhere, whatever it is. And like, it’s the kind of input that I love, which is just like, I don’t, even if it’s not my genre, like if you’re passionate and you can just weave me through the interrelationship and the history and whatever it is I’m in. So as a result of that, made me a huge fan of Danny Brown and made me a huge fan of the sky, Billy Woods. And so what happened was I went to a hip hop show at the seventh Street entry, uh, which is attached to First Avenue. It’s a little club, very small, lovely little place, the only place my band could sell out. Um, and I watched a hip hop show there on a Monday night, Tuesday night. I went to the Uptown Theater, which Brett is now a actually an operating [00:29:00] theater for shows. Uh, and I, and I saw Danny Brown, but I also saw two hyper pop bands, a genre I was not previously aware of, including one, which was amazing, called Fem Tenal. And I was in line to get into that show behind furries, behind trans Kids. Like it was this, I was the weirdest, like I did not belong. Underscores played, and, and this will mean something to somebody out there, but not, didn’t mean anything to me until that night. And, uh. I felt like such, there were times, not during Danny Brown, Danny Brown’s my age all good. But like there were times where I was in the crowd ’cause I’m tall. Anybody that doesn’t know I’m very tall and I’m wearing like a not very comfortable or safe guy seeming outfit, a black hoodie, a black stocking cap. Like I basically looked like I’m possibly a shooter and, and I’m like standing among all these young people loving it, but feeling a little like, should I go to the back? Even like I was leaving that show [00:30:00] and the only people my age were people’s parents that were waiting to pick them up on the way out. So anyway, that was night two. Danny Brown was awesome. And then two nights later I went to see, this is way more my speed, a band called the Dazzling Kilman who were a band that. Came out in the nineties, St. Louis and a noisy Matthew Rock. Wikipedia claims they invented math rock. It’s a really stupid claim, uh, but it’s a lovely, interesting band and it’s a friend of mine named Nick Sakes, who’s who fronted that band and was in all these great bands back when I was in bands called Colos Mite and Sick Bay, and all this is great shit. So they played a reunion show. In this tiny punk rock club here called Cloudland, just a lovely little punk rock club. And, um, and, and that was like rounded out my week. So like, I was definitely, uh, a tourist the early part of the week, mostly at the Danny Brown Show. But then I like got to come home to my noisy punk rock [00:31:00] on, uh, on Thursday night. And I, I fucking did three shows and it hurt so bad. Like even by the first of three bands on the second night. I was like, I don’t think I can make it. And I do. I already pregame shows with ibuprofen. Just to be really clear, I microdose glucose tabs at shows like, like I am, I am a full on old man doing these things. But, um, I did get some cred with my kids for being at a hyper pop show all by myself. And, Christina: Hell yeah. A a Jeff: friends seemed impressed. Christina: no, as a as, as as they should be. I’m impressed. And like, and I, I, I typically like, I definitely go to like more of like, I go, I go to shows more frequently and, and I’m, I’m even like, I’m, I’m gonna be real with you. I’m like, yeah, three in one week. Jeff: That’s a lot. Christina: That’s a lot. That’s a lot. Jeff: man. Did I feel good when I walked home from that last show though? I was like, I fucking did it. I did not believe I wasn’t gonna bail on at least two of those shows, if not all three. Anyway, just wanted to say Brett: I [00:32:00] do like one show a year, but Jeff: that’s how I’ve been for years this year. I think I’ve seen eight shows. Brett: damn. Jeff: Yeah, it’s Brett: Alright, so you’ve been teasing us about this, this contest you won. Jeff: Yeah, please, Christina. Sorry to push that off. Christina: No, no, no, no. That’s, that’s completely okay. That, that, that, that’s great. Uh, no. Christina Wins Big Christina: So, um, I won two six K monitors. Brett: Damn. Jeff: is that what those boxes are behind you? Christina: Yeah, yeah. This is what the boxes are behind me, so I haven’t been able to get them up because this happened. I got them literally right in the midst of all this stuff with my back. Um, but I do have an Ergotron poll now that is here, and, and Grant has said that he will, will get them up. But yeah, so I won 2 32 inch six K monitors from a Reddit contest. Brett: How, how, how, Jeff: How does this happen? How do I find a Reddit contest? Christina: Yeah. So I got lucky. So I have, I, I have a clearly, well, well, um, there was a little, there was a little bit of like, other step to it than that, but like, uh, so how it worked was basically, um, LG is basically just put out [00:33:00] two, they put out a new 32 inch six K monitor. I’ll have it linked in, in, in the show notes. Um, so we’ve talked about this on this podcast before, but like one of my big, like. Pet peeve, like things that I can’t get past. It’s like I need like a retina screen. Like I need like the, the perfect pixel doubling thing for that the Mac Os deals with, because I’ve used a 5K screen, either through an iMac or um, an lg, um, ultra fine or, um, a, uh, studio display. For like 11 years. And, and I, and I’ve been using retina displays on laptops even longer than that. And so if I use like a regular 4K display, like it just, it, it doesn’t work for me. Um, you can use apps like, um, like better control and other things to kind of emulate, like what would be like if you doubled the resolution, then it, it down, you know, um, of samples that, so that. It looks better than, than if it’s just like the, the, the 4K stuff where in the, the user interface things are too big and whatnot. And to be clear, this is a Macco West problem. If [00:34:00] you are using Windows or Linux or any other operating system that does fractional scaling, um, correctly, then this is not a problem. But Macco West does not do fractional scaling direct, uh, correctly. Um, weirdly iOS can, like, they can do three X resolution and other things. Um, but, but, but Macs does not. And that’s weird because some of the native resolutions on some of the MacBook errors are not even perfectly pixeled doubled, meaning Apple is already having to do a certain amount of like resolution changes to, to fit into their own, created by their, their own hubris, like way of insisting on, on only having like, like two x pixel doubling 18 years ago, we could have had independent, uh, resolutions, uh, um, for, for UI elements and, and, and window bars. But anyway, I, I’m, I’m digressing anyway. I was looking at trying to get either a second, uh, studio display, which I don’t wanna do because Apple’s reportedly going to be putting out a new one. Um, and they’re expensive or getting, um, there are now a number of different six K [00:35:00] displays that are not $6,000 that are on the market. So, um, uh, uh, Asus has one, um, there is one from like a, a Chinese company called like, or Q Con that, um, looks like a, a complete copy of this, of the pro display XDR. It has a different panel, but it’s, it’s six K and they, they’ve copied the whole design and it’s aluminum and it’s glossy and it looks great, but I’d have to like get it from like. A weird distributor, and if I have any issues with it, I don’t really wanna have to send it back to China and whatnot. And then LG has one that they just put out. And so I’ve been researching these on, on Mac rumors and on some other forums. And, um, I, uh, I, somebody in one of the Mac Roomers forums like posted that there was like a contest that LG was running in a few different subreddits where they were like, tell us why you should get one of, like, we’re gonna be giving away like either one or two monitors, and I guess they did this in a few subreddits. Tell us why this would be good for your workflow. And, um, I guess I, I guess I’m one of the people who kind of read the [00:36:00] assignment because it, okay, I’ll just be honest with this, with, with you guys on this podcast, uh, because I, I don’t think anyone from LG will hear this and my answers were accurate anyway. But anyway, this was not the sort of contest where it was like we will randomly select a winner. This was the moderators and lg, were going to read the responses and choose the winner. Jeff: Got it. Christina: So if you spend a little bit of time and thoughtfully write out a response, maybe you stand a better chance of winning the contest. Jeff: yeah, yeah. Put the work in like it was 2002. Christina: Right. Anyway, I still was shocked when I like woke up like on like Halloween and they were like, congratulations, you’ve won two monitors. I’m like, I’m sorry. What? Jeff: That’s amazing. Christina: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Jeff: Nice work. I know I’ve, you know, I’ve been staring at those boxes behind you this whole time, just being like, those look like some sweet monitors. Christina: yeah, yeah. Monitor Setup Challenges Christina: I mean, and, uh, [00:37:00] uh, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s, and I, I’m very much, so my, my, my only issue is, okay, how am I gonna get these on my desk? So I’m gonna have to do something with my iMac and I’m probably gonna have to get rid of my, my my, my 5K, um, uh, uh, studio display, at least in the short term. Ergotron Mounts and Tall Poles Christina: Um, but what I did do is I, um, I ordered from, um, Ergotron, ’cause I already have. Um, two of their, um, LX mounts, um, or, or, or, or arms. Um, and only one of them is being used right now. And then I have a different arm that I use for the, um, um, iMac. Um, they sell like a, if you call ’em directly, you can get them to send you a tall pole so that you can put the two arms on top of them. And that way I think I can like, have them so that I can have like one pole and then like have one on one side, one Jeff: I have a tall pole. Christina: and, and yeah, that’s what she said. Um, Jeff: as soon as I said it, I was like, for fuck’s sake. But Christina: um, but, uh, but, but yeah, but so that way I think I, I can, I, in theory, I can stack the market and have ’em side by side. I don’t know. Um, I got that. I, I had to call Tron and, and order that from them. [00:38:00] Um, it was only a hundred dollars for, for the poll and then $50 for a handling fee. Jeff: It’s not easy to ship a tall pole. Brett: That’s what she said. Christina: that is what she said. Uh, that is exactly what she said. But yeah, so I, I, the, the, the unfortunate thing is that, um, I, um, I, I had to, uh, get a, like all these, they, they came in literally right before Thanksgiving, and then I’ve had, like, all my back stuff has Jeff: Yeah, no Christina: debilitating, but I’m looking forward to, um, getting them set up and used. And, uh, yeah. Review Plans and Honest Assessments Christina: And then full review will be coming to, uh, to, I have to post a review on Reddit, but then I will also be doing a more in depth review, uh, on this podcast if anybody’s interested in, in other places too, to like, let let you know, like if it’s worth your money or not. Um, ’cause there, like I said, there are, there are a few other options out there. So it’s not one of those things where like, you know, um, like, thank you very much for the free monitor, um, monitors. But, but I, I will, I will give like the, the, you know, an honest assessment or Current Display Setup Brett: So [00:39:00] do you currently have a two display setup? Christina: No. Um, well, yes, and kind of, so I have my, my, I have my 5K studio display, and then I have like my iMac that I use as a two to display setup. But then otherwise, what I’ve had to do, and this is actually part of why I’m looking forward to this, is I have a 4K 27 inch monitor, but it’s garbage. And it, it’s one of those things where I don’t wanna use it with my Mac. And so I wind up only using it with my, with my Windows machine, with my framework desktop, um, with my Windows or Linux machine. And, and because that, even though I, it supports Thunderbolt, the Apple display is pain in the ass to use with those things. It doesn’t have the KVM built in. Like, it doesn’t like it, it just, it’s not good for that situation. So yeah, this will be of this size. I mean, again, like I, I, I’m 2 32 inch monitors. I don’t know how I’m gonna deal with that on my Jeff: I Brett: yeah. So right now I’m looking at 2 32 inch like UHD monitors, Christina: Yeah,[00:40:00] Brett: I will say that on days when my neck hurts, it sucks. It’s a, it’s too wide a range to, to like pan back and forth quickly. Like I’ll throw my back out, like trying to keep track of stuff. Um, but I have found that like if I keep the second display, just like maybe social media apps is the way I usually set it up. And then I only work on one. I tried buying an extra wide curve display, hated it. Jeff: Uh, I’ve always wanted to try one, but Christina: I don’t like them. Jeff: Yeah. Christina: Well, for me, well for me it’s two things. One, it’s the, I don’t love the whole like, you know, thing or whatever, but the big thing honestly there, if you could give me, ’cause people are like, oh, you can get a really big 5K, 2K display. I’m like, that’s not a 5K display. That is 2 27 inch, 1440 P displays. One, you know, ultra wide, which is great. Good for you. That’s not retina. And I’m a sicko Who [00:41:00] needs the, the pixel doubling? Like I wish that my eyes could not use that, but, but, but, Jeff: that needs the pixel. Like was that the headline of your Reddit, uh, Christina: no, no. It wasn’t, it wasn’t. But, but maybe it should be. Hi, I’m a sicko who only, um, fucks with, with, with, with, with, with, with retina displays. Ask me anything. Um, but no, but that’s a good point. Brett: I think 5K Psycho is the Christina: 5K Sicko is the po is the po title. I like that. I like that. No, what I’m thinking about doing and that’s great to know, Brett. Um, this kind of reaffirms my thing. Thunderbolt KVM and Display Preferences Christina: So what’s nice about these monitors is that they come with like, built in like, um, Thunderbolt 5K VM. So, which is nice. So you could conceivably have multiple, you know, computers, uh, connected, you know, to to, to one monitor, which I really like. Um, I mean like, ’cause like look, I, I’ve bitched and moaned about the studio display, um, primarily for the price, but at the same time, if mine broke tomorrow and if I didn’t have any way to replace it, I’ve, I’ve also gone on record saying I would buy a new one immediately. As mad as I am about a [00:42:00] lot of different things with that, that the built-in webcam is garbage. The, you know, the, the fact that there’s not a power button is garbage. The fact that you can’t use it with multiple inputs, it’s garbage. But it’s a really good display and it’s what I’m used to. Um, it’s really not any better than my LG Ultra fine from 2016. But you know what? Whatever it is, what it is. Um. I, I am a 5K sicko, but being able to, um, connect my, my personal machine and my work machine at the same time to one, and then have my Windows slash Linux computer connected to another, I think that’s gonna be the scenario where I’m in. So I’m not gonna necessarily be in a place where I’m like, okay, I need to try to look at both of them across 2 32 inch displays. ’cause I think that that, like, that would be awesome. But I feel like that’s too much. Brett: I would love a decent like Thunderbolt KVM setup that could actually swap like my hubs back and Christina: Yes. MacBook Pro and Studio Comparisons Brett: Um, so, ’cause I, I have a studio and I have my, uh, Infor MacBook Pro [00:43:00] and I actually work mostly on the MacBook Pro. Um, but if I could easily dock it and switch everything on my desk over to it, I would, I would work in my office more often. ’cause honestly, the M four MacBook Pro is, it’s a better machine than the original studio was. Um, and I haven’t upgraded my studio to the latest, but, um, I imagine the new one is top notch. Christina: Oh yeah. Yeah. Brett: my, my other one, a couple years old now is already long in the tooth. Christina: No, I mean, they’re still good. I mean, it’s funny, I saw that some YouTube video the other day where they were like, the best value MacBook you can get is basically a 4-year-old M1 max. And I was like, I don’t know about that guys. Like, I, I kind of disagree a little bit. Um, but the M1 max, which is I think is what is in the studio, is still a really, really good ship. But to your point, like they’ve made those, um. You know, the, the, the new ones are still so good. Like, I have an M three max as my personal laptop, and [00:44:00] that’s kind of like the dog chip in the, in the m um, series lineup. So I kind of am regretful for spending six grand on that one, but it is what it is, and I’m like, I’m not, I’m not upgrading. Um, I mean, maybe, maybe in, in next year if, if the M five Pro, uh, or M five max or whatever is, is really exceptional, maybe I’ll look at, okay, how much will you give me to, to trade it in? But even then, I, I, but I feel like I’m at that point where I’m like, it gets to a point where like it’s diminishing returns. Um, but, uh, just in terms of my own budget. But, um, yeah, the, the new just info like pro or or max, whatever, Brett: I have, I have an M four MacBook Pro sitting around that I keep forgetting to sell. Uh, it’s the one that I, it only had a 256 gigabyte hard drive, Jeff: what happened to me when I bought my M1, Brett: and I, and I regretted that enough that I just ordered another one. But, uh, for various reasons, I couldn’t just return the one I didn’t Jeff: ’cause it was.[00:45:00] Brett: so now I, now I have to sell it and I should sell it while it’s still a top of the line machine Christina: Sell it before, sell, sell, sell, sell it before next month, um, or, or February or whenever they sell it before then the, the pros come out. ’cause right now the M five base is out, but the pros are not. So I think feel like you could still get most of your value for it, especially since it has very few battery cycles. Be sure to put the battery cycles on your Facebook marketplace or eBay thing or whatever. Um, I bought my, uh, she won’t listen to this so she won’t know, but, um, they, there was a, a killer Cyber Monday deal, uh, for Best Buy where they had like a, the, the, the, so it’s several years old, but it was the, the M two MacBook Air, but the one that they upgraded to 16 gigs of Ram when Apple was like, oh, we have to have Apple Intelligence and everything, because they actually thought that they were actually gonna ship Apple Intelligence. So they like went back and they, like, they, they, you know, retconned like made the base model MacBook Air, like 16 [00:46:00] gigs. Um, and, uh, anyway, it was, it was $600, um, Jeff: still crazy. Christina: which, which like even for like a, a, a 2-year-old machine or whatever, I was like, yeah, she, my sister, I think she’s on like, like a 2014 or older than that. Like, like MacBook Air. She doesn’t even know where the MagSafe is. I don’t think she even knows where the laptop is. So she’s basically doing everything like on her phone and I’m like, okay, you need a laptop of some type, but at this point. I do feel strongly that like the, the, the $600 or, or, or actually I think it was $650, it was actually less, it is actually more expensive than what the, the, the Cyber Monday sale was, um, the M1, Walmart, MacBook Air. I’m like, absolutely not like that is at this point, do not buy that. Right? Like, I, especially with eight gigs of ram, I’m, I’m like, it’s been, it’s five years old. It’s a, it was a great machine and it was great value for a long time. $200. Cool, right? Like, if you could get something like use and, and, and, and if you could replace the battery or, you know, [00:47:00] for, for, you know, not, not too much money or whatever. Like, I, I, I could see like an argument to be made like value, right? But there’d be no way in hell that I would ever spend or tell anybody else to spend $650 on that new, but $600 for an M two with Jeff: Now we’re talking. Christina: which has the redesign brand new. I’m like, okay. Spend $150 more and you could have got the M four, um, uh, MacBook Air, obviously all around Better Machine. But for my sister, she doesn’t need that, Jeff: What do we have to do to put your sister in this M two MacBook Christina: that, that, that, that, that, that’s exactly it. So I, I, I was, well, also, it was one of those things I was like, I think that she would rather me spend the money on toys for my nephew for Santa Claus than, than, uh, giving her like a, a processor upgrade. Um, Jeff: Claus isn’t real. Brett: Oh shit. Jeff: Gotcha. Every year I spoil it for somebody. This year it was Christina and Brett. Sorry guys. Brett: right. Well, can I tell you guys Jeff: Yeah. [00:48:00] Brett Software. Brett: two quick projects before we do Jeff: Hold on. You don’t have to be quick ’cause you could call it Brett: We’re already at 45 minutes and I want Jeff: What I’m saying, skip GrAPPtitude. This is it? Brett: okay. Christina: us about Mark. Tell us about your projects. Brett: So, so Mark three is, there’s a public, um, test flight beta link. Uh, if you go to marked app.com, not marked two app.com, uh, marked app.com. Uh, you, there’s a link in the, in the, at the top for Christina: Join beta. Mm-hmm. Brett: Um, and that is public and you can join it and you can send me feedback directly through email because, um, uh, uh, the feedback reporter sucks for test flight and you can’t attach files. And half the time they come through as anonymous feedback and I can’t even follow up on ’em. So email me. But, um, I’ll be announcing that on my blog soon-ish. Um, right now there’s like [00:49:00] maybe a couple dozen, um, testers and I, it’s nice and small and I’m solving the biggest bugs right away. Um, so that’s been, that’s been big. Like Mark, even since we last talked has added. Do you remember Jeff when Merlin was on and he wanted to. He wanted to be able to manage his styles, um, and disable built-in styles. There’s now a whole table based style manager where you Jeff: saw that. Brett: you can, you can reorder, including built-in styles. You can reorder, enable, disable, edit, duplicate. Um, it’s like a full, full fledged, um, style manager. And I just built a whole web app that is a style generator that gives you, um, automatic like rhythm calculations for your CSS and you can, you can control everything through like, uh, like UI fields instead of having to [00:50:00] write CSS. Uh, but you can also o open up a very, I’ve spent a lot of time on the code mirror CSS editor in the web app. Uh, so, and it’s got live preview as you edit in the code mirror field. Um, so that’s pretty cool. And that’s built into marts. So if you go to style, um, generate style, it’ll load up a, a style generator for you. Anyway, there’s, there’s a ton. I’m not gonna go into all the details, but, uh, anyone listening who uses markdown for anything, especially if you want ability to export to like Word and epub and advanced PDF export, um, join the beta. Let me know what you think. Uh, help me squash bugs. But the other thing, every time I push a beta for review before the new bug reports come in, I’ve been putting time into a tool. Markdown Processor: Apex Brett: I’m calling [00:51:00] Apex and um, I haven’t publicly announced this one yet, but I probably will by the time this podcast comes out. Jeff: I mean, doesn’t this count? Brett: It, it does. I’m saying like this, this might be a, you hear you heard it here first kind of thing, um, but if you go to github.com/tt sc slash apex, um, I built a, uh, pure C markdown processor that combines syntax from cram down GitHub flavored markdown, multi markdown maku, um, common mark. And basically you can write syntax from any of those processors, including all of their special features, um, and in one document, and then use Apex in its unified mode, and it’ll just figure out what. All of your syntax is supposed to do. Um, so you can take, you can port documents from one platform to another [00:52:00] without worrying about how they’re gonna render. Um, if I can get any kind of adoption with Apex, it could solve a lot of problems. Um, I built it because I want to make it the default processor in marked ’cause right now, you, you have to choose, you know, cram Christina: Which one? Brett: mark and, and choosing one means you lose something in order to gain something. Um, so I wanted to build a universal one that brought together everything. And I added cool features from some extensions of other languages, such as if you have two lists in a row, normally in markdown, it’s gonna concatenate those into one list. Now you can put a carrot on a line between the two lists and it’ll break it into two lists. I also added support for a. An extension to cram down that lets you put double uh, carrots inside a table cell and [00:53:00] create a row band. So like a cell that, that expands it, you rows but doesn’t expand the rest of the row. Um, so you can do cell spans and row spans and it has a relaxed table version where you don’t have to have an alignment row, which is, uh, sometimes we just wanna make quickly table. You make two lines. You put some pipes in. This will, if there’s no alignment row, it will generate a table with just a table body and table data cells in no header. It also allows footers, you can add a footer to a table by using equals in the separator line. Um, it, it’s, Jeff: This is very civilized, Brett: it is. Christina: is amazing, Brett: So where Common Mark is extremely strict about things, um, apex is extremely permissive. Jeff: also itty bitty things like talk about the call out boxes from like Brett: oh yeah, it, it can handle call out syntax from Obsidian and Bear and Xcode Playgrounds. [00:54:00] Um, and it incorporates all of Mark’s syntax for like file includes and even renders like auto scroll pauses that work in marked and some other teleprompter situations. Um, it uses file ude syntax from multi markdown, like, which is just like a curly brace and, uh, marked, which is, uh, left like a double left, uh, angle bracket and then different. Brackets to surround a file name and it handles IA writer file inclusion where you just type a forward slash and then the name of a file and it automatically detects if that file is an image or source code or markdown text, and it will import it accordingly. And if it’s a CSV file, it’ll generate a table from it automatically. It’s, it’s kind of nuts. I, it’s kind of nuts. I could not have done this [00:55:00] without copilot. I, I am very thankful for copilot because my C skills are not, would not on their own, have been up to this task. I know enough to bug debug, but yeah, a lot of these features I got a big hand from copilot on. Jeff: This is also Brett. This is some serious Brett Terpstra. TURPs Hard Christina: Yeah, it is. I was gonna say, this is like Jeff: and also that’s right. Also, if your grandma ever wrote you a note and it, and though you couldn’t really read it, it really well, that renders perfectly Christina: Amazing. No, I was gonna say this is like, okay, so Apex is like the perfect name ’cause this is the apex of Brett. Jeff: Yes. Apex of Brett. Christina: That’s also that, that’s, that’s not an alternate episode title Apex of Brett. Because genuinely No, Brett, like I am, I am so stunned and impressed. I mean, you all, you always impressed me like you are the most impressive like developer that I, that I’ve ever known. But you, this is incredible. And, and this, I, I love this [00:56:00] because as you said, like common Mark is incredibly strict. This is incredibly permissive. But this is great. ’cause there are those scenarios where you might have like, I wanna use one feature from one thing or one from another, or I wanna combine things in various ways, or I don’t wanna have to think about it, you know? Brett: I aals, I forgot to mention I aals inline attribute list, which is a crammed down feature that lets you put curly brackets after like a paragraph and then a colon and then say, dot call out inside the curly brackets. And then when it renders the markdown, it creates that paragraph and adds class equals call out to the paragraph. Um, and in, in Cramon you can apply these to everything from list items to list to block quotes. Like you can do ’em for spans. You could like have one after, uh, link syntax and just apply, say dot external to a link. So the IAL syntax can add IDs classes and uh, arbitrary [00:57:00] attributes to any element in your markdown when it renders to HTML. And, uh, and Apex has first class support for I aals. Was really, that was, that Christina: that was really hard, Brett: I wrote it because I wanted, I wanted multi markdown, uh, for my prose writing, but I really missed the als. Christina: Yes. Okay. Because see, I run into this sort of thing too, right? Because like, this is a problem like that. I mean, it’s a very niche problem, um, that, that, you know, people who listen to this podcast probably are more familiar with than other types of people. But like, when you have to choose your markdown processor, which as you said, like Brett, like that can be a problem. Like, like with, with using Mark or anything else, you’re like, what am I giving up? What do I have? And, and like for me, because I started using mul, you know, markdown, um, uh, largely because of you, um, I think I was using it, I knew about it before you, but largely because of, of, of you, like multi markdown has always been like kind of my, or was historically my flavor of choice. It has since shifted to being [00:58:00] GitHub, labor bird markdown. But that’s just because the industry has taken that on, right? But there were, you know, certain things like in like, you know, multi markdown that work a certain way. And then yeah, there are things in crammed down. There are things in these other things in like, this is just, this is awesome. This Brett: It is, the whole thing is built on top of C mark, GFM, which is GitHub’s port of common mark with the GitHub flavored markdown Christina: Right. Brett: Um, and I built, like, I kept that as a sub-module, totally clean, and built all of this as extensions on top of Cmar, GFM, which, you know, so it has full compatibility with GitHub and with Common Merck by out, like outta the box. And then everything else is built on top of that. So it, uh, it covers, it covers all the bases. You’ll love it Christina: I’m so excited. No, this is awesome. And I Brett: blazing fast. It can render, I have a complex document that, that uses all of its features and it can render it in [00:59:00] 0.006 seconds. Christina: that’s awesome. Jeff: Awesome. Christina: That’s so cool. No, this is great. And yeah, I, and I think that honestly, like this is the sort of thing like if, yeah, if you can eventually get this to like be like the engine that powers like mark three, like, that’ll be really slick, right? Because then like, yeah, okay, I can take one document and then just, you know, kind of, you know, wi with, with the, you know, ha have, have the compatibility mode where you’re like, okay, the unified mode or whatever yo