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  • [#114] The meme of a meme search engine

    We discuss touchscreens in cars, text to speech, and gail.com. A rant about cross platform libraries is included free of charge.


    • Study finds that buttons in cars are safer and quicker to use than touchscreens
    • Lottie 4.0 for iOS: new render engine with significant performance improvements
    • Building an internet-scale meme search engine
    • Text to Speech: VALLE
    • Text to Speech: Apple Books
    • Text to Speech: This voice does not exist
    • Gail dot com
      • 40 min
    • [#113] Weird websites, dark skies, and spookiness galore

      September 15, 2022

      • Patreon lays off 17% of Staff https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32826610
      • Twilio to lay off 11% of workforce https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32837802
      • Don’t be spooky https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32863175
      • Increase https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32828669
      • Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32884467
      • Uber investigating breach of its computer systems https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32860728
      • Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32804832
      • Gen Z never learned to read cursive https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32884213
      • Dark Sky shutting down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32817555
        • 41 min
      • [#112] Long live the iPhone Plus Pro Max Ultra

        Queen Elizabeth has died https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32768834

        dang's "royalist" comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769925

        The rise of workplace surveillance [audio] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32603565

        An HN profile worth perusing https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=kennethfriedman

        AirPods Pro 2nd Gen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32754440

        Globalstar SEC filing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32754963

        I Got Banned for Life from Airbnb (2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32761930

        Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32746922

        Steve Jobs emails himself (2010) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32761060

        51 min
      • [#111] Google Timer, gone and back again

        Links covered:

        • Reflections on my time in Y Combinator
        • Removal of Heroku free product plans
        • Google Timer is back
        • Design the next iPhone
        • Shazam turns 20
        • Fakery: An odd discovery on Spotify 
        • Fakery: Fake IMDB credits
        • Fakery: More content by people, for people in Search
        • Fakery: The coming tsunami of fakery
          • 39 min
        • [#110] Dots, Buttons, and Booms

          Engineering Festivus

          Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012)

          Is there a spiritual successor to delicious

          Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds

          Logistics

          American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft

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          Leave a Review @colinhacks @futurekennysf

          40 min
        • [#109] Layoffs, Salt Water, and Drawings

          Articles covered:

          • Things I Have Drawn is a site in which the things kids draw are real 
          • Dalle-2 Prompt Book 
          • Part of my code makes Copilot crash 
          • Robinhood lays off 23% of staff 
          • Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding 
          • MIT invents $4 solar desalination device 
          • Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
            • 37 min
          • [#108] The music streaming wars, 1x engineers, and how to lose at Wordle

            Spotify table of songs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31618092 

            Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31618746

            GitHub user sends notification to 400k users https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31627061

            Coinbase “Update on hiring plans” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31600505

            1x Engineer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31568895

            Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31572258

            Spotify podcasters are making $18k a month with nothing but white noise https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31630148

            33 min
          • [#107] Metaverses, Selling Homes, and Fusion

            We discuss whether the metaverse is bullshit, is the internet, or is minecraft. What's Sam Altman up to today? And how much money can you lose from automating home sales?


            Links

            • Physics Student Earns PhD at Age 89
            • The metaverse is bullshit
            • The metaverse is already here, it's called the internet
            • The metaverse is already here – it's Minecraft
            • Review: The 14-inch MacBook Pro Resets the Timeline
            • Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public
            • Now you can (try to) serve five terabytes, too
            • Backblaze S-1 IPO
            • The 3-2-1 Backup Strategy
            • HashiCorp – S1 IPO
            • Zillow to stop flipping homes, loses more than $550M, lays off 25% of staff
            • Keith Rabois's Twitter
            • Helion
              • 30 min
            • [#105] Be smart and look stupid

              MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

              Building an ULTRA-BRIGHT water-cooled TV

              Willingness to look stupid

              Beyond Smart

              Facebook chooses profits over people

              Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand

              20 min

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