Hacker Slacker

Hacker Slacker

By Jacob PeddicordTechnology
Download on the App Store

Hacker Slacker episodes

  • 11: Apple Aquires AR Glasses Startup
    Todays Story
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17873613
    Recommend Reads
    1. Norway's Plan for a Fleet of Electric Planes
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17873915
    2. Ask HN: What do you struggle with?
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17867109
    3. We Spent $3.3M Buying Out Investors: Why and How We Did It
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17870501
    2 min
  • 10: Data Over Light
    Main Story
    Novel Attack Technique Uses Smart Light Bulbs to Steal Data
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17855789
    Recommended Reads
    1. Cigarette butts are the single greatest source of ocean trash
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17852254
    2. AMD Announces Dual-Vega Radeon Pro V340 Card with 32GB of ECC HBM Memory
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17851025
    3. Hacking law firms with abandoned domain names
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17845112
    2 min
  • 9: Tesla Semi Roadtrip
    Today's Story
    Tesla Semi made it ‘across the country alone’
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17842009
    Recommended Reads
    1. Phone Numbers Were Never Meant as ID. Now We’re All at Risk
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17845963
    2. A spreadsheet of the businesses I've started over the past 15 years
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17845411
    3. China Built the World’s Largest Telescope, Then Came the Tourists
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17846986
    2 min
  • 8: Magic Leap One Teardown
    In this episode I cover iFixit’s tear down of the device that is supposed to bring on a new age of computing.
    Magic Leap One Teardown
    https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Magic+Leap+One+Teardown/112245
    Recommended Reads
    1. HOW AN INTERNATIONAL HACKER NETWORK TURNED STOLEN PRESS RELEASES INTO $100 MILLION
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17831975
    2. Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17820626
    3. Netflix is the latest company to try bypassing Apple’s app store
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17829656
    2 min
  • 7: YC Demo Day 2
    In the second day of my YC Demo Day coverage, I have 5 new startups you need to check out.
    1. Titan
    https://www.titanvest.com
    2. Papa
    https://www.joinpapa.com
    3. Berbix
    https://berbix.com
    4. FoodSafe
    https://iwaspoisoned.com
    5. Outvote
    https://www.outvote.io
    3 min
  • 6: YC Demo Day 1
    Today is another special episode where I cover the most interesting companies from the first day of Y Combinators Demo Days.
    1. Grabb-it
    https://grabb.io
    2. Phiar
    https://www.linkedin.com/company/phiar/
    3. Mac'd
    https://getmacd.com
    4. Aalo
    https://shop.aalo.co
    5. Higia
    https://www.higia.tech/en/index#data-modal-rocio
    4 min
  • 5: New Macs and Venezuela
    This episode I cover rumors of new Macs from Apple and the crazy recent events in Venezuela.
    Main Story
    Apple Is Planning a New Low-Cost MacBook, Pro-Focused Mac Mini
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17802892
    Venezuela Stories
    Venezuela’s New Currency Sows Confusion and Shutters Stores
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/world/americas/venezuela-currency-economy.html
    2 Blasts, a Stampede and a ‘Flying Thing’: Witnesses Tell of Attack on Maduro
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/05/world/americas/venezuela-drone-attack-nicolas-maduro.html
    Venezuela hit by 7.3-magnitude earthquake
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/22/venezuela-earthquake-caracas-hit-caribbean
    2 min
  • 4: Lifeguard Drone
    In this episode, I cover a story about a new type of drone to save drowning people.
    Main Story
    Lifeguard Drone Rescues Swimmer in Spain
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17791428
    Recommended Reads
    1. New evidence challenges the story of the Stanford Prison Experiment
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17796953
    2. Don’t Do This in Production
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17794509​
    3. Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to do stuff
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17797355
    2 min
  • 3: Netflix Removes Comments
    The most important post from today was about Netflix removing reviews from their platform.
    Top Story
    Netflix Has Deleted Every User Review Ever Posted to Its Website
    Recommended Reads
    1. Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17791766
    2. Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018 – Show and tell
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17790306
    3. The 1970s calculator race
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17791985
    A Twitter​ thread that is way cooler then it sounds.
    2 min
  • 2: Service Workers
    Today's episode covers an explainer on service workers, one of the keys to a new paradigm of web development, progressive web applications.
    Main Story
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17773828
    Recommended Reads
    1. How to Write Unmaintainable Code (2017)
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17781475
    A sarcastic aproach to explaining good coding practice, worth a look no matter your skill level.
    2. Show HN: Map of Related Books for “Designing Data Intensive Apps”
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17784308
    If you're into data visualization this is data viz of data design.
    3. Two French rivers disappear underground in cracks and sinkholes
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17782892
    Crazy sinkhole issue in France that drained a river disrupting the local ecosystem.
    2 min

About Hacker Slacker

From the publisher's feed

Hacker Slacker is a tech news podcast by two college students, Jacob Peddicord and Andre Garivay. We talk about news, productivity, and interview interesting people.