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Show HN: Scroll Podcasts Like TikTok
by conradbez | 2026-01-10 00:53:30+00:00
YouTube takes free uploaded podcasts clips and charges us outrageous premium fees to view.

The obvious alternative is to use a podcast app but I like the 10-20min clips and recommendation engine on YouTube. So I built podtoc.com to serve LLM generated podcast clips youtube-feed style.

The Tech:

- LLM Pipeline: I built a pipeline to extract meaningful clips from long-form content, specifically designed to capture one of the core insights covered in the podcast.

- Recommendation Engine: Suggests clips based on previous listening to solve the discovery problem.

- The App: A React Native (Web/iOS) app featuring a "swipe to next" UI for seamless browsing.

If this sounds like a problem you’ve faced, I’d love to hear:

1. Which podcasts would you like to see added to the library?

2. Any feedback on the UI or bugs you encounter?

3. Any questions about the pipeline or suggestions for the recommendation logic? (would love to open source after some cleanup)

Check it out: https://podtoc.com/app
by whackernews | 2026-01-10 00:53:35+00:00
Your comment makes me think about my situation. I am an open person that likes to try to make strangers laugh and people often are comfortable striking up conversations and opening up to me.

Recently I was essentially conned by a guy who I thought was being friendly but he ended up walking off with my phone and PIN (that I’m guessing he saw me enter earlier) and emptied my bank account. This was my payment for being open and obviously too trusting of strangers.

It seems more recently whenever I spend time out in public all I see are people on their phones, people driving around not paying attention, no one doing anything with any actual care and I seem to keep literally stepping in other peoples dog shit. I now have quite a negative view of the general public and I tend to think they are mostly morons that don’t give a fuck about anybody or anything but themselves.

I don’t actually want to be like this. I liked the authors idea of “pronoia” but I don’t see any way there for me. I’d say I’m still a positive and open person really but inside I hold quite a bit of hate for people in general.
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-10 00:53:52+00:00
Pfizer ad or not I'll say my AD experience was positive. I got it prescribed by a psychiatric NP in a time when my job situation was about to go to hell but I was planning to tough it out till I got the project done.

I did get the sexual side effects but because men often come too quick it can be a blessing as much as a curse, personally I found it took longer to orgasm and when it did happen it was a much more complex and richer experience with a definite periodization I haven't had before or since.

When I was taking ADs I did have problems I blamed on the ADs that really had to do with the "non-drowsy" antihistamine I was taking crossing my blood brain barrier anyway.

When I did stop ADs I tapered over a month and the physical effects were not bad at all. It was the beginning of a time of personal growth that I can look back on now and think it worked out great but was challenging for the people around me for a while.
by venusenvy47 | 2026-01-10 00:54:15+00:00
Overstaying a visa, which is the most common way to be "illegal" is literally not a crime and is not handled by criminal courts in the US. It is strictly a civil matter handled by civil courts (which can't impose jail time, by definition.) Sneaking into the country is a federal crime (a misdemeanor for the first offense and a felony for the second) and is handled by criminal courts.
by jerlam | 2026-01-10 00:54:38+00:00
I would expect a regional system to connect an entire regional area.

Caltrain connects two parts of the Bay Area: San Francisco and the South Bay. BART connects the entire East Bay to San Francisco. In a functioning system, they would both just be legs and not two completely separate systems.

The only place they connect appears to be in Millbrae and not near any large hubs.
by mc32 | 2026-01-10 00:55:33+00:00
If the ABAG had power, I would have them replace Caltrain with BaRT to make a it a loop around the SF/SP Bay Area and tear out CalTrain. Caltrain remains because the tracks are used by UP --if it were not UP's right-of-way, BaRT could have that corridor. BaRT could still work if they did cut-and-cover to build a parallel line under the Camino Real. Granted that'd be a lot of money today --they should have bought in back in the 60s. I know, hindsight and all.

The main issue then would be what to do about Gilroy --they can keep Caltrain for that like the ACE does for the East SF Bay.
by zahlman | 2026-01-10 00:55:45+00:00
I... really don't know if I'd go that far. Better not to abuse Fastly's good will in providing the bandwidth. These things have PyPI distributions specifically because they support legitimate Python projects. For example, Cmake and Ninja are part of a stack intended to support building things for the SciPy ecosystem, using scikit-build. The CUDA stuff is obviously relevant to PyTorch, Tensorflow et. al. And (per the README) "The ziglang Python package redistributes the Zig toolchain so that it can be used as a dependency of Python projects."
by D-Machine | 2026-01-10 00:56:29+00:00
Nope, you can't say how many people return to average from standardized effect sizes. I wish we had a standardized effect size that was more useful and actually meant something. Cohen actually proposed something called a U3 statistic that told us the percent overlap of two distributions, but that still doesn't tell us anything meaningful about practical significance.

You can't make decisions / determine clinical value from standardized effect sizes sadly, so when I see studies like this, my assumption is unfortunately that the researchers care only about publishing, and not about making their findings useful :(
by anildash | 2026-01-10 00:57:23+00:00
It took me a long time to see the variations as a plus and not a minus; as a veteran of the RSS-vs-Atom wars, I was long an advocate of Technical Correctness(tm) like any good coder. But the years since then have made me a lot more amenable to what I think of as a sort of Practical Postelism, which I guess is like applied worse-is-better, where we realize the reality is that we'll _always_ have forks and multiplicities, so we should see it as a feature instead of a bug. It's like accepting that hardware will fail, and building it into the system.

I mean, HTML itself is well specified in the streets, and infinitely different flavors in the sheets. I don't _like_ that, the part of me that writes code _hates_ that. But the part of me that wants systems to succeed just had to sort of respect it.
by GuB-42 | 2026-01-10 00:57:52+00:00
Not only that but Markdown use the conventions people already used in text files (point 3 in the article). People wrote Markdown before Markdown existed, they just formalized it.

In fact, I like to write notes and documentation in text form, and then I notice I have been using Markdown all along, so I rename my text file into .md, fix a couple of markers, and now it looks nice on a viewer that supports markdown, and I have syntax highlighting in my text editor.
by lovich | 2026-01-10 00:58:57+00:00
Threatens retaliation against the individuals in Italy directly on top of the government, and I notice he specified "based in Italy" not "Italian citizen".

Then goes on to thank JD Vance, and crow about Elon "I censor anyone who offends my ego" Musk as being right on Free Speech being in danger.

Also the "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes." which sounds synonymous with FAFO which this admin is using to mean "if you resist us, we will hurt you"

If he had just said that Cloudflare is unwilling to comply with these terms and is leaving the Italian market as such, that would be one thing, but this reads like he just ordered his MAGA hat and is going to suck up to the current admin to get them to pressure another country.

Lets add the hypocrisy here too, since he says that countries shouldn't regulate outside their borders, and is then running to Uncle Same for support

> "I will be in DC first thing next week to discuss this with U.S. administration officials...

> We believe Italy, like all countries, has a right to regulate the content on networks inside its borders. But they must do so following the Rule of Law and principles of Due Process. And Italy certainly has no right to regulate what is and is not allowed on the Internet in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Brazil, India or anywhere outside its borders.
by chiengineer | 2026-01-10 00:58:57+00:00
I said this probably more than 10 times at this point spread out over like 5 plus years

Advertising needs to be taxed a 90% advertising tax

Reign in on the marketing. There is no social media without advertising

Advertisers and marketers and data brokers and all the privacy stuff needs to be fixed Will it ever happen probably not

What kind of billionaire out there is going to send the money to Congress to pass those bills no one not even Bill Gates

Good luck trying to do that as a citizen
by pfdietz | 2026-01-10 00:59:15+00:00
Tao has a comment relevant to that question:

"I doubt that anything resembling genuine "artificial general intelligence" is within reach of current #AI tools. However, I think a weaker, but still quite valuable, type of "artificial general cleverness" is becoming a reality in various ways.

By "general cleverness", I mean the ability to solve broad classes of complex problems via somewhat ad hoc means. These means may be stochastic or the result of brute force computation; they may be ungrounded or fallible; and they may be either uninterpretable, or traceable back to similar tricks found in an AI's training data. So they would not qualify as the result of any true "intelligence". And yet, they can have a non-trivial success rate at achieving an increasingly wide spectrum of tasks, particularly when coupled with stringent verification procedures to filter out incorrect or unpromising approaches, at scales beyond what individual humans could achieve.

This results in the somewhat unintuitive combination of a technology that can be very useful and impressive, while simultaneously being fundamentally unsatisfying and disappointing - somewhat akin to how one's awe at an amazingly clever magic trick can dissipate (or transform to technical respect) once one learns how the trick was performed.

But perhaps this can be resolved by the realization that while cleverness and intelligence are somewhat correlated traits for humans, they are much more decoupled for AI tools (which are often optimized for cleverness), and viewing the current generation of such tools primarily as a stochastic generator of sometimes clever - and often useful - thoughts and outputs may be a more productive perspective when trying to use them to solve difficult problems."

This comment was made on Dec. 15, so I'm not entirely confident he still holds it?

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115722360006034040
by itopaloglu83 | 2026-01-10 01:00:03+00:00
> It is not charity but a business decision that benefits them.

Of course it benefits them, it's a private enterprise, not a local government providing trash service.

No one also can force them to provide such a service, try to control their global operations which is outside of Italy's jurisdiction, and if they're not making any more they can pack their stuff and leave.
by nxobject | 2026-01-10 01:02:32+00:00
> On the flip side, I find it shocking that ridership is still only 60% of pre-pandemic levels.

My understand is that it's been true of commuter rail everywhere - e.g. a Twin Cities commuter railroad has shut down as well due to declining ridership.

https://www.progressiverailroading.com/passenger_rail/news/M...

Here's a relatively rigorous report from the GAO synthesizing cross-US experiences:

https://www.gao.gov/blog/most-commuter-rail-systems-are-stil...

My understanding is that there's a decline in transit use in general, but I would hazard to guess that the emphasis on commuters has hit commuter rail the hardest.
by bediger4000 | 2026-01-10 01:02:37+00:00
Bloomberg attributes irreversible transactions as part of the reason for physically violent attacks.

The cryptopunks anticipated a lot of effects that cryptocurrency would have. Did they predict the violent attacks to induce an irreversible transaction?

I've speculated that scammers like Alex Jones boost Bitcoin because cryptocurrency refunds would be solely at the scammers discretion, no credit card charge backs.
by bisby | 2026-01-10 01:02:51+00:00
> Then release it under a copyleft license. Or if you absolutely must, release your proprietary bit under a non-open source license

An old mentor once said to me that a contract is just the start of a conversation. If you sign a contract, the other party violates it, and your business goes under... you may be able to get some compensation through courts, but also your business is gone. And getting that compensation and proving that the contract was violated and how much you are entitled to costs time and money.

Releasing something at all, even under a restrictive license, means nothing if you have no intention (or capability) of enforcing that license. Look at how often companies take GPL code, modify it, and then never publish their modifications... and then people have to sue to get things resolved.

So "We aren't ready to commit the legal resources to fighting and defending the licenses" makes a LOT of sense. IP protection is not just a matter of signing a piece of paper saying people can't do a thing, you have to actually prevent them from doing the thing.
by anamax | 2026-01-10 01:02:52+00:00
> My suspicion is that we are in Ptolemaic state as far as GPT like models are concerned. We will eventually understand them better once we figure out what's the better coordinate system to think about their dynamics in.

Most deep learning systems are learned matrices that are multiplied by "problem-instance" data matrices to produce a prediction matrix. The time to do said matrix-multiplication is data-independent (assuming that the time to do multiply-adds is data-independent).

If you multiply both sides by the inverse of the learned matrix, you get an equation where finding the prediction matrix is a solving problem, where the time to solve is data dependent.

Interestingly enough, that time is sort-of proportional to the difficulty of the problem for said data.

Perhaps more interesting is that the inverse matrix seems to have row artifacts that look like things in the training data.

These observations are due to Tsvi Achler.
by nebula8804 | 2026-01-10 01:02:55+00:00
>and other car makes are slowing down or cancelling EV developments.

The sales didn't materialize plus they were forced to do so by governments and short term investors that saw Tesla's stock shoot up. Now GM is writing off ~7 billion dollars. Whats worse is when Dems take back the white house, they will force the automakers to go back to green again. This back and forth is going to lead to disaster.
by neysofu | 2026-01-10 01:03:02+00:00
> You do what a country tells you to do as a foreigner, or you leave.

I suppose you're right. You're still allowed to criticize the government's decisions though! This is certainly true in Italy, which has quite reasonable laws with regards to freedom of speech.

> what is he aiming to achieve here by disrespecting their government

Western government instituitions are hardly sacred. Again, people are allowed to criticize them, or disrespect them event if they so desire. What he's trying to achieve is a more just and reasonable application of the law, as it's quite clear if you'll care to carefully read the tweet instead of raging at his supposed disrespect for the Italian government.
by itopaloglu83 | 2026-01-10 01:03:24+00:00
It's all a racket to extract money from Italians, not enforcing IP rights.

Just like it's mentioned in Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu, some organizations are designed to extract resources from masses. Italian loves soccer and some big shots managed to get the TV rights for a per-pay service, and that's why they're pushing for so hard. Otherwise I don't think Italian courts would go after people selling pirated DVDs on the streets of Milan.
by maxwells-daemon | 2026-01-10 01:03:26+00:00
I work at Harmonic, the company behind Aristotle.

To clear up a few misconceptions:

- Aristotle uses modern AI techniques heavily, including language modeling.

- Aristotle can be guided by an informal (English) proof. If the proof is correct, Aristotle has a good chance at translating it into Lean (which is a strong vote of confidence that your English proof is solid). I believe that's what happened here.

- Once a proof is formalized into Lean (assuming you have formalized the statement correctly), there is no doubt that the proof is correct. This is the core of our approach: you can do a lot of (AI-driven) search, and once you find the answer you are certain it's correct no matter how complex the solution is.

Happy to answer any questions!
by quotemstr | 2026-01-10 01:03:57+00:00
LIRR still had to do plenty of tunneling to build the East Side Access station though. Still, it opened in 2023! NYC is also still building the second avenue subway --- slowly, haltingly, and at near-ruinous expense, but it's actually a real expansion to the network is actually happening. By US standards, that's a miracle.
by sarchertech | 2026-01-10 01:04:03+00:00
I’m not doubting that your schedule works for you, I’m just saying that it’s at the extreme of what is feasible with young kids.

> neither kid has ever got themselves out of bed in the morning

My wife is a pediatrician. This is so incredibly not normal to have 2 kids that absolutely never get up early that you won the lottery. And not the regular jackpot. You won the powerball multi-state $500 million lottery.

> For our own sanity wrt my wife and I's schedules, we hang with friends on the weekend. Weekends are a lot more freeform for us.

I wish I knew what a weekend was. My wife works in the ER, as do many of our friends.

> Naturally, whoever isn't playing with the kids just falls into keeping the laundry moving and cleaning the kitchen.

There’s so much more daily maintenance work for our house than an hour a night for one person.

Just making my kids lunch for the next day takes me 15 minutes. It takes me 20-30 minutes to fold one load of laundry.

And the irregular things I mentioned were just a tiny part of it. The other day my 4 year old got a whole stack of puzzles down and the 2 year old immediately dumped out all the pieces. Took me 2 hours to sort that out. Last week the tankless hot water started randomly cutting out and I spent 2 hours dealing with that.

Yesterday we took 2 of our 3 kids for a well check to their pediatrician. For some reason it took 1.5 hours instead of the 30 minutes we had planned. A few months ago one of my many spoke alarms started randomly going off once a night for a few days until I could track down the problem. 3 months ago my 2 year old tripped on the very bottom stair and had a freak fracture. That took hours of time up front and then reverted to crawling for 9 days. And for 6 weeks he had to wear a boot that I had to remove and reapply multiple times a day.

Our 2 month old blew out her diaper a few days ago and I had to take all the padding off, wash it, then figure out how to put it back on. Big storm recently knocked most of our Christmas wreathes off and I had to deal with that.

My kid was recently “snack leader” for his preschool class, which means for a week I had to make healthy snacks for the whole class.

All of that is just the random stuff that has popped up over the last few months that I can think of.

The original post who mentioned this kind of thing isn’t feasible with kids was correct. 2-2.5 hours of exercise/meditation and a full workday isn’t something that most people with kids can pull off.
by cratermoon | 2026-01-10 01:04:48+00:00
No.
Perhaps I should have noted that LANL was established in 1943.
They obviously used film,
and more obviously would not have sent it to some random lab for processing.
Did they lose that capability?

Also, LANL is an exception to general gutting of federal agencies.
It's been given a record budget this FY.
https://sourcenm.com/briefs/lanl-expecting-boon-from-congres...
That budget was set in the Biden administration.
The current administration wants to resume nuclear weapons testing. https://www.npr.org/2025/10/30/nx-s1-5590818/trump-nuclear-t...

Speaking of privatization, LANL is privately managed and operated by Triad National Security, LLC.
by kentonv | 2026-01-10 01:05:40+00:00
That's a bit of an exaggeration. A quick look at the schedule shows they do have multiple trains running in each direction during peak hours:

https://www.capmetro.org/plan/schedmap?route=550

But much of the length is, in fact, single-track, making scheduling hard and meaning if a train is late or breaks down it disrupts the whole system.

And it's honestly pretty silly to see a train with the form factor of light rail but diesel-powered.

Voters did approve a proper light rail system in 2020 but it's gonna take a while to build and has already been scaled back twice, sigh...
by jibal | 2026-01-10 01:06:14+00:00
You seriously don't know what a definition is ... care isn't adequate in the presence of incompetence. Intentions can be inferred ... it's done all the time (and bad faith is not strictly a matter of intention--people can argue in bad faith without a conscious intention of doing so). I've seen this pedantic epistemologically absurd to the point of bad faith argument so many times--"knowing" is not the standard that anyone actually uses for justification of claims--even the common but quite flawed philosophical definition of knowledge as "true justified belief" recognizes that one only needs justified belief, not knowledge--only via god's eye can it be certified that such beliefs are true. And of course Popper's falsifiability does not depend on "knowing" at the epistemic extreme ... again, this is incompetence.

Enough ... now I'm really going silent no matter how much you goad me.
by cyberax | 2026-01-10 01:06:23+00:00
No, we shouldn't. Caltrain shows that even the best transit systems are not comfortable for daily commutes.

The upper limit for comfortable commutes is 30 minutes one way. Even assuming that you synchronize your schedule with Caltrain departures, the map of locations within this timeframe would look like a string of rather small beads along the Caltrain route.

As a simpler example, try playing with routes from the Salesforce Tower. You start blowing past that 30-minute mark by the time the train is still passing Brisbane.
by soraminazuki | 2026-01-10 01:06:43+00:00
> Because when you don't do this, people get scammed out of money.

Bullshit. Big tech's war on general purpose computing hasn't stopped scam. It's a pretext for rent seeking and control and you know it. It's the reason we don't have a popular ecosystem of FOSS alternatives on mobile. It's the reason we can't run virtual machines on tablets when the hardware very much can.

If combating scam is a priority of big tech, I know where to start. Get rid of ads! That would actually be enormously effective as it gets rid of the primary entry point of scams.

> If there is a series of buttons you can press to circumvent the anti-scam measures

So the best you can come up with is an imaginary button on phones that can magically circumvent checks that should be implemented server-side? Have you any idea how software works?