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News - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/technology/instagram-cofounders-resign.html - https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/24/apple-closes-its-shazam-acquisition-and-says-the-music-recognition-app-will-soon-become-ad-free/ - https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/27/17911428/sec-lawsuit-elon-musk-tesla-funding-tweet Main Topic: iPhone Compulsiveness

The first episode in the shows potential new format. We all talk about our summer internships. New Intro coming soon! iPhone Clone Picture https://www.androidheadlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Apple-X-and-Android-Notches.jpg News Articles Amazon Go store in Chicago https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/17/amazons-cashier-free-go-store-opens-in-chicago/ Galaxy Note 9 Catches Fire https://www.cnet.com/news/galaxy-note-9-reportedly-catches-fire-in-womans-purse/ SpaceX Moon Mission https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/17/17869990/elon-musk-spacex-lunar-mission-ticket-moon-passenger-bfr-falcon-yusaku-maezawa Internships Jacob Peddicord - Cboe Global Markets Andre Garivay - Google Nick Siscoe - PayIt

A conversation about Apple's fall event where they unveiled a new watch and three new​ iPhones.

Apple's event is tomorrow and I give you my predictions.

Andres thoughts on the COE of Uber’s talk at TechCrunch Disrupt.

Clinc: https://clinc.com DynaDot: https://www.dynadot.com

First day of special coverage at TechCrunch Disrupt.

Today's Story https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17904752 Recommended Reads 1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17902901 2. Reading with a pencil https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17905199 3. Vocore2, a ridiculously small Linux PC https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17899614

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

In the first episode of HS I cover a Twitter mode found by a Hacker News user that might be interesting to Elon Musk. Shownotes: Main Story Twitter's Secret "Guest Mode" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17773771 Recommended Reads 1. 24-core CPU and I can’t type an email https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17780127 An interesting read about an engineer fixing a problem for Gmail in Chrome. 2. The Hacker News Habit https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17777467 If you're listening to this podcast, the story and discussion probably apply to you. 3. Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an ‘Excruciating’ Year https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17780092 A New York Times article about Musk and the crazy year he's having.