{"podcast":{"title":"CoRecursive: Coding Stories","slug":"corecursive-coding-stories","podcast_index_feed_id":987298,"rss_url":"https://corecursive.libsyn.com/feed","website_url":"http://corecursive.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/d/7/a/5/d7a5a500931246e3/Coding_Stories.png","author":"Adam Gordon Bell - Software Developer","episode_count":116,"summary":"The stories and people behind the code. Hear stories of software development from interesting people.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-14T18:20:04.608497+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/corecursive-coding-stories"},"episode":{"title":"From Hacker News to TikTok - How Algorithms Learned to Hook Us","slug":"from-hacker-news-to-tiktok-how-algorithms-learned-to-hook-us","published_at":"2026-03-02T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/corecursive-coding-stories/from-hacker-news-to-tiktok-how-algorithms-learned-to-hook-us","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/corecursive-coding-stories","url":"http://corecursive.com/from-hacker-news-to-tiktok/","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/corecursive/From_Hacker_News_to_TikTok.mp3?dest-id=628353","summary":"Corey told me about his AI cat reel problem. He found these AI-genearted cat videos hilarious. Who makes these? He kept sending them to his wife. Then he tried to stop watching and he couldn't. So I went down the rabbit hole of how social media algorithms actually work. It starts simple. Upvote, downvote, sort by time. But by 2017 Facebook has a metric that quietly reshapes what two billion people see. Then a leaked playbook lands, and a CEO takes the stand in Los Angeles. Today is an investigation into what happens when the algorithm knows you better than you know yourself. Episode Page Support The Show Subscribe To The Podcast Join The Newsletter","meta_description":"Corey told me about his AI cat reel problem. He found these AI-genearted cat videos hilarious. Who makes these? He kept sending them to his wife. Then he…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2492,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/corecursive-coding-stories/episodes/from-hacker-news-to-tiktok-how-algorithms-learned-to-hook-us/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/corecursive-coding-stories/from-hacker-news-to-tiktok-how-algorithms-learned-to-hook-us.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}