If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing — and Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access

Issue #1341 — December 10, 2023

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If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing pluralistic.net \| points: 1248 \| comments: 608

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Apple cuts off Beeper Mini’s access techcrunch.com \| points: 1210 \| comments: 1104

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W4 Games raises $15M to drive video game development with Godot Engine w4games.com \| points: 400 \| comments: 81

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Verizon fell for fake "search warrant," gave victim’s phone data to stalker arstechnica.com \| points: 367 \| comments: 157

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OpenBao – FOSS Fork of HashiCorp Vault github.com \| points: 284 \| comments: 113

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Murder is a pixel art ECS game engine in C# github.com \| points: 232 \| comments: 76

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PysimpleGUI github.com \| points: 228 \| comments: 129

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Paving the way to efficient architectures: StripedHyena-7B together.ai \| points: 211 \| comments: 64

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Spain expels two US spies for infiltrating secret service english.elpais.com \| points: 200 \| comments: 131

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American Chestnut Foundation Ceasing Distribution of Blight-Resistant Seeds tacf.org \| points: 196 \| comments: 54

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QuIP#: 2-bit Quantization for LLMs cornell-relaxml.github.io \| points: 195 \| comments: 48

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Show HN: Open-source alternatives to tools You pay for osssoftware.org \| points: 194 \| comments: 82

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Make Apps for Linux makealinux.app \| points: 179 \| comments: 200

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"If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing" pluralistic.net \| points: 177 \| comments: 43

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A connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity slack.com \| points: 176 \| comments: 108

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EPA orders packaging firm Inhance to stop making PFAS cen.acs.org \| points: 169 \| comments: 50

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Just Your Handyman plough.com \| points: 169 \| comments: 57

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HashiCorp Vault forked into OpenBAO theregister.com \| points: 166 \| comments: 74

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EU strikes deal to regulate ChatGPT, AI tech bloomberg.com \| points: 165 \| comments: 296

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Doug Engelbart’s 1968 demo dougengelbart.org \| points: 165 \| comments: 68

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Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking — and Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice — SVG Tutorial — and 23andMe updates their TOS to force binding arbitration

Gemini AI — Gemini: Google's most capable AI model yet — and JSONB has landed

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Harvard gutted team examining Facebook Files following $500M Zuckerberg donation — and Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%

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