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12/25/2023
23 : 4

Tell HN: Merry Christmas — and Costs of running a macOS app studio business

Issue #1357 — Top 20 stories of December 26, 2023 Issue #1357 — December 26, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.
12/24/2023
23 : 4

Can Microsoft Flight Simulator help me learn to fly or make me a better pilot? — and The Art of Electronics (2015)

Issue #1356 — Top 20 stories of December 25, 2023 Issue #1356 — December 25, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.
12/24/2023
0 : 14

How big is YouTube? — Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model — and Xmas.c, winner of the 1988 International Obfuscated C Code Contest

Issue #1355 — Top 20 stories of December 24, 2023 Issue #1355 — December 24, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.
12/22/2023
23 : 4

Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers — Mindustry: Open-source automation tower defense game — and From Nand to Tetris (2017)

Issue #1354 — Top 20 stories of December 23, 2023 Issue #1354 — December 23, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.
12/21/2023
23 : 4

Apple allows some iOS apps to track user locations via lists of nearby SSIDs — and ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format

Issue #1353 — Top 20 stories of December 22, 2023 Issue #1353 — December 22, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.
12/20/2023
23 : 4

Tell HN: Microsoft.com added 192.168.1.1 to their DNS record — and Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays

Issue #1352 — Top 20 stories of December 21, 2023 Issue #1352 — December 21, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.
12/19/2023
23 : 4

James Webb Space Telescope captures high-resolution image of Uranus — Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook — and I Love Ruby

Issue #1351 — Top 20 stories of December 20, 2023 Issue #1351 — December 20, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.
12/18/2023
23 : 4

Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger — and Wasm3 entering a minimal maintenance phase

Issue #1350 — Top 20 stories of December 19, 2023 Issue #1350 — December 19, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.
12/17/2023
23 : 4

An Empirical Study and Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs — and The Final Speech from The Great Dictator

Issue #1349 — Top 20 stories of December 18, 2023 Issue #1349 — December 18, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.
12/17/2023
0 : 14

Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules

Issue #1348 — Top 20 stories of December 17, 2023 Issue #1348 — December 17, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.
12/15/2023
23 : 4

Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp — Database Fundamentals — and Maybe getting rid of your QA team was bad

Issue #1347 — Top 20 stories of December 16, 2023 Issue #1347 — December 16, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.
12/15/2023
13 : 45

Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted

Issue #1345 — Top 20 stories of December 14, 2023 Issue #1345 — December 14, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.
12/15/2023
13 : 26

Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find — and SMERF: Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields

Issue #1346 — Top 20 stories of December 15, 2023 Issue #1346 — December 15, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.
12/12/2023
23 : 4

Epic vs. Google: Google Loses — and 23andMe changed its terms of service to prevent hacked customers from suing

Issue #1344 — Top 20 stories of December 13, 2023 Issue #1344 — December 13, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.
12/11/2023
23 : 4

Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet — Beeper Mini is back — and Mixtral of experts

Issue #1343 — Top 20 stories of December 12, 2023 Issue #1343 — December 12, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.
12/10/2023
23 : 4

Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application — and A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32

Issue #1342 — Top 20 stories of December 11, 2023 Issue #1342 — December 11, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.
12/9/2023
23 : 4

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

Issue #1341 — Top 20 stories of December 10, 2023 Issue #1341 — December 10, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.
12/8/2023
23 : 4

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

Issue #1340 — Top 20 stories of December 09, 2023 Issue #1340 — December 09, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.
12/7/2023
23 : 4

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

Issue #1339 — Top 20 stories of December 08, 2023 Issue #1339 — December 08, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.
12/6/2023
23 : 4

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

Issue #1338 — Top 20 stories of December 07, 2023 Issue #1338 — December 07, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.