Hacker News Digest

Newsletter Image

Messages

10/26/2023
23 : 4

The Cloud Computer — The negative impact of mobile-first web design on desktop — and Jina AI launches open-source 8k text embedding

Issue #1297 — Top 20 stories of October 27, 2023 Issue #1297 — October 27, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
10/25/2023
23 : 4

Show HN: OpenAPI DevTools – Chrome extension that generates an API spec — and Tarsnap has given 2^18 dollars to open source

Issue #1296 — Top 20 stories of October 26, 2023 Issue #1296 — October 26, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
10/24/2023
23 : 4

SumatraPDF Reader — California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment — and NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B miles away

Issue #1295 — Top 20 stories of October 25, 2023 Issue #1295 — October 25, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
10/23/2023
23 : 4

Protomaps – A free and open source map of the world — Software disenchantment — and Cooler screens

Issue #1294 — Top 20 stories of October 24, 2023 Issue #1294 — October 24, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
10/23/2023
15 : 34

Scrollbars are becoming a problem — Why you shouldn't join Y Combinator — and Every app that adds AI looks like this

Issue #1284 — Top 20 stories of October 14, 2023 Issue #1284 — October 14, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
10/22/2023
23 : 4

A Dutch graphic artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D — and Startup CTO's Handbook

Issue #1293 — Top 20 stories of October 23, 2023 Issue #1293 — October 23, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
10/21/2023
23 : 4

We have used too many levels of abstractions — "No, it's less effort than that" — and Progress on No-GIL CPython

Issue #1292 — Top 20 stories of October 22, 2023 Issue #1292 — October 22, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
10/20/2023
23 : 4

ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades — and Nota is a language for writing documents, like academic papers and blog posts

Issue #1291 — Top 20 stories of October 21, 2023 Issue #1291 — October 21, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
10/19/2023
23 : 4

Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas — and Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off

Issue #1290 — Top 20 stories of October 20, 2023 Issue #1290 — October 20, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
10/19/2023
4 : 54

Undermining Democracy: The EU Commission's Controversial Push for Surveillance — and ChatGPT’s system prompts

Issue #1285 — Top 20 stories of October 15, 2023 Issue #1285 — October 15, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
10/19/2023
4 : 14

Finland to vote against the EU mass surveillance and encryption ban directive — and "Hacker News" for retro computing and gaming

Issue #1286 — Top 20 stories of October 16, 2023 Issue #1286 — October 16, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
10/19/2023
3 : 44

Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data — Cockpit: Web-based graphical interface for servers — and "About half of Bandcamp was laid off today"

Issue #1287 — Top 20 stories of October 17, 2023 Issue #1287 — October 17, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
10/19/2023
3 : 15

About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off — and Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

Issue #1288 — Top 20 stories of October 18, 2023 Issue #1288 — October 18, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
10/19/2023
3 : 10

Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states — Commercially available chairs in Star Trek — and Psytrance Guide

Issue #1289 — Top 20 stories of October 19, 2023 Issue #1289 — October 19, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
10/10/2023
23 : 4

John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity — Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years — and The largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps

Issue #1281 — Top 20 stories of October 11, 2023 Issue #1281 — October 11, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
10/9/2023
23 : 4

My personal C coding style as of late 2023 — Blackmagic Camera for iPhone — and Ardour 8.0

Issue #1280 — Top 20 stories of October 10, 2023 Issue #1280 — October 10, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
10/8/2023
23 : 4

Organization probably doesn't want to improve things — Decomposing language models into understandable components — and Why is Debian the way it is?

Issue #1279 — Top 20 stories of October 09, 2023 Issue #1279 — October 09, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
10/7/2023
23 : 4

Wired has removed "How Google alters search queries" story — and Paperless-ngx – Open source document management system

Issue #1278 — Top 20 stories of October 08, 2023 Issue #1278 — October 08, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
10/6/2023
23 : 4

Making Hard Things Easy — NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty — and We’re opening up access to Gov.uk forms

Issue #1277 — Top 20 stories of October 07, 2023 Issue #1277 — October 07, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
10/5/2023
23 : 4

Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras (2009) — and Where does my computer get the time from?

Issue #1276 — Top 20 stories of October 06, 2023 Issue #1276 — October 06, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1