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1/14/2024
23 : 4

Building a fully local LLM voice assistant to control my smart home — and Show HN: #!/usr/bin/env docker run

Issue #1377 — Top 20 stories of January 15, 2024 Issue #1377 — January 15, 2024 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
1/13/2024
23 : 4

Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time — and Ask HN: Who else is working on nothing?

Issue #1376 — Top 20 stories of January 14, 2024 Issue #1376 — January 14, 2024 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
1/12/2024
23 : 4

Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC — and I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy

Issue #1375 — Top 20 stories of January 13, 2024 Issue #1375 — January 13, 2024 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
1/12/2024
9 : 15

I pwned half of America's fast food chains simultaneously — and I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

Issue #1373 — Top 20 stories of January 11, 2024 Issue #1373 — January 11, 2024 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
1/12/2024
9 : 4

Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions — The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit — and Signs that it's time to leave a company

Issue #1374 — Top 20 stories of January 12, 2024 Issue #1374 — January 12, 2024 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
1/9/2024
23 : 4

Polars — Python 3.13 Gets a JIT — and Why does holding a key fob to your head increase its range?

Issue #1372 — Top 20 stories of January 10, 2024 Issue #1372 — January 10, 2024 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
1/8/2024
23 : 4

iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail — and Show HN: I made a HTMX Playground 100% in the browser

Issue #1371 — Top 20 stories of January 09, 2024 Issue #1371 — January 09, 2024 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
1/7/2024
23 : 4

Pocketbase: Open-source back end in one file — Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…) — and DNS Toys (2022)

Issue #1370 — Top 20 stories of January 08, 2024 Issue #1370 — January 08, 2024 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
1/6/2024
23 : 4

Fixing Macs door to door — FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s — and IRS to Begin Trial of Its Own Free Tax-Filing System

Issue #1369 — Top 20 stories of January 07, 2024 Issue #1369 — January 07, 2024 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
1/5/2024
23 : 4

Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone — An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020) — and Go: What we got right, what we got wrong

Issue #1368 — Top 20 stories of January 06, 2024 Issue #1368 — January 06, 2024 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
1/4/2024
23 : 4

Understand how transformers work by demystifying the math behind them — and Power over fiber

Issue #1367 — Top 20 stories of January 05, 2024 Issue #1367 — January 05, 2024 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
1/3/2024
23 : 4

1D Pac-Man — Niklaus Wirth has died — and Maestro: A Linux-compatible kernel in Rust

Issue #1366 — Top 20 stories of January 04, 2024 Issue #1366 — January 04, 2024 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
1/2/2024
23 : 4

Salim Kara stole $2M in coins with a magnet and a car antenna (2022) — and LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024

Issue #1365 — Top 20 stories of January 03, 2024 Issue #1365 — January 03, 2024 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
1/1/2024
23 : 4

Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video] — and Procrastination is connected to perfectionism

Issue #1364 — Top 20 stories of January 02, 2024 Issue #1364 — January 02, 2024 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
12/31/2023
23 : 4

Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT — Happy New Year HN! — and Amazon's Silent Sacking

Issue #1363 — Top 20 stories of January 01, 2024 Issue #1363 — January 01, 2024 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1
12/30/2023
23 : 4

Blot turns a folder into a website — The art of high performance computing — and Things are about to get worse for generative AI

Issue #1362 — Top 20 stories of December 31, 2023 Issue #1362 — December 31, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.
12/29/2023
23 : 4

In 2024, please switch to Firefox — and Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021)

Issue #1361 — Top 20 stories of December 30, 2023 Issue #1361 — December 30, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.
12/29/2023
0 : 14

4B If Statements — First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation — and 3D Map of Shinjuku Station in Three.js

Issue #1360 — Top 20 stories of December 29, 2023 Issue #1360 — December 29, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.
12/27/2023
23 : 4

DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching — and The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement

Issue #1359 — Top 20 stories of December 28, 2023 Issue #1359 — December 28, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.
12/26/2023
23 : 4

Challenging projects every programmer should try (2019) — and Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs

Issue #1358 — Top 20 stories of December 27, 2023 Issue #1358 — December 27, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.