Hacker News digest

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Keep Android Open (keepandroidopen.org)

835 comments 2 days, 3457 points

Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade (emily.space)

1227 comments 2 days, 3383 points

Affinity Studio now free (www.affinity.studio)

765 comments 30 hours, 1938 points

self tell Tell HN: Azure outage

802 comments 2 days, 1677 points

Free software scares normal people (danieldelaney.net)

586 comments 31 hours, 1470 points

Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition (www.minecraft.net)

446 comments 2 days, 1453 points

Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders (www.theguardian.com)

410 comments 2 days, 1313 points

AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS (oneuptime.com)

484 comments 2 days, 1194 points

John Carmack on mutable variables (twitter.com)

529 comments 20 hours, 983 points

YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs (old.reddit.com)

461 comments 2 days, 954 points

Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres (topicpartition.io)

381 comments 2 days, 920 points

Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy (therecord.media)

214 comments 25 hours, 737 points

Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers (blog.j11y.io)

184 comments 2 days, 675 points

ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to verify citizenship (www.404media.co)

320 comments 2 days, 666 points

uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store (apps.apple.com)

231 comments 2 days, 663 points

show Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest (roberdam.com)

418 comments 36 hours, 646 points

NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times (arstechnica.com)

267 comments 46 hours, 621 points

How the cochlea computes (2024) (www.dissonances.blog)

147 comments 29 hours, 614 points

Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself? (spidermonkey.dev)

105 comments 2 days, 610 points

US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty (therecord.media)

232 comments 32 hours, 591 points

Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles (daiz.moe)

155 comments 47 hours, 583 points

OpenAI’s promise to stay in California helped clear the path for its IPO (www.wsj.com)

325 comments 2 days, 556 points

self Azure Outage

183 comments 2 days, 555 points

AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B (www.axios.com)

261 comments 2 days, 543 points

A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down (shaun.nz)

224 comments 24 hours, 528 points

Dithering – Part 1 (visualrambling.space)

91 comments 2 days, 527 points

Some people can't see mental images (www.newyorker.com)

345 comments 29 hours, 513 points

AMD could enter ARM market with Sound Wave APU built on TSMC 3nm process (www.guru3d.com)

217 comments 19 hours, 485 points

Zig's New Async I/O (andrewkelley.me)

162 comments 2 days, 477 points

Tailscale Peer Relays (tailscale.com)

104 comments 2 days, 453 points

Falling panel prices lead to global solar boom, except for the US (arstechnica.com)

227 comments 30 hours, 452 points

The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs against information asymmetry (www.economist.com)

189 comments 2 days, 426 points

Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works (www.acma.gov.au)

140 comments 25 hours, 415 points

Board: New game console recognizes physical pieces, with an open SDK (board.fun)

141 comments 2 days, 406 points

Reasoning models reason well, until they don't (arxiv.org)

190 comments 13 hours, 390 points

Responses from LLMs are not facts (stopcitingai.com)

154 comments 2 days, 388 points

PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases (planetscale.com)

159 comments 31 hours, 383 points

Ventoy: Create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files (github.com)

115 comments 32 hours, 383 points

From VS Code to Helix (ergaster.org)

130 comments 2 days, 379 points

Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL (cursor.com)

165 comments 2 days, 377 points

Language models are injective and hence invertible (arxiv.org)

144 comments 37 hours, 366 points

Ground stop at JFK due to staffing (www.fly.faa.gov)

200 comments 21 hours, 366 points

Raspberry Pi Pico Bit-Bangs 100 Mbit/S Ethernet (www.elektormagazine.com)

82 comments 47 hours, 342 points

show Show HN: I made a heatmap diff viewer for code reviews (0github.com)

66 comments 32 hours, 321 points

ICE and the Smartphone Panopticon (www.newyorker.com)

121 comments 21 hours, 316 points

Jujutsu at Google [video] (www.youtube.com)

154 comments 33 hours, 307 points

Claude outage (status.claude.com)

175 comments 12 hours, 307 points

The Internet runs on free and open source software and so does the DNS (www.icann.org)

49 comments 2 days, 306 points

Aggressive bots ruined my weekend (herman.bearblog.dev)

102 comments 2 days, 300 points

Grammarly rebrands to 'Superhuman,' launches a new AI assistant (techcrunch.com)

131 comments 2 days, 297 points

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