Hacker News 50 9 months ago

Google makes Android development private, will continue open source releases Link:

Ars Technica

Google makes Android development private, will continue open source releases

Google says this change will simplify things for developers and OEMs.

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Hacker News 50 10 months ago

Shares of Starlink's European rival Eutelsat have tripled Link: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/shares-of-starlinks-european-competitor-have-tripled-ceo-says-it-can-do-the-job-in-ukraine-f5e4e1ac Discussion:

Shares of Starlink's European rival Eutelsat have tripled | Hacker News

Hacker News 50 10 months ago

AMD Announces "Instella" Open-Source 3B Language Models Link:

AMD Announces "Instella" Fully Open-Source 3B Language Models - Phoronix

Another announcement at AMD today beyond the open-source Linux driver fun for the Radeon RX 9070 series is announcing the open-sourcing of Instella...

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Hacker News 50 10 months ago

The US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide Link:

AP News

Scientists raise concerns as the US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide

The U.S. government’s decision to stop sharing air quality data from embassies and consulates worldwide is worrying some local scientists and exp...

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The US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide | Hacker News

Hacker News 50 10 months ago

Show HN: I made a website where you can create your own "Life in Weeks" timeline Link:

Life in Weeks

Life in Weeks | Create a map of your life with each week as a little box.

Create a beautiful, rich timeline of your life in just minutes.

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Hacker News 50 10 months ago

Coral USB Accelerator with Google's Edge TPU Link:

Google for Developers

Coral | Google for Developers

Open-source platform for edge AI accelerator chip development

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Hacker News 50 10 months ago

Svelte 5 is not JavaScript Link:

hodlbod

Svelte 5 is not Javascript

Svelte 5 as a case study in how abstractions aimed at simplifying concepts can actually make software development more complex.

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Hacker News 50 10 months ago

Linux’s Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down Link:

Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down - Phoronix

Days after a DRM driver developer orphaned his drivers due to health reasons in stepping down, the sole maintainer at large of the Linux wireless (...

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Linux’s Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down | Hacker News

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Hacker News 50 10 months ago

Rust Is Eating JavaScript Link:

Rust Is Eating JavaScript | Lee Robinson

Why is Rust being used to replace parts of the JavaScript web ecosystem like minification (Terser), transpilation (Babel), formatting (Prettier), b...

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Rust Is Eating JavaScript (2023) | Hacker News

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Hacker News 50 11 months ago

Show HN: Mapping the Unix Magic Poster – An Interactive Annotation Project Link:

Unix Magic Poster Annotations

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Hacker News 50 11 months ago

Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji Link:

Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji

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Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji | Hacker News

Hacker News 50 11 months ago

Durable plastic gets a sustainability makeover in novel polymerization process Link: https://phys.org/news/2025-01-durable-plastic-sustainability-makeover-polymerization.html Discussion:

Durable plastic gets a sustainability makeover in novel polymerization process | Hacker News

Hacker News 50 11 months ago

Zeroperl: Sandboxing Perl with WebAssembly Link:

zeroperl: Sandboxing Perl with WebAssembly

I’m building a new startup and file metadata plays an important role.

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#webassembly

Hacker News 50 11 months ago

Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 Link:

brutecat.com

Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000

What could

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Hacker News 50 11 months ago

Show HN: App that simulates a software engineer's daily job Link:

mock-job-mentor

Mock Jobs

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Hacker News 50 11 months ago

I wrote a static web page and accidentally started a community (2023) Link: https://localfirstweb.dev/blog/2023-05-29-i-wrote-a-static-web-page Discussion:

I wrote a static web page and accidentally started a community (2023) | Hacker News

Hacker News 50 11 months ago

The Pinball Philosophy (1975) Link:

Pinball Nirvana

The Pinball Philosophy (John McPhee, 1975)

Written in 1975, published in the short story collection Giving Good Weight in 1979 which you can access here or here. THE PINBALL PHILOSOP...

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The Pinball Philosophy (1975) | Hacker News

Hacker News 50 11 months ago

Git clone –depth 2 is vastly better than –depth 1 if you want to Git push later Link:

Stack Overflow

Pushing to Github after a shallow clone is horribly slow

I've done a shallow clone of a large repo (git clone --depth 1 git@github.com:myOrg/myRepo.git). I can push new changes to the remote but the first...

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Git clone –depth 2 is vastly better than –depth 1 if you want to Git push later | Hacker News

#git

Hacker News 50 11 months ago

A gracious end to Webb-site Link:

Webb-site.com | Substack

The continuing opinions and analysis of David M Webb MBE, founder of Webb-site.com, following the shutdown of the main server on 31-Oct-2025. Click...

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A gracious end to Webb-site | Hacker News

Hacker News 50 11 months ago

Tesla sales dropped 60% in Germany Link:

Electrek

Tesla sales dropped 60% in Germany

Tesla’s sales have dropped nearly 60% in January in Germany compared to the same period last year. The same thing...

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Tesla sales dropped 60% in Germany | Hacker News

#germany