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Hacker News

hnrss.org14 items
• John Gruber▲ 81

Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection

My disdain for astrology is so utter, and my esteem for Godier’s previous work so high, that it simply never occurred to me that he might have actually made and submitted to the App Store an astrology app, let alone that he’d then feign surprise and frustration that an astrology app was rejected for being an astrology app.

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• Seg6▲ 213

My server is a phone now

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• Os8088▲ 112

Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386

A Macintosh System 1-style graphical OS for the Intel 8086/8088. Real-mode assembly, boots from floppy, runs in 256KB. Free to download.

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• Shopify▲ 125

Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled

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• Eclipse Fan▲ 118

Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse

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• Andrew T.▲ 114

Dithered QR Codes

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• Unknown▲ 42

Incentives Are for Losers

OR: you must look at this fish and go insane

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• ItsFoss▲ 35

Illinois Just Told Every Operating System to Start Reporting Your Kid's Age

The Children's Online Social Media Safety Act has device makers collect the age bracket, but apps still have to act on it.

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• TheoremDB▲ 19

TheoremDB · A public workspace for machine mathematics

A public workspace for machine mathematics: open problems, permanent records of proofs and attempts, evidence and credit.

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HN — Best of the Week

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• mezha.net▲ 552

Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments

Students at Dueholmskolen are pictured in their classroom in Nykøbing Mors, Jutland, Denmark, on March 1, 2021. Bo Amstrup/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP/Getty Images. The policy takes effect immediately, but educators say the first response must evolve as AI tools keep advancing. According to CNN Danish high school students will be required to defend their written assignments orally […]

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• blog.senko.net▲ 662

“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers

The software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is c...

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• simonwillison.net▲ 380

Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about “the Hugging Face Incident” (previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It’s short and information …

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• specification.website▲ 376

_for-sale DNS records

If a domain is genuinely for sale, say so in DNS. A TXT record at _for-sale.example.com advertises it to brokers and availability services without taking the site down or parking it.

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• fastmail.com▲ 361

Fastmail offers EU data region

Choose if you want to make the European Union the primary home for your Fastmail data, on our own secure servers in Amsterdam.

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• deepmind.google▲ 406

DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

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• seg6.space▲ 218

My server is a phone now

rooting a CMF Phone 1 to run my personal infrastructure at home.

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In Brief
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Countrynewrepublic.comThe Nixpkgs core team has disbandeddiscourse.nixos.orgNASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another yearspace.comHardware backdoors in some x86 CPUsgithub.comU.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiativegenesisopenmodels.anl.govUS Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicidebloomberg.comNew Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.nytimes.com
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