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  1. Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubuntu Snap

    posted on Thu Nov 03 13:42:01 UTC 2022 by hagen2022 | view on HN

    The article discusses how the author, as an interested user, would like to see better communication between snap maintainers, snapcrafters, and themselves so that everyone is kept up-to-date on the status of snaps.

  2. Sugar Substitutes Surprise

    posted on Thu Nov 03 15:58:02 UTC 2022 by hprotagonist | view on HN

    This article is discussing the long and complicated history of non-sugar sweeteners, and how there is still much unknown about their safety despite their widespread use.

  3. Show HN: Sprig, open-source game console & engine, by teenagers, for teenagers

    posted on Thu Nov 03 14:04:18 UTC 2022 by apexedison | view on HN

    The article is about the Sprig game console, which is a custom handheld game console built by Hack Club. Fall of 2022, they are giving a Sprig (valued at over $100 in components alone) to every teenage hacker that successfully shares a game they create in their community gallery.

  4. Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch

    posted on Thu Nov 03 10:37:04 UTC 2022 by will0 | view on HN

    The Rebble community has grown to over 24,000 users and continues to have a strong presence despite the Pebble app being a double hand-me-down.

  5. Testing Microsoft's Windows Dev Kit 2023

    posted on Thu Nov 03 14:33:04 UTC 2022 by ingve | view on HN

    The Windows Dev Kit 2023, formerly known as 'Project Volterra', is a box designed for Windows ARM development that includes a Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 chip, 32 GB of RAM, and a 512 GB SSD.

  6. Duplicati: Free backup software to store encrypted backups online

    posted on Thu Nov 03 11:39:50 UTC 2022 by memorable | view on HN

    The article discusses the configuration of Duplicati via a web interface that can be accessed from any browser, even mobile. This allows Duplicati to be run on headless machines like a NAS.

  7. FreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix to serve video at 800Gb/s [pdf]

    posted on Thu Nov 03 10:58:50 UTC 2022 by _trackno5 | view on HN

  8. Launch HN: Akiflow (YC S20) - Bring your tasks and calendars together

    posted on Thu Nov 03 14:32:13 UTC 2022 by nmnm | view on HN

  9. RawTherapee

    posted on Wed Nov 02 09:10:56 UTC 2022 by tosh | view on HN

    The article is about RawTherapee, a free and open source raw photo processing system.

  10. I Posted on YouTube Consistently for 1 Month. This Is What Happened

    posted on Thu Nov 03 14:23:24 UTC 2022 by devfig | view on HN

    The article is about a man's experience growing his YouTube channel and the lessons he's learned.

  11. Lyft laying off 13% of staff

    posted on Thu Nov 03 15:44:47 UTC 2022 by WFHRenaissance | view on HN

    Lyft is cutting 13% of its staff, which amounts to about 700 employees.

  12. Adversarial Policies Beat Professional-Level Go AIs

    posted on Thu Nov 03 11:43:02 UTC 2022 by theWorkingDead | view on HN

  13. Sile: A Modern Rewrite of TeX

    posted on Thu Nov 03 11:02:03 UTC 2022 by signa11 | view on HN

    Version v0.14.0 of SILE has been released and is available for download!

  14. Show HN: Open-source OAuth2 & OpenID server Ory Hydra v2

    posted on Thu Nov 03 14:06:34 UTC 2022 by baconfly | view on HN

    Ory Hydra 2.0 is available now and ships with major internal data restructuring and support for additional OAuth2 flows such as OAuth2 Token Exchange.

  15. JC – JSONifies the output of many CLI tools

    posted on Thu Nov 03 07:55:40 UTC 2022 by pgl | view on HN

    This article discusses the differences between streaming and standard parsers. Streaming parsers immediately start processing and outputing the data line-by-line as it is received. This can significantly reduce the amount of memory required to parse large amounts of data and can sometimes process the data more quickly.

  16. Rust 1.65.0

    posted on Thu Nov 03 14:16:39 UTC 2022 by mbrobbel | view on HN

    The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.65.0, which is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

  17. Communities Now Available

    posted on Thu Nov 03 14:23:42 UTC 2022 by mritzmann | view on HN

    WhatsApp has announced the global rollout of its new 'Communities' feature, which will allow users to easily connect with groups of people with similar interests.

  18. 2022 State of Haskell Survey

    posted on Thu Nov 03 15:41:26 UTC 2022 by luispauloml | view on HN

    The survey will help better understand what people think of the Haskell programming language, together with its ecosystem and community.

  19. Number of unemployed persons per job opening

    posted on Thu Nov 03 16:50:43 UTC 2022 by Nicholas_C | view on HN

    The number of unemployed persons per job opening was 1.4 in July 2018.

  20. Phrasebooks are dying out

    posted on Tue Nov 01 07:11:40 UTC 2022 by helsinkiandrew | view on HN

    The article discusses how phrasebooks have changed over time and how they are used to study the assumptions made by Britons abroad.

  21. The New Art of Making Books

    posted on Tue Nov 01 04:52:43 UTC 2022 by Caiero | view on HN

    Ulises Carrión (1941–1989) was a Mexican author and artist who wrote rebelliously in 1975 about how the ubiquity of the book as a marketable artifact led to a separation of form and content in the writing and publishing of his time.

  22. Open Source Firebase Alternative with GraphQL

    posted on Thu Nov 03 10:48:06 UTC 2022 by jonifico | view on HN

    Nhost.io is a serverless backend that makes it easy to build scalable web and mobile apps.

  23. Comparing TCP and QUIC

    posted on Wed Nov 02 05:16:07 UTC 2022 by stargrave | view on HN

    The article discusses how the TCP transport protocol is different from the QUIC transport protocol and how QUIC is a significant shift in the set of transport capabilities available to applications.

  24. Kaluma: A Tiny JavaScript Runtime for RP2040 (Raspberry Pi Pico)

    posted on Thu Nov 03 12:28:42 UTC 2022 by tosh | view on HN

    The article is discussing the potential consequences of creating a branch with a name that is already being used as a tag.

  25. Universal Paperclips

    posted on Thu Nov 03 02:23:22 UTC 2022 by FPGAhacker | view on HN

  26. Moderation is different from censorship

    posted on Thu Nov 03 02:17:09 UTC 2022 by feross | view on HN

    The article argues that platforms should have an opt-in setting to see banned content, rather than censoring it for everyone, in order to prevent the worst abuses and create a floor on how bad things can get.

  27. Acreom 1.0 – a lightweight Markdown editor with tasks for developers

    posted on Thu Nov 03 14:40:32 UTC 2022 by inferense | view on HN

  28. TripleA: A Java-based free open source Axis and Allies

    posted on Thu Nov 03 10:38:19 UTC 2022 by xretaxeous | view on HN

    The article is about a computer game called TripleA that is open source and community run.

  29. It’s electric. Technique could clean up mining of valuable rare earth elements

    posted on Thu Nov 03 10:28:23 UTC 2022 by taubek | view on HN

    The article discusses how electric currents can be used to free rare earth elements from clay deposits, sharply reducing the need for polluting chemicals, and how this could be a game changer.

  30. Command-line data analytics

    posted on Tue Nov 01 08:52:09 UTC 2022 by dmoura | view on HN

    The article discusses a command-line tool called SPyQL that focuses on readability, easiness to learn and modern data formats, while leveraging the command-line ecosystem.