news, !paper 2024-08-23

1086 Did you lose your AirPods? / alexyancey.com / 379

701 DOJ sues realpage for algorithmic pricing scheme that harms renters / justice.gov / 565

514 17-year-old student exposes Germany's 'secret' pirate site blocklist / torrentfreak.com / 225

412 We have reached OpenBSD of Theseus / marc.info / 84

356 SurrealEngine: Open-source reimplementation of Unreal Engine with playable UT99 / github.com/dpjudas / 137

350 We need to liberate the Postcode Address File / takes.jamesomalley.co.uk / 309

345 Meta cancels high-end mixed reality headset after Apple Vision Pro struggles / macrumors.com / 523

335 I sped up serde_json strings by 20% / purplesyringa.moe / 117

320 Microsoft formally deprecates the Windows Control Panel / arstechnica.com / 489

319 Adding 16 kb page size to Android / android-developers.googleblog.com / 166

308 Accident Forgiveness / fly.io / 298

295 Author-paid publication fees corrupt science and should be abandoned / osf.io / 154

290 Cautionary tale on using Chase bank for indie business / jxnl.co / 262

263 Vega – A declarative language for interactive visualization designs / vega.github.io / 39

249 OpenSSH Backdoors / blog.isosceles.com / 125

222 BMW Overtakes Tesla in European EV Sales for First Time / electriccarsreport.com / 320

195 I lost my Google Play dev account / old.reddit.com / 87

183 The UX of HTML (2023) / htmhell.dev / 91

181 Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist / nautil.us / 204

171 Elon Musk was just forced to reveal who owns X. Here's the list / fortune.com / 107

170 How we built Townie – an app that generates fullstack apps / blog.val.town / 33

147 Degas: Detailed Expressions on Full-Body Gaussian Avatars / initialneil.github.io / 13

145 EPUBCheck – The official conformance checker for ePub publications / github.com/w3c / 25

139 “YOLO” is not a valid hash construction / blog.trailofbits.com / 73

138 The staggering death toll of scientific lies / vox.com / 118

136 My IRC client runs on Kubernetes / xeiaso.net / 125

133 Tesla has taken down 2016 release noting full self driving hardware capability / twitter.com/AdrianSumBond / 98

124 Show HN: Ruroco – like port knocking, but better / github.com/beac0n / 102

122 Nanolog supports logging with 7 ns median latency / github.com/PlatformLab / 71

122 How people with disabilities use the web / w3.org / 36

114 Show HN: Omi – Open-source AI wearable for capturing conversations / github.com/BasedHardware / 94

113 Outsourcing Cost Boeing Billions (2019) / medium.com / 105

110 Launch HN: Moonglow (YC S24) – Serverless Jupyter Notebooks / news.ycombinator.com / 56

108 SnapDiagram – Instantly Convert Hand-Drawn Diagrams to Digital with AI / snapdiagram.xyz / 71

107 Valve New Employee Handbook (2012) [pdf] / steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net / 111

105 Async hazard: MMAP is blocking IO / huonw.github.io / 114

105 Random Thoughts about Unity / aras-p.info / 73

102 Evidence stacks up for poisonous books containing toxic dyes / phys.org / 65

100 Makefiles for Web Work (2022) / rosszurowski.com / 45

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