news, !paper 2024-08-28

1949 Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch / blog.hopefullyuseful.com / 474

470 Maker Skill Trees / github.com/sjpiper145 / 102

348 Using Fibonacci numbers to convert from miles to kilometers and vice versa / catonmat.net / 124

332 HDMI Forum rejects AMD's HDMI 2.1 open-source driver / tomshardware.com / 173

326 Google's new pipe syntax in SQL / simonwillison.net / 180

318 Show HN: Skip – Build native iOS and Android apps from a single Swift codebase / skip.tools / 117

317 The journey of an internet packet: Exploring networks with traceroute / sebastianmarines.com / 107

285 The 4-chan Go programmer / dolthub.com / 171

274 A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant (2017) / washingtonpost.com / 476

270 COSMIC Alpha Released / blog.system76.com / 203

267 Show HN: IPA, a GUI for exploring inner details of PDFs / github.com/seekbytes / 50

265 Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox / old.reddit.com / 242

260 Window Maker: X11 window manager with the look and feel of the NeXTSTEP UI / windowmaker.org / 135

243 A post by Guido van Rossum removed for violating Python community guidelines / discuss.python.org / 251

240 Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims / developer-tech.com / 325

229 FCast: Casting Made Open Source / fcast.org / 56

228 Companies Lobby Against Giving the Military the Right to Repair / 404media.co / 110

228 Typing lists and tuples in Elixir / elixir-lang.org / 51

223 Twenty Years of Valgrind (2022) / nnethercote.github.io / 60

210 Panasonic Toughbook 40 / connect.na.panasonic.com / 189

202 Scaling Rails and Postgres to millions of users at Microsoft / stepchange.work / 84

194 The Future of TLA+ [pdf] / lamport.azurewebsites.net / 101

185 Show HN: Claude Artifacts but creating real web apps / gptengineer.app / 47

180 Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files / github.com/queer / 98

174 Deterministic Replay of QEMU Emulation / qemu.org / 38

171 Kotlin for data analysis / kotlinlang.org / 103

167 Show HN: Every open source tool from the "What's HN working on" thread / github.com/getomni-ai / 34

167 Departure Mono – a monospaced pixel font with lo-fi technical vibe / departuremono.com / 15

166 Interview with Signal President Meredith Whittaker / wired.com / 109

150 Micrograd.jl / liorsinai.github.io / 46

126 The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus / baldurbjarnason.com / 109

119 Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims / lwn.net / 6

118 Final two communications from MH370 support controlled descent scenario (2021) / researchgate.net / 124

117 Amazon Still Has a Counterfeit Problem / prospect.org / 126

115 French prosecutors say Telegram CEO freed from custody, will appear in court / apnews.com / 129

109 Formal CHERI: design-time proof of full-scale architecture security properties (2022) / lightbluetouchpaper.org / 47

108 FreeBSD considers Rust in the base system / lwn.net / 131

105 Brazil top court threatens to suspend X within 24 hours / apnews.com / 156

105 Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress / techcrunch.com / 110

105 Wp2hugo: Best WordPress to Hugo migrator (written in Go) / github.com/ashishb / 49

103 New Anti-Toxicity Features on Bluesky / bsky.social / 176

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