news, !paper 2025-01-17

1039 Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam / romanzipp.com / 640

953 Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline / cnbc.com / 2540

870 Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model / about.fb.com / 1359

811 Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases / seangoedecke.com / 368

706 Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option / recyclebin.zip / 504

660 Show HN: Tramway SDK – An unholy union between Half-Life and Morrowind engines / racenis.github.io / 238

557 A minimax chess engine in regular expressions / nicholas.carlini.com / 97

432 Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar beverages / nature.com / 384

288 PostgreSQL Anonymizer / postgresql-anonymizer.readthedocs.io / 51

278 Thoughts on a month with Devin / answer.ai / 187

226 Show HN: GUI for editing Mermaid class diagrams / docs.mermaidchart.com / 59

203 Divers recover Phoenician shipwreck that sank 2.6k years ago off coast of Spain / smithsonianmag.com / 99

197 The engineering behind the San Antonio River Walk / practical.engineering / 49

191 General Motors Is Banned from Selling Driving Behavior Data for 5 Years / nytimes.com / 180

188 Trusting clients is probably a security flaw / liberda.nl / 140

186 Ozempic and Wegovy are selected for Medicare's price negotiations / apnews.com / 328

178 Ask HN: How can I realistically change careers? / news.ycombinator.com / 159

177 The Family Bass - Music with an NES / linusakesson.net / 13

174 'Once-in-a-century' discovery reveals luxury of Pompeii / bbc.com / 132

150 A UC Santa Cruz professor unearthed the oldest alphabet yet / universityofcalifornia.edu / 51

131 Automated accessibility testing at Slack / slack.engineering / 57

128 Issues with color spaces and perceptual brightness / johnaustin.io / 65

128 Zig: What to Expect from Release Month / ziglang.org / 56

115 A feature-rich Hacker News client / github.com/Livinglist / 78

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