news, !paper 2025-03-18

1654 Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones / ericmigi.com / 1090

1624 Two new PebbleOS watches / ericmigi.com / 516

752 US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted / reuters.com / 533

744 Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022) / ericdraken.com / 423

601 AI tools are spotting errors in research papers / nature.com / 215

599 Google to buy Wiz for $32B / reuters.com / 828

591 Turkish university annuls Erdogan rival's degree, preventing run for president / reuters.com / 434

566 Moving away from US cloud services / martijnhols.nl / 368

539 Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them / gist.github.com / 356

514 Show HN: I made a tool to port tweets to Bluesky mantaining their original date / bluemigrate.com / 209

501 The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome / wired.com / 682

454 Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to cloud / theregister.com / 131

445 Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow / freedom.press / 75

335 Ask HN: How Do I Escape Homelessness After Rebuilding My Mental Health? / news.ycombinator.com / 219

319 3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023) / abortretry.fail / 268

305 FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies / wired.com / 112

282 Designing Electronics That Work / hscott.net / 113

250 Show HN: "Git who" – A new CLI tool for industrial-scale Git blaming / github.com/sinclairtarget / 125

247 Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation / visualgo.net / 14

246 Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face / drewdevault.com / 118

239 Show HN: I made a live multiplayer Minesweeper game / minesweeperpro.com / 82

236 The model is the product / vintagedata.org / 81

225 Stamina Is a Quiet Advantage / kupajo.com / 103

221 Google announces agreement to acquire Wiz / blog.google / 5

211 HTTrack Website Copier / httrack.com / 64

204 The program is the database is the interface / scattered-thoughts.net / 61

193 Fedora 42 Beta / redhat.com / 113

177 PeerTube v7.1 Is Out / joinpeertube.org / 50

177 Preview: Amazon S3 Tables and Lakehouse in DuckDB / duckdb.org / 47

174 20 Years of YC / HN / vickiboykis.com / 42

165 SheepIt Render Farm server code goes open source / gitlab.com / 38

151 Breaking Up with On-Call / reflector.dev / 196

150 North Korea Launders Billions in Stolen Crypto / coindesk.com / 67

149 Nvidia Dynamo: A Datacenter Scale Distributed Inference Serving Framework / github.com/ai-dynamo / 38

139 SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emulator / emaculation.com / 67

139 Global population datasets systematically underrepresent rural population / nature.com / 58

136 Underrated Soft Skills: Charisma / utopianengineeringsociety.substack.com / 126

136 Half-Life 2 RTX / store.steampowered.com / 81

129 Java 24 / jdk.java.net / 107

129 The Defer Technical Specification: It Is Time / thephd.dev / 66

117 How I Stay Motivated Working on My Solo SaaS (When It Feels Like Nobody Cares) / news.ycombinator.com / 52

115 BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank / theguardian.com / 198

114 Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents / artint.info / 49

111 The real failure rate of EBS / planetscale.com / 30

110 But how to get to that European cloud? / berthub.eu / 185

100 Tesla Hate Is Making Insurance More Expensive for Owners / gizmodo.com / 204

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