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1023bytes··on In African Villages, Phones Can Become Ultrasound Scanners
Only works with Apple products? That's rather out of touch.
1023bytes··on Ripgrep 11 Released
What makes it so fast? Apart from skipping gitignored files and binaries.

Parallelism? Some Rust-specific features?

1023bytes··on Apple Music Overtakes Spotify in U.S. Subscribers
Sadly there are signs that Google Play Music is going to be shut down soon and replaced by YouTube Music.
1023bytes··on Show HN: 300k lines of Java UI code running native in browser at desktop speed
Interesting as a demo, but nearly unusable in practice.
1023bytes··on Apple Cancels AirPower Product
If only they made the same decision abouut buutterfly keyboards.
1023bytes··on Rogue Airbnb listings still exist where short-term rentals aren't allowed
Most importantly they take huge commissions and force the hotels not to offer a lower price anywhere else.
1023bytes··on Librem 5 Smartphone: Massive Progress, Exact CPU Selected, Shipping Adjustment
Q3 2019 still seems way too optimistic to me.
1023bytes··on Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms
The Delta example is not quite the case. It only asks you for the last name if you provide a username instead of their number.
1023bytes··on Why Is It So Hard to Detect Keyup Events on Linux?
So is this possible in PowerShell? I don't think so
1023bytes··on Show HN: docker-run.com enables to “docker run” in the clould with a subdomain
Doesn't seem very sustainable, what's the business model?
1023bytes··on Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?
This seems like guerilla marketing for refactoringui.com
1023bytes··on Fearful of bias, Google blocks gender-based pronouns from new AI tool
replace(/^(him|her)/gi, "them")

Here you go Google, I fixed it for you

1023bytes··on Linux on Dex
Why Ubuntu 16.04 when 18.04 LTS is already out for a while
1023bytes··on “Change your password qwerty immediately. You have been hacked.”
>From now on, I advise you to use good antiviruses and update them regularly (several times a day)!

This is my favorite

1023bytes··on Tech companies pay poor Kenyans to produce training data for AI
I think it's the other way around. Users solving the captcha are helping classify training data
1023bytes··on Police forcing me to install Jingwang spyware app, how to minimize impact?
It would be interesting if someone posted the APK, it's Android so it wouldn't be a big issue to crack it and make it only seem like it works.
1023bytes··on Qualcomm’s Chain of Trust
Yep, in the EU it's definitely illegal.
1023bytes··on Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta
And it's very difficult to search for
1023bytes··on Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Windows 10 Insider build
There is no way Edge could run in Wine on Linux.
1023bytes··on EU to recommend that member states abolish daylight saving time
Hopefully all the countries will agree on this together. It would be quite inconvenient if ever country would have a different time.
1023bytes··on 11-year-old changed election results on replica Florida website in under 10 mins
Similar article as from BuzzFeed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17744937
1023bytes··on An 11-Year-Old Changed the Results of Florida's Presidential Vote at DEFCON
I really don't understand what the media is trying to accomplish by pushing this narrative. This fear mongering will create distrust in elections and the election results, undermining democracy.
1023bytes··on WireGuard is submitted for Linux kernel inclusion
Why does this need to be included in the kernel directly and not just as a loadable module?
1023bytes··on India's first RISC-V based Chip is Here: Linux boots on Shakti processor
If you are referring to that screenshot in the article, that is just the PC it's connected to. If you look closer at the terminal you can see it's running Buildroot.
1023bytes··on Is Cobol holding you hostage with Math?
Kotlin solves this issue
1023bytes··on Show HN: Polltime – Polls that can be texted
Why not just use Strawpoll?
1023bytes··on What Everybody Gets Wrong About Jekyll and Hyde (2012)
I expected this to be about the static site generators :D
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