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Retroityon Ferro – Simplifying web development, no more HTML

But why? Why should web pages that don't require javascript require it?

Retroityon Ask HN: What has HN given you?

I'm fairly new here, but I've already fallen in love with the fact that there's all sorts of interesting discussions going on here, allowing you to find other's perspectives presented in a well written and respectful manner.

Retroityon Key iPhone Source Code Gets Posted Online

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2018/2018-02-08-A...

Apple submitted this DMCA to GitHub, and admitted, under penalty of perjury, that this source code is legitimate. Additionally, if it was fake, they wouldn't submit a DMCA.

Retroityon Bitcoin.org removes “fast” and “low fees” from Bitcoin description page

The low-fee, fast transactions were absolutely the main benefits of bitcoin, especially in comparison to Visa or PayPal.

Retroityon Same Democrats Who Denounce Trump Voted to Give Him Warrantless Spying Powers

It's pretty clear that Democrats enjoy mass surveillance as much as Republicans do. So why would Democrats get rid of something that they themselves could benefit from in the future when Trump exits office? Note how Obama expanded these spying powers as he left office: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/obama-expands-surveill...

Retroityon Racing for Realism

There are two major, obvious problems with that.

1) Toy Story was made a long time ago, 22 years ago in fact. As stated by tikhonj, Toy Story would be pure legacy code by now, as so much has changed technically in 22 years. Getting it to work in modern software that could render it in 8K would be very difficult, as it was already difficult enough to re-render it in 2010 as tbabb's comment explains.

2) There's no point in upscaling in 8K. Yes, it would be in a very high resolution, but a lot of the textures were made in the 90s and are obviously not made for 8K. I would imagine that you would have to remake essentially all of the textures, otherwise they would probably look terrible in 8K.

Besides, there's no point of re-releasing it in 8K, because it wouldn't all the detail that rendering in 8K normally come with.

Retroityon Sam Altman complains political correctness (gay) “Free Speech is dead in SF”

Welcome to Journalism in 2017. Impartiality is dead.

Retroityon F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality_in_the_United_S...

It's been there far longer than you think, just in different forms. It's changed as the internet has.

Retroityon Apple is close to acquiring Shazam, sources say

Agreed. As long as you weed out the copyright infringement, this would work really well, considering that many artists that are popular today (chance the rapper comes to mind) started on Soundcloud.

Retroityon The U.S. Media Yesterday Suffered Its Most Humiliating Debacle in Ages

Maybe he just changed his opinion? This Russia hysteria is not helping anyone. Whether or not Russia hacked the election I don't know. But blaming everything on the Russians doesn't help anyone and will only make you look silly.