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Legal Corner: Apple’s “notarisation” – blocking software freedom of developers and users

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✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: Newson: 2025-11-05The EU’s Digital Markets Act is supposed to shake up the power of tech giants by giving developers and users more choice. Apple’s “notarisation” of mobile apps contradicts these objectives. A civil-society complaint against Apple’s monopolistic control over app distribution aims to change that.CC-BY-SA 4.0. by Rahak for FSFE The EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) aims for a structural reset of power in digital markets, a shift from corporate control toward device neutrality, where users decide what runs on their devices. For Free Software,…

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becoming a compiler engineer – by Rona Wang

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✨ Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Key idea: In August, after many months of job hunting, I finally started a new role in the San Francisco Bay Area as a compiler engineer. It’s wild, I have dental insurance now. What is a compiler engineer, anyway?I imagine the audience of this post is both “people who want a job in compilers” and “people who are curious about my life”, so for those in the latter category: Wikipedia says that “a compiler is software that translates computer code written in one programming language into another language.”…

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Local First HTMX | Technical and Personal Blog

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✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Key idea: Part 2 is now ready There is a common refrain on the internet that things have gotten worse and are continuing to get worse. There is a proliferation of horrible jumpy loading ads on every website, every search engine throws a crappy AI summary in front of your search result, every site/webapp seems to have gotten slower and slower. I cannot provide a solution for all of that, but I can point to a better paradigm for web site and web app design. That paradigm is…

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Oddest ChatGPT leaks yet: Cringey chat logs found in Google analytics tool

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💥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: OpenAI’s response leaves users with “lingering questions” After ChatGPT prompts were found surfacing in Google’s search index in August, OpenAI clarified that users had clicked a box making those prompts public, which OpenAI defended as “sufficiently clear.” The AI firm later scrambled to remove the chats from Google’s SERPs after it became obvious that users felt misled into sharing private chats publicly. Packer told Ars that a major difference between those leaks and the GSC leaks is that users harmed by the prior…

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ZigZagJoe/Macintosh-Q650-68060: Running a 68060 CPU in Quadra 650

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✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Key idea: This project is a collection of ROM modifications to get a minimum level of functionality out of a Macintosh Quadra 650/800 / Centris 650 with a 68060 installed on an appropriate adapter. As currently sits it can boot an unmodified System 7.1 install. Much will not work and remains to be done; I do not expect to finish it. Thanks to Jockelill for a pointer on the MMU ROM mapping and Aprezbios for supplying scrap 060s to play with. PROOF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXSWiKu-ASA This is a experimental…

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Snapchat/Valdi: Valdi is a cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance without sacrificing developer velocity.

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🔥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: NoteBeta Status: Valdi has been widely used in Snap's production apps for the last 8 years. We're calling this a beta because our tools and documentation need more battle testing in the open source world. Valdi will exit beta when we're happy with the developer experience. Valdi is a cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance without sacrificing developer velocity. Write your UI once in declarative TypeScript, and it compiles directly to native views on iOS, Android, and macOS—no web views, no JavaScript bridges.…

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Older Adults Outnumber Children in 11 States, Nearly Half of Counties

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✨ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Key idea: JUNE 26, 2025 — The U.S. population age 65 and older rose by 3.1% (to 61.2 million) while the population under age 18 decreased by 0.2% (to 73.1 million) from 2023 to 2024, according to the Vintage 2024 Population Estimates released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. The data show the population continued to age, with the share of the population age 65 and older steadily increasing from 12.4% in 2004 to 18.0% in 2024, and the share of children declining from 25.0% to 21.5%. Ongoing…

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Immutable Software Deploys Using ZFS Jails on FreeBSD

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💥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Key idea: November 6, 2025 FreeBSD’s native support for ZFS snapshots and jails provides a powerful foundation for immutable deployments. By creating a new jail from a ZFS snapshot for every release, we get instant roll‑backs, zero‑downtime upgrades, and a clean, reproducible environment. This article walks through the (very opinionated) flow that we use. From jails setup through running Caddy as a health‑checked reverse proxy in front of the jails. FreeBSD 14+ (or the latest stable release) offers the necessary ZFS and jail primitives. Enabling ZFS with…

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FAA restricts commercial rocket launches indefinitely due to air traffic risks

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Main takeaway: Beginning next week, daytime rocket launches are all officially scrubbed thanks to the government shutdown.As the record-long shutdown of the U.S. federal government stretches into its second month, commercial air travelers are beginning to feel the impacts at the nation's airports. To help ease the strain, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an emergency order to limit who can access navigable airspace, which includes restricted hours on commercial rocket launches.Beginning 6 a.m. EST (1100 GMT) on Nov. 10, commercial launches to space can only take…

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Using the Web Monetization API for fun and profit

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💥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: I recently spoke at JSConf Mexico, where spent a lot of time with the Interledger Foundation folks in the hallway track and at the after party events, namely with Ioana (Eningeering Manager) and Marian (DevRel) to talk about Web Monetization.Web Monetization gives publishers more revenue options and audiences more ways to sustain the content they love. Support can take many forms: from a one-time contribution to a continuous, pay-as-you-browse model. It all flows seamlessly while people engage with the content they love. Publishers earn…

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