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Former Microsoft developer says Windows 11's performance is "comically bad,"

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An Xbox VR headset is on the way

theverge.com

Microsoft is teaming up with Meta to create a limited edition Meta Quest VR headset that’s...
Microsoft is teaming up with Meta to create a limited edition Meta Quest VR headset that’s “inspired by Xbox.” While both Microsoft and Meta aren’t sharing full details on this VR headset, it sounds like it’s simply going to be a skinned Meta Quest 3 (or future unannounced version) that comes bundled with an Xbox co...
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What is the best AI conference for a tech leader to attend?

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Apple's China iPhone Sales Dive 19% in Worst Quarter Since 2020

bloomberg.com

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Vision Pro Demand Dwindles as Customer Interest Dropped After Initial Hype

wccftech.com

Apple's Vision Pro headset took the AR market by storm with its stunning looks and advanced...
Apple's Vision Pro headset took the AR market by storm with its stunning looks and advanced technology underneath. While the headset had a solid start, the traction has reduced over time, potentially due to its hefty price tag and minimal real-world use cases. Prominent industry analyst claims that the demand for Vi...
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Web Game Engines and Libraries

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Ask HN: Any book recommendations about QA and automated testing?

ycombinator.com
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Ask HN: Domain registrar that won't block my domain with zero notice?

ycombinator.com
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Show HN: I made an app to help memorize music notation and the guitar fretboard

learnfrets.com
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Rev. Cecil Williams has died

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The grandson of a slave, Albert Cecil Williams was born Sept. 22, 1929, and raised in...
The grandson of a slave, Albert Cecil Williams was born Sept. 22, 1929, and raised in the segregated West Texas town of San Angelo. He was one of six children. After moving to San Francisco, Williams helped revive Glide in the early 1960s with late wife Janice Mirikitani, who died in 2021. Although he retired as the...

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It's the End of the Web as We Know It

theatlantic.com

technology
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Open Source Community Unites to Build EU CRA-Compliant Cybersecurity Processes

apache.org

By Dirk-Willem van Gulik, VP of Public Affairs Cybersecurity is a central topic for governments around...
By Dirk-Willem van Gulik, VP of Public Affairs Cybersecurity is a central topic for governments around the world. The European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) introduced rules on how software should be developed, tested, audited and supported to ensure more secure software. Because open source software underpins ...
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Ask HN: How does your company do performance reviews?

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Linus Torvalds, the famous embroidery file converter developer

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So for Christmas, Tove got this embroidery machine from Santa Claus. Since then, she's busily been...
So for Christmas, Tove got this embroidery machine from Santa Claus. Since then, she's busily been filling the kids clothes with names, re-doing their Tae-Kwon-Do uniforms etc etc.And why do I care? It turns out that all those embroidery machines can be extended with new patterns, and most of them - including the on...
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Petoi Bittle – a programmable robot dog

petoi.com
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How short can Git abbreviate? (2013)

cuviper.com

How short can a Git hash be abbreviated? A full SHA-1 hash is 160 bits, 40...
How short can a Git hash be abbreviated? A full SHA-1 hash is 160 bits, 40 hex characters, which is a bit long to talk about and retype when you’re not just copy-pasting. Therefore most people will use just the first few characters to refer to commits, but how safe is this? I know of a couple posts where Linus Torva...
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U.S. Senate and Biden Shamefully Renew and Expand FISA Section 702

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Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles

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Show HN: Source Code for CSVs

scroll.pub

More examples of Scroll Datasets from datasets.scroll.pub. April 21, 2024 — The source code for this...
More examples of Scroll Datasets from datasets.scroll.pub. April 21, 2024 — The source code for this blog post contains a dataset about the planets and generates this HTML file as well as a CSV, a TSV, and a JSON file. It demonstrates Scroll Datasets. Scroll Datasets are normal plain text blog posts written in Scrol...
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I am thinking of open sourcing the ozma-io core platform code

ycombinator.com
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Home Assistant has a new foundation and a goal to become a consumer brand

arstechnica.com

Home Assistant, until recently, has been a wide-ranging and hard-to-define project. The open smart home platform...
Home Assistant, until recently, has been a wide-ranging and hard-to-define project. The open smart home platform is an open source OS you can run anywhere that aims to connect all your devices together. But it's also bespoke Raspberry Pi hardware, in Yellow and Green. It's entirely free, but it also receives funding...
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Opening a small business in San Francisco is still a nightmare

sfstandard.com

Five years ago, I decided to pursue my dream and launch Arcana, a wine bar, restaurant...
Five years ago, I decided to pursue my dream and launch Arcana, a wine bar, restaurant and entertainment venue on the Mission Street corridor. Little did I know what it would take to open those doors: years of hard work, heartache, blind alleys and bad-faith conversations. It almost led me to give up hope.Most notab...
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The reason PG&E rates are skyrocketing in California

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Carrier, inventor of the air conditioner, is moving on to the home heat pump

cnbc.com

Carrier Global, the nearly 100-year-old manufacturer whose founder, Willis Carrier, invented air conditioning, is being transformed...
Carrier Global, the nearly 100-year-old manufacturer whose founder, Willis Carrier, invented air conditioning, is being transformed by the growing market for heat pumps and other HVAC climate technologies, which have outsold fossil fuel furnaces for two years in a row."HVAC is at an inflection point right now," said...

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