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Syncthing 2.0 Released

KindOne — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 06:25:40 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/releases/tag/v2.0.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44873043

Points: 134

# Comments: 29

How Nintendo bled Atari games to death

sohkamyung — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:33:33 +0000

Article URL: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-nintendo-bled-atari-games-to-death/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43704596

Points: 211

# Comments: 152

Ask HN: How to unblock RSS feeds on Cloudflare hosted sites?

rishikeshs — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 22:01:18 +0000

My blog[1] is hosted on Cloudflare pages. Fee of my readers complained that they’re unable to add my blog in multiple rss readers. Any ideas to bypass this ?

[1] https://rishikeshs.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42482684

Points: 34

# Comments: 14

Syncthing – A decentralized continuous file synchronization program

FireInsight — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 09:12:42 +0000

Article URL: https://syncthing.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41281152

Points: 61

# Comments: 23

RSS Feed Organization Strategies and New Feed Cost

surprisetalk — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 03:03:55 +0000

Article URL: https://yukinu.com/blog/2024/02/06/rss-feed-processing-strategies.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39860199

Points: 47

# Comments: 13

On Review Scoring Systems

surprisetalk — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 15:10:05 +0000

Article URL: https://thenewleafjournal.com/on-review-scoring-systems/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39358289

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Interactive Quizzes for Markdown

nequo — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 03:29:06 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/cognitive-engineering-lab/mdbook-quiz

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38921924

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Chatmail – replicable, fast and secure chatting infrastructure for all

todsacerdoti — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 18:44:00 +0000

Article URL: https://delta.chat/en/2023-12-13-chatmail

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38632167

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

The RSS resurgence is now resulting in feedreader-only blogs

cliffbuxton — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 13:54:27 +0000

Article URL: https://theunderground.blog/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38517191

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

Obtainium – Get Android App Updates Directly from the Source

gray_charger — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 00:59:43 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37839747

Points: 2

# Comments: 5

TV's are becoming intrusive and abusive; what to do about it?

i_am_roberto — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 01:51:05 +0000

I have, over the years, watched as our TV has become more intrusive and abusive. Every software update takes it up a notch.

As I say in a Reddit post [0], I didn't go to the store to buy a remotely controlled ever-changing remotely-controlled digital advertising platform to hang in our family room.

I didn't go to the store to buy a data gathering device to plant into my home.

I didn't go to the store to provide a TV manufacturer with, as they say in their newest terms of service:

"grant and agree to grant to VIZIO and its affiliates and licensees, a non-exclusive, transferable, revocable, royalty-free right and license (with right to sublicense) to use, reproduce, publicly display, publicly perform, adapt, collect, modify, delete from, distribute, transmit, promote and make derivative works of the VIZIOgram Content, in any form"

This device, which cost well over $2,000 is the source of stress and consternation.

When family and friends come over for a visit, it is impossible to control what they click on. The "home page" is full of ads.

They have a service through which you upload your family photos into their cloud service. The above license is just one aspect of what they grab from consumers without consent.

I say "without consent" because of several realities.

- They do not make you read and sign anything when you buy the product. Go to the store to buy a TV. You walk away with a big box and no disclosures of any kind. The plastic bag they ship it in has more visible disclosures than the device itself.

- How about the terms of use/service? Nobody reads 34 pages of nonsense (assuming they can find it).

- If you have the TV installed by the shop where you bought it, they set it up and walk away. You never agreed to anything.

- They constantly change and update firmware and TOU/S. You never agree to anything.

In short, they take advantage of consumers and tend to become abusive about just how far they push it. This multi-thousand-dollar TV is now a fully remote-controlled digital ad serving system in my family room. That is not what I signed-up for and not what I bought at all.

I just want a TV.

What about watching network TV with ads? Isn't that an advertising platform in your home?

Sure, except that I can choose to tune in or not. And the TV station doesn't modify the software in my TV to deliver more and more ads into my screen.

Interestingly enough, in a prior job I designed image processing boards to drive LCD and other display modules. Part of me has been thinking it is time to engineer a "TV Lobotomizer" board that can be used to modify these TV's and completely remove all such capabilities while (via open source) giving the consumer full control of what happens with their TV.

Sorry if that came off as a huge rant. With the last software update this thing has just gone over a threshold that is simply intolerable. Actively looking for solutions.

I think this kind of consumer protection has to be undertaken by government. I am not one to automatically reach for that kind of a solution. However, it has become beyond clear that TV manufacturers are perfectly happy abusing consumers as far as they can go. The only expedient way to fix this might be some kind of a law that forces full user control of every single feature on a TV and an absolute iron-clad privacy requirement. If a customer chooses to pierce that protection, they should be free to do so after informed consent and have every right to take it all back.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/VIZIO_Official/comments/162xuop/p75qxh1_ready_to_hire_an_attorney/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37302578

Points: 49

# Comments: 112

Under $100 Pre-Owned Mini Computers to Use as Desktop PC's and Servers

laserstrahl — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 04:25:49 +0000

Article URL: https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/best-mini-servers.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37058681

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

Cool, but obscure X11 tools (2019)

RalfWausE — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 13:06:23 +0000

Article URL: https://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36708511

Points: 311

# Comments: 257

How the Tour de France became a $100M business

yarapavan — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 14:59:47 +0000

Article URL: https://huddleup.substack.com/p/tour-de-france-how-the-worlds-most

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36645022

Points: 69

# Comments: 91

Show HN: OPML list of Hacker News Users Personal Blogs

outcoldman — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 04:25:56 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/outcoldman/hackernews-personal-blogs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36627112

Points: 281

# Comments: 99

Show HN: Blogs.hn – tiny blog directory

surprisetalk — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 10:15:16 +0000

Like others on here, I was inspired by the "personal blogs" post :)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081

In proper HN fashion, the site is open-source and requires no JS!

There's instructions on how to add/edit a blog on the Github README.

[1] https://github.com/surprisetalk/blogs.hn

Note that your blog might appear in blogs.json, but not on the site! Right now I'm using the following code to filter out blogs. Your blog might appear if you add more metadata:

  if (
    3 > 0  
      + !!blog.title  
      + (blog.desc.length > 40)  
      + !!blog.about  
      + !!blog.now  
      + !!blog.feed  
      + 3 * (blog.hn.length > 1)      
  )
    continue;

As I mention on the /about page, if you don't already have a blog, I recently made a minimal static site generator! It's easier than ever to begin your writing journey :)

[2] https://github.com/surprisetalk/worstpress

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36613727

Points: 224

# Comments: 57

Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it

pseudolus — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 16:11:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/01/amazon-goodreads-elizabeth-gilbert/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575003

Points: 573

# Comments: 472

How to Find Substack RSS Feeds

jasondrowley — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 19:40:15 +0000

Article URL: https://thenewleafjournal.com/how-to-find-substack-rss-feeds-and-other-notes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34744652

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Plagiarism and ChatGPT

hirundo — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 21:05:47 +0000

Article URL: https://reason.com/volokh/2022/12/28/plagiarism-and-chatgpt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34165945

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Ask HN: Anyone using proprietary Unix at work?

wassenaar10 — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 18:07:26 +0000

I was born in the late 90s so by the time I got involved in technology, my introduction to Unix and Unix-flavored systems was limited to Linux and MacOS. However, I've read about the history of Unix at Bell Labs, the BSD systems derived from research Unix, and the eventual commercial releases of Unix System V from AT&T themselves. I also see that HP-UX, AIX, and Solaris are apparently still maintained and get releases, which suggests that they are still being used in production in some places.

I'm curious if anyone here currently works (or has very recently worked) somewhere where proprietary Unix is still used for production. If so, can you tell me what they're used for and why those deployments haven't been moved to an appropriate Linux distribution?

Not suggesting Linux is necessarily better for all use cases, just wondering what keeps these small number of entities clinging to closed-source Unix with presumably pricey license costs.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34017934

Points: 194

# Comments: 210