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  2. Codebases – Million Lines of Code (informationisbeautiful.net)
    2 points 1
  3. What's the difference between a "disc" and a "disk"? (2023) (support.apple.com)
    46 points 26
  4. Blue Box – Why Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak Hacked the Phone Network (2013) (mac-history.net)
    3 points 2
  5. Ask HN: Clone a (Musical) Sound

    Anyone know a convincing technique to synthesise another sound by having the software 'listen' and recreate it? I have had success with the brilliant sounding Synplant, but it's not straightforward.…

    2 points 0
  6. Ask HN: What do you consider fun?

    If you're inordinately in front of a computer screen for a living, day in day out, week after week, when you've finally had enough and need a break, what works for you to counter it? No matter the weather (UK, its grey…

    25 points 18
  7. Ask HN: Will Kagi's subscription cost reduce with enough subscribers?

    I asked Kagi (free account) and the gist was no. Is there an upper limit in which subscriptions cover all future searches from all future subscribers? What is that number? Or does the scaling up always cost more to…

    4 points 6
  8. Ask HD: How should the UK Post Office problem be solved? (bbc.co.uk)
    3 points 1
  9. The Invention of the Transient Designer (elysia.com)
    2 points 0
  10. The GPL, the App Store, and You (engadget.com)
    14 points 3
  11. No News Is Good News (bbc.co.uk)
    1 points 1
  12. The Accelerando Illusion (shapesounds.com)
    2 points 0
  13. Fun with the Mercator Projection (andrewt.net)
    2 points 1
  14. Generating snowflakes using cellular automata (github.com)
    2 points 0
  15. Ethical use and deployment of facial recognition technology (bsia.co.uk)
    1 points 1
  16. Cargo Cults of Melanesia (scientificamerican.com)
    1 points 0
  17. Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you not recommend? And why

    It's a playful but curious topic. When this has been asked in reverse (which do you use) it often throws up this question quite soon into the discussion. Photos and iTunes, promised so much with Digital Life, but their…

    1 points 3
  18. Earth likely just had its hottest two days in thousands of years (axios.com)
    12 points 12
  19. Why scientific support for alcohol's health benefits is fading (theguardian.com)
    8 points 6
  20. Thus Was Born the Zero (bbvaopenmind.com)
    1 points 0
  21. The U.S. goes fascist. How do you escape? By Cecil Adams (2016) (straightdope.com)
    8 points 2
  22. U.S. Secret Service Radio Following the Reagan Assassination Attempt (2011) (secretservice.gov)
    2 points 0
  23. Japan wrestles with dangers of 'smartphone-walking' (www3.nhk.or.jp)
    4 points 3
  24. Wonderful World of the Computer 01 by Bernard Nergfergler (acornelectron.co.uk)
    1 points 1
  25. Ask HN: Is PocketEarth Abandonware?

    Looking to check in on Geomagik and Abe Heckenbach. PocketEarth for me is still the OSM wrapper to beat. But it appears dropped.

    4 points 5