Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)
Article URL: https://www.cs.unc.edu/~stotts/COMP590-059-f24/robsrules.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47423647 Points: 781 # Comments: 389
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Nvidia is quietly building a multibillion-dollar behemoth to rival its chips business
Nvidia's networking business raked in $11 billion last quarter despite getting significantly less fanfare than chips and gaming.
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FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms
FBI director Kash Patel told lawmakers that the agency is actively purchasing commercially available location data, which can track Americans without needing a warrant.
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Cloudflare appeals Piracy Shield fine, hopes to kill Italy's site-blocking law
Firm says requiring site blocks within 30 minutes breaks core Internet architecture.
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A private space company has a radical new plan to bag an asteroid
Company has previously tested its technology on the International Space Station.
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Federal cyber experts called Microsoft's cloud a "pile of shit," approved it anyway
One Microsoft product was approved despite years of concerns about its security.
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Show HN: Playing LongTurn FreeCiv with Friends
Article URL: https://github.com/ndroo/freeciv.andrewmcgrath.info Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47429988 Points: 12 # Comments: 2
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Show HN: Tmux-IDE, OSS agent-first terminal IDE
Hey HN, Small OSS project that i created for myself and want to share with the community. It's a declarative, scriptable, terminal-based IDE focussed on agentic engineering. That's a lot of jargon, but essentially its a multi-agent IDE that you start
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EU Inc.: A new harmonised corporate legal regime
Article URL: https://commission.europa.eu/topics/business-and-industry/doing-business-eu/company-law-and-corporate-governance/eu-inc-new-harmonised-corporate-legal-regime_en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428810 Points: 42 # Com
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AI coding is gambling
Article URL: https://notes.visaint.space/ai-coding-is-gambling/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428541 Points: 209 # Comments: 233
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Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste
Article URL: https://www.svgbackgrounds.com/set/free-svg-backgrounds-and-patterns/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427299 Points: 9 # Comments: 7
Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web
Article URL: https://susam.net/wander/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422759 Points: 51 # Comments: 41
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Pardoned Nikola founder Trevor Milton is trying to raise $1B for AI-powered planes
He told the Wall Street Journal he thinks autonomous planes will be "10 times harder than Nikola ever was."
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Patreon CEO calls AI companies’ fair use argument ‘bogus,’ says creators should be paid
Patreon CEO Jack Conte says AI companies should pay creators for training data, arguing their fair use defense falls apart when they license content from major publishers.
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Rebel Audio is a new AI podcasting tool aimed at first-time creators
Rebel Audio is a new all-in-one podcasting tool that allows creators to record podcasts, edit, clip content for social, and publish episodes, all without ever leaving the platform.