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Happy New Year HN!
I spend too much time on HN. But of all the places on the internet, this is the only place which feels worth visiting multiple times a day!<p>Wishing everyone a great 2024!
Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading
In 2024, please switch to Firefox
IDEs we had 30 years ago
NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances
4B If Statements
The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching
First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation
How big is YouTube?
Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims
Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers
Hey!<p>I made Heynote entirely for my own use case. For many years, I always had an Emacs instance running with the scratch buffer open, even long after I had abandoned Emacs as my programming editor in favor of more recent IDE:s.<p>The simplicity of having just one big scratch buffer appeals to me, but I still want to separate the different things I jot down somehow (without using tabs or similar). Previously, my solution was to insert a bunch of blank lines between the notes, but hitting C-A would still select the entire buffer. That's why I came up with the concept of "blocks", which turned out really well for my use cases.<p>I decided to release Heynote, thinking it might be useful to others.
Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays
Thank you for keeping systems available and safe. I've been there many times in the past, including having to fly at the last minute to a non-internet-connected data center in NJ to babysit an emergency production bug fix that took the entire holiday to create, install, verify, and monitor.
Apple allows some iOS apps to track user locations via lists of nearby SSIDs
Beeper – Moving Forward
ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format
Volkswagen, Porsche, and Audi say they will use Tesla's EV charging plug
James Webb Space Telescope captures high-resolution image of Uranus
Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger