Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access(techcrunch.com)
1304 points by coloneltcb | 1172 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that Apple cut off Beeper Mini, a service that brought iMessage to Android, shortly after its launch.
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The pro-Israel information war(jackpoulson.substack.com)
658 points by anigbrowl | 1067 comments
A Substack investigation by Jack Poulson and Lee Fang into Israeli government-led efforts to shape online discourse and silence pro-Palestinian voices, citing Zoom calls and WhatsApp logs.
Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking(badcyber.com)
601 points by GruHe | 241 comments
BadCyber article on hackers reverse-engineering train control software that allegedly disabled trains serviced by third-party workshops, a Dieselgate-like scheme.
FDA approves a CRISPR-based medicine for treatment of sickle cell disease(statnews.com)
498 points by divbzero | 215 comments
STAT News article reporting the FDA's December 2023 approval of Casgevy, the first CRISPR-based medicine, for treating sickle cell disease.
You are never taught how to build quality software(florianbellmann.com)
480 points by RunOrVeith | 411 comments
Blog post by Florian Bellmann arguing that software developers are never formally taught how to build quality software and discussing QA practices.
![Screenshot of twitter.com: Mistral "Mixtral" 8x7B 32k model [magnet]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2023/12/8/7692ee30-ddfc-47ef-b630-0e0d65669ae0.jpg)
Mistral "Mixtral" 8x7B 32k model [magnet](twitter.com)
463 points by xyzzyrz | 199 comments
A Mistral AI post on X sharing a BitTorrent magnet link to download the weights of its Mixtral 8x7B 32k-context model.
Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget(kagi.com)
354 points by mroche | 170 comments
Kagi Search changelog entry from Dec 7, 2023 announcing a paywalled articles indicator and an improved weather widget.
Verizon fell for fake "search warrant," gave victim's phone data to stalker(arstechnica.com)
339 points by Shank | 132 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that Verizon handed a victim's phone data to a stalker posing as a police officer with a fake search warrant.
Goodbye, clean code (2020)(overreacted.io)
336 points by kiyanwang | 276 comments
Dan Abramov's 2020 blog post on overreacted reflecting on rewriting a colleague's repetitive code into an abstraction and why chasing clean code can be a mistake.
Just Your Handyman(plough.com)
181 points by merrier | 62 comments
TXR Lisp(nongnu.org)
141 points by tosh | 18 comments
IA Writer in Paper(ia.net)
138 points by scop | 68 comments
![Screenshot of nerology.substack.com: X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com?](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2023/12/8/0191dbdd-da76-436a-ab56-a5e1bc013515.jpg)
Shader Park Is Kinda Neat(untested.sonnet.io)
120 points by rpastuszak | 25 comments
The Onyx Programming Language(onyxlang.io)
91 points by PaulHoule | 55 comments
Double Standards(raspberrypi.com)
90 points by _Microft | 27 comments
World of Goo 2(worldofgoo2.com)
88 points by NOWHERE_ | 23 comments
Using FIDO keys(777.tf)
58 points by jaefi | 39 comments
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