We're forking Flutter(flutterfoundation.dev)
784 points by alexzeitler | 650 comments
Blog post by Matt Carroll announcing Flock, a community fork of Flutter, and explaining that it aims to expand available labor and speed up development.
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A return to hand-written notes by learning to read and write(research.google)
557 points by mfiguiere | 174 comments
Google Research blog post describing a model that converts photos of handwritten notes into digital ink by learning to read and write stroke sequences.
New iMac with M4(apple.com)
488 points by tosh | 1024 comments
Apple press release from October 28, 2024 announcing the new iMac with the M4 chip, Apple Intelligence, nano-texture display option, 12MP camera, and new colors.
Buy payphones and retire(computer.rip)
436 points by cratermoon | 317 comments
A Computers Are Bad newsletter post by J. B. Crawford on the history of payphone investment schemes as a get-rich-quick, passive income scam.
The motor turns too much(projectgus.com)
372 points by mooreds | 174 comments
Blog post, part 4 of a Kona EV Conversion series, describing getting a salvaged Hyundai Kona electric motor to turn and the resulting issues.
HTML Form Validation is underused(expressionstatement.com)
355 points by stereoabuse | 301 comments
Blog post arguing that built-in HTML form validation attributes, methods, and properties are powerful but heavily underused, and exploring why.
Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO(danluu.com)
326 points by greggyb | 617 comments
Dan Luu essay arguing Steve Ballmer was an underrated Microsoft CEO whose long-term bets and groundwork set up Satya Nadella's later success.
So long WordPress(chriswiegman.com)
242 points by ValentineC | 130 comments
Why so few Matt Levines?(gwern.net)
209 points by iNic | 108 comments
418 I’m a teapot(developer.mozilla.org)
196 points by csomar | 119 comments
NY Times gets 230 wrong again(techdirt.com)
118 points by hn_acker | 73 comments
![Screenshot of kysq.org: The Use of Knowledge in Society (1945) [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/10/28/053237ad-846f-48a1-840d-35e0559f1b2e.jpg)
They want your ethics for $105(ntietz.com)
85 points by zdw | 39 comments
On Good Software Engineers(candost.blog)
76 points by BerislavLopac | 71 comments
CIL: C Intermediate Language(github.com)
67 points by tosh | 25 comments
Family medicine is in decline(thewalrus.ca)
61 points by mooreds | 141 comments
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Shenzhou-18 crew records video showcasing life, work in space [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/10/28/d779083c-572f-4df3-a195-bf99bc0d6eed.jpg)
