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A Virginia public library is fighting off a takeover by private equity

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-25 03:05:46

Photo from The Samuels Public Library After being targeted by anti-LGBTQ book banners and having their funding pulled, a local library in Virginia successfully stopped a threatened takeover by a private equity group. The local community rallied around The Samuels Public Library in Front Royal, Virginia, to push back against attacks and the private equity owned Library Systems & Services withdrew their bid to run operations. But with their funding cut for the fiscal year that began this July, th

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Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-25 18:08:27

Extensions installed on almost 1 million devices have been overriding key security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites on behalf of a paid service, a researcher said. The 245 extensions, available for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, have racked up nearly 909 million downloads, John Tuckner of SecurityAnnex reported. The extensions serve a wide range of purposes, including managing bookmarks and clipboards, boosting speaker volumes, and generating random numbers. The common

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Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions?

news.ycombinator.com Arthur O Dwyer 2026-01-26 23:04:45

On StackExchange, someone asks why programmers talk about “calling” a function. Several possible allusions spring to mind: Calling a function is like calling on a friend — we go, we stay a while, we come back. Calling a function is like calling for a servant — a summoning to perform a task. Calling a function is like making a phone call — we ask a question and get an answer from outside ourselves. The true answer seems to be the middle one — “calling” as in “calling up, summoning” — but indi

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Man of Glass: Boccaccio: A Biography

news.ycombinator.com Alexander Lee 2026-01-26 08:48:34

In early June 1363, Giovanni Boccaccio received a letter that stung him deeply. Just a few days shy of his fiftieth birthday, he was then at the height of his creative powers. He had already penned at least a dozen major works, including the Decameron, any one of which would have assured him a place alongside Dante and Petrarch in the firmament of Italian literature. Although recent political upheavals had forced him to leave his native Florence, he was still writing feverishly. Yet to his frien

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Free as Air, Free as Water, Free as Knowledge (1992)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-29 02:28:16

``Free as Air, Free As Water, Free As Knowledge'' by Bruce Sterling Speech to the Library Information Technology Association June 1992, San Francisco CA Hi everybody. Well, this is the Library Information Technology Association, so I guess I ought to be talking about libraries, or information, or technology, or at least association. I'm gonna give it a shot, but I want to try this from an unusual perspective. I want to start by talking about money. You wouldn't guess it sometimes to hear so

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``Free as Air, Free as Water, Free as Knowledge'' (1992)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-30 02:28:16

``Free as Air, Free As Water, Free As Knowledge'' by Bruce Sterling Speech to the Library Information Technology Association June 1992, San Francisco CA Hi everybody. Well, this is the Library Information Technology Association, so I guess I ought to be talking about libraries, or information, or technology, or at least association. I'm gonna give it a shot, but I want to try this from an unusual perspective. I want to start by talking about money. You wouldn't guess it sometimes to hear so

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Compression Dictionary Transport

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-03 06:07:33

Algorithms like Brotli compression and Zstandard compression achieve even greater efficiency by allowing the use of dictionaries of commonly encountered strings, so you don't need any copies of them in the compressed resource. These algorithms ship with a predefined default dictionary that is used when compressing HTTP responses. Compression Dictionary Transport builds on this by enabling you to provide your own dictionary which is especially applicable to a particular set of resources. The com

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Everwild has reportedly been cancelled amid Xbox layoffs

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-09 04:22:00

In today's gaming world, a decade of development can sometimes amount to nothing. Parent company Microsoft has reportedly cancelled Rare's long-in-development project Everwild. The news comes amid broader layoffs across Microsoft's Xbox division. Rare employees will likely be part of the Xbox layoffs, according to Video Games Chronicle. VGC and Bloomberg's Jason Schreier were the first to report the game's cancellation. (Schreier added that an MMORPG project from Zenimax, codenamed "Blackbird,"

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I am not a supplier (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Thomas Depierre 2026-02-12 09:41:48

I am not a supplier 31 Dec 2022 - Thomas Depierre For the past few years, we have seen a lot of discussions around the concept of the Software Supply Chain. These discussions started around the time of LeftPad and escalated with multiple incidents in the past few years. The problem of all the work in this domain is that it forgets a fundamental point. Before we get there, I am going to define what is usually meant by Supply Chain and suppliers, why we are applying to software. And then why at

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Gemini could soon rival ChatGPT with its new privacy feature (Update: A closer look)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-12 18:35:27

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on a temporary chat feature for Gemini. This feature could be similar to ChatGPT’s Temporary Chats, which give users a blank slate for conversation and doesn’t save any memory. We were able to subsequently take a closer look at this feature via more screenshots. Update: July 1, 2025 (8:30 AM ET): We uncovered evidence of a temporary chat feature in Gemini earlier this month (see the original article below). We were only able to provide

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Publishing Pepys

news.ycombinator.com Kate Loveman 2026-02-10 06:21:06

Two hundred years ago this month, Samuel Pepys’s diary was published to great acclaim. Readers of the first edition in 1825 relished Pepys’s ‘honest’ observations and ‘private anecdotes’. While writing his journal in the 1660s, Pepys had worked hard to keep it secret. He knew he was placing his livelihood at risk by recording seditious criticisms of his superiors, along with details of his own bribe-taking and sexually explicit accounts of his ‘amours’. There was much that, when writing, he did

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Trump Goes Haywire on AI Regulation After China Agrees to Major Trade Deal

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-16 03:23:08

American president Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping have finally resolved a months-long trade dispute revolving around the rare earth metals vital to developing artificial intelligence. It's a resolution that makes it all the more bizarre that the US President is opening the floodgates for an AI arms race with China. Following Trump's baffling "Liberation Day" tariffs back in April, Chinese lawmakers moved to cut the flow of rare earth metals into the US. China has a near-global mo

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WinRAR patches bug letting malware launch from extracted archives

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-22 18:55:14

WinRAR has addressed a directory traversal vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-6218 that, under certain circumstances, allows malware to be executed after extracting a malicious archive. The flaw tracked as CVE-2025-6218 and assigned a CVSS score of 7.8 (high severity), was discovered by security researcher whs3-detonator who reported it through Zero Day Initiative on June 5, 2025. It affects only the Windows version of WinRAR, from version 7.11 and older, and a fix was released in WinRAR versio

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Show HN: Oasis – an open-source, 3D-printed smart terrarium

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-25 23:03:41

Oasis https://oasis-terrarium.com Oasis is a fully open-source, mostly 3d-printed smart terrarium. It provides the ideal environment for humidity-loving plants like mosses, ferns, orchids, and many others. The design includes: high power LED lighting a mister for providing plants with water and maintaining high humidity fans for airflow a temperature/humidity sensor for monitoring environment conditions wifi connectivity to allow control and configuration from your phone or computer (see

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How war-torn Myanmar plays a critical role in China's rare earth dominance

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2026-02-25 22:51:48

Illustration of the national flag of the People's Republic of China and a mining site. Craig Hastings | Moment | Getty Images Beijing has been stepping up controls on rare earth exports, triggering global shortages and exposing industries' dependence on Chinese supply chains. However, over recent years, China itself has become reliant on rare earth supplies from an unexpected source: the relatively small and war-torn economy of Myanmar. While China is the world's top producer of rare earths, it

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Resurrecting flip phone typing as a Linux driver

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-27 18:02:17

LibT9 A C library for creating T9 typing systems. How to run As a Linux Driver See driver/ As a Cli Utility Needs: ncurses & cmake mkdir build cd build cmake .. make -j$(nproc) cli/main As a Website Go to foxmoss.github.io/libt9/ Dependencies None! The library requires nothing but a basic implementation of the C standard library. The CLI requires ncurses solely, but this is by no means needed to just compile the library. Todo Feel free to contribute! Punctuation Punctuation IBus D

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Microsoft adds Steam games to its Xbox PC app on Windows

theverge.com Tom Warren 2026-02-28 14:00:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is starting to test its new aggregated gaming library in its Xbox PC app on Windows. Xbox Insiders will now be able to see their Steam and Battle.net games all within the Xbox app this week — making it a single launcher for most installed PC games. This new consolidated library will roll out to the Xbox app later this year, as well as new devices like the ROG Xbox Al

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The cultural decline of literary fiction

news.ycombinator.com Owen Yingling 2026-03-01 04:00:09

Recently, there has been a lot of talk about the “decline of the literary (straight) (white) male.” The marginal benefit provided by an additional take on this topic, some clever new angle walking the tightrope between edgy and politically correct, is rapidly approaching zero. The problem with these articles—and the discourse as a whole—is that none of them go far enough. There is an impassable chasm between the stardom of Mailer, Updike, McCarthy, DFW, Franzen, etc and whoever is getting fello

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The Cultural Decline of Literary Fiction

news.ycombinator.com Owen Yingling 2026-03-01 10:00:09

Recently, there has been a lot of talk about the “decline of the literary (straight) (white) male.” The marginal benefit provided by an additional take on this topic, some clever new angle walking the tightrope between edgy and politically correct, is rapidly approaching zero. The problem with these articles—and the discourse as a whole—is that none of them go far enough. There is an impassable chasm between the stardom of Mailer, Updike, McCarthy, DFW, Franzen, etc and whoever is getting fello

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Cosmoe: BeOS Class Library on Top of Wayland

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-01 03:00:01

The current iteration of Cosmoe is a shared library which implements the BeOS class library on top of Wayland. There are no supporting programs, e.g. app_server or registrar, needed to use it. All the necessary functionality is rolled into the library. Apps linked with the library run natively on Linux via Wayland. The previous iteration of Cosmoe (now known as "Cosmoe Classic") is a full port of the Haiku OS to the Linux kernel. It runs inside an SDL window on Linux. It would be possible to de

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Libraries are under-used. LLMs make this problem worse

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-01 18:18:42

Libraries are under-used. LLMs make this problem worse. Libraries are under-used. Why? Briefly: Writing code is more fun than reading documentation. Dunning-Kruger effect leads us to understimate the complexity of the problem solved by the library we're considering. Perverse incentives: libraries compete with big internal engineering projects that look good in a promo packet. LLMs make this problem worse. Why? Less briefly: Vibe coding is more fun than reading documentation. Shit, vibe-codin

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Celebrated pianist and writer Alfred Brendel dies aged 94

news.ycombinator.com Imogen Tilden 2026-03-10 12:00:25

The celebrated pianist and author Alfred Brendel has died aged 94 at his home in London. The musician was born on 5 January 1931 in Moravia (now part of the Czech Republic) and spent his childhood mainly in Croatia and Austria. “I was not a child prodigy or eastern European or Jewish as far as I know,” he told interviewers. “I’m not a good sight reader, I don’t have a phenomenal memory and I didn’t come from a musical family, an artistic family or an intellectual family. I had loving parents, b

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I took my e-book library back from Amazon with this self-hosted app

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-13 18:00:06

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority If you’ve ever bought an e-book from Amazon, you already know you don’t really own it. Sure, it’s in your Kindle library and you can read it in the app. But try moving it to another device or archiving it somewhere else, and you’ll quickly run into walls. In fact, Amazon has been doubling down on its attempts to curtail access to the books you’ve bought from the Kindle store. Between DRM, proprietary file formats, and a complete lack of export tools, you are s

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Playnite allows you to unify game libraries from multiple platforms and emulators

techspot.com Unknown 2026-03-17 08:50:00

Playnite is an open-source video game library manager and launcher with support for third-party libraries like Steam, Epic, GOG, EA App, Battle.net and others. Playnite includes game emulation support, providing one unified interface for your games. Can Playnite import and sync with Steam, Epic, and other launchers? Yes, Playnite can automatically import games from Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG Galaxy, Origin, Battle.net, Xbox PC app, and more. It uses official or community plugins to sync your

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Apple finally added my most-requested iPhone feature with iOS 26 (and you'll love it, too)

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2026-03-18 08:45:13

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Last year, Apple announced a redesigned Photos app, touting it as "the biggest-ever redesign." Over the past year, we've seen users complaining about the redesign and wanting to go back to iOS 17's Photos app. Apple seems to have listened to all the feedback and fixed its Photos app with the new iOS 26 update. Also: Everything announced at Apple's WWDC 2025 keynote: Liquid Glass, MacOS Tahoe, and more "Many of you missed using tabs in the Photos app," said Craig Federighi, Ap

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WinRAR 7.10 improves privacy with Mark-of-the-Web support

techspot.com Unknown 2025-11-11 14:38:00

WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data, reduce the size of email attachments, open and unpack RAR, ZIP as well as create new archives in these and other popular file formats. By consistently creating smaller archives, WinRAR is often faster than the competition. Is WinRAR free? WinRAR is available as a trial version with access to all features. After 40 days you will get a pop-up urging you to buy the license, however you can continue using the software without losing an

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Latest Tech News

A Virginia public library is fighting off a takeover by private equity

Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots

Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions?

Man of Glass: Boccaccio: A Biography

Free as Air, Free as Water, Free as Knowledge (1992)

``Free as Air, Free as Water, Free as Knowledge'' (1992)

Compression Dictionary Transport

Everwild has reportedly been cancelled amid Xbox layoffs

I am not a supplier (2022)

Gemini could soon rival ChatGPT with its new privacy feature (Update: A closer look)

Publishing Pepys

Trump Goes Haywire on AI Regulation After China Agrees to Major Trade Deal

WinRAR patches bug letting malware launch from extracted archives

Show HN: Oasis – an open-source, 3D-printed smart terrarium

How war-torn Myanmar plays a critical role in China's rare earth dominance

Resurrecting flip phone typing as a Linux driver

Microsoft adds Steam games to its Xbox PC app on Windows

The cultural decline of literary fiction

The Cultural Decline of Literary Fiction

Cosmoe: BeOS Class Library on Top of Wayland

Libraries are under-used. LLMs make this problem worse

Celebrated pianist and writer Alfred Brendel dies aged 94

I took my e-book library back from Amazon with this self-hosted app

Playnite allows you to unify game libraries from multiple platforms and emulators

Apple finally added my most-requested iPhone feature with iOS 26 (and you'll love it, too)

WinRAR 7.10 improves privacy with Mark-of-the-Web support

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