Notices by Hacker News 50 (hn50@social.lansky.name), page 4

What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2024?

Link: https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2024/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38616753

Playstation is erasing 1,318 seasons of Discovery shows from customer libraries

Link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/playstation-is-erasing-1318-seasons-of-discovery-shows-from-customer-libraries/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38538162

The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't ignore

Link: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2023/11/30/the-fediverse-is-an-opportunity-learned-societies-cant-ignore/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38511346

Google Play keeps banning the same web browser due to vague DMCA notices

Link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/weird-dmca-takedown-google-play-bans-app-because-it-can-load-warnerbros-com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38440194

#google

FBI director admits they rarely have probable cause for using NSA collections

Link: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/21/fbi-director-admits-agency-rarely-has-probable-cause-when-it-performs-backdoor-searches-of-nsa-collections/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38368760

YouTube artificially slows down video load times when using Firefox

Link: https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/login/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38345858

#youtube #firefox

Eoops: An object-oriented programming system for Emacs-Lisp

Link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/147135.147248
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38316915

#lisp #emacs

ChatGPT has 190 citations on Google Scholar

Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZMKC6MUAAAAJ&hl=en
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38289726

#google

Google paid $8B to make its apps default on Samsung phones

Link: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4309219-google-paid-8-billion-to-make-its-apps-default-on-samsung-phones/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38277058

#google

EU Parliament Decides That Your Private Messages Must Not Be Scanned

Link: https://tuta.com/blog/chat-control
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38261415

Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it

Link: https://www.macworld.com/article/2130071/m3-macbook-pro-8gb-memory-too-little.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38215413

#apple

Tumblr is reportedly on life support as its latest owner reassigns staff

Link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/tumblr-is-reportedly-on-life-support-as-its-latest-owner-reassigns-staff/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38209312

A door at a Swedish library was accidentally left open

Link: https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/a-door-at-a-swedish-library-was-accidentally-left-open-446-people-came-in-borrowed-245-books-every-single-one-was-returned/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38201646

Free Speech Is in Trouble

Link: https://www.natesilver.net/p/free-speech-is-in-trouble
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38118620

4th edition of Physically Based Rendering is now freely available online

Link: https://pbr-book.org/4ed/contents
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38110448

Last Chance to fix eIDAS: Secret EU law threatens Internet security

Link: https://last-chance-for-eidas.org/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38109494

FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband, future goal of 1gbps [pdf]

Link: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-398168A1.pdf
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38103733

YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin

Link: https://andadinosaur.com/youtube-s-anti-adblock-and-ublock-origin
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38061187

#youtube

Project Silica

Link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-silica/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38056035

Synth Emulation in MAME (Arcade Machine Emulator). A New Trend?

Link: https://gearspace.com/board/electronic-music-instruments-and-electronic-music-production/1416192-synth-emulation-mame-arcade-machine-emulator-new-trend.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38025125