top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-01-16

US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple still collect commission

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/16/us-app-store-alternative-purchase-option/

2 years ago

On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney

https://catandgirl.com/4000-of-my-closest-friends/

2 years ago

6174

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6174

2 years ago

How a software glitch at the UK Post Office ruined lives

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/13/business/uk-post-office-fujitsu-horizon-scandal/index.html

2 years ago

Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-existing open-source AI

https://1a3orn.com/sub/machine-learning-bans.html

2 years ago

OpenAI drops ban on military tools to partner with The Pentagon

https://www.semafor.com/article/01/16/2024/openai-is-working-with-the-pentagon-on-cybersecurity-projects

2 years ago

TinyML: Ultra-low power machine learning

https://www.ikkaro.net/what-tinyml-is/

2 years ago

Post-mortem for last week's incident at Kagi

https://status.kagi.com/issues/2024-01-12-kagi-down-on-some-regions/

2 years ago

Fluorite lenses: Corrective capabilities beyond ordinary optical glass

https://global.canon/en/c-museum/special/exhibition2.html

2 years ago

Ask HN: Where can I find good legal documents?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39012544

2 years ago

Speedbump – a TCP proxy to simulate variable network latency

https://github.com/kffl/speedbump

2 years ago

Stable Code 3B: Coding on the Edge

https://stability.ai/news/stable-code-2024-llm-code-completion-release

2 years ago

Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam in Search [pdf]

https://downloads.webis.de/publications/papers/bevendorff_2024a.pdf

2 years ago

Ruby 3.3 on Rails 1.0

https://nashby.github.io/2024/01/15/ruby-3-on-rails-1/

2 years ago

OutRun – Open-source, privacy oriented, outdoor fitness tracker

https://github.com/timfraedrich/OutRun

2 years ago

Lichee Console 4A – RISC-V mini laptop: Review, benchmarks and early issues

https://3.14.by/en/read/RISC-V-Sipeed-Lichee-Console-4A-Alibaba-T-Head-TH1520-review

2 years ago

Passwordless: a different kind of hell?

https://jcarlosroldan.com/post/315/passwordless-a-different-kind-of-hell

2 years ago

Web AI Model Testing: WebGPU, WebGL, and Headless Chrome

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/supercharge-web-ai-testing

2 years ago

US Supreme Court declines to hear appeals in Apple-Epic Games legal battle

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-snubs-epic-games-legal-battle-with-apple-2024-01-16/

2 years ago

Nintendo Switch Emulator: Progress Report December 2023

https://blog.ryujinx.org/progress-report-december-2023/

2 years ago