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Article URL: https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-update-launching-rdap-sunsetting-whois-27-01-2025-en

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43384069

Points: 33

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https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-update-launching-rdap-sunsetting

Article URL: https://tante.cc/2025/03/03/who-is-free-software-for/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43382344

Points: 6

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https://tante.cc/2025/03/03/who-is-free-software-for/

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kastle/jobs/XSq5nJT-founding-applied-ai-engineer-at-kastle

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43382261

Points: 0

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Article URL: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2614943/microsoft-is-paywalling-these-features-in-notepad-and-paint.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43382392

Points: 54

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https://www.pcworld.com/article/2614943/microsoft-is-paywalling-these-features-in-notep

A lot has changed since the shutdown of pivotal tracker was discussed here. As there were no viable alternatives it seems every month there was a new project popping up. With the last month before the sunsetting approaching, it starts to get exciting who will make it in time, who stays in the race and what the differentiating features of the projects will be.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43378925

I travel and work remotely a lot. Every new place—hotels, cafes, coworking spaces—means dealing with a new WiFi network. Sometimes there's a QR code, which is convenient, but usually, it's a hassle: manually finding the right SSID (especially frustrating when hotels have one SSID per room), then typing long, error-prone passwords.

To simplify this, I made a small Android app called Wify. It uses your phone's camera to capture WiFi details (network name and password) from printed text, then

Article URL: https://brainsteam.co.uk/2025/2/15/personal-archive-hoarder/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43379917

Points: 24

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Article URL: https://dfarq.homeip.net/when-the-dotcom-bubble-burst/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43380453

Points: 33

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https://dfarq.homeip.net/when-the-dotcom-bubble-burst/

I've created cppmatch, a lightweight, header-only C++ library that brings Rust-inspired pattern matching and error handling to C++.

It tries to imitate the functionality of the questionmark (?) operator in C++ by using a macro that uses the gcc extension https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Exprs.html

This allows to create exceptionless code with non-intrusive error-as-value that unlike Exception

Article URL: https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/our-interfaces-have-lost-their-senses

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43380930

Points: 131

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https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/our-interfaces-have-lost-their-senses