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🚗 Jeep Software Update Bricks All 2024 Wrangler 4xe Models
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💾 Stop Asking Me to Enable OneDrive Backup on Windows
A sharp commentary on user autonomy and consent in modern OS design, echoing the growing demand for transparency and respect for user preferences.
The author criticizes Microsoft’s persistent prompts to enable OneDrive backup in Windows, arguing that the design limits user choice and relies on manipulative dark patterns. The piece reflects frustration with forced cloud integration and diminishing control over local data.
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💬 Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2025)
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🦋 Macro Splats 2025: 3D Insect Reconstructions with Gaussian Splatting
An inspiring blend of art and machine learning—showing how computational reconstruction can elevate scientific and aesthetic exploration.
Photographer Dany Bittel presents ‘Macro Splats’, a project that merges macro photography with computational imaging. Using Gaussian splatting, focus stacking, and automated capture setups, he reconstructed detailed 3D insect models from thousands of photos. One model is freely available under Creative Commons.
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🇩🇪 Schleswig-Holstein Completes Migration to Open-Source Email
A landmark case in digital sovereignty—showing that large-scale public institutions can successfully embrace open-source ecosystems for independence and transparency.
The German state of Schleswig-Holstein has migrated 30,000 government email users from Microsoft Exchange to open-source platforms Open-Xchange and Thunderbird. The six-month project, part of a broader shift toward LibreOffice and Linux, covered 100 million emails and 40,000 mailboxes—one of Europe’s largest public-sector open-source transitions.
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🐞 The Country That Broke Kotlin
An insightful reminder that internationalization is not just about translation—it’s about designing software resilient to linguistic and cultural subtleties.
A subtle locale bug in the Kotlin compiler caused failures for developers in Turkey due to unique rules around the dotted and dotless ‘i’. The issue, rooted in Unicode and localization handling, reveals how cultural nuances can unexpectedly break software systems.
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🧩 Abstraction, Not Syntax
A compelling argument for treating configuration as code, focusing on structure and maintainability rather than superficial syntax preferences.
Ruud van Asseldonk argues that configuration problems stem not from syntax but from missing abstractions. By introducing logic, loops, and reusable components, configurations become cleaner, less error-prone, and easier to maintain—bridging the gap between static files and real code.
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