Night update, generated 2026-08-04.
22 new stories since Lunch.
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HN: 215 points, 158 comments (discussion)
Apple is cutthroat in business too. Tony Fadell, the inventor of the iPod and co-inventor of the iPhone, and later Nest founder, commented this in Stratechery about the lawsuit when filed: "This is Apple’s typical tactic to scare Apple employees — either former or current. I heard this lawsuit was d...
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Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters
HN: 92 points, 28 comments (discussion)
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HN: 459 points, 516 comments (discussion)
I wanted to show my gf the halo 1 campaign, so I downloaded the 30GB Masterchief Collection via steam. When I launched it, I was greeted with a black box. After 1 Minute it was a microsoft login screen that looked eerily like a browser inside the game. Since I couldn't do anything else, the game was...
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HN: 318 points, 73 comments (discussion)
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HN: 299 points, 68 comments (discussion)
Sources: Lobsters
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HN: 298 points, 335 comments (discussion)
It seems quaint now, but it’s astonishing how much the fear of war (especially nuclear annihilation) affected mid-century fiction. In addition to "There Will Come Soft Rains" we have short stories like Stephen Vincent Benét’s "By the Waters of Babylon." In that story, society has been bombed back to...
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HN: 258 points, 55 comments (discussion)
Sources: Lobsters