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title: "Daily headlines · Daily Diff"
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# Daily headlines

[Daily edition](</index.md>) · [Hot now](</hot.md>)

[Top 10](</headlines/first.md?date=2024-02-17&limit=10&q=>) · [Top 20](</headlines/first.md?date=2024-02-17&limit=20&q=>) · [Above median](</headlines/first.md?date=2024-02-17&limit=20&q=&mode=median>)

Daily ranking · strictly above median

## 2024-02-17

### [Paying people to work on open source is good actually](<https://jacobian.org/2024/feb/16/paying-maintainers-is-good/>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: jacobian.org

Published: 2024-02-16T22:18:45+00:00

Points: 56 · Comments: [28](<https://lobste.rs/s/zivq9m>)

Tags: [practices](</search.md?q=practices>)

### [The Layoff](<https://xeiaso.net/blog/2024/the-layoff/>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: xeiaso.net

Published: 2024-02-17T12:28:32+00:00

Points: 65 · Comments: [31](<https://lobste.rs/s/uumbc6>)

Tags: [satire](</search.md?q=satire>)

### [All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro](<https://waitbutwhy.com/2024/02/vision-pro.html>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: waitbutwhy.com

Published: 2024-02-17T11:59:39+00:00

Points: 33 · Comments: [37](<https://lobste.rs/s/a18ccx>)

Tags: [hardware](</search.md?q=hardware>)

### [Reverse-engineering an encrypted IoT protocol](<https://smlx.dev/posts/goodwe-sems-protocol-teardown/>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: smlx.dev

Published: 2024-02-17T01:31:22+00:00

Points: 22 · Comments: [10](<https://lobste.rs/s/93ubgt>)

Tags: [reversing](</search.md?q=reversing>)

### [pgtemp: Rust library and daemon for easily starting postgres databases per-test without Docker](<https://github.com/boustrophedon/pgtemp>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: github.com

Published: 2024-02-16T17:32:22+00:00

Points: 20 · Comments: [8](<https://lobste.rs/s/mbbcot>)

Tags: [databases](</search.md?q=databases>)

### [Packaging Scrutiny for NixOS](<https://jnsgr.uk/2024/02/packaging-scrutiny-for-nixos/>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: jnsgr.uk

Published: 2024-02-16T17:06:49+00:00

Points: 25 · Comments: [0](<https://lobste.rs/s/oumrhu>)

Tags: [linux](</search.md?q=linux>)

### [Git Aliases and Addons](<https://bernsteinbear.com/git/>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: bernsteinbear.com

Published: 2024-02-16T21:28:39+00:00

Points: 20 · Comments: [0](<https://lobste.rs/s/b817ja>)

Tags: [vcs](</search.md?q=vcs>)