Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (December 26, 2023)
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<h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
<p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for December 26, 2023 :</p>
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Fed court rules for retired engineer told by state to not talk about math
Summary: A federal court ruled in favor of retired engineer Wayne Nutt, stating that the state violated the First Amendment by telling him to stop expressing his opinions about engineering without a state license. Nutt had been sharing his views on public works designs online, which the NC Board of Examiners and Surveyors claimed required a professional engineer's license.
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Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs
Summary: Stirling-PDF is a locally hosted web application that allows users to perform various operations on PDF files, such as merging, splitting, converting, reorganizing, adding images, rotating, compressing, and more. The application is built using technologies like Spring Boot, Thymeleaf, PDFBox, and LibreOffice. It offers features like dark mode support, custom download options, parallel file processing, and optional login authentication. Stirling-PDF can be used locally or with Docker/Podman, and it supports multiple languages.