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November 15, 2023

Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (November 15, 2023)

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        <h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
        <p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for November 15, 2023 :</p>

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The Small Website Discoverability Crisis

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/19-website-discoverability-crisis/

Summary: The Small Website Discoverability Crisis highlights the difficulty in finding small, unique websites on the internet. Centralized and algorithmic approaches are prone to manipulation, while web rings and curated link directories are insufficient. The author proposes a simple federated bookmarking solution, encouraging users to create and share lists of interesting websites, promoting a healthy community for small websites.

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Curl on 100 Operating Systems

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/11/14/curl-on-100-operating-systems/

Summary: Curl, a command-line tool for transferring data, maintains support for legacy platforms to ensure stability and compatibility. The Curl project focuses on building and running on various operating systems and CPU architectures, even on niche or ancient platforms. This approach has helped Curl become widely used and trusted for internet transfers. While the project occasionally deprecates support for specific libraries or platforms, it does so with care and open communication.

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