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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, January 4, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Zuck launched Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004, World's largest and deepest tunnel was opened in 2010, "Great Society" program aimed to eliminate poverty was launch in 1965, and we present you with these top quality stories. From How One Vietnamese Community Depends on YouTube for News to Adaptive Lighting - An Example of HACS, let’s dive right in.


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How One Vietnamese Community Depends on YouTube for News

TL;DR I spoke to Hoang and about two dozen fellow community members to better understand what role Ohlala and other YouTubers play in their community.

By @TheMarkup [ 11 Min read ]

This article is copublished with The Oaklandside, a nonprofit newsroom that amplifies community voices, shares trustworthy information, and investigates systems, not symptoms for Oakland, Calif.

Read on our collaborator's site.

“I really just need more information about my hometown Oakland,” Hoang said.

From Viet Fact Check:

Credit:YouTube..

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tech-stories

Adaptive Lighting - An Example of HACS

TL;DR One significant gap we noticed was that Home Assistant doesnt automatically adjust the brightness according to the time of the day.

By @nfrankel [ 3 Min read ]

The first step when wanting to add a feature to Home Assistant is to browse through available integrations. While there was no out-of-the-box integration, I discovered an alternative: HACS.

HACS itself is available as an integration.

Once you install it, it appears in the integration list.

To go further:..

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science

Top 10 Software Development Books to Become a Better Software Developer in 2025

TL;DR

By @proflead [ 5 Min read ]

My selection is based on suggestions and recommendations of top developers worldwide. If you are ready, then let’s dive in.

I still believe this book must be in your collection, even if it is a bit old.

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans..

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tech-stories

How to Troubleshoot hostpolicy.dll and singlefilehost.exe Errors in .NET 8.0.11

TL;DR After upgrading to.NET 8.0.11, the build for some projects failed. hostpolicy.dll...not found error MSB4018: … Could not find … singlefilehost.exe

By @markpelf [ 5 Min read ]

After upgrading to .NET 8.0.11, the build for some of my projects failed…

I think I can locate the change in behavior somewhere between (.NET Framework 8.0.0/.NET SDK 8.0.100) and (.NET Framework 8.0.11/.NET SDK 8.0.404). Not all, but some project builds failed.

.NET version 8.0.11 or later..

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On This Day

Zuck launched Facebook in his Harvard dorm room

he social networking site Facebook was launched by Mark Zuckerberg, initially for Harvard students before expanding to other universities and eventually becoming available to the general public.

Poll Of the Week

What's your favorite Twitter alternative?

The blue bird smells a bit musky these days.

37% Mastodon (https://joinmastodon.org)

18% Minds (https://www.minds.com)

5% Blind (https://www.teamblind.com)

7% Facebook? lol (https://facebook.com)

14% LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com)

4% Tribel (https://www.tribel.com)

10% Other

2% Nostr (https://nostr.com)

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