top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-11-30

Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29387264

4 years ago

1703 upvotes – 655 comments

4x Smaller, 50x Faster

https://blog.asciinema.org/post/smaller-faster/

4 years ago

758 upvotes – 200 comments

Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29392702

4 years ago

755 upvotes – 494 comments

AWS Private 5G

https://aws.amazon.com/private5g/

4 years ago

591 upvotes – 358 comments

FBI's ability to legally access secure messaging app content and metadata [pdf]

https://propertyofthepeople.org/document-detail/?doc-id=21114562

4 years ago

562 upvotes – 450 comments

Hubris – A small operating system for deeply-embedded computer systems

https://oxide.computer/blog/hubris-and-humility

4 years ago

560 upvotes – 238 comments

New cancer therapy holds potential to switch off major cancer types

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2021/11/29/new-cancer-therapy-yibin-kangs-lab-holds-potential-switch-major-cancer-types

4 years ago

507 upvotes – 103 comments

DESQview/X: Forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/desqviewx-the-forgotten-mid-1990s

4 years ago

505 upvotes – 183 comments

Workers quit jobs in droves to become their own bosses

https://www.wsj.com/articles/workers-quit-jobs-in-droves-to-become-their-own-bosses-11638199199

4 years ago

434 upvotes – 450 comments

The American prison system’s war on reading

https://proteanmag.com/2021/11/29/the-american-prison-systems-war-on-reading/

4 years ago

426 upvotes – 247 comments

Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands

https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit

4 years ago

395 upvotes – 141 comments

U.K. regulators order Meta to sell Giphy

https://www.axios.com/uk-regulators-order-facebook-meta-giphy-sale-457ccd20-f28e-4631-a508-a88639b1b121.html

4 years ago

392 upvotes – 408 comments

Solidjs – JavaScript UI Library

https://www.solidjs.com/

4 years ago

349 upvotes – 88 comments

Will Nix Overtake Docker?

https://blog.replit.com/nix-vs-docker

4 years ago

327 upvotes – 250 comments

What impossible meant to Richard Feynman

https://nautil.us/issue/108/change/what-impossible-meant-to-richard-feynman

4 years ago

323 upvotes – 129 comments

German Court Rules Against Internet Security Non-Profit Quad9

https://www.quad9.net/news/press/german-court-rules-against/

4 years ago

298 upvotes – 192 comments

Writing maintainable code is a communication skill

https://max.engineer/maintainable-code

4 years ago

297 upvotes – 93 comments

US labor board official orders Amazon to redo union vote at Alabama warehouse

https://www.reuters.com/business/amazon-alabama-facility-ordered-re-run-union-election-us-labor-board-2021-11-29/

4 years ago

289 upvotes – 356 comments

Event Sourcing Is Hard (2019)

https://chriskiehl.com/article/event-sourcing-is-hard

4 years ago

286 upvotes – 119 comments

PostgREST 9.0

https://postgrest.org/en/v9.0/releases/v9.0.0.html

4 years ago

284 upvotes – 121 comments

Hayao Miyazaki prepares to cast one last spell

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/t-magazine/hayao-miyazaki-studio-ghibli.html

4 years ago

284 upvotes – 168 comments

PeerTube 4 RC

https://framablog.org/2021/11/30/peertube-v4-more-power-to-help-you-present-your-videos/

4 years ago

272 upvotes – 81 comments

Introducing the Icelandverse [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enMwwQy_noI

4 years ago

272 upvotes – 68 comments

The Prince symbol has been salvaged from a 1993 floppy disk

https://cdm.link/2021/11/the-prince-symbol-has-been-salvaged-from-a-1992-floppy-disk/

4 years ago

232 upvotes – 90 comments

Emacs Docs The modern documentation website Emacs deserves

https://www.emacsdocs.org/

4 years ago

218 upvotes – 38 comments

Arctic Ocean started getting warmer decades earlier than we thought

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/arcticocean

4 years ago

214 upvotes – 241 comments

Haiku Now Has Experimental 3D Acceleration

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/vulkan-lavapipe-software-rendering-is-working-on-haiku/11363?page=13

4 years ago

207 upvotes – 71 comments

Open source RISC-V GPGPU

https://github.com/vortexgpgpu/vortex

4 years ago

207 upvotes – 58 comments

Twitter has a new CEO – what about a new business model?

https://stratechery.com/2021/twitter-has-a-new-ceo-what-about-a-new-business-model/

4 years ago

205 upvotes – 256 comments

Ten Million Deaths a Year: David Wallace-Wells on Polluted Air

https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n23/david-wallace-wells/ten-million-a-year

4 years ago

183 upvotes – 107 comments

Searchable flight logs from Jeffrey Epstein’s plane

https://epstein.flights/

4 years ago

178 upvotes – 124 comments

An Illustrated Guide to Elliptic Curve Cryptography Validation

https://research.nccgroup.com/2021/11/18/an-illustrated-guide-to-elliptic-curve-cryptography-validation/

4 years ago

177 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Improve your Python regex skills with 75 interactive exercises

https://github.com/learnbyexample/py_regular_expressions/tree/master/interactive_exercises

4 years ago

175 upvotes – 12 comments

AWS Graviton 3 Instances

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/join-the-preview-amazon-ec2-c7g-instances-powered-by-new-aws-graviton3-processors/

4 years ago

174 upvotes – 110 comments

Scaling Kafka at Honeycomb

https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/scaling-kafka-observability-pipelines/

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 44 comments

New research links potentially toxic fat-protein complexes to Alzheimer's

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/likely-cause-of-alzheimers-identified-in-new-study

4 years ago

159 upvotes – 89 comments

Ask HN: Are Indeed, LinkedIn the go-to places for exploring new jobs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29391785

4 years ago

159 upvotes – 136 comments

Anti-patterns when building container images

http://jpetazzo.github.io/2021/11/30/docker-build-container-images-antipatterns/

4 years ago

159 upvotes – 31 comments

Is The World Deglobalising?

https://www.realchinacharts.com/p/8-long-view-is-the-world-deglobalising

4 years ago

154 upvotes – 216 comments

Raspberry Pi Trading plans £370m+ stock market IPO

https://www.club386.com/raspberry-pi-trading-plans-370m-stock-market-ipo/

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 129 comments

There oughta be a Blender plugin to animate growth

https://there.oughta.be/a/blender-plugin-to-animate-growth

4 years ago

147 upvotes – 12 comments

Web3 is not Decentralisation – it’s a Ploy to put Crypto Bros in Charge

https://medium.com/@rossstalker_5939/web3-is-not-decentralisation-its-a-ploy-to-put-crypto-bros-in-charge-c791752e2bb6

4 years ago

139 upvotes – 108 comments

Disney Combines CGI with Neural Rendering to Tackle the ‘Uncanny Valley’

https://www.unite.ai/disney-combines-cgi-with-neural-rendering-to-tackle-the-uncanny-valley/

4 years ago

139 upvotes – 131 comments

Reading NFS at 25GB/s using FIO and libnfs

https://taras.glek.net/post/nfs-for-fio/

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 26 comments

Web Streams at the Edge

https://deno.com/blog/deploy-streams

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 11 comments

Cache warming at Netflix: Leveraging EBS for moving petabytes of data

https://netflixtechblog.medium.com/cache-warming-leveraging-ebs-for-moving-petabytes-of-data-adcf7a4a78c3

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 32 comments

Elon Musk says SpaceX faces ‘genuine risk of bankruptcy’ from Starship engine

https://spaceexplored.com/2021/11/29/spacex-raptor-crisis/

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 77 comments

A Review of “The Man Who Solved the Market”

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2021/11/29/a-review-of-the-man-who-solved-the-market-and-the-captain/

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 84 comments

AWS Nitro SSD – High Performance Storage for Your I/O-Intensive Applications

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-nitro-ssd-high-performance-storage-for-your-i-o-intensive-applications/

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 44 comments

Expanding our private information policy to include media

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/private-information-policy-update

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 105 comments

K|Lens – The third dimension in image acquisition

https://www.k-lens-one.com/en/home

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 47 comments

My toy project turned into a viral challenge

https://blog.jinay.dev/posts/virality/

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 27 comments

Horcrux: Split your file into encrypted fragments

https://github.com/jesseduffield/horcrux

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 11 comments

What I learned about interviewing

https://lanie.dev/tech/interviewing/

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 73 comments

Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1465802215927558154

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 78 comments
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