top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-10-06

Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of Marijuana

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/10/06/granting-pardon-for-the-offense-of-simple-possession-of-marijuana/

2 years ago

787 upvotes – 762 comments

SimulaVR Has Been Subpoenaed by Meta Platforms, Inc

https://simulavr.com/blog/subpoenaed-by-meta/

2 years ago

754 upvotes – 442 comments

Kim Jung Gi has died

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-10-05/kim-jung-gi-death-heart-attack

2 years ago

481 upvotes – 204 comments

Celsius Execs Cashed Out $40M in Crypto Before Halting Withdrawals for Customers

https://gizmodo.com/celsius-execs-cashed-out-bitcoin-price-crypto-ponzi-1849623526

2 years ago

476 upvotes – 309 comments

How to download all of Wikipedia onto a USB flash drive

https://planetofthepaul.com/wikipedia-download-usb-flash/

2 years ago

448 upvotes – 195 comments

Our domain and 700 non-profit sites got blocked by Meta

https://www.simonbackx.com/blocked-by-meta/

2 years ago

415 upvotes – 171 comments

A Universal Cancer Treatment?

https://nautil.us/a-universal-cancer-treatment-241231/

2 years ago

383 upvotes – 97 comments

Cloud desktops aren't as good as you'd think

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/61535.html

2 years ago

377 upvotes – 464 comments

Staff Engineer Archetypes (2020)

https://lethain.com/staff-engineer-archetypes/

2 years ago

367 upvotes – 253 comments

A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loop

https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/QR.rb

2 years ago

350 upvotes – 56 comments

Pimp My BBC Micro

https://github.com/dekuNukem/RGBeeb/blob/master/README.md

2 years ago

317 upvotes – 72 comments

False memory implantation in adults is easy

https://brainpizza.substack.com/p/sins-of-memory

2 years ago

296 upvotes – 202 comments

Tell HN: Twitter suspends arrested Iranian tech blogger’s account

https://twitter.com/jadi/

2 years ago

290 upvotes – 109 comments

A working implementation of text-to-3D DreamFusion, powered by Stable Diffusion

https://github.com/ashawkey/stable-dreamfusion

2 years ago

286 upvotes – 71 comments

Facebook reportedly laying off thousands of employees

https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-reportedly-laying-off-thousands-employees

2 years ago

264 upvotes – 387 comments

Show HN: Lambda-8cc – An x86 C compiler written in untyped lambda calculus

https://github.com/woodrush/lambda-8cc

2 years ago

249 upvotes – 29 comments

The Future of the Web Is on the Edge

https://deno.com/blog/the-future-of-web-is-on-the-edge

2 years ago

230 upvotes – 194 comments

Show HN: RankedVote – SurveyMonkey but focused on ranked-choice voting

https://www.rankedvote.co

2 years ago

220 upvotes – 319 comments

GE is laying off 20% of its workforce devoted to onshore wind power

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/06/ge-layoff-20percent-of-onshore-wind-workforce-hundreds-of-jobs.html

2 years ago

207 upvotes – 171 comments

NVIDIA and nouveau

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/910343/e360e44a7a63b1b7/

2 years ago

196 upvotes – 35 comments
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