top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-10-07

Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access 3 times a year

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1577880638044020736

2 years ago

882 upvotes – 729 comments

Mastodon.technology Shutdown

https://ashfurrow.com/blog/mastodon-technology-shutdown/

2 years ago

630 upvotes – 584 comments

Managers with a business degree reduce employees' wages, do not increase profit

https://www.nber.org/papers/w29874

2 years ago

629 upvotes – 258 comments

Lufthansa bans AirTags in checked luggage

https://onemileatatime.com/news/lufthansa-bans-airtags/

2 years ago

584 upvotes – 599 comments

Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

https://github.com/transmission/transmission/releases/tag/4.0.0-beta.1

2 years ago

527 upvotes – 254 comments

School vs. Wikipedia

http://ratfactor.com/rss-club/school-vs-wikipedia

2 years ago

444 upvotes – 478 comments

My Favourite Computer, an Old Mac

http://muezza.ca/thoughts/favourite_computer/

2 years ago

390 upvotes – 139 comments

Mortal Kombat+

https://mortalkombat.plus

2 years ago

362 upvotes – 149 comments

JetBrains Ring UI

https://jetbrains.github.io/ring-ui/master/index.html

2 years ago

350 upvotes – 201 comments

Reality is just a game now

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-is-just-a-game-now

2 years ago

312 upvotes – 279 comments

Longevity of Recordable CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays (2020)

https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/conservation-preservation-publications/canadian-conservation-institute-notes/longevity-recordable-cds-dvds.html

2 years ago

298 upvotes – 202 comments

AWS doesn't make sense for scientific computing

https://www.noahlebovic.com/aws-doesnt-make-sense-for-scientific-computing/

2 years ago

295 upvotes – 270 comments

Cassandra at Apple: 1000s of Clusters, 300k Nodes, 100 PB

https://twitter.com/erickramirezau/status/1578063811495477248

2 years ago

292 upvotes – 212 comments

On AlphaTensor’s new matrix multiplication algorithms

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2022/10/06/on-alphatensors-new-matrix-multiplication-algorithms/

2 years ago

279 upvotes – 76 comments

Patients can now access all their health records digitally

https://www.statnews.com/2022/10/06/health-data-information-blocking-records/

2 years ago

271 upvotes – 118 comments

Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33118584

2 years ago

260 upvotes – 544 comments

Banks are not repaying victims of Zelle scams

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/10/report-big-u-s-banks-are-stiffing-account-takeover-victims/

2 years ago

251 upvotes – 252 comments

Study links omega-3s to improved brain structure, cognition at midlife

https://news.uthscsa.edu/study-links-omega-3s-to-improved-brain-structure-cognition-at-midlife/

2 years ago

228 upvotes – 165 comments

WebVM: WASM virtual machine in browser with networking via Tailscale

https://leaningtech.com/webvm-virtual-machine-with-networking-via-tailscale/

2 years ago

226 upvotes – 59 comments

QNX DEMO disk (1999)

http://qnx.puslapiai.lt/qnxdemo/qnx_demo_disk.htm

2 years ago

226 upvotes – 151 comments
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