top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-10-29

Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language, has died

https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/29/kathleen_booth_obit/

2 years ago

1252 upvotes – 140 comments

How I make a living working on SerenityOS

https://awesomekling.github.io/How-I-make-a-living-working-on-SerenityOS/

2 years ago

936 upvotes – 193 comments

Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/29/elon-musk-twitter-takeover/

2 years ago

607 upvotes – 1663 comments

Google Ad Disguising Itself as www.gimp.org

https://old.reddit.com/r/GIMP/comments/ygbr4o/dangerous_google_ad_disguising_itself_as/

2 years ago

601 upvotes – 218 comments

The Restaurant Industry’s Worst Idea: QR Code Menus

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/qr-code-menus-restaurants-pandemic/671888/

2 years ago

536 upvotes – 637 comments

Taking Lichess to the next level

https://lichess.org/blog/Y1wpBhEAAB8AwbeG/taking-lichess-to-the-next-level

2 years ago

426 upvotes – 96 comments

Ask HN: What are some of the best books you have read in 2022?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33381791

2 years ago

310 upvotes – 278 comments

The SAFe Delusion

https://safedelusion.com/

2 years ago

304 upvotes – 177 comments

Freetone – Pantone-ish colour palette for Adobe products

https://culturehustle.com/products/freetone

2 years ago

295 upvotes – 100 comments

Ask HN: Advice that changed your life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33382056

2 years ago

294 upvotes – 548 comments

Show HN: FFmpeg Command Visualizer and Editor

https://ffmpeg.guide

2 years ago

279 upvotes – 50 comments

Mkcert: Simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates

https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert

2 years ago

267 upvotes – 42 comments

Texas solar and wind resources saved consumers nearly $28B over 12 years

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/texas-solar-and-wind-resources-saved-consumers-nearly-28-billion-over-12-y/634893/

2 years ago

258 upvotes – 252 comments

FBI testimony on hair analysis contained errors in 90% of cases (2015)

https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/press-releases/fbi-testimony-on-microscopic-hair-analysis-contained-errors-in-at-least-90-percent-of-cases-in-ongoing-review

2 years ago

254 upvotes – 73 comments

WireGuard in FreeBSD

https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=744bfb213144c63cbaf38d91a1c4f7aebb9b9fbc

2 years ago

238 upvotes – 78 comments

Why is D's garbage collection slower than Go's?

https://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]

2 years ago

227 upvotes – 246 comments

Source Code for SunOS 4.1.3 (1992)

https://github.com/Arquivotheca/SunOS-4.1.3

2 years ago

223 upvotes – 132 comments

Why does the US allow a controversial weedkiller banned across the world?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/28/paraquat-weedkiller-epa-ban

2 years ago

221 upvotes – 194 comments

Protobuf-ES: Protocol Buffers TypeScript/JavaScript runtime

https://buf.build/blog/protobuf-es-the-protocol-buffers-typescript-javascript-runtime-we-all-deserve

2 years ago

205 upvotes – 182 comments

Patch OpenSSL on November 1 to avoid “critical” security vulnerability

https://www.globalsign.com/en/blog/urgent-patch-openssl-november-1-avoid-critical-security-vulnerability

2 years ago

201 upvotes – 204 comments
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