top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-11-02

American society is so focused on race that it is blind to class

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/11/02/american-society-is-so-focused-on-race-that-it-is-blind-to-class

3 years ago

Dozens of malicious PyPI packages discovered targeting developers

https://blog.phylum.io/phylum-discovers-dozens-more-pypi-packages-attempting-to-deliver-w4sp-stealer-in-ongoing-supply-chain-attack

3 years ago

TomTom’s new mapping platform and ecosystem

https://www.tomtom.com/newsroom/behind-the-map/the-future-of-mapmaking-tomtom-maps-platform/

3 years ago

An AI generated, never-ending discussion between Werner Herzog and Slavoj ŽIžek

https://infiniteconversation.com/

3 years ago

Protonmail can delete the wrong email and nobody cares

https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge/issues/220

3 years ago

The case for JPEG XL

https://cloudinary.com/blog/the-case-for-jpeg-xl

3 years ago

The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry

https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2022/11/why-is-there-a-drought-in-the-talent-pool-for-c-developers

3 years ago

Functional programming should be the future of software

https://spectrum.ieee.org/functional-programming

3 years ago

PR that converts the TypeScript repo from namespaces to modules

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/pull/51387

3 years ago

LemmyBB, a federated bulletin board

https://join-lemmy.org/news/2022-11-02-_First_release_of_LemmyBB

3 years ago

Ask HN: Carrier “lost” my number in a port request

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33434153

3 years ago

Systems Engineering, or "why james gets paid"

https://cohost.org/jamesmunns/post/167078-systems-engineering

3 years ago

Phlare: open-source database for continuous profiling at scale

https://grafana.com/blog/2022/11/02/announcing-grafana-phlare-oss-continuous-profiling-database/

3 years ago

Aegis Authenticator – Secure 2FA App for Android

https://getaegis.app/

3 years ago

AlphaFold’s new rival? Meta AI predicts shape of 600M proteins

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03539-1

3 years ago

Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/nov/01/mastodon-twitter-elon-musk-takeover

3 years ago

Seeking the productive life: Some details of my personal infrastructure (2019)

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-productive-life-some-details-of-my-personal-infrastructure/

3 years ago

Shanghai Disney shuts: Visitors unable to leave without negative Covid test

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63456107

3 years ago

Why did the OpenSSL punycode vulnerability happen?

https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/openssl-punycode/

3 years ago

Ask HN: How to deal with burnout and its consequences?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33434742

3 years ago