top 50% 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

SpaceX is now building a Raptor engine a day, NASA says

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/11/spacex-is-now-building-a-raptor-engine-a-day-nasa-says/

3 years ago

Next C compiler is a D compiler: Introducing DMD's ImportC

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20220704.html

3 years ago

Cameras abandoned 85 years ago by photography pioneer found on glacier

https://petapixel.com/2022/11/01/cameras-abandoned-85-years-ago-by-photography-pioneer-found-on-glacier/

3 years ago

Rakuten Mobile is replacing Red Hat as its Linux OS supplier

https://www.telecomtv.com/content/digital-platforms-services/rakuten-dumps-red-hat-turns-to-true-open-source-linux-os-45803/

3 years ago

The latest OpenSSL vulns were added fairly recently

https://twitter.com/hanno/status/1587775675397726209

3 years ago

The Problem with Go

https://vanitynotes.com/posts/20221101-the-real-problem-with-go

3 years ago

Cree releases LEDs designed for horticulture

https://cree-led.com/news/photophyll-select/

3 years ago

T-Mobile will start charging a $35 fee on all new activations and upgrades

https://www.engadget.com/t-mobile-will-start-charging-a-35-fee-on-all-new-activations-and-upgrades-065518011.html

3 years ago

Facebook (Meta) international cable expansion: animated map

https://fairinternetreport.com/research/facebook-meta-submarine-cable-ownership

3 years ago

RawTherapee

https://www.rawtherapee.com/

3 years ago

NEONnoir is a hybrid point-and-click adventure/visual novel game for the Amiga

https://steamknight.itch.io/neonnoir

3 years ago

Playstation VR2

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/2/23436550/sony-playstation-vr2-release-date-price-features-games

3 years ago

Scientists Increasingly Can’t Explain How AI Works

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3pezm/scientists-increasingly-cant-explain-how-ai-works

3 years ago

Adobe no longer licenses Pantone colors to be used freely Photoshop

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/pantone-wants-15-month-for-the-privilege-of-using-its-colors-in-photoshop/

3 years ago

Employee gift ideas that make people feel bad

https://www.tremendous.com/blog/5-employee-gift-ideas-make-people-feel-bad

3 years ago

Show HN: Tier.run – Terraform for Stripe

https://github.com/tierrun

3 years ago

Psychedelics: A Personal Take (2021)

https://ava.substack.com/p/psychedelics-a-personal-take

3 years ago

Doing what you love when the money won’t follow

https://loveofallwisdom.com/blog/2022/06/doing-what-you-love-when-the-money-wont-follow/

3 years ago

Cook shortage threatens to sink U.S. Coast Guard operations

https://www.forbes.com/sites/craighooper/2022/10/31/a-cook-shortage-threatens-to-sink-us-coast-guard-operations/

3 years ago

Apple now valued at more than Amazon, Alphabet and Meta combined

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-now-valued-at-more-than-amazon-alphabet-and-meta-combined-11667430617

3 years ago

Typing the technical interview (2017)

https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview

3 years ago

Verifying GCC optimizations using an SMT solver

https://kristerw.github.io/2022/11/01/verifying-optimizations/

3 years ago

Mosh 1.4.0 Released

https://mosh.org/mosh-1.4.0-released.html

3 years ago

How to deal with extreme physical pain (2020)

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/how-to-deal-with-extreme-physical-pain

3 years ago

Court overturns state ruling on San Francisco’s infamous 469 Stevenson project

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/california-469-stevenson-court-ceqa-housing-17550982.php

3 years ago

How rate hikes are affecting the economy

https://www.apricitas.io/p/how-rate-hikes-are-affecting-the

3 years ago

How Tucson is facing up to a megadrought

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221031-how-tucson-arizona-is-facing-up-to-a-1200-year-drought

3 years ago

U.S. pushes Japan and other allies to join China chip curbs

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/U.S.-pushes-Japan-and-other-allies-to-join-China-chip-curbs

3 years ago

Coca-Cola increased plastic use ahead of COP27 summit it is sponsoring

https://www.ft.com/content/662d4a0d-e8f5-4cd4-b03f-05b97e13e771

3 years ago

Comparing TCP and QUIC

https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2022-11/quicvtcp.html

3 years ago

A few of my favourite things about the OpenBSD Packet Filter tools

https://blog.apnic.net/2022/11/02/openbsd-packet-filter-tools/

3 years ago

Show HN: Nudges.fyi – simple, unmissable reminders via phone/text/email

https://nudges.fyi

3 years ago

Ask HN: How can techies influence companies to stop implementing SMS/phone 2FA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33435682

3 years ago

Commission proposes to accelerate the rollout of instant payments in euro

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_22_6272

3 years ago

Doom3do: DOOM for the 3DO

https://github.com/Olde-Skuul/doom3do

3 years ago

C++ is the next C++

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2022/p2657r0.html

3 years ago

Why are so many babies born around 8:00 AM? (2017)

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/sa-visual/why-are-so-many-babies-born-around-8-00-a-m/

3 years ago

AskEdith – Natural language interface for databases

https://www.askedith.ai/

3 years ago

One in eight U.S. adult deaths aged 20 to 64 involved too much alcohol

https://www.medpagetoday.com/gastroenterology/generalhepatology/101519

3 years ago

Niches are overrated

https://scottjack.me/niches-are-overrated/

3 years ago

Tumblr brings mature content back, after 4 years

https://staff.tumblr.com/post/699744158019190784/this-is-not-a-drill-our-new-community-guidelines

3 years ago

Map, magnetic, and grid north all align in southwest England

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-63475943

3 years ago

Beaming solar energy from space

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/space-solar-power-atwater-hajimiri-pellegrino

3 years ago

Urlscan.io’s SOAR spot: Chatty security tools leaking private data

https://positive.security/blog/urlscan-data-leaks

3 years ago

Grafana Faro: An open source project for front end application observability

https://grafana.com/blog/2022/11/02/introducing-grafana-faro-oss-application-observability/

3 years ago