top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-11-03

Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1586955288061452289

3 years ago

Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce

https://stripe.com/en-au/newsroom/news/ceo-patrick-collisons-email-to-stripe-employees

3 years ago

We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot

https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/

3 years ago

Blip: A tool for seeing your internet latency

https://github.com/apenwarr/blip

3 years ago

Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce

https://stripe.com/en-au/newsroom/news/ceo-patrick-collisons-email-to-stripe-employees

3 years ago

Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch

https://rebble.io/2022/11/02/rebble-hackathon.html

3 years ago

Sugar Substitutes Surprise

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sugar-substitutes-surprise

3 years ago

Rust 1.65.0

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/11/03/Rust-1.65.0.html

3 years ago

JC – JSONifies the output of many CLI tools

https://kellyjonbrazil.github.io/jc/

3 years ago

Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubuntu Snap

https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/what-happened-to-signal-desktop/32119

3 years ago

Justice Department announces takedown of catalytic converter theft ring

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-takedown-nationwide-catalytic-converter-theft-ring

3 years ago

Universal Paperclips

https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

3 years ago

FreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix to serve video at 800Gb/s [pdf]

https://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/talks/euro2022.pdf

3 years ago

Lyft to lay off about 700 employees in second round of job cuts

https://www.wsj.com/articles/lyft-plans-to-lay-off-hundreds-of-staffers-11667490092

3 years ago

Moderation is different from censorship

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/moderation-is-different-from-censorship

3 years ago

Duplicati: Free backup software to store encrypted backups online

https://www.duplicati.com/

3 years ago

Show HN: Sprig, open-source game console and engine, by teenagers for teenagers

https://github.com/hackclub/sprig

3 years ago

Linux boot partitions and how to set them up

https://0pointer.net/blog/linux-boot-partitions.html

3 years ago

Study urges caution when comparing neural networks to the brain

https://news.mit.edu/2022/neural-networks-brain-function-1102

3 years ago

Bye Twitter – Manu Cornet

https://ma.nu/blog/bye-twitter

3 years ago

Swarm – Low cost, global satellite connectivity for IoT

https://swarm.space/

3 years ago

Sile: A Modern Rewrite of TeX

https://sile-typesetter.org/

3 years ago

I Posted on YouTube Consistently for 1 Month. This Is What Happened

https://www.alexhyett.com/one-month-on-youtube/

3 years ago

Bank of England expects UK to fall into longest ever recession

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63471725

3 years ago

Adversarial Policies Beat Professional-Level Go AIs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.00241

3 years ago

Robinhood cuts losses after transaction revenue drops

https://www.wsj.com/articles/robinhood-cuts-losses-after-transaction-revenue-drops-11667426198

3 years ago

Testing Microsoft's Windows Dev Kit 2023

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/testing-microsofts-windows-dev-kit-2023

3 years ago

Is CBL-Mariner going to become Microsoft Linux?

https://boxofcables.dev/cbl-delridge-is-dead-long-live-cbl-mariner/

3 years ago

The New York Times made a weird editorial decision with its tech coverage

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1588190763413868553

3 years ago

A large collection of fraudulent web stores

https://chair6.net/a-large-collection-of-fraudulent-web-stores.html

3 years ago

I am a quite good bad programmer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33450102

3 years ago

Number of unemployed persons per job opening

https://www.bls.gov/charts/job-openings-and-labor-turnover/unemp-per-job-opening.htm

3 years ago

Mozilla launches venture fund to fuel responsible tech companies

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launches-first-of-its-kind-venture-fund-to-fuel-responsible-tech-companies-products/

3 years ago

Taste vs. Skills

https://refactoring.fm/p/taste-vs-skills

3 years ago

Apache AGE, a PostgreSQL extension with graph database functionality

https://github.com/apache/age

3 years ago

Want to live in a van down by the river? Ford has a new vehicle for that

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/03/ford-transit-trail-2023-targets-boom-in-rv-van-life.html

3 years ago

Ask HN: Data Scientists, what libraries do you use for timeseries forecasting?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33447976

3 years ago

Microsoft is killing custom domain names in Outlook.com

https://www.bigtechwire.com/2022/11/02/microsoft-is-killing-custom-domain-names-in-outlook-com/

3 years ago

Open Source Firebase Alternative with GraphQL

https://nhost.io/

3 years ago

Show HN: Open Source Authentication and Authorization

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33450860

3 years ago

Can I exec a new process without an executable file? (2015)

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/230472/can-i-exec-an-entirely-new-process-without-an-executable-file

3 years ago

Show HN: Open-source OAuth2 & OpenID server Ory Hydra v2

https://github.com/ory/hydra/releases/tag/v2.0.0

3 years ago

Crows found to be smarter than we think

https://www.wsj.com/articles/crows-found-to-be-smarter-than-we-think-11667412092

3 years ago

An AWS account just for getting into other AWS accounts

https://src-bin.com/an-aws-account-just-for-getting-into-other-aws-accounts/

3 years ago

Apple is quietly replacing noise cancellation because ongoing patent lawsuit

https://old.reddit.com/r/airpods/comments/yfc5xw/airpods_max_active_noise_cancelation_confirmed_to/

3 years ago

Launch HN: Akiflow (YC S20) – Bring your tasks and calendars together

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33451584

3 years ago

The Workplace Is Rigged to Favor Morning People

https://productivityreport.org/2017/02/06/the-workplace-is-rigged-to-favor-morning-people/

3 years ago

TripleA: A Java-based free open source Axis and Allies

https://triplea-game.org/

3 years ago

Communities Now Available

https://blog.whatsapp.com/communities-now-available

3 years ago

Nadia Boulanger

https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/02/nadia-boulanger-feature/

3 years ago

Gopher Protocol (2020)

https://mncomputinghistory.com/gopher-protocol/

3 years ago

Replacing forks and chopsticks with pincers

https://medium.com/@jbuxton97/on-replacing-forks-and-chopsticks-with-pincers-e8390d614450

3 years ago

Tony Fadell Joins Arm Board of Directors

https://www.arm.com/company/news/2022/11/arm-announces-the-appointment-of-tony-fadell-to-the-board-of-directors

3 years ago

UN Votes Overwhelmingly to Condemn US Embargo of Cuba

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2022-11-03/un-votes-overwhelmingly-to-condemn-us-embargo-of-cuba

3 years ago

Today’s inflation is not a repeat of the 1970s

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2022/11/why-todays-inflation-is-not-a-repeat-of-the-1970s/

3 years ago

The PDSA loop – Plan-Do-Study-Act

https://commoncog.com/no-learning-dont-close-loops/

3 years ago

We will see the return of capital investment on a massive scale

https://themarket.ch/interview/russell-napier-the-world-will-experience-a-capex-boom-ld.7606

3 years ago

SVGs as Elm Code

https://blog.noredink.com/post/699829728548372480/svgs-as-elm-code

3 years ago

TikTok is “unacceptable security risk” and should be removed from app stores

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2022/07/tiktok-is-unacceptable-security-risk-and-should-be-removed-from-app-stores-says-fcc

3 years ago

A Twitter engineer who created cartoons poking fun at his own company was fired

https://www.businessinsider.com/cartoon-drawing-troublemaker-twitter-engineer-manu-says-hes-been-fired-2022-11

3 years ago

Kaluma: A Tiny JavaScript Runtime for RP2040 (Raspberry Pi Pico)

https://github.com/kaluma-project/kaluma

3 years ago

Musk plans to eliminate half of Twitter jobs to cut costs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-02/musk-plans-to-eliminate-half-of-twitter-jobs-in-cost-cut-drive

3 years ago

A layoff guide for tweeps

https://collectiveaction.tech/2022/a-layoff-guide-for-tweeps/

3 years ago

Where does Python 3.11 get its ~25% Speedup? Part 1:General Optimization

https://log.beshr.com/python-311-speedup-part-1/

3 years ago

Acreom 1.0 – a lightweight Markdown editor with tasks for developers

https://acreom.com

3 years ago

Amazon Is Pausing Hiring for Corporate Workforce

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-is-pausing-hiring-for-corporate-workforce-11667494267

3 years ago

Photography is not just about the camera

https://peter.czanik.hu/posts/photography-not-just-camera/

3 years ago

WinPopup (2001)

https://susam.net/maze/winpopup.html

3 years ago