top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-11-04

Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/03/twitter-layoffs-elon-musk/

3 years ago

I fought the PayPal and I won

https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/i-fought-the-paypal-and-i-won

3 years ago

ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

http://3lib.net/

3 years ago

In defense of linked lists

http://antirez.com/news/138

3 years ago

Privately-Owned Rail Cars

https://www.amtrak.com/privately-owned-rail-cars

3 years ago

Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

https://rsapkf.org/weblog/q2z/

3 years ago

Tim Berners-Lee: Web3 is not the web

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/04/web-inventor-tim-berners-lee-wants-us-to-ignore-web3.html

3 years ago

Tinygrad: A simple and powerful neural network framework

https://tinygrad.org/

3 years ago

White House deletes tweet after Twitter adds 'context' note

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/02/white-house-twitter-context-note-00064647

3 years ago

UK Government scans all web servers hosted in the UK for vulnerabilities

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/ncsc-scanning-information

3 years ago

Many companies aren’t prepared to replace underperforming CEOs

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/many-companies-arent-prepared-replace-underperforming-ceos

3 years ago

Sudo: Heap-based overflow with small passwords

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2139911

3 years ago

Twitter to start layoffs -internal email

https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-start-layoffs-friday-morning-internal-email-2022-11-04/

3 years ago

Crypto trading firm Alameda Research might be insolvent

https://dirtybubblemedia.substack.com/p/is-alameda-research-insolvent

3 years ago

Intel plans to rival TSMC and Samsung as a chip supplier

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-Spotlight/How-Intel-plans-to-rival-TSMC-and-Samsung-as-a-chip-supplier

3 years ago

Low Energy Chest Fridge

https://www.notechmagazine.com/2022/11/low-energy-chest-fridge.html

3 years ago

Twitter faces a class action lawsuit over mass employee layoffs with proper

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/04/twitter-faces-a-class-action-lawsuit-over-mass-employee-layoffs-with-proper-legal-notice/

3 years ago

Blurhash: A compact representation of a placeholder for an image

https://github.com/woltapp/blurhash

3 years ago

Top 70000 educational YouTube channels in 20 languages by category

https://limnology.co/

3 years ago

New Hampshire set to pilot voting machines that use software everyone can see

https://therecord.media/new-hampshire-set-to-pilot-voting-machines-that-use-software-everyone-can-see/

3 years ago

Up to 30% of online reviews are fake and consumers can't tell the difference

https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/up-to-30-of-online-reviews-are-fake-and-most-consumers-cant-tell-the-difference

3 years ago

Show HN: Tracking my local bus with a RaspberryPi

https://purplehoisin.com/i-built-a-bus-clock-with-a-raspberry-pi/

3 years ago

Musk’s Twitter purchase was a leveraged buyout

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33469493

3 years ago

Rage Against The Machine’s explosive debut album changed everything

https://www.loudersound.com/features/rage-against-the-machine-debut-album-story

3 years ago

Show HN: Reveddit.com: Improving online discourse with transparent moderation

https://cantsayanything.win/2022-10-transparent-moderation/?talk

3 years ago

The Linux scheduler: A decade of wasted cores (2016)

https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/04/26/the-linux-scheduler-a-decade-of-wasted-cores/

3 years ago

RStudio is now Posit

https://posit.co/

3 years ago

Markdown, Asciidoc, or reStructuredText – a tale of docs-as-code

https://www.dewanahmed.com/markdown-asciidoc-restructuredtext/

3 years ago

Solving Common Problems with Kubernetes

https://blog.adamchalmers.com/kubernetes-problems/

3 years ago

Clojure from a Schemer's perspective (2021)

https://www.more-magic.net/posts/thoughts-on-clojure.html

3 years ago

The Many Branches of the Fediverse

https://axbom.com/fediverse/

3 years ago

Google to remove all VPN ad blockers that don’t comply with their policy

https://community.blokada.org/t/google-to-remove-all-vpn-ad-blockers-that-don-t-comply/27586

3 years ago

MilkyTracker

https://milkytracker.org/

3 years ago

NYT reporters had a top-down directive that tech coverage should be critical

https://twitter.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1588231892792328192

3 years ago

Linode Outage in Dallas, Fremont, Atlanta, Newark, and Toronto Data Centers

https://status.linode.com/incidents/bqlkm3ttppdl

3 years ago

Why Lisp?

https://github.com/naver/lispe/wiki/6.16-Why-Lisp

3 years ago

Productivity has fallen, and experts are puzzled. I’m not. We’re all just tired

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-11-03/worker-productivity-has-fallen-and-experts-are-puzzled-im-not-were-all-just-tired

3 years ago

Passage Is Joining 1Password

https://passage.id/post/passage-is-joining-1password

3 years ago

Twitter layoffs gutted election information teams days before midterms

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/05/twitter-layoffs-election-impact/

3 years ago

Thoughts about Twitter

https://nolancaudill.com/2022/11/04/thoughts-about-twitter/

3 years ago

Launch HN: Shimmer (YC S21) – ADHD coaching for adults

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33468611

3 years ago

Lawsuit against Meta invokes modern portfolio theory to protect shareholders

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2022/11/04/lawsuit-against-meta-invokes-modern-portfolio-theory-to-protect-diversified-shareholders/

3 years ago

Linux devs discover that Intel Arc GPU firmware updates need an Intel CPU

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/intel-arc-gpu-firmware-updates-appear-to-require-an-intel-cpu-at-least-for-now/

3 years ago

YouTube channel with 100s of Apple WWDC videos taken down

https://twitter.com/realmrpippy/status/1588595461438390272

3 years ago

From Google to Twitter

https://ma.nu/blog/from-google-to-twitter

3 years ago

Ask HN: What Recession?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33465760

3 years ago

AI Learns to Play CS:Go via Large-Scale Behavioural Cloning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.04258

3 years ago

Postgres Insider Terminology

https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/challenging-postgres-terminology

3 years ago

Starlink to start “deprioritizing” traffic after 1TB monthly

https://i.imgur.com/NfSTpZN.jpg

3 years ago

General Mills, Audi pause Twitter ads, will evaluate site

https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-technology-business-0bafafecbcf4cbae2f484d83d483b168

3 years ago

Alexander the Great in Firdawsi's Book of Kings

https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2022/10/alexander-the-great-in-firdawsis-book-of-kings.html

3 years ago

Bass: The physical sensation of sound (2015)

https://www.audioholics.com/room-acoustics/bass-the-physical-sensation-of-sound

3 years ago

A sand battery could transform clean energy

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221102-how-a-sand-battery-could-transform-clean-energy

3 years ago

Ask HN: How much does the environment you're in contribute to performance?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33475720

3 years ago

Eleven Magic Words

https://ymeskhout.substack.com/p/eleven-magic-words-unlocked

3 years ago

Starlink Sets High-Speed Data Cap at 1TB per Month, Lowers Advertised Speeds

https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlink-sets-high-speed-data-cap-at-1tb-per-month-lowers-advertised-speeds

3 years ago

New Zealand plunges into recessionary spiral

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2022/10/new-zealand-plunges-into-recessionary-spiral/

3 years ago

User-Agent Reduction

https://www.akamai.com/blog/developers/user-agent-reduction

3 years ago

Canada to introduce 2% tax on stock buybacks starting in 2024

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ottawa-stock-buyback-tax-1.6639713

3 years ago

How close is RISC-V to RISC-I? (2017)

https://web.archive.org/web/20220331041830/https://aspire.eecs.berkeley.edu/2017/06/how-close-is-risc-v-to-risc-i/

3 years ago

Hollow City: Edward Hopper’s portraits of urban alienation

https://thebaffler.com/latest/hollow-city-arn

3 years ago

UK to hand over Chagos back to Mauritius

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/03/uk-agrees-to-negotiate-with-mauritius-over-handover-of-chagos-islands

3 years ago

Recent Progress in and around LibreSSL [pdf]

https://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2022-tb-libressl.pdf

3 years ago