top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-11-05

Tell HN: A hacker's life is in danger, your awareness may be life saving

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33484185

2 years ago

957 upvotes – 103 comments

Mathics: A free, open-source alternative to Mathematica

https://mathics.org/

2 years ago

561 upvotes – 203 comments

Birdwatch, Twitter's collaborative fact checking system

https://twitter.github.io/birdwatch/#

2 years ago

373 upvotes – 260 comments

The RS-232 protocol [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHYNxpqKqwo

2 years ago

350 upvotes – 100 comments

Negative 2000 Lines of Code (1982)

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt

2 years ago

332 upvotes – 167 comments

Body Doubling

https://bodydoubling.com/

2 years ago

325 upvotes – 199 comments

Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-sued-for-open-source-piracy-through-github-copilot/

2 years ago

322 upvotes – 288 comments

Multiple assertions are fine in a unit test

https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/11/03/multiple-assertions-per-test-are-fine/

2 years ago

319 upvotes – 337 comments

Portmaster 1.0 – Open-Source Network Monitor and Privacy Firewall

https://safing.io/blog/2022/10/27/portmaster-reaches-1.0/

2 years ago

311 upvotes – 113 comments

TSMC approaching 1 nm with 2D materials breakthrough

https://www.edn.com/tsmc-approaching-1-nm-with-2d-materials-breakthrough/

2 years ago

309 upvotes – 112 comments

Quantum winter is coming

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/11/quantum-winter-is-coming.html

2 years ago

297 upvotes – 273 comments

MDN converted to Markdown

https://openwebdocs.org/content/posts/markdown-conversion/

2 years ago

286 upvotes – 138 comments

Pathfinding Visualizer

https://pathfinding-visualizer-nu.vercel.app/

2 years ago

268 upvotes – 53 comments

It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/5/mastodon/

2 years ago

258 upvotes – 447 comments

Mastodon Explained

https://mastodon.ie/@Ciaraioch/109287818715515862

2 years ago

253 upvotes – 267 comments

3D OpenStreetMap

https://demo.f4map.com

2 years ago

250 upvotes – 58 comments

Engineered ‘Superplant’ Cleans Indoor Air Like 30 Regular Plants

https://singularityhub.com/2022/11/02/this-engineered-superplant-cleans-indoor-air-like-30-regular-plants/

2 years ago

243 upvotes – 125 comments

The type system is a programmer's best friend

https://dusted.codes/the-type-system-is-a-programmers-best-friend

2 years ago

242 upvotes – 454 comments

What you can’t imagine clearly, you value less

https://nautil.us/why-your-brain-isnt-into-the-future-245128/

2 years ago

221 upvotes – 62 comments

Ask HN: Working in a VR Headset?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33482215

2 years ago

199 upvotes – 249 comments
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