top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-11-06

Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33488891

3 years ago

982 upvotes – 753 comments

Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go (2020)

https://blog.jse.li/posts/torrent/

3 years ago

580 upvotes – 47 comments

Barilla passive cooker

https://www.barilla.com/en-gb/passive-cooking

3 years ago

563 upvotes – 509 comments

Bike: Innovative Rich Text Editing

https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/posts/bike-rich-text/

3 years ago

548 upvotes – 138 comments

EU Voice

https://social.network.europa.eu/about/more

3 years ago

440 upvotes – 229 comments

Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week

https://www.wsj.com/articles/meta-is-preparing-to-notify-employees-of-large-scale-layoffs-this-week-11667767794

3 years ago

394 upvotes – 397 comments

Almost monospaced: the perfect fonts for writing

https://blakewatson.com/journal/almost-monospaced-the-perfect-fonts-for-writing/

3 years ago

394 upvotes – 171 comments

Bloated college administration is making education unaffordable

https://quillette.com/2022/11/02/bloated-college-administration-is-making-education-unaffordable/

3 years ago

378 upvotes – 356 comments

Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor

https://helix-editor.com/

3 years ago

363 upvotes – 166 comments

3D map of the Czech Republic, made from 12.5cm/px imagery (2017)

https://mapy.cz/zakladni?m3d=1&height=1100&yaw=234&pitch=-18&l=0&x=13.7549779&y=50.5258665&z=17&base=ophoto

3 years ago

335 upvotes – 111 comments

What to blog about

https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/6/what-to-blog-about/

3 years ago

333 upvotes – 90 comments

Update on Supply of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/11/update-on-supply-of-iphone-14-pro-and-iphone-14-pro-max/

3 years ago

333 upvotes – 394 comments

Twitter users jump to Mastodon, but what is it?

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63534240

3 years ago

327 upvotes – 492 comments

Git as a janky Twitter replacement

https://github.com/diracdeltas/tweets

3 years ago

318 upvotes – 66 comments

Moon Disaster

https://moondisaster.org/

3 years ago

290 upvotes – 119 comments

Level responds to lock picker opening its $330 Apple Store lock in seconds

https://www.techradar.com/news/the-apple-stores-dollar330-level-lock-plus-smart-lock-isnt-as-secure-as-youd-think

3 years ago

248 upvotes – 201 comments

At Xamarin I left every day at 5pm

https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1589071354967756802

3 years ago

229 upvotes – 179 comments

EU electricity production by country and source

https://transparency.entsoe.eu/

3 years ago

213 upvotes – 181 comments

Does anyone else finds AWS and other Amazon services overly complicated?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33490314

3 years ago

208 upvotes – 138 comments

Make your DOM look like an eye that can focus on anything

https://github.com/jj811208/watching-you

3 years ago

201 upvotes – 60 comments

PayPal Allows Bypassing Two-Factor Authentication with a Button Click

https://medium.com/@jewbixcube/paypal-allows-bypassing-two-factor-auth-with-a-button-click-claims-its-for-your-protection-ce1d0dc9a28a

3 years ago

198 upvotes – 96 comments

Home truths about macOS

https://eclecticlight.co/2022/11/06/last-week-on-my-mac-home-truths-about-macos/

3 years ago

190 upvotes – 174 comments

Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

https://time.com/6229230/mastodon-eugen-rochko-interview/

3 years ago

189 upvotes – 272 comments

Twitter sources say company reached out to fired people asking them to come back

https://twitter.com/caseynewton/status/1589075543420325888

3 years ago

188 upvotes – 196 comments

Wells are running dry in Southwest as foreign-owned farms feed cattle overseas

https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_a1fc0bf7958049a62752160ff8ac5878

3 years ago

186 upvotes – 155 comments

Making a DNS query in Ruby from scratch

https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/11/06/making-a-dns-query-in-ruby-from-scratch/

3 years ago

184 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: Feep! search, an independent search engine for programmers

https://search.feep.dev

3 years ago

182 upvotes – 72 comments

10 years of FTL: The making of an enduring spaceship simulator

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/11/ten-years-of-ftl-the-making-of-an-enduring-spaceship-simulator/

3 years ago

177 upvotes – 80 comments

Dwarf Fortress Steam Edition – Release Date Trailer [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K7T5LXQPJI

3 years ago

172 upvotes – 47 comments

The essence of Reed-Solomon coding

https://mazzo.li/posts/reed-solomon.html

3 years ago

168 upvotes – 41 comments

Nearly all binary searches and mergesorts are broken (2006)

https://ai.googleblog.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-nearly.html

3 years ago

163 upvotes – 195 comments

How the US can stop wasting billions of dollars on each transit project

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgym5j/heres-how-the-us-can-stop-wasting-billions-of-dollars-on-each-transit-project

3 years ago

163 upvotes – 247 comments

Galois field instructions on 2021 CPUs

http://www.corsix.org/content/galois-field-instructions-2021-cpus

3 years ago

163 upvotes – 41 comments

Qatar intelligence operation against FIFA officials

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/-project-merciless---how-qatar-spied-on-the-world-of-football-in-switzerland/48022952

3 years ago

160 upvotes – 28 comments

Honda electric moped coming, intended to fit “50cc” category

https://www.cycleworld.com/story/motorcycle-news/honda-electric-moped-coming-soon/

3 years ago

156 upvotes – 169 comments

Was everyone stupid back then?

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/internet-5

3 years ago

154 upvotes – 121 comments

Mastodon v4.0.0 Release Candidate

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.0.0rc1

3 years ago

145 upvotes – 61 comments

The lonely runner conjecture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonely_runner_conjecture

3 years ago

141 upvotes – 28 comments

Twitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come Back

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-06/twitter-now-asks-some-fired-workers-to-please-come-back

3 years ago

140 upvotes – 179 comments

NASA puts jet propulsion lab on blast over Psyche mission failures

https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-jpl-psyche-independent-review

3 years ago

138 upvotes – 176 comments

Ancient water system uncovered at Roman Stabiae

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/11/ancient-water-system-uncovered-at-roman-stabiae/145135

3 years ago

132 upvotes – 59 comments

Centuries-old whaling logs are filling gaps in our climate knowledge

https://grist.org/article/how-centuries-old-whaling-logs-are-filling-gaps-in-our-climate-knowledge/

3 years ago

130 upvotes – 68 comments

Zero point leet seconds (2018)

https://susam.net/blog/zero-point-leet-seconds.html

3 years ago

129 upvotes – 38 comments

Some companies find only humans can do the job

https://www.wsj.com/articles/robots-some-companies-find-only-humans-can-do-the-job-11667508854

3 years ago

120 upvotes – 75 comments

Show HN: Lotus – Open source pricing and packaging infrastructure

https://github.com/uselotus/lotus

3 years ago

120 upvotes – 31 comments

Reasons why Fortran is still used (2021)

https://www.matecdev.com/posts/why-fortran-still-used.html

3 years ago

119 upvotes – 72 comments

eBPF – Adding functionality to OS at runtime

https://ebpf.io/what-is-ebpf/

3 years ago

118 upvotes – 22 comments

Twitter, when the wall came down

http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2022/11/05/twitter-when-the-wall-came-down/

3 years ago

115 upvotes – 181 comments

Tool that lists all Fediverse instances including Mastodon, Pleroma, Rebased

http://demo.fedilist.com/

3 years ago

115 upvotes – 47 comments

50 years ago, an artist exhibited an invented Iron Age civilization

https://theconversation.com/50-years-ago-an-artist-convincingly-exhibited-a-fake-iron-age-civilization-with-invented-maps-music-and-artifacts-189026

3 years ago

102 upvotes – 22 comments

Twitter’s Entire A11y Experience Team Let Go

https://twitter.com/gerardkcohen/status/1588584459779321857

3 years ago

99 upvotes – 149 comments

Alcohol death toll is growing, US Government reports say

https://apnews.com/article/alcohol-death-toll-rising-pandemic-c25878b044f46b1cd275a8e2738148a5

3 years ago

93 upvotes – 105 comments

How to write a hardcore punk riff [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9_mP48PNwA

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 59 comments

Ask HN: How do you navigate Seasonal Affective Disorder?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33492114

3 years ago

86 upvotes – 109 comments

The Apple II Yellowstone Floppy Interface

https://nicole.express/2022/my-yellowstone-vacation.html

3 years ago

86 upvotes – 20 comments

proofInAToot

https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/proofInAToot

3 years ago

82 upvotes – 96 comments

Ask HN: I will become a father tomorrow, what advice could you share with me?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33490250

3 years ago

79 upvotes – 150 comments

Two years of fiddling with Rust

https://n-eq.github.io/blog/2022/11/01/rust-fiddling-2-years

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 83 comments

I don't understand why we throw away perfectly working things

http://muezza.ca/thoughts/working_trash/

3 years ago

76 upvotes – 146 comments
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