top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-11-07

Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33512338

3 years ago

Delaware judge discovers hidden entity recruiting people to be patent trolls

https://ipde.com/blog/2022/11/04/a-wild-hearing-chief-judge-connolly-flips-over-rock-finds-mavexar-llc-crawling-around-controlling-patent-litigation-and-giving-hapless-patent-owners-just-5-10/

3 years ago

The most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter in 2015

https://twitter.com/stevekrenzel/status/1589700721121058817

3 years ago

Microsoft is phoning home the content of PowerPoint slides

https://rogermexico.bearblog.dev/microsoft-is-phoning-home-the-content-of-your-powerpoint-slides/

3 years ago

India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/india-lifted-415-million-out-of-poverty-in-15-years-says-un/articleshow/94926338.cms

3 years ago

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https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/you-might-also-like

3 years ago

Circadian lighting with Home Assistant: Like f.lux, but for your house

https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2022/10/17/whole-house-circadian-lighting-with-home-assistant/

3 years ago

Signal Introduces Stories

https://signal.org/blog/introducing-stories/

3 years ago

Lab-grown blood given to people in world-first clinical trial

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63513330

3 years ago

Being Ridiculed for My Open Source Project (2013)

https://harthur.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/771/

3 years ago

US Attorney Announces $3.36B Cryptocurrency Seizure in Connection with Silk Road

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-attorney-announces-historic-336-billion-cryptocurrency-seizure-and-conviction

3 years ago

Blessed.rs – An unofficial guide to the Rust ecosystem

https://blessed.rs/crates

3 years ago

An animated introduction to Elixir

https://markm208.github.io/exbook/

3 years ago

Apple Execs on iMessage for Android (2013)

https://twitter.com/techemails/status/1589450766506692609

3 years ago

Principles of Pricing

https://www.principlesofpricing.com/

3 years ago

Show HN: textshader.com

https://textshader.com

3 years ago

Early stages of Google Docs support in the Ladybird browser

https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1589711499672502274

3 years ago

Nvidia Security Team: “What if we just stopped using C?”

https://blog.adacore.com/nvidia-security-team-what-if-we-just-stopped-using-c

3 years ago

Framework Laptops now have 4 Thunderbolt 4 ports

https://frame.work/gb/en/blog/framework-laptops-are-now-thunderbolt-4-certified

3 years ago

We've hit 1M monthly active users

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/109300967725833789

3 years ago

Why would anyone need JavaScript generator functions?

https://jrsinclair.com/articles/2022/why-would-anyone-need-javascript-generator-functions/

3 years ago

Bankruptcy court gave blanket immunity to executives in 9 out of 10 major cases

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/bankruptcy-tactics-releases/

3 years ago

C isn't a programming language anymore

https://faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt-a-language/

3 years ago

M.2 for Hackers – Connectors

https://hackaday.com/2022/11/03/m-2-for-hackers-connectors/

3 years ago

Audio CD ripping – optical drive accuracy listing

https://pilabor.com/blog/2022/10/audio-cd-ripping-hardware/

3 years ago

Rust: “Explain GATs Like I'm 5 Years Old”

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/ynvm8a/could_someone_explain_the_gats_like_i_was_5/

3 years ago

Exploring Mastodon

https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-mastodon.html

3 years ago

Mild autumn weather has sent European gas prices plummeting

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/11/03/mild-autumn-weather-has-sent-european-gas-prices-plummeting

3 years ago

A crash dummy aimed at protecting women drivers

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-62877930

3 years ago

Purchasing Power Parity: Fair pricing for SaaS products

https://scastiel.dev/implement-ppp-fair-pricing-for-your-product

3 years ago

‘Putin’s chef’ admits to interfering in U.S. elections

https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-business-social-media-7fefa7ab0491b653f6094a4d090155fe

3 years ago

Your Organization should run its own Mastodon server

https://martinfowler.com/articles/your-org-run-mastodon.html

3 years ago

Swedish amateur archivist “Rosa Mannen” shut down from YouTube again

https://sweden.postsen.com/trends/49453/The-YouTube-channel-Rosa-mannen-shut-down-after-reports.html

3 years ago

Our brains 'time-stamp' sounds to process the words we hear

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2022/november/our-brains--time-stamp--sounds-to-process-the-words-we-hear.html

3 years ago

MDL: A Micro-Architecture Description Language for LLVM

https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-mdl-a-micro-architecture-description-language-for-llvm/66409

3 years ago

Toxic smog has turned India’s capital into a ‘gas chamber’

https://globalnews.ca/news/9252830/india-smog-new-delhi-gas-chamber-pollution/

3 years ago

Manifesto for minimalist software engineers (2013)

http://minifesto.org/

3 years ago

LiteDB: A .NET embedded NoSQL database

https://www.litedb.org/

3 years ago

IKEA asks horror game to change so people stop comparing it to IKEA [update]

https://kotaku.com/ikea-furniture-horror-game-store-is-closed-kickstarter-1849715848

3 years ago

Linux Kernel Has Been Forcing Different Behavior for Processes Starting with “X”

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DRM-Process-Start-With-X

3 years ago

So I lost my OpenBSD FDE password (2016)

https://words.filippo.io/so-i-lost-my-openbsd-fde-password/

3 years ago

Meta is preparing large-scale layoffs this week

https://www.reuters.com/technology/facebook-parent-meta-is-preparing-large-scale-layoffs-this-week-wsj-2022-11-06/

3 years ago

Migrate from Linux to FreeBSD

https://klarasystems.com/articles/easily-migrate-from-linux-to-freebsd/

3 years ago

Keep ’em coming: Why your first ideas aren’t always the best

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/keep-em-coming-why-your-first-ideas-arent-always-best

3 years ago

AI Art Tools and Resources in One Place

https://www.aiartapps.com/

3 years ago

Is there too much CSS now?

https://css-tricks.com/is-there-too-much-css-now/

3 years ago

OpenSea administrators can take any tokens minted on OpenSea Shared Storefront

https://blog.phor.net/2022/11/04/Does-OpenSea-Shared-Storefront-have-a-backdoor.html

3 years ago

Aluminum formate Al(HCOO)3: Earth-abundant, scalable, & material for CO2 capture

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ade1473

3 years ago

Modernizing my 1980s sound system

https://blog.yossarian.net/2022/11/07/Modernizing-my-1980s-sound-system

3 years ago

Towns are testing new ballot counting machines that use open source software

https://www.nhpr.org/politics/2022-11-07/three-n-h-towns-are-testing-out-new-ballot-counting-machines-that-use-open-source-software

3 years ago

If you die in the game, you die in real life

https://palmerluckey.com/if-you-die-in-the-game-you-die-in-real-life/

3 years ago

How to make sure no dynamic memory is used

https://mcuoneclipse.com/2022/11/06/how-to-make-sure-no-dynamic-memory-is-used/

3 years ago

Mastodon Is Awesome

https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2022-11-03_what-i-know-about-mastodon/

3 years ago

IodéOS Is Open Source

https://iode.tech/en/news/iodeos-is-open-source/

3 years ago

Typography for Lawyers, 2nd Edition (2018)

https://typographyforlawyers.com/

3 years ago

'It's so liberating': The people quitting social media

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63482162

3 years ago

Malicious Python packages replace crypto addresses in developer clipboards

https://blog.phylum.io/pypi-malware-replaces-crypto-addresses-in-developers-clipboard

3 years ago

Some thoughts on social networking and Usenet (2018)

https://jfm.carcosa.net/blog/computing/usenet/

3 years ago

Wells Fargo mortgage staff brace for layoffs as U.S. loan volumes collapse

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/02/wells-fargo-mortgage-staff-brace-for-layoffs-as-us-loan-volumes-collapse.html

3 years ago

The incidence of myocarditis and pericarditis in unvaccinated Covid patients

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35456309/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Is it better to be a consultant in a time of layoffs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33506818

3 years ago

The influence of Self

https://dubroy.com/blog/self/

3 years ago

Oh My Git – An open source game about learning Git

https://ohmygit.org/

3 years ago

Esperanto is not my favourite artificial language (2002)

http://miresperanto.com/konkurentoj/not_my_favourite.htm

3 years ago

HBO Cancels Westworld

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/hbo-cancels-westworld-before-what-was-to-be-its-final-season/

3 years ago

Medieval Bestiary

https://bestiary.ca/

3 years ago