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

Bubbles

https://oimo.io/works/bubbles/

2 years ago

1985 upvotes – 175 comments

FTX to file for U.S. bankruptcy, CEO resigns

https://www.reuters.com/technology/ftx-says-will-file-us-bankruptcy-latest-blow-crypto-2022-11-11/

2 years ago

625 upvotes – 1169 comments

YouTube confirms that it has removed the “sort by oldest/newest” option

https://piunikaweb.com/2022/11/10/youtube-sorting-option-for-viewing-oldest-video-missing-heres-why/

2 years ago

584 upvotes – 447 comments

Resolving the great undo-redo quandary

https://github.com/zaboople/klonk/blob/master/TheGURQ.md

2 years ago

490 upvotes – 236 comments

Each visit to the page deteriorates the main image

https://crowd-jpeg.vercel.app/

2 years ago

465 upvotes – 134 comments

Demystifying financial leverage

https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/demystifying-financial-leverage/

2 years ago

309 upvotes – 119 comments

FTX group companies commence voluntary chapter 11 proceedings

https://twitter.com/ftx_official/status/1591071832823959552

2 years ago

262 upvotes – 4 comments

AWS IAM Roles, a tale of unnecessary complexity

https://infosec.rodeo/posts/thoughts-on-aws-iam/

2 years ago

255 upvotes – 87 comments

Size is the best predictor of code quality (2011)

https://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/10669678292/size-is-the-best-predictor-of-code-quality

2 years ago

232 upvotes – 188 comments

Shopify Is Illegal in Germany

https://lsww.de/shopify-illegal/

2 years ago

225 upvotes – 337 comments

Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator

https://brushify.art/?couponCode=HACKER-NEWS

2 years ago

224 upvotes – 71 comments

NSA urges orgs to use memory-safe programming languages

https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/11/nsa_urges_orgs_to_use/

2 years ago

220 upvotes – 222 comments

The world is run by people no smarter than you

https://www.swyx.io/no-smarter

2 years ago

219 upvotes – 252 comments

Map of the Internet

https://ipv4.dev.sarl/

2 years ago

217 upvotes – 66 comments

Why are U.S. transit projects so costly? This group is on the case

https://www.governing.com/finance/why-are-u-s-transit-projects-so-costly-this-group-is-on-the-case

2 years ago

215 upvotes – 282 comments

Scaling Mastodon in the face of an exodus

https://nora.codes/post/scaling-mastodon-in-the-face-of-an-exodus/

2 years ago

213 upvotes – 104 comments

Notmuch – Just an email system

https://notmuchmail.org/

2 years ago

210 upvotes – 67 comments

Thirteen Years of Go

https://go.dev/blog/13years

2 years ago

206 upvotes – 209 comments

Laika, the space dog, and her one-way trip into orbit (2018)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/sad-story-laika-space-dog-and-her-one-way-trip-orbit-1-180968728/

2 years ago

200 upvotes – 174 comments

A cost model for Nim

https://nim-lang.org/blog/2022/11/11/a-cost-model-for-nim.html

2 years ago

193 upvotes – 75 comments

Overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart’s law

https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2022/11/06/strong-Goodhart.html

2 years ago

187 upvotes – 107 comments

Internet Archive launches Mastodon server at archive.org

https://mastodon.archive.org/about/more

2 years ago

178 upvotes – 42 comments

Tether's Troubles in November 2022

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2022/11/11/tether-required-recapitalization-again/

2 years ago

164 upvotes – 122 comments

Key staff driving Apple search engine leave to rejoin Google

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/11/11/key-staff-driving-apple-search-engine-leave-to-rejoin-google

2 years ago

163 upvotes – 143 comments

A Visual Bibliography of Tree Visualization

https://treevis.net

2 years ago

153 upvotes – 10 comments

FBI In No-Knock Raid on Area 51 Website Operator

https://twitter.com/g_knapp/status/1590893322322968577

2 years ago

152 upvotes – 37 comments

Economic growth no longer requires rising emissions

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/11/10/economic-growth-no-longer-requires-rising-emissions

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 266 comments

We upgraded an old, 3PB large, Elasticsearch cluster without downtime

https://underthehood.meltwater.com/blog/2022/11/11/how-we-upgraded-an-old-3pb-large-elasticsearch-cluster-without-downtime-part-1-introduction/

2 years ago

149 upvotes – 26 comments

The Velveteen Rabbit was always more than a children’s book

https://www.vulture.com/2022/11/velveteen-rabbit-margery-williams-bianco-book.html

2 years ago

146 upvotes – 52 comments

Books recommended by profitable founders

https://microsaashq.com/insights/founder-insights-books-recommendations

2 years ago

140 upvotes – 87 comments

Is algae the new kale?

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/is-it-time-to-start-eating-algae

2 years ago

136 upvotes – 297 comments

How stdbuf works

https://hmarr.com/blog/how-stdbuf-works/

2 years ago

133 upvotes – 29 comments

Opening the North American charging standard

https://www.tesla.com/blog/opening-north-american-charging-standard

2 years ago

128 upvotes – 186 comments

An unconfirmed tweet about Freeport LNG is upending gas markets

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-11/an-unconfirmed-tweet-about-freeport-lng-is-upending-gas-markets

2 years ago

128 upvotes – 163 comments

.bestbuy

http://nic.bestbuy/

2 years ago

126 upvotes – 168 comments

How Australia became the world’s greatest lithium supplier

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221110-how-australia-became-the-worlds-greatest-lithium-supplier

2 years ago

126 upvotes – 158 comments

Ask HN: How do you focus on work for long periods of time?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33557338

2 years ago

123 upvotes – 144 comments

Ken Thompson's NFA regex patent (1971)

https://patents.google.com/patent/US3568156A/en

2 years ago

120 upvotes – 20 comments

Zendo: The Game of Inductive Logic

https://www.looneylabs.com/games/zendo

2 years ago

118 upvotes – 41 comments

Chaos Bernie: Delete Azure resources by playing Doom

https://github.com/secureworks/chaosbernie

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 10 comments

Sublime Text 4 Build 4142

https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-4142

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 61 comments

Book Review: Rhythms of the Brain

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-rhythms-of-the-brain

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 18 comments

The one about Lisp interactivity

http://blog.fogus.me/2022/11/10/the-one-about-lisp-interactivity/

2 years ago

107 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: Recruiters, how bad is the hiring market for candidates?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33563083

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 51 comments

Zuo: A tiny Racket for scripting

https://docs.racket-lang.org/zuo/index.html

2 years ago

105 upvotes – 25 comments

The Queen’s Coup

https://declassifiedaus.org/2022/11/11/the-queens-coup/

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 108 comments

Survey of workers’ views on salary transparency

https://www.resumebuilder.com/1-in-20-workers-will-quit-if-transparency-laws-reveal-they-are-paid-less-than-co-workers/

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 267 comments

WeWork exits 40 U.S. locations after tepid forecast

https://www.reuters.com/business/wework-exit-40-locations-us-cut-costs-2022-11-10/

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 103 comments

Fake account and $8 blue checkmark wipe $20B off Eli Lilly's market cap

https://fortune.com/2022/11/11/no-free-insulin-eli-lilly-casualty-of-elon-musk-twitter-blue-verification-mess/

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 74 comments

Amazon Time Sync is now available over the internet as a public NTP service

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-time-sync-internet-public-ntp-service/

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 45 comments

Tattoos on ancient Egyptian women appear to ask for protection during childbirth

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-tattoos-ancient-egyptian-women-childbirth.html

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 38 comments

An overview of concrete forming technology

https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/an-overview-of-concrete-forming-technology

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 34 comments

Reverse Engineering an EV Charger

https://www.mnemonic.io/resources/blog/reverse-engineering-an-ev-charger/

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 26 comments

Rendering Doom with Emojis

https://crocidb.com/post/rendering-doom-with-emojis/

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 17 comments

Downbeat delays are a key component of swing in jazz

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-022-00995-z

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 34 comments

Database Review 2021

https://www.bytebase.com/blog/database-review-2021

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 67 comments

Crypto.com preliminary audit shows 20% of its assets are in shiba inu coin

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/11/11/cryptocom-preliminary-audit-shows-that-20-of-its-assets-are-in-shiba-inu-coin/

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 30 comments

FTX Yikes

https://rekt.news/ftx-yikes/

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 108 comments

The Cost of Exception Handling

https://grenouillebouillie.wordpress.com/2022/05/09/the-hidden-cost-of-exception-handling/

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 60 comments

Similarity search and deduplication at scale

https://dsalaj.com/2022/10/25/similarity-search-and-deduplication.html

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 16 comments

Type-Signature.com

https://type-signature.com/

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 34 comments
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