top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-11-14

Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33593631

3 years ago

804 upvotes – 503 comments

Crypto exchange AAX suspends withdrawals

https://trends.aax.com/important-update-forward-through-adversity

3 years ago

666 upvotes – 810 comments

PayPal inactivity fee

https://www.paypal.com/re/smarthelp/article/what-is-the-inactivity-fee-(eu-countries)-faq4427

3 years ago

512 upvotes – 284 comments

Making a Go program faster with a one-character change

https://hmarr.com/blog/go-allocation-hunting/

3 years ago

511 upvotes – 236 comments

FTX’s balance sheet was bad

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-11-14/ftx-s-balance-sheet-was-bad

3 years ago

479 upvotes – 470 comments

Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool

https://github.com/openblocks-dev/openblocks

3 years ago

420 upvotes – 115 comments

Myocarditis after Covid vaccination: Research on possible long-term risks begins

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/myocarditis-covid-vaccine-research-long-term-effects-rcna55666

3 years ago

393 upvotes – 638 comments

Meta fires a software engineer two days after he relocated from India to Canada

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-employee-fired-two-days-after-moving-to-canada-post-2022-11

3 years ago

378 upvotes – 472 comments

Show HN: DivestOS – Long-term support for end-of-life Android devices

https://divestos.org

3 years ago

334 upvotes – 144 comments

“When we all have pocket telephones”

https://www.openculture.com/2022/08/when-we-all-have-pocket-telephones.html

3 years ago

334 upvotes – 202 comments

Proposed class action alleges that Apple tracks users despite privacy assurances

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/apple-hit-with-class-action-over-tracking-of-mobile-app-activity

3 years ago

333 upvotes – 191 comments

Amazon is said to plan to lay off thousands of employees

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/technology/amazon-layoffs.html

3 years ago

315 upvotes – 287 comments

Tell HN: Employers are not desperate to hire developers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33596779

3 years ago

311 upvotes – 361 comments

FTX collapse, Tether operations have links to online-poker cheating scandals

https://www.poker.org/ftx-collapse-tether-operations-have-links-to-infamous-online-poker-cheating-scandals/

3 years ago

311 upvotes – 326 comments

Scaling Mastodon is impossible

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2022/11/14/scaling-mastodon/

3 years ago

306 upvotes – 435 comments

Deno 1.28: Featuring 1.3M New Modules

https://deno.com/blog/v1.28

3 years ago

290 upvotes – 150 comments

Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

https://www.monicahq.com/

3 years ago

286 upvotes – 137 comments

Optimizations can have unexpectedly large effects when combined with caches

https://justinblank.com/notebooks/performanceoptimizationscanhaveunexpectedlylargeeffectswhencombinedwithcaches.html

3 years ago

282 upvotes – 115 comments

Mass of transactions leaving crypto.com wallets

https://thechainsaw.com/defi/crypto/mass-of-transactions-leaving-crypto-com-wallets/

3 years ago

281 upvotes – 328 comments

GitHub CTO – Biggest architectural mistake was going full microservice

https://twitter.com/jasoncwarner/status/1592227285024636928

3 years ago

263 upvotes – 85 comments

Starlink User Terminal Modchip

https://github.com/KULeuven-COSIC/Starlink-FI

3 years ago

255 upvotes – 100 comments

FTX fiasco sparks billions of dollars of outflows from exchanges

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-14/ftx-fiasco-sparks-billions-of-dollars-of-outflows-from-exchanges

3 years ago

249 upvotes – 186 comments

Withdrawals from BlockFi continue to be paused

https://blockfi.com/november-14-2022-blockfi-update

3 years ago

236 upvotes – 38 comments

Rust and C++ Interoperability

https://slint-ui.com/blog/rust-and-cpp.html

3 years ago

235 upvotes – 93 comments

Which face is real?

https://www.whichfaceisreal.com/index.php

3 years ago

235 upvotes – 181 comments

Eli Lilly pulls millions in Twitter advertising after fake account debacle

https://endpts.com/aa/GNCCE127YE96J7TZ/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1596%20-%20Eli%20Lilly%20reportedly%20halts%20Twitter%20ad%20spending%20after%20fake%20accounts%20Intellia%20touts%20new%20data%20from%20gene%20editing%20therapy%20Basic&utm_content=1596%20-%20Eli%20Lilly%20reportedly%20halts%20Twitter%20ad%20spending%20after%20fake%20accounts%20Intellia%20touts%20new%20data%20from%20gene%20editing%20therapy%20Basic+CID_0fa9b6fa9b5c73a2803c8bd50878620c&utm_source=ENDPOINTS%20emails&utm_term=Eli%20Lilly%20pulls%20millions%20in%20Twitter%20advertising%20after%20fake%20account%20debacle%20%20report

3 years ago

233 upvotes – 210 comments

Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1592209243331268608

3 years ago

229 upvotes – 180 comments

Open-source software vs. the proposed Cyber Resilience Act

https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/open-source-software-vs-the-cyber-resilience-act/

3 years ago

215 upvotes – 203 comments

Man ends 20-year Llandegley airport sign joke that cost £25k

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-63600184

3 years ago

204 upvotes – 76 comments

Lisp-stick on a Python

https://docs.hylang.org/en/stable/tutorial.html

3 years ago

198 upvotes – 159 comments

Wrap Up: Bicycle trip logistics

https://www.peterispedaling.com/blog/wrap-up-trip-logistics

3 years ago

190 upvotes – 99 comments

The plague of emoji insertion in French docs

https://bibelo.info/en/the-plague-of-emoji-in-docs/

3 years ago

185 upvotes – 203 comments

Chess, but moves are simultaneous

https://chess2.fun

3 years ago

183 upvotes – 109 comments

There was a stretch where phone design went bananas

https://twitter.com/gerrymcbride/status/1591907714208518145

3 years ago

174 upvotes – 119 comments

A new website backed by Al Gore tracks big polluters by name

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/13/1136376981/al-gore-climate-change

3 years ago

163 upvotes – 95 comments

Movie Maker mode in Godot 4.0

https://godotengine.org/article/movie-maker-mode-arrives-in-godot-4

3 years ago

160 upvotes – 8 comments

Kanaye Nagasawa: A samurai who changed California

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20221113-kanaye-nagasawa-the-samurai-who-forever-changed-california

3 years ago

154 upvotes – 79 comments

What You (Want to)* Want

http://paulgraham.com/want.html

3 years ago

150 upvotes – 179 comments

India unblocks VLC Player website videolan.org

https://twitter.com/internetfreedom/status/1592095634013949962

3 years ago

146 upvotes – 22 comments

Which one of these will be the biggest “unicorn” failure ever?

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2022/11/14/which-one-of-these-will-be-the-biggest-unicorn-failure-ever/

3 years ago

136 upvotes – 187 comments

Twenty questions is a weird game

https://aaronson.org/blog/twenty-questions

3 years ago

127 upvotes – 132 comments

Topology, a Categorical Approach (2020)

https://topology.mitpress.mit.edu/

3 years ago

123 upvotes – 45 comments

The rise of influencer capital

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/11/the-rise-of-influencer-capital.html

3 years ago

120 upvotes – 108 comments

Codeberg is moving and what this means to you

https://blog.codeberg.org/codeberg-is-moving-and-what-this-means-to-you.html

3 years ago

119 upvotes – 51 comments

Overview of the 555-XXXX phone number

https://lookify.io/blog/555-phone-number

3 years ago

115 upvotes – 96 comments

Borland Turbo Assembler Version 5 User's Guide (1996) [pdf]

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/borland/turbo_assembler/Turbo_Assembler_Version_5_Users_Guide.pdf

3 years ago

111 upvotes – 59 comments

The collapse of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fraud is looking quite spicy for journalism

https://twitter.com/hautepop/status/1591477455210283010

3 years ago

100 upvotes – 106 comments

Ask HN: How do I start feeling secure financially as a tech worker?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33591224

3 years ago

100 upvotes – 93 comments

Picolibc: C library designed for embedded 32- and 64- bit systems

https://github.com/picolibc/picolibc

3 years ago

93 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: Is there a cloud music library that doesn't keep deleting my music?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33595879

3 years ago

92 upvotes – 123 comments

I enjoy using the Nim programming language at Reddit

https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/yvbt4h/why_i_enjoy_using_the_nim_programming_language_at/

3 years ago

91 upvotes – 20 comments

Making of Mathematical Instruments

https://www.c82.net/blog/?id=90

3 years ago

89 upvotes – 4 comments

Ask HN: How can I report a financial fraud ring?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33595763

3 years ago

86 upvotes – 28 comments

Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List (2014) [pdf]

https://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 49 comments

Launch HN: Unthread (YC S22) – Customer support, entirely within Slack

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33593456

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 56 comments

Crypto Exchange AAX Halts Withdrawals, Says FTX Put Immense Pressure on Industry

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-14/crypto-exchange-aax-halts-withdrawals-says-normal-operations-7-10-days-away

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 2 comments

Spurious Splines

https://inconvergent.net/2016/spurious-splines/

3 years ago

76 upvotes – 14 comments

Paris overtakes London to become Europe’s biggest stock market

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/paris-london-stock-market-largest-europe-120718587.html

3 years ago

76 upvotes – 10 comments

Tesla rival Rivian posts losses of $1.7B, with worse to come

https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/10/rivian_q3_losses/

3 years ago

76 upvotes – 117 comments

Ask HN: Where to buy cheap but good quality glasses in Europe?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33592860

3 years ago

76 upvotes – 97 comments

He’s Fired

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592186302379982849

3 years ago

74 upvotes – 82 comments

The expenses of Queen Eleanor of Castile

https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2022/11/the-queens-expenses.html

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 12 comments

The Community Corrosive Effects of CLAs (2021)

https://blog.hansenpartnership.com/the-community-corrosive-effects-of-clas/

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 46 comments

ELIZA is Turing Complete

https://sites.google.com/view/elizagen-org/eliza-is-turing-complete

3 years ago

72 upvotes – 49 comments

The Rails Foundation kicks off with one million dollars

https://rubyonrails.org/2022/11/14/the-rails-foundation

3 years ago

71 upvotes – 7 comments

IBM LinuxONE Emperor 4 servers can reduce energy consumption by 75%

https://www.ibm.com/uk-en/products/linuxone-emperor-4

3 years ago

69 upvotes – 68 comments

Speed traps have no long-term effect on speeding: study

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2022/11/14/mdf2022-speed-traps-have-no-long-term-effect-on-speeding

3 years ago

69 upvotes – 129 comments

Education as civilization-building

https://fchollet.substack.com/p/education-as-civilization-building

3 years ago

69 upvotes – 65 comments

Narratives

https://stratechery.com/2022/narratives/

3 years ago

64 upvotes – 36 comments

Mystery of BBC radio's first broadcasts revealed 100 years on

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63583081

3 years ago

63 upvotes – 20 comments

J. Edgar Hoover, Public Enemy No. 1

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/21/j-edgar-hoover-public-enemy-no-1

3 years ago

62 upvotes – 21 comments

Spy agency uses 'computer network exploitation' to take digital information

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/478715/spy-agency-uses-computer-network-exploitation-to-take-digital-information

3 years ago

61 upvotes – 20 comments

Science fiction inspired by an HN thread (5 min read)

https://davidlaprade.github.io/your-dietbet-destroyed-the-world

3 years ago

59 upvotes – 20 comments

Less than 20% of Twitter's microservices are needed for it to work

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592177471654604800

3 years ago

57 upvotes – 36 comments
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