top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-11-15

Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client

https://engineering.fb.com/2022/11/15/open-source/sapling-source-control-scalable/

2 years ago

926 upvotes – 524 comments

I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

https://roberdam.com/en/wisper.html

2 years ago

788 upvotes – 397 comments

Digital books wear out faster than physical books

http://blog.archive.org/2022/11/15/digital-books-wear-out-faster-than-physical-books/

2 years ago

777 upvotes – 436 comments

Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station

https://floor796.com/

2 years ago

776 upvotes – 88 comments

Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended

https://posts.decontextualize.com/pocket-sp/

2 years ago

570 upvotes – 103 comments

Emergency SOS via satellite

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/11/emergency-sos-via-satellite-available-today-on-iphone-14-lineup/

2 years ago

567 upvotes – 464 comments

My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator

https://github.com/s-macke/FSHistory

2 years ago

555 upvotes – 142 comments

What Happened at Alameda Research

https://milkyeggs.com/?p=175

2 years ago

475 upvotes – 408 comments

Wikipedians are rebelling against “unethical” Wikipedia fundraising banners

https://twitter.com/wikiland/status/1592477366739415040

2 years ago

451 upvotes – 370 comments

Why do we call it “boilerplate code?”

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/why-do-we-call-it-boilerplate-code/

2 years ago

422 upvotes – 97 comments

Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta)

https://galactica.org/

2 years ago

409 upvotes – 357 comments

All companies are fucked up

https://jonpauluritis.com/articles/all-companies-are-fucked-up/

2 years ago

385 upvotes – 124 comments

FTX was registered with and licensed by the CFTC, which failed to regulate FTX

https://bettermarkets.org/newsroom/ftx-was-registered-with-and-licensed-by-the-cftc-which-failed-to-properly-regulate-or-supervise-it-and-its-innumerable-former-cftc-officials/

2 years ago

383 upvotes – 251 comments

Electric ferry uses a long extension cord [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYqCWxdM4ww

2 years ago

338 upvotes – 224 comments

The positive effect of walking on creative thinking (2014) [pdf]

https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xlm-a0036577.pdf

2 years ago

330 upvotes – 168 comments

'Be' is nice, end of story

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/be-is-nice-end-of-story

2 years ago

313 upvotes – 179 comments

The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads

https://paullukas.substack.com/p/exclusive-the-inside-story-of-why

2 years ago

291 upvotes – 226 comments

U.S. fines airlines more than $7M for not providing refunds

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/business/transportation-department-airline-fines.html

2 years ago

275 upvotes – 230 comments

Vast Majority of People Who Invest in Bitcoin Inevitably Lose Money, Study Shows

https://gizmodo.com/bitcoin-crypto-bank-of-international-settlements-1849784466

2 years ago

262 upvotes – 258 comments

FTX Owes Money to More Than a Million People, Court Filing Suggests

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgpnvg/ftx-owes-money-to-more-than-a-million-people-court-filing-suggests

2 years ago

232 upvotes – 176 comments
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