top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-11-16

Two weeks of dealing with Google as a developer

https://danfitdegree.hashnode.dev/nothing-has-ever-angered-me-more-than-the-google-play-team

3 years ago

Robot treats 500k plants per hour with 95% less chemicals [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV0cR_Nhac0

3 years ago

Mom handcuffed, jailed for 8-year-old son walking half a mile

https://reason.com/2022/11/16/suburban-mom-jailed-handcuffed-cps-son-walk-home/

3 years ago

Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to identify leaks

https://twitter.com/pnikosis/status/1592823543498436611

3 years ago

Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPI for over a year

https://tomforb.es/infosys-leaked-fulladminaccess-aws-keys-on-pypi-for-over-a-year/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Alternative ways to make money with coding and system skills?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33619650

3 years ago

What’s so great about functional programming anyway?

https://jrsinclair.com/articles/2022/whats-so-great-about-functional-programming-anyway/

3 years ago

Laying myself off from Amazon

https://daniel.do/article/laying-myself-off-from-amazon/

3 years ago

Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons

https://evernote.com/blog/evernote-next-move-joining-bending-spoons/

3 years ago

Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-cryptocurrency-effective-altruism-crypto-bahamas-philanthropy

3 years ago

Notion AI – waiting list signup

https://www.notion.so/ai

3 years ago

Legoland bond crisis threatens South Korea's economy

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/11/10/legoland-south-korea-bond-market-crisis/

3 years ago

Psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01100/full

3 years ago

AI found a bug in my code

https://joel.tools/codegen/

3 years ago

Seven Levels of Busy

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-seven-levels-of-busy/

3 years ago

NASA – Artemis I Liftoff

https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/11/16/artemis-i-liftoff/

3 years ago

CPSC calls for full recall of all Onewheel self-balancing electric skateboards

https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2023/CPSC-Warns-Consumers-to-Stop-Using-Onewheel-Self-Balancing-Electric-Skateboards-Due-to-Ejection-Hazard-At-Least-Four-Deaths-and-Multiple-Injuries-Reported

3 years ago

Python 3.12.0 is to remove long-deprecated items

https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-12-0-alpha-2-released/21087

3 years ago

Ask HN: Anyone go through Montessori education until age 12 (end of grade 6)?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33622295

3 years ago

Who needs MLflow when you have SQLite?

https://ploomber.io/blog/experiment-tracking/

3 years ago

Amazon’s distributed computing manifesto (1998)

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2022/11/amazon-1998-distributed-computing-manifesto.html

3 years ago

Memento mori

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

3 years ago

Building a private LoRa network (2017)

https://os.mbed.com/docs/mbed-os/v6.15/apis/LoRa-tutorial.html

3 years ago

An undersea art gallery that ensnares illegal trawlers

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/underwater-sculptures-stopping-trawling

3 years ago

Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners

https://www.maria.cloud/

3 years ago

Amazon confirms corporate staff cuts that could hit 10k employees

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-cut-10-000-employees-from-corporate-ranks-11668617313

3 years ago

KDE beats macOS

https://old.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/yvxz2l/kde_beats_macos_hands_down/

3 years ago

Genesis' Crypto-Lending Unit Is Suspending Withdrawals in Wake of FTX Collapse

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/16/genesis-crypto-lending-unit-is-halting-customer-withdrawals-in-wake-of-ftx-collapse/

3 years ago

Windows Subsystem For Linux a.k.a. WSL 1.0.0 released

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/releases/tag/1.0.0

3 years ago

Reconstructing images a person sees via non-invasive brain scans

https://mind-vis.github.io/

3 years ago

Show HN: Pomodoro with friends

https://pomochat.com

3 years ago

Companies ran an experiment: Pay workers their full salary to work fewer days

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/11/15/1136039542/these-companies-ran-an-experiment-pay-workers-their-full-salary-to-work-fewer-da

3 years ago

Overhyping hydrogen as a fuel

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03693-6

3 years ago

How did Cole factor 2^67−1 in 1903?

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/207321/how-did-cole-factor-267-1-in-1903

3 years ago

Amazon staff laid off as tech giants cut costs, according to LinkedIn posts

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63631877

3 years ago

FTX's collapse strands scientists

https://www.science.org/content/article/crypto-company-s-collapse-strands-scientists

3 years ago

But, aren't you folks web2?

https://nadh.in/blog/web2-web3/

3 years ago

ZX Spectrum BASIC programming (1983)

https://worldofspectrum.net/ZXBasicManual/index.html

3 years ago

Why Evernote failed to realize its potential (2021)

https://nira.com/evernote-history/

3 years ago

Bottomless, consumption-based storage for PostgreSQL built on Amazon S3

https://www.timescale.com/blog/expanding-the-boundaries-of-postgresql-announcing-a-bottomless-consumption-based-object-storage-layer-built-on-amazon-s3/

3 years ago

Nokia and Airbus elected as judges at the UPC, an unheard corruption of Justice

https://ffii.org/nokia-and-airbus-elected-as-judges-at-the-kangaroo-unified-patent-court-kupc/

3 years ago

Tell HN: Facebook Messenger is testing in-call video ads

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33629900

3 years ago

Asami: A flexible graph store in Clojure

https://github.com/quoll/asami

3 years ago

Tell HN: As a dev, Slack has ruined my life

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33629778

3 years ago

Enso: Hybrid visual and textual functional programming

https://github.com/enso-org/enso

3 years ago

A small fleet of CubeStats joins three mannequins, fungus, algae on Artemis-1

https://spectrum.ieee.org/nasa-artemis-science

3 years ago

SQLite Release 3.40.0

https://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_40_0.html

3 years ago

Hand of Irulegi: ancient artefact could help trace origins of Basque language

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/15/hand-of-irulegi-ancient-spanish-artefact-rewrites-history-of-basque-language

3 years ago

EVs are the least reliable vehicle type: Consumer Reports

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/evs-least-reliable-vehicle-type-214225842.html

3 years ago

Why is the terminal input so weird?

https://www.warp.dev/blog/why-is-the-terminal-input-so-weird

3 years ago

Elon Musk gives Twitter staff deadline to commit to being ‘hardcore’

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/16/elon-musk-gives-twitter-staff-deadline-to-commit-to-being-hardcore

3 years ago

Elon Musk tells Twitter staff to work long hours or leave

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63648505

3 years ago

The fall of Sam Bankman-Fried is crypto’s Enron moment

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/sam-bankman-fried-crypto-enron-moment/

3 years ago

Show HN: I built a tool to get instant test results

https://github.com/nabaz-io/nabaz

3 years ago

Liblithium: A lightweight and portable cryptography library

https://github.com/teslamotors/liblithium

3 years ago

Requirements for Japanese Text Layout

https://www.w3.org/TR/jlreq/

3 years ago

More evidence for problems in VM warmup

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2022/more_evidence_for_problems_in_vm_warmup.html

3 years ago

Fastmail is down

https://www.fastmailstatus.com/

3 years ago

Deliveroo is leaving Australia

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-16/deliveroo-enters-voluntary-administration/101661932

3 years ago

Friendship Forever

https://www.secretorum.life/p/friendship-forever

3 years ago

Ask HN: How I get a job that uses C?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33626049

3 years ago

Clear snow the laziest way

https://www.instructables.com/Clear-Snow-the-Laziest-Way-Imaginable/

3 years ago

Perl on Rails (2007)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2007/11/perl_on_rails.shtml

3 years ago

Economist Nouriel Roubini Calls Binance CEO a “Walking Time Bomb”

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/16/crypto-an-ecosystem-that-is-totally-corrupt-says-nouriel-roubini-.html

3 years ago

Ask HN: Would You Work for Elon?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33622364

3 years ago

Cracking Passwords Using John the Ripper

https://stealthsecurity.io/cracking-passwords-using-john-the-ripper-977943d7ab38

3 years ago

Nvidia Earning Results Q3 2023

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-third-quarter-fiscal-2023

3 years ago

Gemini Freezes Earn Withdrawals

https://www.gemini.com/blog/an-important-message-regarding-gemini-earn

3 years ago

GPS does not account for leap seconds (2002)

http://leapsecond.com/java/gpsclock.htm

3 years ago

Spaceport Cornwall awarded licence to host UK’s first space launch

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/16/spaceport-cornwall-awarded-licence-to-host-uk-first-space-launch-richard-branson

3 years ago