top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-11-17

Apple Rankings

https://applerankings.com/

3 years ago

1017 upvotes – 463 comments

Z-library founders arrested in Argentina

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/two-russian-nationals-charged-running-massive-e-book-piracy-website

3 years ago

581 upvotes – 471 comments

FTX used corporate funds to purchase employee homes, new filing shows

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/17/ftx-used-corporate-funds-to-purchase-employee-homes-new-filing-shows.html

3 years ago

420 upvotes – 425 comments

Air Force, FBI raid homes in probe of Area 51 website

https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/military/air-force-fbi-raid-homes-in-probe-of-area-51-website-2677764/

3 years ago

336 upvotes – 417 comments

Crypto dominoes fall in the wake of FTX's collapse

https://www.axios.com/2022/11/17/crypto-dominoes-ftx-collapse-winklevoss-gemini-blockfi

3 years ago

300 upvotes – 409 comments

How friendships change in adulthood

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/10/how-friendships-change-over-time-in-adulthood/411466/

3 years ago

288 upvotes – 254 comments

The Unison language – a new approach to Distributed programming

https://www.unison-lang.org/

3 years ago

280 upvotes – 113 comments

Show HN: I am building a new Python library to read/write PDF files

https://github.com/desgeeko/pdfsyntax

3 years ago

279 upvotes – 121 comments

Demystifying Fourier analysis

https://dsego.github.io/demystifying-fourier/

3 years ago

279 upvotes – 60 comments

A secret Apple Silicon extension to accommodate an Intel 8080 artifact

https://bytecellar.com/2022/11/16/a-secret-apple-silicon-extension-to-accommodate-an-intel-8080-artifact/

3 years ago

269 upvotes – 140 comments

Discord fined €800k for failing to comply with several obligations of the GDPR

https://www.cnil.fr/en/discord-inc-fined-800-000-euros

3 years ago

260 upvotes – 285 comments

Is 40 hours a week too much?

https://www.okta.com/au/identity-101/40-hour-work-week/

3 years ago

259 upvotes – 220 comments

Show HN: I finished my site for daily dogbunny puzzles, as I promised on HN

https://dogbunnypuzzle.com/

3 years ago

244 upvotes – 53 comments

Is Rust stack-efficient yet?

https://arewestackefficientyet.com/

3 years ago

241 upvotes – 106 comments

Hardening unused (sub)domains

https://www.mailhardener.com/kb/hardening-unused-domains

3 years ago

239 upvotes – 28 comments

ASX drops plan to replace CHESS with blockchain, writes off AUD $250M

https://insideadviser.com.au/asx-drops-plan-to-replace-chess-with-blockchain-writes-off-250m/

3 years ago

225 upvotes – 185 comments

Show HN: Tweek Calendar – A minimal weekly planner and to-do list

https://tweek.so

3 years ago

222 upvotes – 81 comments

Improving code review time

https://engineering.fb.com/2022/11/16/culture/meta-code-review-time-improving/

3 years ago

216 upvotes – 219 comments

Awesome Node-Based UIs

https://github.com/wbkd/awesome-node-based-uis

3 years ago

194 upvotes – 68 comments

APL deserves its renaissance too (2018)

https://wordsandbuttons.online/apl_deserves_its_renaissance_too.html

3 years ago

192 upvotes – 219 comments

Ask HN: Good resource on writing web app with plain JavaScript/HTML/CSS?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33635218

3 years ago

185 upvotes – 193 comments

TurboWarp Desktop

https://desktop.turbowarp.org/

3 years ago

183 upvotes – 43 comments

99Wh Battery Linux Laptop

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-InfinityBook-Pro-14-Gen7.tuxedo

3 years ago

181 upvotes – 232 comments

GitHub Copilot isn't worth the risk

https://www.kolide.com/blog/github-copilot-isn-t-worth-the-risk

3 years ago

179 upvotes – 204 comments

Estonia: Become an E-Resident

https://www.e-resident.gov.ee/become-an-e-resident/

3 years ago

174 upvotes – 214 comments

Aerobic exercise can reduce the risk of metastatic cancer in mice: study

https://english.tau.ac.il/exercise_defeats_cancer_2022

3 years ago

172 upvotes – 106 comments

HTML is all you need to make a website

https://whitep4nth3r.com/blog/html-is-all-you-need-to-make-a-website/

3 years ago

172 upvotes – 153 comments

Is this the end of crypto?

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/11/17/is-this-the-end-of-crypto

3 years ago

164 upvotes – 430 comments

What not to say to someone who has just been laid off

https://sifted.eu/articles/what-not-to-say-layoff/

3 years ago

164 upvotes – 155 comments

Security concerns with the e-Tugra certificate authority

https://ian.sh/etugra

3 years ago

159 upvotes – 94 comments

Bethesda issues statement to Mick Gordon

https://twitter.com/bethesda/status/1592971214817222656

3 years ago

148 upvotes – 86 comments

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says layoffs will continue into next year

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/17/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-says-layoffs-will-continue-into-next-year.html

3 years ago

146 upvotes – 168 comments

Mighty Retrospective

http://blog.chaselambda.com/2022/10/28/mighty-shutting-down.html

3 years ago

138 upvotes – 98 comments

The near future of AI is action-driven

https://jmcdonnell.substack.com/p/the-near-future-of-ai-is-action-driven

3 years ago

132 upvotes – 68 comments

Binance Says Deposits of USDC (Sol)+USDT (Sol) Have Been Temporarily Suspended

https://twitter.com/deitaone/status/1593223502160875523

3 years ago

126 upvotes – 47 comments

Migrating 1 terabyte of files from OneDrive to Nextcloud

https://herrherrmann.net/migrating-1-terabyte-of-files-from-onedrive-to-nextcloud/

3 years ago

122 upvotes – 141 comments

Resources for microtonal music

https://sevish.com/music-resources/

3 years ago

119 upvotes – 50 comments

Cisco Reportedly Lays Off over 4k

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2022/11/17/cisco-reportedly-lays-off-over-4000-here-are-the-biggest-us-job-cuts-this-year/

3 years ago

119 upvotes – 41 comments

Ask HN: Why is it so hard to disrupt Ticketmaster?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33639860

3 years ago

117 upvotes – 122 comments

Plants use their epigenetic memories to adapt to climate change

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/11/221117135539.htm

3 years ago

113 upvotes – 28 comments

Launch HN: Dots (YC S21) – Bot Builder for Discord

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33641655

3 years ago

112 upvotes – 34 comments

Ask HN: What's a good business model for selling standalone software?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33645489

3 years ago

112 upvotes – 73 comments

Carolynn Levy, Inventor of the SAFE

https://meridian.mercury.com/carolynn-levy

3 years ago

112 upvotes – 24 comments

Easy Interfaces with Zig 0.10

https://zig.news/kristoff/easy-interfaces-with-zig-0100-2hc5

3 years ago

110 upvotes – 71 comments

You Don't Need HTML

https://no-ht.ml/

3 years ago

105 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: I built a goal-oriented task manager

https://plocs.com

3 years ago

104 upvotes – 46 comments

Ask HN: (Solved) We are sorry, but you do not have access to Gmail

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33637519

3 years ago

100 upvotes – 44 comments

Swinging back to open standards

https://puri.sm/posts/swinging-back-to-open-standards/

3 years ago

97 upvotes – 45 comments

LibreOffice blogs about Blockchain, locks comments after negative user feedback

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2022/11/15/libreoffice-and-blockchain-what-cool-things-are-possible/

3 years ago

96 upvotes – 150 comments

Banks and hospitals are cashing in when patients can't pay for health care

https://text.npr.org/1136201685

3 years ago

96 upvotes – 100 comments

Bankman-Fried and FTX Execs Received $4.1B in Personal Loans from Alameda

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2022/11/17/sam-bankman-fried-and-three-ftx-executives-received-41-billion-of-loans-from-alameda-research-where-did-the-money-come-from-and-where-did-it-go/

3 years ago

91 upvotes – 61 comments

Show HN: SingleFile is finally available on Safari (macOS/iOS)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/singlefile-for-safari/id6444322545

3 years ago

91 upvotes – 50 comments

Ubuntu's settings won't open after setting CPU to 'performance'

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/ubuntus-settings-wont-open-after-setting-cpu-performance

3 years ago

88 upvotes – 102 comments

Styling form states without JavaScript

https://webkit.org/blog/13096/css-has-pseudo-class/#styling-form-states-without-js

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 35 comments

Israel deploys remote-controlled robotic guns

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/israel-deploys-remote-controlled-robotic-guns-west-bank-93392154

3 years ago

86 upvotes – 79 comments

Processor Design: An Introduction (1998)

http://www.gamezero.com/team-0/articles/math_magic/micro/

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 14 comments

Cybernetics A to Z (1974)

https://archive.org/details/pekelis-cybernetics-a-z-mir-1974

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 17 comments

Google and Amazon Helped the FBI Identify Z-Library’s Operators

https://torrentfreak.com/how-google-and-amazon-helped-the-fbi-identify-z-librarys-operators-221117/

3 years ago

80 upvotes – 31 comments

Gravedigging 101

https://burialsandbeyond.com/2018/05/02/gravedigging-101/

3 years ago

79 upvotes – 49 comments

Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account into a $5B Tax-Free Piggy Bank (2021)

https://www.propublica.org/article/lord-of-the-roths-how-tech-mogul-peter-thiel-turned-a-retirement-account-for-the-middle-class-into-a-5-billion-dollar-tax-free-piggy-bank

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 120 comments

Effective Altruism and Its Future

https://eigenrobot.substack.com/p/effective-altruism-and-its-future

3 years ago

75 upvotes – 60 comments

Twitter's engineering workforce could be down by 90%

https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1593345748086788098

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 69 comments

How to get your backup to half of its size – ZSTD support

https://www.percona.com/blog/get-your-backup-to-half-of-its-size-introducing-zstd-support-in-percona-xtrabackup/

3 years ago

72 upvotes – 51 comments

Twitter: From my larger group of 50, 10 are staying, 40 are taking the severance

https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1593336525898530821

3 years ago

71 upvotes – 27 comments

Don't trust your business with Linode

https://twitter.com/moonscript/status/1593055417126752257

3 years ago

71 upvotes – 25 comments

Languages Pre-Fortran

https://craftofcoding.wordpress.com/2022/11/04/languages-pre-fortran/

3 years ago

71 upvotes – 24 comments

“Elon Musk does not have a BS in Physics”

https://twitter.com/capitolhunters/status/1593307541932474368

3 years ago

70 upvotes – 19 comments

Z-Library Was a Lifeline for Students on Shoestring Budgets

https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/z-library-pirated-books-papers-school-tor.html

3 years ago

64 upvotes – 12 comments

Is novel research worth doing? Evidence from peer review

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2118046119

3 years ago

63 upvotes – 53 comments

Ask HN: Does GDPR and CCPA Apply to Hacker News?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33644336

3 years ago

62 upvotes – 89 comments

The Little Cards That Tell Police 'Let's Forget This Ever Happened' (2020)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7gxa4/pba-card-police-courtesy-cards

3 years ago

61 upvotes – 43 comments

Is hacker “news” a lot less about hacker and more about news?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33645685

3 years ago

58 upvotes – 45 comments

Zotero 7 for Developers

https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/zotero_7_for_developers

3 years ago

56 upvotes – 5 comments

Silicon Valley layoffs aren’t a cost-cutting measure. They’re a culture reset

https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/11/17/23463164/silicon-valley-layoffs-tech-boom-over

3 years ago

55 upvotes – 65 comments
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