top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-01-30

Automerge 2.0

https://automerge.org/blog/automerge-2/

3 years ago

717 upvotes – 89 comments

Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34579175

3 years ago

691 upvotes – 1832 comments

Google exec fired after female boss groped him at drunken bash, suit says

https://nypost.com/2023/01/28/google-exec-fired-after-female-boss-groped-him-at-drunken-bash/

3 years ago

479 upvotes – 485 comments

SQL should be the default choice for data transformation logic

https://www.robinlinacre.com/recommend_sql/

3 years ago

434 upvotes – 267 comments

Over the past 21 months I’ve written a code editor from the ground up

https://edita.vercel.app/blog/approach/

3 years ago

410 upvotes – 136 comments

Cargo airships could be big

https://www.elidourado.com/p/cargo-airships

3 years ago

389 upvotes – 374 comments

Rewrite it in Rust

https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/9512

3 years ago

375 upvotes – 464 comments

The benefits of everything being a buffer in Emacs

https://mbork.pl/2023-01-30_The_benefits_of_everything_being_a_buffer

3 years ago

375 upvotes – 197 comments

How likely is losing a Google account?

https://www.jefftk.com/p/how-likely-is-losing-a-google-account

3 years ago

333 upvotes – 297 comments

Big Tech is using layoffs to crush worker power

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-01-30/column-how-big-tech-is-using-mass-layoffs-to-bring-workers-to-heel

3 years ago

321 upvotes – 451 comments

Story Structure 101: Super Basic Shit

https://channel101.fandom.com/wiki/Story_Structure_101:_Super_Basic_Shit

3 years ago

298 upvotes – 147 comments

Yandex ‘leak’ reveals search ranking factors

https://searchengineland.com/yandex-search-ranking-factors-leak-392323

3 years ago

278 upvotes – 90 comments

Firefighters forced to smash window of driverless Cruise taxi to stop it

https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-firefighters-smashed-window-driverless-cruise-taxi-stop-it-2023-1

3 years ago

266 upvotes – 320 comments

Ask HN: Do you use JSON Schema? Help us shape its future stability guarantees

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34587360

3 years ago

263 upvotes – 172 comments

Insulation: First the body, then the home (2011)

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/02/body-insulation-thermal-underwear.html

3 years ago

263 upvotes – 304 comments

Git archive checksums may change

https://github.blog/changelog/2023-01-30-git-archive-checksums-may-change/

3 years ago

245 upvotes – 240 comments

PageRank algorithm for graph databases

https://memgraph.com/blog/pagerank-algorithm-for-graph-databases

3 years ago

241 upvotes – 39 comments

Ask HN: Disabled and out of work for years, but need some side income

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34578347

3 years ago

237 upvotes – 206 comments

J&J can’t use bankruptcy to resolve talc-injury lawsuits, appeals court rules

https://www.wsj.com/articles/j-js-talc-bankruptcy-case-thrown-out-by-appeals-court-11675096308

3 years ago

235 upvotes – 255 comments

Google Play Developer Antitrust Litigation

https://www.googleplaydevelopersettlement.com

3 years ago

229 upvotes – 128 comments

Ask HN: LinkedIn sent me a cease and desist for my Chrome extension. Help?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34583932

3 years ago

225 upvotes – 146 comments

Sh1mmer – An exploit capable of unenrolling enterprise-managed Chromebooks

https://sh1mmer.me

3 years ago

223 upvotes – 192 comments

WebAssembly: Adding Python support to WASM language runtimes

https://wasmlabs.dev/articles/python-wasm32-wasi/

3 years ago

216 upvotes – 86 comments

I made a website for lonely people, and got >100 people to log their locations

https://www.lonelyworld.info/

3 years ago

216 upvotes – 129 comments

U.S. No Fly list publicly shared on a hacking forum, government investigating

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-no-fly-list-shared-on-a-hacking-forum-government-investigating/

3 years ago

208 upvotes – 252 comments

Burning a NeXTCube (1993)

https://simson.net/ref/1993/cubefire.html

3 years ago

200 upvotes – 70 comments

10TB portable SSDs on Amazon UK are scams

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=portable+ssd+10tb&crid=3B5JCJDW98CMX&sprefix=portable+ssd+10tb%2Caps%2C149&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

3 years ago

197 upvotes – 177 comments

Where our gasoline comes from

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/gasoline/where-our-gasoline-comes-from.php

3 years ago

196 upvotes – 161 comments

TigerBeetle raises $6.4M to power the future of financial accounting infra

https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2023-01-30-series-seed-announcement/

3 years ago

194 upvotes – 55 comments

A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code (2020)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07966

3 years ago

189 upvotes – 49 comments

Foundations of Data Science (2018) [pdf]

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/jeh/book.pdf?file=book.pdf

3 years ago

177 upvotes – 30 comments

Amazon to sell Bay Area office complex as sales growth cools

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/amazon-to-sell-bay-area-office-complex-as-sales-growth-cools/ar-AA16M4Pp

3 years ago

169 upvotes – 246 comments

Ask HN: Why does every package+module system become a Rube Goldberg machine?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34577844

3 years ago

164 upvotes – 213 comments

Berkeley Mono Ligatures Release

https://berkeleygraphics.com/public-affairs/bulletins/BT-002/

3 years ago

158 upvotes – 92 comments

Contiki – OS for networked, memory-constrained systems

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

3 years ago

155 upvotes – 28 comments

Löb and möb: strange loops in Haskell (2015)

https://github.com/quchen/articles/blob/master/loeb-moeb.md

3 years ago

153 upvotes – 60 comments

Train CIFAR10 to 94% in under 10 seconds on a single A100

https://github.com/tysam-code/hlb-CIFAR10

3 years ago

151 upvotes – 50 comments

Light from an ionized state of helium in a distant galaxy

https://www.quantamagazine.org/astronomers-say-they-have-spotted-the-universes-first-stars-20230130/

3 years ago

151 upvotes – 121 comments

FYI: LLVM-project repo has exceeded GitHub upload size limit (2022)

https://discourse.llvm.org/t/fyi-llvm-project-repo-has-exceeded-github-upload-size-limit/63293

3 years ago

147 upvotes – 78 comments

New Distro 'BlendOS' Combines Arch Linux, Fedora Linux and Ubuntu

https://blendos.co/

3 years ago

142 upvotes – 100 comments

WAN router IP address change blamed for global Microsoft 365 outage

https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/30/wan_router_ip_address_change/

3 years ago

139 upvotes – 67 comments

Show HN: ELI5 Powered by GPT-3

https://eli5.gg

3 years ago

134 upvotes – 133 comments

TUI calculator for programmers working close to the bits

https://github.com/alt-romes/programmer-calculator

3 years ago

127 upvotes – 36 comments

How to find your blind spots

https://www.zeptonaut.com/posts/find-your-blind-spots/

3 years ago

119 upvotes – 24 comments

Aicracy – Governed by Algorithms

https://www.aicracy.net

3 years ago

117 upvotes – 100 comments

UK Online Safety Bill threatens encryption, secure communication, and reporting

https://cpj.org/2023/01/how-uk-online-safety-bill-threatens-encryption-secure-communication-and-reporting-on-migration/

3 years ago

114 upvotes – 25 comments

The Parallel Port

https://computer.rip/2023-01-29-the-parallel-port.html

3 years ago

108 upvotes – 73 comments

Electrify America “fries” EVs at charging stations

https://www.teslarati.com/rivian-ford-chevy-fried-electrify-america-video/

3 years ago

102 upvotes – 150 comments

Ask HN: Did improving conversation and listening skills win you anything big?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34576976

3 years ago

101 upvotes – 94 comments

The free money machine that went into reverse: Grayscale Bitcoin Trust

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/grayscale-bitcoin-trust-the-free

3 years ago

100 upvotes – 47 comments

FCC proposes $504k fine for broadcaster's misuse of Emergency Alert System tones

https://www.insideradio.com/free/fox-sports-admits-it-used-fake-eas-tones-on-radio-as-well-as-tv/article_6b18d2f0-9e1c-11ed-ab28-c7b167cea819.html

3 years ago

100 upvotes – 115 comments

Analog computing may be coming back

https://bellmar.medium.com/guess-what-analog-computing-may-be-coming-back-280f8c0329a8

3 years ago

99 upvotes – 84 comments

The high cost of expensive housing and how Auckland fixed it

https://brettongoods.substack.com/p/the-high-cost-of-expensive-housing

3 years ago

95 upvotes – 126 comments

The Mathematical Center of the Universe (2021)

https://www.privatdozent.co/p/the-mathematical-center-of-the-universe-28f

3 years ago

88 upvotes – 11 comments

My Controversial Opinion: Ventura Is Apple’s Worst macOS Yet

https://medium.com/@aplaceofmind/ventura-is-not-macos-its-macios-1d00f12fa01e

3 years ago

88 upvotes – 137 comments

SimulaVR FPGA Image Processing Pipeline

https://simulavr.com/blog/fpga-image-processing-pipeline/

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 21 comments

Hypertext Emacs: You may not need org-mode

http://bjornwestergard.com/log/2022-04-19-hypertext-emacs.gmi

3 years ago

85 upvotes – 33 comments

Steering wheel falls off a new Tesla Y while driving on a highway

https://twitter.com/preneh24/status/1619889507133976580

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 88 comments

Ask HN: What's your approach to raising kids?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34577487

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 99 comments

Metal Without Mining

https://magratheametals.com

3 years ago

80 upvotes – 75 comments

An Update on Leap Seconds (2022)

https://dotat.at/@/2022-12-04-leap-seconds.html

3 years ago

80 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: Asdf Clone Written in Rust

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34583080

3 years ago

79 upvotes – 35 comments

Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf breaks

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150880/antarcticas-brunt-ice-shelf-finally-breaks

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 16 comments

Philips Plans 6000 Job Cuts; Sees Growth in FY25, Beyond

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/philips-plans-6000-job-cuts-sees-growth-in-fy25-beyond

3 years ago

76 upvotes – 41 comments

On “I don't trust microcode” (2021)

https://patrick.georgi.family/2021/02/13/on-microcode/

3 years ago

75 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: Deploy Button for GPT-3 API Back Ends

https://www.steamship.com/build/prompt-apis

3 years ago

75 upvotes – 23 comments

Proving Earth is a globe

https://mctoon.net/interesting/

3 years ago

74 upvotes – 92 comments

A Midcentury Bender: Revisiting Mad Men

https://theamericanscholar.org/a-midcentury-bender/

3 years ago

74 upvotes – 95 comments
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