top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-06-16

Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14aeq5j/new_admin_post_if_a_moderator_team_unanimously/

3 years ago

1776 upvotes – 1060 comments

Full Time

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/83_full_time/

3 years ago

932 upvotes – 148 comments

Pricing Money: A beginner's guide to money, bonds, futures and swaps

http://www.jdawiseman.com/books/pricing-money/Pricing_Money_JDAWiseman.html

3 years ago

866 upvotes – 306 comments

Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/34112/Heads-up-Reddit-is-quietly-restoring-deleted-AND-overwritten-posts-and

3 years ago

790 upvotes – 554 comments

Reddit App – Suspicious high number of recent 5 star, one word reviews

https://old.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/14at885/the_reddit_app_has_a_suspiciously_high_number_of/

3 years ago

781 upvotes – 353 comments

Daniel Ellsberg has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/16/us/daniel-ellsberg-dead.html

3 years ago

755 upvotes – 297 comments

European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries

https://www.techspot.com/news/99102-european-union-votes-bring-back-replaceable-phone-batteries.html

3 years ago

729 upvotes – 606 comments

The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/16/23763538/reddit-blackout-api-protest-mod-replacement-threat

3 years ago

583 upvotes – 458 comments

Louis Rossmann calls community to leave Reddit

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

3 years ago

565 upvotes – 347 comments

Show HN: 77 Year old launches SaaS platform today. Seeks feedback

https://propbox.co

3 years ago

520 upvotes – 273 comments

DevOps Is Bullshit (2022)

https://blog.massdriver.cloud/posts/devops-is-bullshit/

3 years ago

449 upvotes – 278 comments

Illinois prohibits weapons, facial recognition on police drones

https://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=&SessionId=112&GA=103&DocTypeId=HB&DocNum=3902&GAID=17&LegID=149171&SpecSess=&Session=

3 years ago

447 upvotes – 244 comments

Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly linked to earthquakes

https://www.earth.com/news/breakthrough-surges-of-cosmic-radiation-from-space-directly-linked-to-earthquakes/

3 years ago

403 upvotes – 219 comments

Two years of teaching high school CS

https://blog.charliemeyer.co/what-i-learned-from-two-years-of-teaching-high-school-cs/

3 years ago

377 upvotes – 247 comments

Show HN: I made an open-source Notion-style WYSYWIG editor

https://novel.sh/

3 years ago

370 upvotes – 133 comments

Subreddit Migration Directory

https://redditmigration.com

3 years ago

363 upvotes – 137 comments

John Carmack on shorter work weeks (2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10845832

3 years ago

313 upvotes – 436 comments

Metformin shown to prevent long Covid

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/common-diabetes-drug-shown-prevent-long-covid

3 years ago

307 upvotes – 177 comments

Annoying A/B testing mistakes

https://posthog.com/blog/ab-testing-mistakes

3 years ago

292 upvotes – 149 comments

Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout

https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-ceo-will-change-rules-to-make-mods-less-powerful-2023-6

3 years ago

290 upvotes – 426 comments

Probability and Markets [pdf]

https://www.janestreet.com/static/pdfs/trading-interview.pdf

3 years ago

289 upvotes – 72 comments

FBI groomed a 16-year-old with “brain development issues” to become a terrorist

https://theintercept.com/2023/06/15/fbi-undercover-isis-teenager-terrorist/

3 years ago

288 upvotes – 98 comments

Gyroflow: An open source advanced gyro-based video stabilization tool

http://gyroflow.xyz/

3 years ago

283 upvotes – 38 comments

Squarespace Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire Google Domains Assets

https://newsroom.squarespace.com/blog/googledomains

3 years ago

267 upvotes – 6 comments

Generating Income from Open Source

https://vadimdemedes.com/posts/generating-income-from-open-source

3 years ago

254 upvotes – 119 comments

RIF developer counters Reddit CEO’s claims

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/16/23763661/reddit-rif-is-fun-developer-ceo-steve-huffman

3 years ago

235 upvotes – 64 comments

Ask HN: What do you put in a “in case of death” file?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36364182

3 years ago

234 upvotes – 139 comments

Meta's plan to offer free commercial AI models puts pressure on Google, OpenAI

https://www.artisana.ai/articles/metas-plan-to-offer-free-commercial-ai-models-puts-pressure-on-google-and

3 years ago

222 upvotes – 75 comments

Reddit CEO lashes out on protests, moderators and third-party apps

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/16/reddit-ceo-lashes-out-on-protests-moderators-and-third-party-apps/

3 years ago

218 upvotes – 142 comments

Every Louisiana driver's license holder exposed in cyberattack

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/16/louisiana-drivers-license-hack-cyber-attack

3 years ago

215 upvotes – 103 comments

Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer with colorized output

https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl

3 years ago

212 upvotes – 89 comments

100 Days of SwiftUI

https://www.hackingwithswift.com/100/swiftui

3 years ago

210 upvotes – 106 comments

Learnings from kCTF VRP's 42 Linux kernel exploits submissions

https://security.googleblog.com/2023/06/learnings-from-kctf-vrps-42-linux.html

3 years ago

206 upvotes – 92 comments

Measuring blood pressure for less than a dollar using a phone

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/06/ultra-low-cost-smartphone-attachment-measures-blood-pressure-at-home/

3 years ago

190 upvotes – 87 comments

Put an io_uring on it – Exploiting the Linux Kernel (2022)

https://chompie.rip/Blog+Posts/Put+an+io_uring+on+it+-+Exploiting+the+Linux+Kernel

3 years ago

176 upvotes – 23 comments

Reddit is undeleting years worth of comments and posts

https://tane.codes/@tanepiper/110553809293213303

3 years ago

173 upvotes – 4 comments

Reddit makes r/programming private after top post exposed chatgpt astroturfing

https://web.archive.org/web/20230612074029/https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/

3 years ago

169 upvotes – 27 comments

Planescape: Torment pitch document (1997) [pdf]

https://rpgwatch.com/files/Files/00-0208/Torment_Vision_Statement_1997.pdf

3 years ago

168 upvotes – 106 comments

PhpBB

https://www.phpbb.com

3 years ago

161 upvotes – 143 comments

Reddit: Killing a Giant

https://www.faceted.social/p/3169aedd-3f06-4db4-b51c-ed4690e9f5a6

3 years ago

157 upvotes – 47 comments

πfs – A data-free filesystem

https://github.com/philipl/pifs

3 years ago

155 upvotes – 107 comments

OpenSSL 1.1.1 End of Life Approaching

https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2023/06/15/1.1.1-EOL-Reminder/

3 years ago

152 upvotes – 52 comments

Requiem for a bank loan

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/requiem-for-a-bank-loan/

3 years ago

152 upvotes – 69 comments

Basics of Proofs (2017) [pdf]

https://theory.stanford.edu/~jvondrak/MATH108-2017/Proofs.pdf

3 years ago

145 upvotes – 92 comments

Hello, Perceptron: An introduction to artificial neural networks

https://matt.might.net/articles/hello-perceptron/

3 years ago

142 upvotes – 28 comments

The SEO arms race has left Google and the web drowning in garbage text

https://www.theverge.com/23753963/google-seo-shopify-small-business-ai

3 years ago

141 upvotes – 48 comments

We Didn't Sell GitHub to Google

https://twitter.com/defunkt/status/1669814114259202048

3 years ago

132 upvotes – 21 comments

AI is going to eat itself: Experiment shows people training bots are using bots

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/16/crowd_workers_bots_ai_training/

3 years ago

131 upvotes – 146 comments

Finland's plan to bury spent nuclear fuel for 100k years

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230613-onkalo-has-finland-found-the-answer-to-spent-nuclear-fuel-waste-by-burying-it

3 years ago

131 upvotes – 257 comments

Reddit plans to ask users to vote out protesting mods

https://www.techradar.com/news/reddit-has-a-terrible-plan-to-end-blackout-ask-you-to-vote-out-protesting-mods

3 years ago

131 upvotes – 119 comments

Control, escape, and meta tricks

https://susam.net/blog/control-escape-meta-tricks.html

3 years ago

129 upvotes – 17 comments

NHTSA tells automakers not to comply with Massachusetts right-to-repair law

https://www.autoblog.com/2023/06/14/u-s-tells-automakers-not-to-comply-with-massachusetts-independent-repairs-law/

3 years ago

127 upvotes – 126 comments

Why did Nix adopt Flakes?

https://www.jetpack.io/blog/why-did-nix-adopt-flakes/

3 years ago

121 upvotes – 67 comments

Apple subreddit reopens after moderation team threatened with removal

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/06/16/apple-subreddit-reopens-after-entire-moderation-team-was-threatened-with-removal

3 years ago

118 upvotes – 61 comments

Reddit CEO slams moderators amid blackout, compares them to aristocracy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/16/reddit-ceo-blackout-moderators-steve-huffman/

3 years ago

118 upvotes – 77 comments

Alert HN: Mozilla puts advertising into Firefox AGAIN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36351322

3 years ago

114 upvotes – 47 comments

Limits of Programmer Productivity: A lesson from Fred Brooks

https://pboyd.io/posts/productivity-limit/

3 years ago

113 upvotes – 51 comments

Ask HN: Why would Google sell Google domains to Squarespace?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36352347

3 years ago

112 upvotes – 72 comments

Memory safety without borrow checking, reference counting, or garbage collection

https://verdagon.dev/blog/single-ownership-without-borrow-checking-rc-gc

3 years ago

111 upvotes – 93 comments

A Huawei bid turned into a hunt for a corporate mole

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-06-15/how-huawei-got-caught-spying-and-lost-a-200-million-5g-contract

3 years ago

108 upvotes – 67 comments

Tech vendors have been hiking prices by up to 24% amid inflation

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/16/tech_vendor_price_hikes/

3 years ago

107 upvotes – 148 comments

Writing a chat application in Django 4.2 using async StreamingHttpResponse

https://valberg.dk/django-sse-postgresql-listen-notify.html

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 33 comments

The next generation of serverless

https://www.fermyon.com/blog/next-generation-of-serverless-is-happening

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 90 comments

Full Interview: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman Isn’t Backing Down

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762868/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview

3 years ago

102 upvotes – 61 comments

Stop Calling Each New Disaster “The New Normal”

https://thewalrus.ca/stop-calling-each-new-disaster-the-new-normal/

3 years ago

100 upvotes – 167 comments

The SSL certificate issuer field is a lie

https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/the_certificate_issuer_field_is_a_lie

3 years ago

93 upvotes – 20 comments

Trsvid, a video player for TRS-80 Model 1, 3 and 4

http://48k.ca/trsvid.html

3 years ago

91 upvotes – 14 comments

Miraheze to shut down

https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Board/Policies/20230615-Statement

3 years ago

91 upvotes – 83 comments

Testosterone therapy and the heart: New research finds no increased risk

https://www.wsj.com/articles/testosterone-therapy-can-be-safe-but-there-are-heart-risks-a544b8b5

3 years ago

88 upvotes – 96 comments

Detailed miniature models of historic computer

https://www.miniatua.com/

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 18 comments

System76 Email Leak Update

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36349400

3 years ago

86 upvotes – 9 comments
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