640
609
About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/16/23919551/bandcamp-layoffs-epic-songtradr
2 years ago
474
887
Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/10/05/detroit-wants-to-be-the-first-big-american-city-to-tax-land-value
470
192
Cockpit: Web-based graphical interface for servers
https://cockpit-project.org/
402
201
Launch HN: Radical (YC W23) – Autonomous high-altitude solar aircraft
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37901120
381
315
LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/16/1206158638/linkedin-layoffs
367
98
Stocketa – An app I designed, built and never launched
https://paulstamatiou.com/stocketa/
366
290
Roundup herbicide ingredient connected to epidemic chronic kidney disease
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-roundup-herbicide-ingredient-epidemic-chronic.html
363
85
MemGPT – LLMs with self-editing memory for unbounded context
https://github.com/cpacker/MemGPT
353
183
Invidious – An open source alternative front-end to YouTube
https://invidious.io/
327
82
4D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic Scene Rendering
https://guanjunwu.github.io/4dgs/
316
194
Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR's traffic
https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/14/freedom-of-reach/
229
Better HTTP server routing in Go 1.22
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2023/better-http-server-routing-in-go-122/
312
400
FreeTube – The Private YouTube Client
https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube
304
1
"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today"
https://twitter.com/modernistwitch/status/1713962311579234428
293
396
C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479
280
Ask HN: 20% of LinkedIn's recent layoffs were managers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37907433
271
184
Windows 10 warns me to use a "Microsoft-verified" app
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/windows-10-warns-me-use-microsoft-verified-app
270
138
How to build a universe that doesn’t fall apart two days later (1978)
https://urbigenous.net/library/how_to_build.html
257
155
Should you be scared of Unix signals? (2016)
https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/06/13/should-you-be-scared-of-signals/
255
389
The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/
225
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin
216
60
Napflix – Siesta Video Platform
https://napflix.tv/
212
137
Tech giants are hijacking the internet
https://www.dw.com/en/how-tech-giants-are-hijacking-the-internet/a-67037639
202
199
Atlassian prepares to abandon on-prem server products
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/16/atlassian_cloud_migration_server_deprecation/
129
The world is designed against the elderly, writes Don Norman
https://www.fastcompany.com/90338379/i-wrote-the-book-on-user-friendly-design-what-i-see-today-horrifies-me
200
108
Hallucineted CVE against Curl: someone asked Bard to find a vulnerability
https://mastodon.social/@bagder/111245232072475867
75
OpenBSD 7.4
https://www.openbsd.org/74.html
189
224
Stack Overflow is laying off another 28%
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/16/23919004/stack-overflow-layoff-ai-profitability
186
289
LinkedIn laying off nearly 700, mostly from core engineering teams
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/16/microsoft-owned-linkedin-lays-off-nearly-700-read-the-memo-here.html
176
23
PaLI-3 Vision Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09199
174
Advent of Code 2023's new AI/LLM Policy
https://adventofcode.com/about#ai_leaderboard
173
357
Visualizing American inflation across eight categories
https://perthirtysix.com/tool/visualizing-american-inflation
153
181
Google’s dominance under siege: Antitrust trial threatens sweeping changes
https://www.livenowfox.com/news/googles-internet-dominance-under-siege-antitrust-trial-threatens-sweeping-changes
148
107
Bootstrapping a SaaS Business in Germany: How I did it
https://lukashermann.dev/writing/bootstrapping-a-saas-business-in-germany/
142
45
Hong Kong Locations in Ghost in the Shell
https://randomwire.com/recreating-ghost-in-hong-kong/comment-page-1/
89
A little-known pollution rule keeps the air dirty for millions of Americans
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/16/epa-local-governments-dont-report-air-pollution-wildfire-smoke-data-across-us
135
150
Apple plans to update iPhones in-store without opening the boxes
https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/10/15/apple-plans-to-update-iphones-in-store-without-opening-the-boxes
61
128
76
BitVM: Compute Anything on Bitcoin [pdf]
https://bitvm.org/bitvm.pdf
7
Actively exploited Cisco 0day with maximum severity gives full network control
https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/actively-exploited-cisco-0-day-with-maximum-10-severity-gives-full-network-control/
124
105
Skyvew – View and share Bluesky threads without needing a Bluesky account
https://skyview.social/
47
The Largest Greek Manuscript?
https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2023/10/the-largest-greek-manuscript.html
123
33
GPU Embedding with GGML
https://bloop.ai/blog/gpu_with_ggml
145
The U.S. Government Has $5B in Bitcoin
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/federal-government-bitcoin-5-billion-78ce0938
119
147
EU member states still cannot agree about end-to-end encryption
https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2023/06/eu-member-states-still-cannot-agree-about-end-end-encryption
171
Stack Overflow announces 28% headcount reduction
https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/10/16/stack-overflow-company-announcement-october-2023/
118
40
A successful example of "adversarial collaboration"
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/10/16/a-successful-example-of-adversarial-collaboration-when-does-this-approach-work-and-when-does-it-not/
117
29
Chess Written in GNU Sed
https://github.com/moldabekov/chess-sed
116
36
Dig near Paris unearths beginnings of urbanization dating back to 4,200 BC
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/science/article/2023/10/16/an-archaeological-dig-near-paris-unearthed-beginnings-of-urbanization-dating-back-to-4-200-b-c_6177642_10.html
115
92
Tech layoffs exceed 240k so far in 2023, 50% more than 2022
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/tech-layoffs-exceed-240000-so-far-in-2023-more-than-50-higher-than-in-all-of-2022/ar-AA1ib3AY
114
31
One of America's most corporate-crime-friendly judges forced to recuse himself
https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/16/texas-two-step/#david-jones
Edinburgh couple are handed £17K bill by Tesla as they 'drove in rain'
https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-couple-fume-handed-17k-27906242
113
Goldman Sachs reportedly said Apple Card savings account was a mistake
https://9to5mac.com/2023/10/16/apple-card-savings-account-mistake/
111
41
JavaScript-Is-Weird as a compressor
https://github.com/mgarciaisaia/JavaScript-Is-Weird-as-a-compressor
109
2
Tanzania unveils its first locally assembled aircraft, Skyleader 600
https://townflex.com/tanzania-unveils-first-aircraft-skyleader-600/
35
Canon Nanoimprint lithography semiconductor manufacturing system (5nm)
https://global.canon/en/news/2023/20231013.html
65
Ask HN: Best Tech Courses/Certifications Under $400 for a Back End Engineer?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37906206
20
The Mathematician Who Sculpted the Shape of Space
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-mathematician-who-shaped-string-theory-20231016/
101
13
Sensorvault
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensorvault
100
4
Isometric Geological Diagrams
https://socks-studio.com/2023/10/15/the-hidden-territory-usgss-1950s-to-1970s-isometric-geological-diagrams/
99
68
Ask HN: Why are there no open source NVMe-native key value stores in 2023?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37897921
27
If you value Tor, please make a donation
https://blog.torproject.org/2023-fundraiser-make-a-donation-to-Tor/
97
126
NY bill would require a criminal history check for the purchase of a 3D printer
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/A8132
Expecting return to office will boost worker productivity is 'magical thinking'
https://fortune.com/2023/10/16/return-to-office-worker-productivity-magical-thinking-annie-dean-atlassian/
96
54
Can we build trustable hardware? (2019)
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?cat=28
26
NASA's Webb captures an ethereal view of NGC 346
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-nasa-webb-captures-ethereal-view.html
90
104
Ask HN: How do you get out of a rut?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37904101
38
LinkedIn to lay off hundreds of people amid broader restructuring
https://www.axios.com/2023/10/16/linkedin-layoffs-restructuring-artifical-intelligence
88
24
Signal says there is no evidence rumored zero-day bug is real
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/signal-says-there-is-no-evidence-rumored-zero-day-bug-is-real/
80
Costco Capitalism
https://www.bryanlehrer.com/entries/costco/
73
The real engine behind "AI" is the bad tech economy
https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredoug/111245545674056246
Analogue 3D
https://www.analogue.co/3d
NY Bill Would Require Background Checks to Buy 3D Printers
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ny-bill-bans-3d-printers
30
Jobs working with the Rust programming language. No crypto
https://www.rustjobs.fyi/
62
Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway (2019)
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190201
74
Google's Green Light project retimes traffic lights for 30% fewer stops
https://newatlas.com/transport/google-green-light-traffic/