top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-10-16

About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/16/23919551/bandcamp-layoffs-epic-songtradr

a year ago

640 upvotes – 609 comments

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

a year ago

474 upvotes – 887 comments

Cockpit: Web-based graphical interface for servers

https://cockpit-project.org/

a year ago

470 upvotes – 192 comments

Launch HN: Radical (YC W23) – Autonomous high-altitude solar aircraft

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37901120

a year ago

402 upvotes – 201 comments

LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/16/1206158638/linkedin-layoffs

a year ago

381 upvotes – 315 comments

Stocketa – An app I designed, built and never launched

https://paulstamatiou.com/stocketa/

a year ago

367 upvotes – 98 comments

Roundup herbicide ingredient connected to epidemic chronic kidney disease

https://phys.org/news/2023-10-roundup-herbicide-ingredient-epidemic-chronic.html

a year ago

366 upvotes – 290 comments

MemGPT – LLMs with self-editing memory for unbounded context

https://github.com/cpacker/MemGPT

a year ago

363 upvotes – 85 comments

Invidious – An open source alternative front-end to YouTube

https://invidious.io/

a year ago

353 upvotes – 183 comments

4D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic Scene Rendering

https://guanjunwu.github.io/4dgs/

a year ago

327 upvotes – 82 comments

Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR's traffic

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/14/freedom-of-reach/

a year ago

316 upvotes – 194 comments

Better HTTP server routing in Go 1.22

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2023/better-http-server-routing-in-go-122/

a year ago

316 upvotes – 229 comments

FreeTube – The Private YouTube Client

https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube

a year ago

312 upvotes – 400 comments

"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today"

https://twitter.com/modernistwitch/status/1713962311579234428

a year ago

304 upvotes – 1 comments

C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479

a year ago

293 upvotes – 396 comments

Ask HN: 20% of LinkedIn's recent layoffs were managers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37907433

a year ago

280 upvotes – 280 comments

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

a year ago

271 upvotes – 184 comments

How to build a universe that doesn’t fall apart two days later (1978)

https://urbigenous.net/library/how_to_build.html

a year ago

270 upvotes – 138 comments

Should you be scared of Unix signals? (2016)

https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/06/13/should-you-be-scared-of-signals/

a year ago

257 upvotes – 155 comments

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto

https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/

a year ago

255 upvotes – 389 comments

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin

a year ago

225 upvotes – 98 comments

Napflix – Siesta Video Platform

https://napflix.tv/

a year ago

216 upvotes – 60 comments

Tech giants are hijacking the internet

https://www.dw.com/en/how-tech-giants-are-hijacking-the-internet/a-67037639

a year ago

212 upvotes – 137 comments

Atlassian prepares to abandon on-prem server products

https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/16/atlassian_cloud_migration_server_deprecation/

a year ago

202 upvotes – 200 comments

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

a year ago

202 upvotes – 129 comments

Hallucineted CVE against Curl: someone asked Bard to find a vulnerability

https://mastodon.social/@bagder/111245232072475867

a year ago

200 upvotes – 108 comments

OpenBSD 7.4

https://www.openbsd.org/74.html

a year ago

192 upvotes – 75 comments

Stack Overflow is laying off another 28%

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/16/23919004/stack-overflow-layoff-ai-profitability

a year ago

189 upvotes – 224 comments

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

a year ago

186 upvotes – 288 comments

PaLI-3 Vision Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09199

a year ago

176 upvotes – 23 comments

Advent of Code 2023's new AI/LLM Policy

https://adventofcode.com/about#ai_leaderboard

a year ago

174 upvotes – 129 comments

Visualizing American inflation across eight categories

https://perthirtysix.com/tool/visualizing-american-inflation

a year ago

173 upvotes – 357 comments

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

a year ago

153 upvotes – 181 comments

Bootstrapping a SaaS Business in Germany: How I did it

https://lukashermann.dev/writing/bootstrapping-a-saas-business-in-germany/

a year ago

148 upvotes – 107 comments

Hong Kong Locations in Ghost in the Shell

https://randomwire.com/recreating-ghost-in-hong-kong/comment-page-1/

a year ago

142 upvotes – 45 comments

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

a year ago

138 upvotes – 89 comments

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

a year ago

135 upvotes – 150 comments

OpenBSD 7.4

https://www.openbsd.org/74.html

a year ago

129 upvotes – 61 comments

BitVM: Compute Anything on Bitcoin [pdf]

https://bitvm.org/bitvm.pdf

a year ago

128 upvotes – 76 comments

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/

a year ago

128 upvotes – 7 comments

The Largest Greek Manuscript?

https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2023/10/the-largest-greek-manuscript.html

a year ago

124 upvotes – 47 comments

Skyvew – View and share Bluesky threads without needing a Bluesky account

https://skyview.social/

a year ago

124 upvotes – 105 comments

The U.S. Government Has $5B in Bitcoin

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/federal-government-bitcoin-5-billion-78ce0938

a year ago

123 upvotes – 145 comments

GPU Embedding with GGML

https://bloop.ai/blog/gpu_with_ggml

a year ago

123 upvotes – 33 comments

Stack Overflow announces 28% headcount reduction

https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/10/16/stack-overflow-company-announcement-october-2023/

a year ago

119 upvotes – 171 comments

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

a year ago

119 upvotes – 147 comments

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/

a year ago

118 upvotes – 40 comments

Chess Written in GNU Sed

https://github.com/moldabekov/chess-sed

a year ago

117 upvotes – 29 comments

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

a year ago

116 upvotes – 36 comments

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

a year ago

115 upvotes – 92 comments

One of America's most corporate-crime-friendly judges forced to recuse himself

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/16/texas-two-step/#david-jones

a year ago

114 upvotes – 31 comments

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

a year ago

114 upvotes – 148 comments

Goldman Sachs reportedly said Apple Card savings account was a mistake

https://9to5mac.com/2023/10/16/apple-card-savings-account-mistake/

a year ago

113 upvotes – 176 comments

JavaScript-Is-Weird as a compressor

https://github.com/mgarciaisaia/JavaScript-Is-Weird-as-a-compressor

a year ago

111 upvotes – 41 comments

Tanzania unveils its first locally assembled aircraft, Skyleader 600

https://townflex.com/tanzania-unveils-first-aircraft-skyleader-600/

a year ago

109 upvotes – 2 comments

Canon Nanoimprint lithography semiconductor manufacturing system (5nm)

https://global.canon/en/news/2023/20231013.html

a year ago

108 upvotes – 35 comments

Ask HN: Best Tech Courses/Certifications Under $400 for a Back End Engineer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37906206

a year ago

107 upvotes – 65 comments

The Mathematician Who Sculpted the Shape of Space

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-mathematician-who-shaped-string-theory-20231016/

a year ago

105 upvotes – 20 comments

Sensorvault

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

a year ago

101 upvotes – 13 comments

Isometric Geological Diagrams

https://socks-studio.com/2023/10/15/the-hidden-territory-usgss-1950s-to-1970s-isometric-geological-diagrams/

a year ago

100 upvotes – 4 comments

Ask HN: Why are there no open source NVMe-native key value stores in 2023?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37897921

a year ago

99 upvotes – 68 comments

If you value Tor, please make a donation

https://blog.torproject.org/2023-fundraiser-make-a-donation-to-Tor/

a year ago

98 upvotes – 27 comments

NY bill would require a criminal history check for the purchase of a 3D printer

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/A8132

a year ago

97 upvotes – 126 comments

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/

a year ago

97 upvotes – 36 comments

Can we build trustable hardware? (2019)

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?cat=28

a year ago

96 upvotes – 54 comments

NASA's Webb captures an ethereal view of NGC 346

https://phys.org/news/2023-10-nasa-webb-captures-ethereal-view.html

a year ago

92 upvotes – 26 comments

Ask HN: How do you get out of a rut?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37904101

a year ago

90 upvotes – 104 comments

LinkedIn to lay off hundreds of people amid broader restructuring

https://www.axios.com/2023/10/16/linkedin-layoffs-restructuring-artifical-intelligence

a year ago

89 upvotes – 38 comments

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/

a year ago

88 upvotes – 24 comments
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