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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

Cockpit: Web-based graphical interface for servers

https://cockpit-project.org/

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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

2 years ago

Stocketa – An app I designed, built and never launched

https://paulstamatiou.com/stocketa/

2 years ago

Roundup herbicide ingredient connected to epidemic chronic kidney disease

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

2 years ago

MemGPT – LLMs with self-editing memory for unbounded context

https://github.com/cpacker/MemGPT

2 years ago

Invidious – An open source alternative front-end to YouTube

https://invidious.io/

2 years ago

4D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic Scene Rendering

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

2 years ago

Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR's traffic

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

2 years ago

Better HTTP server routing in Go 1.22

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

2 years ago

FreeTube – The Private YouTube Client

https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube

2 years ago

"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today"

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

2 years ago

C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

Should you be scared of Unix signals? (2016)

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

2 years ago

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto

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

2 years ago

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

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

2 years ago

Napflix – Siesta Video Platform

https://napflix.tv/

2 years ago

Tech giants are hijacking the internet

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

2 years ago

Atlassian prepares to abandon on-prem server products

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

OpenBSD 7.4

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

2 years ago

Stack Overflow is laying off another 28%

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

PaLI-3 Vision Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09199

2 years ago

Advent of Code 2023's new AI/LLM Policy

https://adventofcode.com/about#ai_leaderboard

2 years ago

Visualizing American inflation across eight categories

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

Bootstrapping a SaaS Business in Germany: How I did it

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

2 years ago

Hong Kong Locations in Ghost in the Shell

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

OpenBSD 7.4

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

2 years ago

BitVM: Compute Anything on Bitcoin [pdf]

https://bitvm.org/bitvm.pdf

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

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

https://skyview.social/

2 years ago

The Largest Greek Manuscript?

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

2 years ago

GPU Embedding with GGML

https://bloop.ai/blog/gpu_with_ggml

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

Stack Overflow announces 28% headcount reduction

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

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

Chess Written in GNU Sed

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

Goldman Sachs reportedly said Apple Card savings account was a mistake

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

2 years ago

JavaScript-Is-Weird as a compressor

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

2 years ago

Tanzania unveils its first locally assembled aircraft, Skyleader 600

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

2 years ago

Canon Nanoimprint lithography semiconductor manufacturing system (5nm)

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

The Mathematician Who Sculpted the Shape of Space

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

2 years ago

Sensorvault

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

2 years ago

Isometric Geological Diagrams

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

If you value Tor, please make a donation

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

Can we build trustable hardware? (2019)

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

2 years ago

NASA's Webb captures an ethereal view of NGC 346

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

LinkedIn to lay off hundreds of people amid broader restructuring

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

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

Costco Capitalism

https://www.bryanlehrer.com/entries/costco/

2 years ago

The real engine behind "AI" is the bad tech economy

https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredoug/111245545674056246

2 years ago

Analogue 3D

https://www.analogue.co/3d

2 years ago

NY Bill Would Require Background Checks to Buy 3D Printers

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ny-bill-bans-3d-printers

2 years ago

Jobs working with the Rust programming language. No crypto

https://www.rustjobs.fyi/

2 years ago

Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway (2019)

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190201

2 years ago

Google's Green Light project retimes traffic lights for 30% fewer stops

https://newatlas.com/transport/google-green-light-traffic/

2 years ago