top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-10-17

Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-advances-innovative-direct-file-project-for-2024-tax-season-free-irs-run-pilot-option-projected-to-be-available-for-eligible-taxpayers-in-13-states

2 years ago

906 upvotes – 329 comments

Write more "useless" software

https://ntietz.com/blog/write-more-useless-software/

2 years ago

846 upvotes – 254 comments

Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

https://joshcsimmons.com/post/H4sIAAAAAAAA%2F0xVTY%2FjNgy951c8TA%2BzC0yCQQ9F0dte2gYosIedbdEjbdG2dmRRFakE7q8vKCebXvIBySTfB59%2FwFeNecZvQqYME3wxKfhUCt4WnuxwOKPyyNnShqHFZCAMVa7K9TiQcsBVasBMK%2BMabcG6YaqRc1CMlBIHfPmnX%2Fmg%2Ffs0yvrxhPPzilKlBe%2BptMEWMlz5%2BcIYmDNoSH2elWI2ihkENaawYa7SCmRCoJg20GjxwmjKVSEXrrCFUUgNP2GVbItCKlQQWEs0RhZDEIdNeUNlSqBw4WrRuTgdDn%2B2ZK2y4hpTAl84o8TxHWRYJbAatI0jq0JNamQ9HQ5%2FsxrXQBsks0%2B3bhglJRqkkklVzCKz8%2FG0E%2FEEyh39EhXaaqlR%2BcWHr4yrf5hk9UpTrGrHQjOjsrZkemercn62jvdBLoI4ZycXUBkajRVUGU9dJJrnyrNP9HQ767UWUcMmrYJKQcwaQ0dBGfHX6g%2Bq7Ddt4Q0j5S6HM4fqDDXGVGXda5QqoY12OhzeHN1KgeG981xjF8jLGnSRlgIWujCOXZaBR2rKd89EBWEkXTDKFUdcGUEccm0ZFBSSd%2FQuq9O5n670zi49uxdlRbQXRHtWfGtqmKRiahlHDO3RMRqu5O0KqUbJjuEbj7a7%2BmbpF6isbIt7p7S694zZOFuUTCl5Q%2B6%2BLYk2%2FHV%2B%2B%2F3z1zcf9YSzT0Azxazm7mBbRNF7Br5wksL1rr%2FrNVDO7mnvUaS0om7Ful39xgnnCee%2BksFFolJe%2FD%2BnyBf%2BH7kcvSIGl4fZN%2BFxNjBaOU5VsoEGaYbrTWFoG3SssTguf6i0Oi6kjFLjyC7Mh27fhXMXrhXllFz9jycPjdEbuBY0uJOU2TnrO%2BFekMwW%2F2UnD%2BYWudLW3cJYyXevo66sRbLGHgWddBMEwfVhm54VJqAQ3CrStYDy2Gq0DUVSHDe%2FsIfC7MSB1j7zrZOK%2B92zZYd%2FRuAxBg73bqSonMMtWZhq2vDj6%2Burdulr5k7o%2BI64%2Bo7esrT7hpCdrpVV%2FUhb4RrXIh6cPauiOQUl0djXzRv0BZzuKxDYeLxvvN%2F2ro%2B1dLINC%2BnOxCN75spkHlU0Lm6JlbM93PaLY0vxwsfAJckGwuq%2BvzDmffwdizNrSOxp%2BvMtWW6z0B4%2Ba8w%2BxB%2Fsvok%2BBgiJVX01xQ2Bo8PxH%2B7q1t83j1hxjqP2baF9j3ek6sU9TPRlT2Bf28RztLiSsRvSadSXXrl7IUs3QJV0fw%2BQfbfE0cnz2BoXyjM7LE9%2Fiyuf8DkzPLrvPpAJSeTdJ43ZObiPu3db47x4cny%2F1IvBU6By2hDiNHk2G95j7tWKVKN0OvwHAAD%2F%2FwMASc5Y2XAHAAA%3D

2 years ago

680 upvotes – 435 comments

Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security

https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/10/17/small-business-owners-they-are-pressured-to-hire-off-duty-mpd-cops-for-security/

2 years ago

631 upvotes – 580 comments

Frasier Fantasy

https://edward-la-barbera.itch.io/frasier-fantasy

2 years ago

531 upvotes – 134 comments

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

https://music.ishkur.com/

2 years ago

495 upvotes – 150 comments

Encrypting private data and private communications is now an ethical duty

https://blog.tripu.info/encrypt/

2 years ago

469 upvotes – 230 comments

Iowa man files lawsuit after being arrested twice for criticizing the police

https://reason.com/2023/10/13/iowa-man-files-lawsuit-after-being-arrested-twice-for-criticizing-the-police-at-a-public-meeting/

2 years ago

422 upvotes – 245 comments

Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/10/tech-ceo-sentenced-to-5-years-in-ip-address-scheme/

2 years ago

395 upvotes – 297 comments

BB(3, 3) is Hard

https://www.sligocki.com//2023/10/16/bb-3-3-is-hard.html

2 years ago

316 upvotes – 132 comments

Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end

https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped

2 years ago

315 upvotes – 127 comments

Getaddrinfo() on glibc calls getenv(), oh boy

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/10/16/env/

2 years ago

282 upvotes – 261 comments

Making CRDTs More Efficient

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/making-crdts-98-percent-more-efficient/

2 years ago

275 upvotes – 57 comments

Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware transport, to the ecosystem

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/systems/introducing-falcon-a-reliable-low-latency-hardware-transport

2 years ago

274 upvotes – 149 comments

Llemma: An Open Language Model for Mathematics

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10631

2 years ago

267 upvotes – 46 comments

What happened to blogging for the hell of it?

https://blog.whiona.me/what-happened-to-blogging-for-the-hell-of-it/

2 years ago

256 upvotes – 194 comments

Superlinear Returns

http://paulgraham.com/superlinear.html

2 years ago

237 upvotes – 164 comments

Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) [video]

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

2 years ago

237 upvotes – 191 comments

Universal cancer vaccine trial shows significant improvement in overall survival

https://ultimovacs.com/investors/news/ultimovacs-announces-nipu-results-presented-at-esmo-2023-significant-and-clinically-meaningful-improvement-in-overall-survival-for-patients-receiving-uv1-cancer-vaccine-in-phase-ii-nipu-trial-in-mali

2 years ago

235 upvotes – 50 comments

Patlabor 2, the Movie: realistic portrayal of modern aerial combat

https://taskandpurpose.com/culture/realistic-aerial-combat-movie-patlabor-2/

2 years ago

220 upvotes – 85 comments
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