727
430
WeWork Goes Bankrupt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-07/wework-goes-bankrupt-capping-co-working-company-s-downfall
2 years ago
605
455
Seeing like a bank
https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/seeing-like-a-bank/
456
257
Northlight technology in Alan Wake 2
https://www.remedygames.com/article/how-northlight-makes-alan-wake-2-shine
435
102
Euclid's First Images
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Euclid_s_first_images_the_dazzling_edge_of_darkness
377
138
Go, Containers, and the Linux Scheduler
https://www.riverphillips.dev/blog/go-cfs/
325
236
Gleam: a type safe language on the Erlang VM
https://gleam.run/
300
170
What does and doesn't matter about Apple shooting their October event on iPhone
https://prolost.com/blog/scarybts
285
174
Verizon, AT&T customers sue to undo T-Mobile merger
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/07/verizon-att-customers-sue-to-reverse-t-mobile-merger-saying-it-raised-everybodys-prices/
284
130
Writing a Compiler is Surprisingly Easy (part 1)
http://sebmestre.blogspot.com/2023/11/en-writing-compiler-is-surprisingly.html
253
125
Article 45 of eIDAS 2.0 will roll back web security by 12 years
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/article-45-will-roll-back-web-security-12-years
250
45
Videos of Godotcon 2023
https://media.ccc.de/c/godotcon2023
246
108
You don't need to work on hard problems (2020)
https://www.benkuhn.net/hard/
234
235
Maine's constitution has unprintable sections
https://www.mitsc.org/news/maine-2023-election-ballot-question-6-fact-sheet
215
163
Bhutan declares its entire street dog population fully sterilized and vaccinated
https://worldanimalnews.com/the-kingdom-of-bhutan-becomes-first-country-in-the-world-to-achieve-100-stray-dog-sterilization-vaccination/
228
A four year plan for async Rust
https://without.boats/blog/a-four-year-plan/
206
61
A C Compiler that fits in the 512 byte boot sector of an x86 machine
https://github.com/xorvoid/sectorc
202
159
'Ray, this is a religion': How Bridgewater lost two top hires
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ray-dalio-rob-copeland-the-fund-book-excerpt.html
199
109
The Escapist staff resign following termination of editor-in-chief Nick Calandra
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/the-escapist-staff-resign-following-termination-of-editor-in-chief-nick-calandra
188
156
Waze will now warn drivers about crash dangers using historical data
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/11/waze-will-now-warn-drivers-about-crash-dangers-using-historical-data/
187
123
Nature retracts controversial superconductivity paper by embattled physicist
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03398-4
65
PostgreSQL Encryption: The Available Options
https://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2023/11/07/postgresql-encryption-options.html
173
264
Google ends deal to build 15,000 Bay Area homes due to "market conditions"
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/google-cost-cutting-ends-deal-to-build-thousands-of-affordable-housing-units/
169
Asahi Linux folks are doing us a solid with WPA3 fixes
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/11/07/wpa3/
168
118
I Got the Fed to Release Its 2011 "Treasury Default" Playbook
https://www.crisesnotes.com/i-got-the-fed-to-release-its-2011-treasury-default-playbook-heres-what-it-says-and-why-it-matters/
165
82
What the QWAC? An EV Certificate all over again
https://scotthelme.co.uk/what-the-qwac/
164
113
Fedora 39 Released
https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-39/
185
U.S. military members' personal data being sold by online brokers
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/06/military-data-sold-for-cents-cheap-privacy
157
133
Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT
https://www.lumafield.com/article/real-vs-fake-apple-products-through-industrial-ct-airpods-pro-macbook-magsafe-charger
148
136
I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/
146
Toyota's new $10k pickup
https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/2025-toyota-imv-0-pickup-truck-first-drive-review-japan-mobility-show/
41
WasmFX: Effect Handlers for WebAssembly
https://wasmfx.dev/
Tutanota is now Tuta
https://tuta.com/blog/tutanota-is-now-tuta
145
150
Italy to seize $835M from Airbnb in tax evasion inquiry
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67341051
144
72
AI App Graveyard
https://dang.ai/ai-graveyard
22
Tumble Forth
http://tumbleforth.hardcoded.net/
171
Ex-Kotaku staff go independent and launch Aftermath
https://aftermath.site/welcome-to-aftermath
131
33
Whole Earth Catalog (1968) [pdf]
https://monoskop.org/images/0/09/Brand_Stewart_Whole_Earth_Catalog_Fall_1968.pdf
An update on salary transparency in job posts
https://directlyapply.com/blog/an-update-on-salary-transparency-in-job-posts-november-2023
124
Potato Diet Riff Trial: Sign Up Now, Lol
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/11/03/potato-diet-riff-trial-sign-up-now-lol/
121
134
Why only 1% of the Snowden Archive will ever be published
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366554957/Why-only-1-of-the-Snowden-Archive-will-ever-be-published
120
Show HN: Scorecard.gg – minimalist scoring tool for your favorite board games
https://scorecard.gg/
75
The OpenAI Keynote
https://stratechery.com/2023/the-openai-keynote/
116
59
ICE faces heat after agents install apps, VPNs on official phones
https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/06/ice_device_security/
15
Speeding up a program for a 50 year old processor
https://mark.engineer/2023/11/speed-up-a-program-for-50-years-old-processor-by-180000/
114
Validating Data in Elixir: Using Ecto and NimbleOptions
https://blog.appsignal.com/2023/11/07/validating-data-in-elixir-using-ecto-and-nimbleoptions.html
112
69
Tesla drivers can now disable remote access in privacy win
https://cleanenergyrevolution.co/2023/11/06/tesla-drivers-can-now-disable-remote-access-in-privacy-win/
58
Ex-Meta employee says his warnings of Instagram's harm to teens were ignored
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/07/meta-facebook-employee-congress-testimony-instagram-child-harm-social-media
51
Vitess 18
https://planetscale.com/blog/announcing-vitess-18
101
83
Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5M bank transactions
https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/07/overheating_datacenter_singapore/
96
Toxic toddler fruit pouches: "high" lead levels sicken 7 in 5 states
https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/toxic-toddler-fruit-pouches-extremely-high-lead-levels-sicken-7-in-5-states/
95
66
Big Insurance Met Match When Turned Down a Lawyer's Request for Cancer Treatment
https://www.propublica.org/article/blue-cross-proton-therapy-cancer-lawyer-denial
94
30
Core to core latency data on large systems
https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/11/07/core-to-core-latency-data-on-large-systems/
92
38
Oracle Employee Helped Cocaine Dealers Hide $54M in Crypto, DOJ Says
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2023/11/07/oracle-staffer-helped-cocaine-dealers-hide-54-million-in-cryptocurrency-doj-says/
Why does unsafe multithreaded std:unordered_map crash more than std:map?
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20231103-00/?p=108966
105
Marissa Mayer admits Yahoo should have bought Netflix instead of Tumblr
https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-yahoo-ceo-mayer-admitted-company-should-have-bought-netflix-2023-5
90
9
Cory Doctorow: The Internet Con, or How to Seize the Means of Computation
https://twitter.com/copernicani/status/1721981602753085582
89
48
"I cannot wait to possess you": Reading 18th century letters for the first time
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/lost-letters-of-18th-century-french-sailors-have-been-read-for-the-first-time/
84
78
The trouble with ingredients in sunscreens
https://www.ewg.org/sunscreen/report/the-trouble-with-sunscreen-chemicals/
27
Show HN: Roboco-op, a computational blackboard for efficient human/AI collab
https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/robocoop
31
Solar Splitting of CO2 with 3D-Printed Hierarchically Channeled Ceria Structures
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/admi.202300452
86
Why Golang instead of Rust to develop the Krater desktop app
https://blog.moonguard.dev/why-golang-instead-of-rust-to-develop-the-krater-desktop-app
76
10
Adobe is selling fake AI images of the war in Israel-Gaza
https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/11/01/israel-gaza-adobe-artificial-intelligence-images-fake-news/
119
LAPD considering stronger body camera policy in light of recent scandals
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-10-26/lapd-considering-stronger-body-camera-policy
74
91
GPT-4-turbo preliminary benchmark results on code-editing
https://aider.chat/docs/benchmarks-1106.html
7
Enough polynomials and linear algebra to implement Kyber
https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/kyber-math/
ELTP: Extending ELT for Modern AI and Analytics
https://airbyte.com/blog/eltp-extending-elt-for-modern-ai-and-analytics
73
Show HN: Patterns – Habit Tracker App
https://apps.apple.com/ua/app/patterns-habit-tracker/id6469007119
Chopstick robot handle boxes with ease
https://spectrum.ieee.org/warehouse-robots
Development of a Live-Action Film of the Legend of Zelda to Start
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2023/231108.html
Lawmakers push 702 reauthorization requiring warrant to access info on Americans
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/4298234-section-702-fisa-reauthorization-warrant-americans/
The Stern-Gerlach Experiment (1967) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcTqcyv-V1I
43
Millions of customers in Australia hit by mobile phone and internet outage
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-08/optus-outage-mobile-phones-internet-what-happened/103077180
71
How a 'Refund Fraud' Gang Stole $700k from Amazon
https://www.404media.co/artemis-refund-group-stole-700-000-from-amazon/
70
16
Doing a Job (1982)
https://govleaders.org/rickover.htm
FTC Chair Lina Khan on AI regulation, startup acquisitions, and more [audio]
https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/garry-tan-interviews-ftc-chair-lina-khan/
3
WeWork, once valued at $47B, files for bankruptcy
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/07/wework-files-for-bankruptcy.html
19
After big drop in ISP competition, Canada mandates fiber-network sharing
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/canada-forces-large-fiber-isps-to-share-networks-with-small-competitors/
Pretraining data enables narrow selection capabilities in transformer models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00871
21
The Guardian digital design style guide
https://design.theguardian.com/
64
Contraceptive pills might impair fear-regulating regions in women's brains
https://blog.frontiersin.org/2023/11/07/contraceptive-pills-fear-regulating-womens-brains/
62
13
YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues
https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/06/youtube_ad_blockers_opinion/
Fixing the other Go loop bug
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/fixing-the-other-go-loop-bug
