top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-11-08

Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/11/06/removal-of-myq-integration/

2 years ago

1181 upvotes – 640 comments

Hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software engineer job

https://www.mensurdurakovic.com/hard-to-swallow-truths-they-wont-tell-you-about-software-engineer-job/

2 years ago

796 upvotes – 758 comments

Major outages across ChatGPT and API

https://status.openai.com/incidents/00fpy0yxrx1q

2 years ago

537 upvotes – 566 comments

How Wikipedia became the last good place on the internet

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/rule-ambiguity-institutional-clashes-and-population-loss-how-wikipedia-became-the-last-good-place-on-the-internet/FC3F7B9CBF951DD30C2648E7DEFB65EE

2 years ago

524 upvotes – 611 comments

Spain lives in flats: why we have built our cities vertically

https://especiales.eldiario.es/spain-lives-in-flats/

2 years ago

496 upvotes – 436 comments

SciPy builds for Python 3.12 on Windows are a minor miracle

https://labs.quansight.org/blog/building-scipy-with-flang

2 years ago

475 upvotes – 292 comments

Chamberlain blocks smart garage door opener from working with smart homes

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/chamberlain-blocks-smart-garage-door-opener-from-working-with-smart-homes/

2 years ago

473 upvotes – 189 comments

Antidepressants or Tolkien

https://antidepressantsortolkien.vercel.app/

2 years ago

463 upvotes – 99 comments

Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine

https://www.404media.co/voters-overwhelmingly-pass-car-right-to-repair-law-in-maine/

2 years ago

398 upvotes – 149 comments

EU's concealment of secret 'expert list' on CSAM regulation is maladministration

https://www.iccl.ie/news/ombudsman-european-commissions-concealment-of-secret-expert-list-on-csam-regulation-constitutes-maladministration/

2 years ago

397 upvotes – 199 comments

Quake Brutalist Jam II

https://www.slipseer.com/index.php?resources/quake-brutalist-jam-2.278/

2 years ago

385 upvotes – 107 comments

Interesting Bugs Caught by ESLint's no-constant-binary-expression (2022)

https://eslint.org/blog/2022/07/interesting-bugs-caught-by-no-constant-binary-expression/

2 years ago

363 upvotes – 163 comments

After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/after-luring-customers-with-low-prices-amazon-stuffs-fire-tvs-with-ads/

2 years ago

344 upvotes – 282 comments

Officially Qualified – Ferrocene

https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/officially-qualified-ferrocene/

2 years ago

333 upvotes – 109 comments

Interactive examples for learning jq

https://ishan.page/blog/2023-11-06-jq-by-example/

2 years ago

271 upvotes – 96 comments

Oil and gas production in Texas produces twice as much methane as in New Mexico

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/08/texas-methane-oil-and-gas-study-climate

2 years ago

269 upvotes – 106 comments

NYPD barred from telling people they can't film in precinct stations

https://hellgatenyc.com/you-can-now-film-in-nypd-precincts-thanks-to-this-youtuber

2 years ago

260 upvotes – 113 comments

Is AI the next crypto? Insights from HN comments

https://openpipe.ai/blog/hn-ai-crypto

2 years ago

237 upvotes – 367 comments

Intermittent fasting more effective than calorie restriction

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37889487/

2 years ago

229 upvotes – 162 comments

When Linux Spooked Microsoft: Remembering 1998's Leaked 'Halloween Documents'

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/23/11/05/046247/when-linux-spooked-microsoft-remembering-1998s-leaked-halloween-documents

2 years ago

224 upvotes – 121 comments

Automerge-Repo: A "batteries-included" toolkit for local-first applications

https://automerge.org/blog/2023/11/06/automerge-repo/

2 years ago

219 upvotes – 43 comments

Banning E2EE is stupid

https://github.com/davidchisnall/banning-e2ee-is-stupid

2 years ago

207 upvotes – 137 comments

Sad clown paradox

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

2 years ago

206 upvotes – 124 comments

Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/8/23952878/microsoft-onedrive-windows-close-app-notification

2 years ago

202 upvotes – 265 comments

Don't disable buttons

https://gomakethings.com/dont-disable-buttons/

2 years ago

200 upvotes – 159 comments

Opusmodus: Common Lisp Music Composition System

https://opusmodus.com/

2 years ago

179 upvotes – 68 comments

Show HN: Bulletpapers – ArXiv AI paper summarizer, won Anthropic Hackathon

https://www.bulletpapers.ai

2 years ago

178 upvotes – 53 comments

Stop making every conversation about yourself

https://thoguhts.substack.com/p/stop-making-every-conversation-about

2 years ago

168 upvotes – 149 comments

$200M gift propels scientific research in the search for life beyond Earth

https://www.seti.org/press-release/200m-gift-propels-scientific-research-search-life-beyond-earth

2 years ago

151 upvotes – 112 comments

Original photo from Led Zeppelin IV album cover discovered

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-67336495

2 years ago

149 upvotes – 46 comments

Swedish unions strike: Blocks mail and package deliveries for Tesla

https://www.seko.se/press-och-aktuellt/nyheter/2023/seko-stoppar-brev-och-paket-till-tesla/

2 years ago

143 upvotes – 152 comments

Most Video Game Artwork Will Never Be Seen

https://aftermath.site/most-video-game-artwork-will-never-be-seen

2 years ago

137 upvotes – 127 comments

Punica: Serving multiple LoRA finetuned LLM as one

https://github.com/punica-ai/punica

2 years ago

135 upvotes – 26 comments

On-Crash Backtraces in Swift

https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-5.9-backtraces/

2 years ago

127 upvotes – 19 comments

Workers in Sweden Will Expand Strike Against Tesla

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/07/world/europe/sweden-tesla-strike.html

2 years ago

125 upvotes – 93 comments

Inside the weird and delightful origins of the jungle gym, which just turned 100

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/08/1209932614/jungle-gym-playground-monkey-bars-maths-hinton-fourth-dimension

2 years ago

125 upvotes – 54 comments

US Smartphone Shipments Decline 19% in Q3 2023 as More Americans Delay Upgrade

https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights/us-smartphone-shipments-decline-19-yoy-in-q3-2023-as-more-americans-delay-smartphone-upgrade/

2 years ago

124 upvotes – 329 comments

The bash book to rule them all

https://fabiensanglard.net/bash/index.html

2 years ago

121 upvotes – 52 comments

All About Cats, and What Ethernet Classifications Mean

https://hackaday.com/2023/11/07/all-about-cats-and-what-ethernet-classifications-mean-beyond-bigger-number-better/

2 years ago

118 upvotes – 71 comments

Kurdish Parentheses on OpenStreetMap, Three Ways

https://blog.georeactor.com/osm-1

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 16 comments

A picture is worth a thousand permissions requests

https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/11/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-permissions-requests/

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 80 comments

We wrote the OpenAI Wanderlust app in pure Python using Solara

https://github.com/widgetti/wanderlust

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 41 comments

Legendary Semiconductor Physicist Simon Sze has died

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sfgate/name/simon-sze-obituary?id=53535445

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 8 comments

Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages

https://therecord.media/class-action-lawsuit-cars-text-messages-privacy

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 28 comments

Rainbow Net Wi-Fi protocol for connecting old consoles to the Internet

https://github.com/BrokeStudio/rainbow-net

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 8 comments

Smart garage door controller is no longer smart

https://www.theverge.com/23949612/chamberlain-myq-smart-garage-door-controller-homebridge-integrations

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 49 comments

Woman jailed after RentaHitman.com assassin turned out to be – surprise – FBI

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/07/hitman_for_hire_jail/

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 65 comments

Firefox will support at least 200 new extensions on Android this December

https://www.androidpolice.com/firefox-mozilla-extensions-android-mobile/

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 17 comments

Bad Rails conventions got me a weekend stay with the CEO of Airbnb

https://blog.josephofiowa.com/airbnb-weekend/

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 54 comments

SoftBank paid $1.5B to WeWork lenders days before bankruptcy

https://www.ft.com/content/020d78ab-c487-4586-a636-eced0368f531

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 68 comments

GPT-4 powers Copilot Chat

https://github.blog/2023-11-08-universe-2023-copilot-transforms-github-into-the-ai-powered-developer-platform/

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 19 comments

Signal Public Username Testing (Staging Environment)

https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-username-testing-staging-environment/56866

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 103 comments

Show HN: Svelte Flow – a library for creating node-based UIs

https://svelteflow.dev

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 17 comments

FBI and Austria's C4 Hit Z-Library with a New Wave of Domain Seizures

https://torrentfreak.com/fbi-austrias-c4-hit-z-library-with-a-massive-new-wave-of-domain-seizures-231108/

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 41 comments

Trouble Brewing for RISC-V as Issue of Technology Transfer Is Questioned

https://hackaday.com/2023/11/07/trouble-brewing-for-risc-v-as-issue-of-technology-transfer-is-questioned/

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 49 comments

Curves and L-Systems

https://apieceofthepi.substack.com/p/curves-and-l-systems

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 8 comments

Another Major Outage Across ChatGPT and API

https://status.openai.com/incidents/21vl32gvx3hb

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 5 comments

It's the Job of My Dreams, but I'd Have to Write a Cover Letter, So Nevermind

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its-the-job-of-my-dreams-but-id-have-to-write-a-cover-letter-so-nevermind

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 47 comments

Like Clippy but for the CLI

https://github.com/dave1010/clipea

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 38 comments

The housing market is starting to crack – Sellers are cutting prices

https://fortune.com/2023/11/06/housing-market-record-number-sellers-cut-asking-price-october-redfin/

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 152 comments
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