top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-01-11

Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/technology/google-layoffs.html

2 years ago

862 upvotes – 1265 comments

The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit

https://aftermath.site/the-internet-is-full-of-ai-dogshit

2 years ago

805 upvotes – 587 comments

Outlook is Microsoft's new data collection service

https://proton.me/blog/outlook-is-microsofts-new-data-collection-service

2 years ago

688 upvotes – 367 comments

Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38950721

2 years ago

575 upvotes – 333 comments

Show HN: GodotOS – Fake operating system interface made in the Godot engine

https://github.com/popcar2/GodotOS

2 years ago

534 upvotes – 280 comments

Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (1985)

https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/kilcup.1/262/feynman.html

2 years ago

466 upvotes – 182 comments

Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034705/discord-layoffs-17-percent-employees

2 years ago

457 upvotes – 369 comments

Meta unlawfully ignores the users' right to easily withdraw consent: complaint

https://noyb.eu/en/meta-ignores-users-right-easily-withdraw-consent

2 years ago

420 upvotes – 121 comments

Removing data transfer fees when moving off Google Cloud

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/eliminating-data-transfer-fees-when-migrating-off-google-cloud/

2 years ago

404 upvotes – 106 comments

Hertz to sell 20k EVs in shift back to gas-powered cars

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-11/hertz-to-sell-20-000-evs-in-shift-back-to-gas-powered-cars

2 years ago

402 upvotes – 820 comments

Pixar to undergo 20% layoffs in 2024

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/11/as-disney-pushes-towards-streaming-profitability-pixar-to-undergo-layoffs-in-2024/

2 years ago

387 upvotes – 334 comments

Google lays off Bay Area workers, closes Mtn View child care center

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/google-layoffs-child-care-center-engineering-18602833.php

2 years ago

332 upvotes – 327 comments

Postgres Incremental Backup

https://pganalyze.com/blog/5mins-postgres-17-incremental-backups

2 years ago

315 upvotes – 57 comments

Tell HN: Google-Wide Layoffs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38947580

2 years ago

293 upvotes – 129 comments

I Found David Lynch's Lost 'Dune II' Script

https://www.wired.com/story/david-lynch-dune-sequel-script-unearthed/

2 years ago

288 upvotes – 342 comments

Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework?

https://htmx.org/essays/is-htmx-another-javascript-framework/

2 years ago

284 upvotes – 311 comments

Did a 1997 merger ruin Boeing?

https://finshots.in/archive/did-a-1997-merger-ruin-boeing/

2 years ago

274 upvotes – 338 comments

eBay pays $3M fine in blogger harassment case

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67951113

2 years ago

267 upvotes – 138 comments

Engineer Used Water Pump to Get $1B Stuxnet Malware into Iranian Nuclear Plant

https://www.securityweek.com/dutch-engineer-used-water-pump-to-get-billion-dollar-stuxnet-malware-into-iranian-nuclear-facility-report/

2 years ago

266 upvotes – 184 comments

Timeline to remove DSA support in OpenSSH

https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-announce/2024-January/000156.html

2 years ago

257 upvotes – 159 comments

How virtualisation came to Apple Silicon Macs

https://eclecticlight.co/2024/01/11/how-virtualisation-came-to-apple-silicon-macs/

2 years ago

257 upvotes – 105 comments

ArchiveBox: Open-source self-hosted web archiving

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox

2 years ago

250 upvotes – 42 comments

epoll: The API that powers the modern internet (2022)

https://darkcoding.net/software/epoll-the-api-that-powers-the-modern-internet/

2 years ago

243 upvotes – 65 comments

Google lays off hundreds working on its voice-activated assistant

https://www.semafor.com/article/01/10/2024/google-lays-off-hundreds-working-on-its-voice-activated-assistant

2 years ago

240 upvotes – 251 comments

Sourcehut and Codeberg are both currently experiencing a DDoS attack

https://fosstodon.org/@drewdevault/111739063243946284

2 years ago

233 upvotes – 141 comments

A Love Letter to Tinkerable Software

https://www.trevoragilbert.com/posts/a-love-letter-to-tinkerable-software/

2 years ago

232 upvotes – 79 comments

Generating SVG for the prime knots

https://prideout.net/blog/svg_knots/

2 years ago

230 upvotes – 26 comments

A Technical Dive into PostgreSQL's replication mechanisms

https://airbyte.com/blog/a-guide-to-logical-replication-and-cdc-in-postgresql

2 years ago

210 upvotes – 25 comments

Attack of the Week: Airdrop Tracing

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/01/11/attack-of-the-week-airdrop-tracing/

2 years ago

207 upvotes – 68 comments

Ask HN: What is the current driver of tech layoffs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38958789

2 years ago

203 upvotes – 296 comments

eBay agrees to $3M fine over couple's harassment case, civil suit continues

https://www.universalhub.com/2024/ebay-agrees-3-million-fine-trying-destroy-lives

2 years ago

201 upvotes – 41 comments

Microsoft overtakes Apple as most valuable company

https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-overtakes-apple-worlds-most-valuable-company-2024-01-11/

2 years ago

201 upvotes – 122 comments

A TV Show Forced Britain's Devastating Post Office Scandal into the Light

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/world/europe/uk-itv-mr-bates-vs-post-office.html

2 years ago

200 upvotes – 168 comments

Tree.fm: Tune in to Forests Around the World

https://www.tree.fm/

2 years ago

199 upvotes – 35 comments

Solar will supply almost all growth in U.S. electricity generation through 2025

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/01/09/u-s-eia-solar-will-supply-almost-all-growth-in-u-s-electricity-generation-through-2025/

2 years ago

186 upvotes – 222 comments

Google lays off hundreds in hardware, voice assistant teams

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-11/google-lays-off-hundreds-in-hardware-voice-assistant-teams

2 years ago

186 upvotes – 97 comments

Majority of debtors to US hospitals now people with health insurance

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/11/hospital-debt-increase-people-with-insurance

2 years ago

183 upvotes – 194 comments

Aaron Swartz died 11 years ago today

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

2 years ago

181 upvotes – 26 comments

93% of U.S. households' stock market wealth is held by the top 10%

https://www.axios.com/2024/01/10/wealthy-own-record-share-stock-market

2 years ago

171 upvotes – 157 comments

Let's Block It

https://letsblock.it/

2 years ago

164 upvotes – 61 comments

Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's sound chip from die photos (2021)

http://www.righto.com/2021/11/reverse-engineering-yamaha-dx7.html

2 years ago

160 upvotes – 39 comments

Blending Is All You Need: Cheaper, Better Alternative to Trillion-Parameters LLM

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02994

2 years ago

147 upvotes – 45 comments

Scammy AI-Generated Books Are Flooding Amazon

https://www.wired.com/story/scammy-ai-generated-books-flooding-amazon/

2 years ago

143 upvotes – 111 comments

HTML Spirograph (2021)

http://htmlspirograph.com/

2 years ago

135 upvotes – 28 comments

Meetup has been acquired by Bending Spoons

https://www.meetup.com/blog/a-new-home-for-meetup/

2 years ago

135 upvotes – 127 comments

Building a baseline JIT for Lua automatically (2023)

https://sillycross.github.io/2023/05/12/2023-05-12/

2 years ago

133 upvotes – 29 comments

Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/network-connected-wrenches-used-in-factories-can-be-hacked-for-sabotage-or-ransomware/

2 years ago

131 upvotes – 115 comments

Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_trains

2 years ago

130 upvotes – 4 comments

Blur Radius Comparison

https://bjango.com/articles/blurradiuscomparison/

2 years ago

123 upvotes – 41 comments

Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034124/google-layoffs-engineering-assistant-hardware

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 2 comments

The largest US dam-removal effort to date has begun

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/the-largest-us-dam-removal-effort-to-date-has-begun/

2 years ago

105 upvotes – 71 comments

9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0

http://geocar.sdf1.org/numbers.html

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 80 comments

Ask HN: How can I make local dev with containers hurt less?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38959668

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 53 comments

What Are File Descriptors in Linux

https://linuxtldr.com/file-descriptors-linux/

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 51 comments

Diamond Subpixel Arrangement Simulator

https://mstdn.social/@RickyRomero/111666711075000961

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 22 comments

Why more PC gaming handhelds should ditch Windows for SteamOS

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/01/why-more-pc-gaming-handhelds-should-ditch-windows-for-steamos/

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 36 comments

Wi-Fi 7 took off while everyone was looking at AI

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24033022/wi-fi-7-laptops-gaming-ces-2024-lenovo-alienware-razer-msi-asus

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 75 comments

Cancer Is Striking More Young People, and Doctors Are Alarmed and Baffled

https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/cancer-young-people-doctors-baffled-49c766ed

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 142 comments

Elisp in Replacement String

https://susam.net/maze/elisp-in-replacement-string.html

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 17 comments

Why Would I Buy This Useless, Evil Thing?

https://aftermath.site/why-would-i-buy-this-useless-evil-thing

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 83 comments

US oil lobby launches ad campaign to promote oil as 'vital' to global security

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/10/oil-ads-lights-on-energy

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 82 comments

Neonmodem: TUI for Lobsters, HN, etc.

https://github.com/mrusme/neonmodem

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 19 comments

A Philosophical Introduction to Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.03910

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 24 comments

Twitch layoffs: Amazon-owned livestreaming platform cutting workforce by 35%

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/01/10/twitch-layoffs-job-cuts/72174329007/

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 72 comments

Designing bridge trusses with Pytorch autograd

https://github.com/eschluntz/PytorchBridge

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 29 comments

Amazon Cuts Jobs in Prime Video and MGM Studios

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/10/amazon-layoffs-hundreds-of-jobs-cut-in-prime-video-and-mgm-studios.html

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 45 comments

Meta layoffs: all TPMs in Instagram laidoff today

https://www.teamblind.com/post/Meta-layoffs-all-TPMs-in-Instagram-laidoff-today-2MQcPFcy

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 6 comments

Ask HN: Are tech layoffs happening abroad?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38959617

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 88 comments

Axiom – A scientific computation system

http://www.axiom-developer.org/

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 24 comments

DJI's First Delivery Drone Takes Flight Globally

https://www.dji.com/nl/newsroom/news/dji-launch-fly-cart-30

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 91 comments
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