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  1. Judas Goats: Drug-Addicted Masters of Deceit Once Ruled the Killing Floor

    posted on Fri Nov 18 14:29:42 UTC 2022 by emmanuel_1234 | view on HN

  2. Mohammed bin Salman: Saudi leader given US immunity over Khashoggi killing

    posted on Fri Nov 18 16:42:56 UTC 2022 by flanfly | view on HN

    The article discusses how Washington is trying to improve its relations with the Saudi leadership, as there is tension between President Biden and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

  3. Map of the Universe

    posted on Fri Nov 18 14:49:41 UTC 2022 by xd | view on HN

    The article discusses the Cosmic Microwave Background, which is the first flash of light emitted after the big bang.

  4. Fred Brooks has died

    posted on Fri Nov 18 02:56:05 UTC 2022 by tkhattra | view on HN

    The article is about how JavaScript is disabled in the browser and how to enable it.

  5. Google’s Go Style Guide

    posted on Fri Nov 18 09:28:20 UTC 2022 by tomcam | view on HN

    The Go Style Guide, Decisions, and Best Practices codify the current best approaches for writing readable and idiomatic Go and are intended to minimize the guesswork of writing readable Go so that newcomers to the language can avoid common mistakes.

  6. Exec who cleaned up Enron calls FTX mess 'unprecedented'

    posted on Fri Nov 18 15:18:55 UTC 2022 by gmays | view on HN

    The article discusses the bankruptcy of FTX and the accusations against its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried.

  7. Blazing fast CI with MicroVMs

    posted on Fri Nov 18 16:09:33 UTC 2022 by alexellisuk | view on HN

    The article discusses the author's experiences with exploring MicroVMs and using them to fix self-hosted runners for GitHub Actions.

  8. Dice Baseball – A Tabletop Tradition

    posted on Fri Nov 18 13:49:54 UTC 2022 by sogen | view on HN

  9. Show HN: Posterity Automations – Get things done from the afterlife

    posted on Fri Nov 18 15:07:05 UTC 2022 by mohamedattahri | view on HN

  10. Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams years of shoddy research

    posted on Fri Nov 18 14:37:22 UTC 2022 by mmq | view on HN

    The article discusses how a new study found that there is weak evidence linking red meat consumption to health problems, and that the reported effect sizes in these scientific papers are often small.

  11. Some notes on the Stable Diffusion safety filter

    posted on Fri Nov 18 16:10:33 UTC 2022 by Tomte | view on HN

    The article discusses the concept of "red-teaming" which is a group of people who act as an attacker to probe for threats against a company's security set-up.

  12. Why This Universe? New Calculation Suggests Our Cosmos Is Typical

    posted on Fri Nov 18 12:53:55 UTC 2022 by rbanffy | view on HN

    The article is about a new equation that counts universes, which has been met with both praise and criticism.

  13. Asami: A flexible graph store in Clojure

    posted on Wed Nov 16 12:19:58 UTC 2022 by tosh | view on HN

    Asami is a graph database that is similar to Datomic and is characterized by being schema-less, having a query API that looks very similar to Datomic, supporting fast graph traversal operations, and being able to be plugged into different storage types.

  14. Rust in the 6.2 kernel

    posted on Fri Nov 18 11:58:21 UTC 2022 by biorach | view on HN

    The article discusses the development of a Rust kernel module, and the difficulties that come with it.

  15. Ask HN: Why some people do not communicate clearly?

    posted on Fri Nov 18 16:18:07 UTC 2022 by throoooooowa | view on HN

  16. Emerge Tools (YC W21) is hiring to build the future of mobile development

    posted on Fri Nov 18 12:00:16 UTC 2022 by jshchnz | view on HN

    The article is about a senior mobile engineer position at Emerge, and lists the responsibilities and requirements for the position.

  17. Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in

    posted on Fri Nov 18 14:52:51 UTC 2022 by leephillips | view on HN

    The article discusses the new metric prefixes, ronna and quetta for the largest numbers and ronto and quecto for the smallest, that were voted on by scientists and government representatives from across the world attending the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures.

  18. Get answers for Shell Commands from GPT3 right from your terminal

    posted on Fri Nov 18 07:04:32 UTC 2022 by abhagsain | view on HN

    The article is about a package called @abhagsain/ai-cli that allows users to get answers for CLI commands from GPT3 right from their terminal.

  19. A Fresh Twist to a Knot: A Year with Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin

    posted on Fri Nov 18 00:01:14 UTC 2022 by lermontov | view on HN

    The article tells the story of how Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin met and fell in love.

  20. The floating solar panels that track the Sun

    posted on Fri Nov 18 16:13:17 UTC 2022 by hhs | view on HN

    SolarisFloat built a prototype for a solar panel that is able to generate electricity more efficiently by being positioned over water where it can take advantage of the cooling effect of the water.

  21. Researchers quietly cracked Zeppelin ransomware keys

    posted on Fri Nov 18 02:47:01 UTC 2022 by feross | view on HN

    The article is about how a technology manufacturer got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “Zeppelin” in May 2020, and the IT manager was able to crack the encryption with the help of the FBI and a cybersecurity consulting firm.

  22. The death of the key change

    posted on Fri Nov 18 01:53:47 UTC 2022 by colinprince | view on HN

    The article discusses how the key of pop music changed due to the rise in popularity of hip-hop and the use of computers in recording.

  23. Waze Founder Noam Bardin is starting up a Twitter alternative

    posted on Fri Nov 18 14:28:39 UTC 2022 by tokenadult | view on HN

    The article discusses how social media has changed over the years and how the author would like to see it change back to the way it used to be.

  24. Breaking BIOS: enabling VT-x virtualization support on Acer Aspire One netbook

    posted on Fri Nov 18 04:33:01 UTC 2022 by userbinator | view on HN

    The article is about how to enable virtualization on a computer that has it disabled in the BIOS, by editing the BIOS code.

  25. Gravedigging 101

    posted on Thu Nov 17 11:14:09 UTC 2022 by joko42 | view on HN

    The article discusses the profession of gravediggers, how they are often misunderstood, and the process of digging a grave.

  26. Tailscale Funnel

    posted on Fri Nov 18 00:57:27 UTC 2022 by soheilpro | view on HN

    The article discusses how Tailscale Funnel works to expose things from your Tailscale node to the internet.

  27. Wikipedia Is a Source of Political Propaganda

    posted on Fri Nov 18 10:21:50 UTC 2022 by pelasaco | view on HN

    The article discusses how Wikipedia is biased, inaccurate, and uses its funds for political actions.

  28. Is novel research worth doing? Evidence from peer review

    posted on Thu Nov 17 21:31:01 UTC 2022 by deletionist | view on HN

  29. Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs

    posted on Fri Nov 18 16:26:45 UTC 2022 by staplung | view on HN

    The situation at Twitter grew even more chaotic over the past day as all remaining employees were forced to choose whether to stay and meet owner Elon Musk's demands or leave now and take three months' severance.

  30. The FBI alleges TikTok poses national security concerns

    posted on Fri Nov 18 12:54:27 UTC 2022 by clockworksoul | view on HN

    The FBI has "national security concerns" about the U.S. operations of TikTok, warning that the Chinese government could potentially use the popular video-sharing app to influence American users or control their devices.