Hacker News on Friday, 16 June 2023

Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private(old.reddit.com)

1570 points by Jimmc414 3 years ago | 870 comments

A r/ModCoord post sharing a Reddit admin statement that moderators who shut down subreddits in protest will be removed and replaced with new active moderators.

Full Time(marginalia.nu)

869 points by kevincox 3 years ago | 137 comments

Blog post by the Marginalia Search developer announcing they have left their job to work on the independent search engine full time.

Daniel Ellsberg has died(nytimes.com)

735 points by lgvln 3 years ago | 216 comments

New York Times obituary for Daniel Ellsberg (1931-2023), the whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers.

Pricing Money: A beginner's guide to money, bonds, futures and swaps(jdawiseman.com)

726 points by mhh__ 3 years ago | 245 comments

Full online edition of J. D. A. Wiseman's book Pricing Money, a beginner's guide to money, bonds, futures and swaps, with a 2019 preface.

European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries(techspot.com)

633 points by gumby 3 years ago | 504 comments

TechSpot news article reporting that the European Union voted on rules requiring user-replaceable batteries in phones and other devices.

Reddit App – Suspicious high number of recent 5 star, one word reviews(old.reddit.com)

573 points by el_hacker 3 years ago | 276 comments

Reddit post in r/Save3rdPartyApps showing a screenshot of many recent one-word 5-star Google Play reviews of the official Reddit app.

Louis Rossmann calls community to leave Reddit(youtube.com)

472 points by hubraumhugo 3 years ago | 277 comments

YouTube video by Louis Rossmann responding to Reddit's CEO calling moderators' concerns "noise" and urging the community to leave Reddit.

Show HN: 77 Year old launches SaaS platform today. Seeks feedback(propbox.co)

455 points by montgomster 3 years ago | 208 comments

Landing page for PropBox, a platform letting home sellers and buyers negotiate and close real estate transactions directly online without commissions.

Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments(kbin.social)

455 points by kaimac 3 years ago | 254 comments

A kbin thread where a user reports Reddit restored their deleted and overwritten posts and comments, suggesting GDPR/CPRA data requests.

Illinois prohibits weapons, facial recognition on police drones(ilga.gov)

422 points by Kon-Peki 3 years ago | 236 comments

Full enrolled text of Illinois HB3902, the Drones as First Responders Act, amending the Freedom from Drone Surveillance Act governing police drone use.

DevOps Is Bullshit (2022)(blog.massdriver.cloud)

395 points by dijit 3 years ago | 231 comments

Blog post by Cory O'Daniel on the Massdriver blog critiquing DevOps practices and arguing the industry has fooled itself for years.

Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly linked to earthquakes(earth.com)

374 points by webdoodle 3 years ago | 188 comments

Earth.com news article reporting research that links surges in cosmic radiation reaching Earth to earthquake activity.

The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen(theverge.com)

372 points by lewisflude 3 years ago | 253 comments

The Verge article publishing Reddit's message threatening moderators who closed subreddits in the API protest blackout, and seeking replacement mods.

Two years of teaching high school CS(blog.charliemeyer.co)

324 points by csmeyer 3 years ago | 233 comments

Charlie Meyer's blog post reflecting on lessons from two years teaching high school computer science before leaving to start Pickcode.

Show HN: I made an open-source Notion-style WYSYWIG editor(novel.sh)

306 points by steventey 3 years ago | 108 comments

John Carmack on shorter work weeks (2016)(news.ycombinator.com)

275 points by luu 3 years ago | 384 comments

Metformin shown to prevent long Covid(cidrap.umn.edu)

270 points by sp332 3 years ago | 148 comments

Annoying A/B testing mistakes(posthog.com)

263 points by Twixes 3 years ago | 137 comments

Probability and Markets by Jane Street [pdf](janestreet.com)

258 points by max_ 3 years ago | 59 comments

Gyroflow: An open source advanced gyro-based video stabilization tool(gyroflow.xyz)

248 points by G4E 3 years ago | 35 comments

Merging bcachefs(lwn.net)

229 points by rascul 3 years ago | 72 comments

Subreddit Migration Directory(redditmigration.com)

219 points by btw0 3 years ago | 65 comments

Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout(businessinsider.com)

203 points by ryan_j_naughton 3 years ago | 217 comments

Every Louisiana driver's license holder exposed in cyberattack(theguardian.com)

200 points by anigbrowl 3 years ago | 90 comments

Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer with colorized output(github.com)

191 points by hundredwatt 3 years ago | 67 comments

Ask HN: What do you put in a “in case of death” file?

190 points by cjohnson318 3 years ago | 122 comments

100 Days of SwiftUI(hackingwithswift.com)

187 points by sanketpatrikar 3 years ago | 94 comments

Learnings from kCTF VRP's 42 Linux kernel exploits submissions(security.googleblog.com)

186 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 88 comments

Measuring blood pressure for less than a dollar using a phone(arstechnica.com)

177 points by gumby 3 years ago | 67 comments

Planescape: Torment pitch document (1997) [pdf](rpgwatch.com)

159 points by podiki 3 years ago | 99 comments

FBI Groomed a 16-Year-Old with “Brain Development Issues” to Become a Terrorist(theintercept.com)

145 points by Jimmc414 3 years ago | 47 comments

Put an io_uring on it – Exploiting the Linux Kernel (2022)(chompie.rip)

144 points by fragmede 3 years ago | 18 comments

OpenSSL 1.1.1 End of Life Approaching(openssl.org)

144 points by gslin 3 years ago | 48 comments

PhpBB(phpbb.com)

141 points by rpastuszak 3 years ago | 105 comments

Requiem for a bank loan(bitsaboutmoney.com)

136 points by Ozzie_osman 3 years ago | 58 comments

Basics of Proofs (2017) [pdf](theory.stanford.edu)

134 points by waldarbeiter 3 years ago | 65 comments

Hello, Perceptron: An introduction to artificial neural networks(matt.might.net)

121 points by greghn 3 years ago | 14 comments

Control, escape, and meta tricks(susam.net)

115 points by susam 3 years ago | 14 comments

Free unlimited storage, store your files in pi – pi File System(github.com)

111 points by zapdrive 3 years ago | 77 comments

Finland's plan to bury spent nuclear fuel for 100k years(bbc.com)

110 points by giuliomagnifico 3 years ago | 175 comments

Why did Nix adopt Flakes?(jetpack.io)

106 points by pushtheenvelope 3 years ago | 64 comments

Meta's plan to offer free commercial AI models puts pressure on Google, OpenAI(artisana.ai)

105 points by Andugal 3 years ago | 36 comments

AI is going to eat itself: Experiment shows people training bots are using bots(theregister.com)

105 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 106 comments

Limits of Programmer Productivity: A lesson from Fred Brooks(pboyd.io)

101 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 48 comments

NHTSA tells automakers not to comply with Massachusetts right-to-repair law(autoblog.com)

100 points by mistercheph 3 years ago | 86 comments

Stop Calling Each New Disaster “The New Normal”(thewalrus.ca)

88 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 128 comments

Writing a chat application in Django 4.2 using async StreamingHttpResponse(valberg.dk)

87 points by ipmb 3 years ago | 28 comments

Tech vendors have been hiking prices by up to 24% amid inflation(theregister.com)

85 points by rntn 3 years ago | 79 comments

Trsvid, a video player for TRS-80 Model 1, 3 and 4(48k.ca)

84 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 14 comments

Memory Safety Without Borrow Checking, Reference Counting, or Garbage Collection(verdagon.dev)

80 points by modernerd 3 years ago | 62 comments

Reddit is undeleting years worth of comments and posts(tane.codes)

79 points by tanepiper 3 years ago | 14 comments

The next generation of serverless(fermyon.com)

79 points by kiyanwang 3 years ago | 73 comments

Miraheze to shut down(meta.miraheze.org)

79 points by tech234a 3 years ago | 51 comments

Ask HN: Why would Google sell Google domains to Squarespace?

75 points by alsodumb 3 years ago | 41 comments

A Huawei bid turned into a hunt for a corporate mole(bloomberg.com)

72 points by NicoJuicy 3 years ago | 43 comments

How A Supernova Explodes (1985) [pdf](astro.uconn.edu)

71 points by rwmj 3 years ago | 17 comments

Detailed miniature models of historic computer(miniatua.com)

71 points by zwieback 3 years ago | 14 comments

Reddit has a terrible plan to end blackout: ask you to vote out protesting mods(techradar.com)

71 points by mikece 3 years ago | 37 comments

Deep Learning’s Diminishing Returns (2021)(spectrum.ieee.org)

67 points by jrepinc 3 years ago | 27 comments

Building a new database management system in academia (2017)(cs.cmu.edu)

66 points by greghn 3 years ago | 34 comments