Hacker News on Monday, 16 October 2023

About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off(theverge.com)

567 points by donohoe 3 years ago | 524 comments

The Verge reports that about half of Bandcamp's staff were laid off after Songtradr acquired the music platform from Epic Games.

Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value(economist.com)

413 points by lxm 3 years ago | 728 comments

An Economist article on Detroit's proposal to become the first big US city to adopt a land value tax to reduce blight.

Cockpit: Web-based graphical interface for servers(cockpit-project.org)

396 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 164 comments

Homepage of Cockpit, an open-source web-based graphical interface for administering Linux servers, showing Version 302 released 5 Oct 2023.

Launch HN: Radical (YC W23) – Autonomous high-altitude solar aircraft

382 points by jthomaslm 3 years ago | 199 comments

Launch HN post where Radical (YC W23) founders introduce their autonomous solar-powered aircraft designed for months-long flight in the stratosphere.

LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees(npr.org)

341 points by cebert 3 years ago | 285 comments

NPR business article from October 16, 2023 reporting that LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees.

MemGPT – LLMs with self-editing memory for unbounded context(github.com)

327 points by shishirpatil 3 years ago | 78 comments

GitHub repository for MemGPT, an open-source project that gives LLMs self-editing memory management to handle unbounded context.

Stocketa – An app I designed, built and never launched(paulstamatiou.com)

315 points by notsahil 3 years ago | 74 comments

Roundup herbicide ingredient connected to epidemic chronic kidney disease(phys.org)

305 points by wglb 3 years ago | 183 comments

Invidious – An open source alternative front-end to YouTube(invidious.io)

298 points by panki27 3 years ago | 143 comments

Better HTTP server routing in Go 1.22(eli.thegreenplace.net)

296 points by ingve 3 years ago | 210 comments

4D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic Scene Rendering(guanjunwu.github.io)

294 points by lattalayta 3 years ago | 78 comments

Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR's traffic(pluralistic.net)

282 points by jkestner 3 years ago | 150 comments

"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today"(twitter.com)

279 points by tomduncalf 3 years ago | 190 comments

Getaddrinfo() on glibc calls getenv(), oh boy(rachelbythebay.com)

259 points by defrost 3 years ago | 229 comments

C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)(queue.acm.org)

253 points by bmer 3 years ago | 293 comments

Ask HN: 20% of LinkedIn's recent layoffs were managers

247 points by huitzilopochtli 3 years ago | 206 comments

FreeTube – The Private YouTube Client(github.com)

243 points by akyuu 3 years ago | 315 comments

How to build a universe that doesn’t fall apart two days later (1978)(urbigenous.net)

235 points by higgins 3 years ago | 122 comments

Should you be scared of Unix signals? (2016)(jvns.ca)

229 points by gavinhoward 3 years ago | 135 comments

Windows 10 warns me to use a "Microsoft-verified" app(support.mozilla.org)

216 points by mrich 3 years ago | 129 comments

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin(en.wikipedia.org)

207 points by rmason 3 years ago | 69 comments

Napflix – Siesta Video Platform(napflix.tv)

177 points by colinprince 3 years ago | 52 comments

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto(a16z.com)

175 points by packym 3 years ago | 235 comments

Tech giants are hijacking the internet(dw.com)

164 points by jruohonen 3 years ago | 81 comments

Atlassian prepares to abandon on-prem server products(theregister.com)

159 points by jjgreen 3 years ago | 124 comments

PaLI-3 Vision Language Models(arxiv.org)

158 points by maccaw 3 years ago | 22 comments

OpenBSD 7.4(openbsd.org)

157 points by peter_hansteen 3 years ago | 42 comments

Stack Overflow is laying off another 28%(theverge.com)

152 points by sprynr 3 years ago | 133 comments

The world is designed against the elderly, writes Don Norman(fastcompany.com)

143 points by grzm 3 years ago | 85 comments

Hallucineted CVE against Curl: someone asked Bard to find a vulnerability(mastodon.social)

140 points by TotempaaltJ 3 years ago | 84 comments

Google’s dominance under siege: Antitrust trial threatens sweeping changes(livenowfox.com)

135 points by pg_1234 3 years ago | 136 comments

Advent of Code 2023's new AI/LLM Policy(adventofcode.com)

133 points by eddtries 3 years ago | 94 comments

Ruff v0.1.0(astral.sh)

125 points by petercooper 3 years ago | 32 comments

Bootstrapping a SaaS Business in Germany: How I did it(lukashermann.dev)

118 points by alexzeitler 3 years ago | 66 comments

GPU Embedding with GGML(bloop.ai)

118 points by louiskw 3 years ago | 32 comments

Skyvew – View and share Bluesky threads without needing a Bluesky account(skyview.social)

114 points by shakna 3 years ago | 79 comments

OpenBSD 7.4(openbsd.org)

112 points by privong 3 years ago | 29 comments

BitVM: Compute Anything on Bitcoin [pdf](bitvm.org)

111 points by wslh 3 years ago | 66 comments

A little-known pollution rule keeps the air dirty for millions of Americans(theguardian.com)

111 points by Stratoscope 3 years ago | 61 comments

The Largest Greek Manuscript?(blogs.bl.uk)

111 points by benbreen 3 years ago | 38 comments

A successful example of "adversarial collaboration"(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

105 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 37 comments

The U.S. Government Has $5B in Bitcoin(wsj.com)

105 points by lxm 3 years ago | 115 comments

Tanzania unveils its first locally assembled aircraft, Skyleader 600(townflex.com)

103 points by kobimo 3 years ago | 49 comments

Canon Nanoimprint lithography semiconductor manufacturing system (5nm)(global.canon)

101 points by rjzzleep 3 years ago | 31 comments

JavaScript-Is-Weird as a compressor(github.com)

100 points by mgarciaisaia 3 years ago | 32 comments

Apple plans to update iPhones in-store without opening the boxes(appleinsider.com)

96 points by FloatArtifact 3 years ago | 70 comments

The Mathematician Who Sculpted the Shape of Space(quantamagazine.org)

96 points by digital55 3 years ago | 19 comments

Chess Written in GNU Sed(github.com)

94 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 24 comments

Can we build trustable hardware? (2019)(bunniestudios.com)

93 points by Fnoord 3 years ago | 43 comments

Dig near Paris unearths beginnings of urbanization dating back to 4,200 BC(lemonde.fr)

91 points by geox 3 years ago | 27 comments

LinkedIn laying off nearly 700, mostly from core engineering teams(cnbc.com)

90 points by codex_irl 3 years ago | 71 comments

Hong Kong Locations in Ghost in the Shell(randomwire.com)

89 points by keiferski 3 years ago | 31 comments

Realtors Face an Antitrust Reckoning(wsj.com)

89 points by lxm 3 years ago | 56 comments

Goldman Sachs reportedly said Apple Card savings account was a mistake(9to5mac.com)

88 points by ksec 3 years ago | 112 comments

Sensorvault(en.wikipedia.org)

82 points by acqbu 3 years ago | 12 comments

Rite Aid Files for Bankruptcy(cbsnews.com)

82 points by lxm 3 years ago | 65 comments

NASA's Webb captures an ethereal view of NGC 346(phys.org)

80 points by wglb 3 years ago | 19 comments

Isometric Geological Diagrams(socks-studio.com)

77 points by khet 3 years ago | 3 comments

Tech layoffs exceed 240k so far in 2023, 50% more than 2022(msn.com)

75 points by haltist 3 years ago | 53 comments

Edinburgh couple are handed £17K bill by Tesla as they 'drove in rain'(edinburghlive.co.uk)

74 points by jrflowers 3 years ago | 67 comments