Hacker News on Saturday, 10 February 2024

I Was Illegally Fired by Amazon for Speaking Out About a Coworker's Death (2023)(jacobin.com)

467 points by wglb 2 years ago | 309 comments

Jacobin first-person article by a former Amazon warehouse worker who says they were illegally fired after speaking out about a coworker's death on the job.

Cloud Egress Costs(getdeploying.com)

446 points by amzans 2 years ago | 278 comments

A reference page comparing data egress pricing, free allowances, and per-TB overage costs across major cloud providers.

OpenTTD(openttd.org)

392 points by simonebrunozzi 2 years ago | 84 comments

The About page of OpenTTD, an open source GPL-licensed simulation game based on Transport Tycoon Deluxe, listing its features and enhancements.

Building the DirectX shader compiler better than Microsoft?(devlog.hexops.com)

282 points by slimsag 2 years ago | 77 comments

Aho – a Git implementation in Awk(github.com)

266 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 119 comments

How to Study (2023)(cse.buffalo.edu)

224 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 72 comments

Detroit's abandoned tunnel systems open door to another world(freep.com)

214 points by rmason 2 years ago | 132 comments

Show HN: A platform for remote piano lessons based on the Web MIDI API(keyboardconnect.com)

197 points by keycon 2 years ago | 94 comments

Semiconductor Fabrication 101(engineering.purdue.edu)

171 points by hugolundin 2 years ago | 17 comments

Becoming a dungeon master for an interview(propelauth.com)

169 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 147 comments

Tenets(github.com)

169 points by wilbertliu 2 years ago | 111 comments

OPML is underrated(kmaasrud.com)

167 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 97 comments

BirdLingo: A birdsong learning game(jessicalieb.itch.io)

141 points by selfserve 2 years ago | 28 comments

Demoscene and video game music streaming radio links(mw.rat.bz)

136 points by m_walden 2 years ago | 32 comments

ZX – A tool for writing better scripts(github.com)

133 points by AbuAssar 2 years ago | 101 comments

A rent-stabilized 1 bedroom apartment for $1,100 In NYC? broker's fee is $15K(gothamist.com)

131 points by geox 2 years ago | 240 comments

A look at the Mojo language for bioinformatics(viralinstruction.com)

129 points by blindseer 2 years ago | 95 comments

Getting into robotics as a software engineer(bou.ke)

121 points by bouk 2 years ago | 84 comments

Extending Rust's Effect System(blog.yoshuawuyts.com)

121 points by egnehots 2 years ago | 15 comments

Niagara Launcher(niagaralauncher.app)

118 points by unstuck3958 2 years ago | 83 comments

Memray – A Memory Profiler for Python(github.com)

114 points by softwaredoug 2 years ago | 25 comments

Show HN: Emacs minor mode for connecting assembly and assembled code buffers(github.com)

113 points by meken 2 years ago | 11 comments

Broken VPNs, the Year 2038, and certs that expired 100 years ago(theregister.com)

111 points by kdp747 2 years ago | 41 comments

The Tears of a Clown: Probing the comedian's psyche (2008)(psychologytoday.com)

104 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 73 comments

In 2023 operations for the .GOV TLD transitioned from Verisign to Cloudflare(indico.dns-oarc.net)

103 points by surteen 2 years ago | 47 comments

Walmart, Delta, and Starbucks are using AI to monitor employee messages(cnbc.com)

99 points by cebert 2 years ago | 46 comments

Mixed Reality gone in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052(blogs.windows.com)

96 points by croes 2 years ago | 117 comments

LubeLogger: Self-hosted, open-source vehicle service records and tracker(github.com)

96 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 26 comments

Nvidia pursues $30B custom chip opportunity with new unit(reuters.com)

96 points by dev_tty01 2 years ago | 59 comments

Privacy focused platform Skiff is joining Notion, Skiff to be sunset(notion.so)

95 points by mirshko 2 years ago | 134 comments

Grand-Master Level Chess Without Search: Modeling Choices and Their Implications(gist.github.com)

92 points by georgehill 2 years ago | 37 comments

Building for DOS, OS/2, and DOS on a MacBook Apple Silicon(retrocoding.net)

90 points by ingve 2 years ago | 12 comments

Espressif ESP32: Breaking HW AES with Power Analysis (2023)(raelize.com)

90 points by transpute 2 years ago | 20 comments

A French village that voted to ban scrolling in public(theguardian.com)

89 points by giuliomagnifico 2 years ago | 133 comments

A walk through Chicago Pedway (2017)(chicago.curbed.com)

80 points by wglb 2 years ago | 43 comments

Grabby Aliens (2021)(grabbyaliens.com)

77 points by noch 2 years ago | 153 comments

Getting rid of bed bugs: trickier than ever(knowablemagazine.org)

76 points by fortran77 2 years ago | 81 comments

Carl Griffith's 1847 Oregon Trail Sourdough Starter(carlsfriends.net)

76 points by axiomdata316 2 years ago | 53 comments

What is trauma? The author of "The Body Keeps the Score" explains [video](youtube.com)

71 points by keepamovin 2 years ago | 106 comments

The Complete Bus Logic of the Intel 8088(martypc.blogspot.com)

70 points by ingve 2 years ago | 8 comments

Show HN: Now my pet programming language can run in the browser(nbittich.github.io)

63 points by nbittich 2 years ago | 12 comments

Shell closes all of its hydrogen refuelling stations for cars in California(hydrogeninsight.com)

62 points by standeven 2 years ago | 34 comments

Eugène-François Vidocq and the Birth of the Detective(publicdomainreview.org)

59 points by Thevet 2 years ago | 6 comments

Ruby on the Apple II: Adventures in Retro Programming (2019) [video](youtube.com)

58 points by nf3 2 years ago | 8 comments

Spark – A web micro framework for Java and Kotlin(sparkjava.com)

58 points by znpy 2 years ago | 34 comments

New adhesive tape picks up and sticks down 2D materials easily(phys.org)

57 points by wglb 2 years ago | 8 comments

How much 1 TB of egress costs by cloud provider(getdeploying.com)

56 points by belltaco 2 years ago | 21 comments

46% of Americans didn't read a book in 2023(nathanbransford.com)

48 points by rhollos 2 years ago | 96 comments

Best Mathematical Science Fiction Books(best-sci-fi-books.com)

47 points by RafelMri 2 years ago | 20 comments

Has LA cracked the code for building affordable housing?(benjaminschneider.substack.com)

44 points by vwoolf 2 years ago | 48 comments

Putting the pieces together: Meet Justin Yu ’25, Tetris world champion(thetech.com)

44 points by geox 2 years ago | 29 comments

Lunar reflections during SLIM landing(destevez.net)

43 points by picture 2 years ago | 1 comments

50 Years of Prolog: Becoming More Declarative [video](youtube.com)

43 points by agumonkey 2 years ago | 2 comments

Vladimir Lukyanov's Water Computer (2019)(amusingplanet.com)

42 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 11 comments

Fourays: A Tribute to the AY-3-8910(doug.lon.dev)

41 points by wdfx 2 years ago | 23 comments

Short history of all Windows UI frameworks and libraries(irrlicht3d.org)

40 points by st_goliath 2 years ago | 33 comments

Creeped Out [pdf](philpapers.org)

38 points by list 2 years ago | 19 comments

SIMD-Scan: Ultra Fast In-Memory Table Scan (2009) [pdf](lersse-dl.ece.ubc.ca)

37 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 0 comments

UK to replace physical biometric immigration cards with e-visas(bleepingcomputer.com)

37 points by edward 2 years ago | 38 comments

Unscrambling the hidden secrets of superpermutations(quantamagazine.org)

36 points by RafelMri 2 years ago | 5 comments