[147] Top stories summary
[0] Hard truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job
[1] Barnes and Noble's surprising turnaround
[3] US Government demands direct police access to European biometric data [pdf]
[4] Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 hours
[5] Americans duped into losing $10B by illegal Indian call centres in 2022: report
[6] Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues
[7] CCC captures U.S. military biometrics database
[8] All About USB-C: Illegal Adapters
[9] Sherlock Holmes will finally escape copyright this weekend
[10] Tell HN: Thank You
[11] Social media may prevent users from reaping creative rewards of profound boredom
[12] Reverse engineering yet another eBook format
[13] Dioxus: User interfaces that run anywhere
[14] Detecting the use of “curl | bash” server side (2016)
[15] Stable Diffusion macOS native app
[16] Police, prosecutors used junk science to decide 911 callers were liars
[17] Google removed my Yubikeys from a Google account 'just to be safe'
[18] HelloSilicon – An introduction to assembly on Apple Silicon Macs
[19] Facebook addiction increases depression severity among already depressed people
[20] Existing smartphones will connect with new satellite constellations in 2023
[21] Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua
[22] Unbundling Tools for Thought
[23] Writing a Mini-CDN to Learn Nginx/Prometheus/Grafana/Lua
[24] MIT faculty adopts “Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom”
[25] BorgBackup: Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption
[26] Ask HN: What's a build vs. buy decision that you got wrong?
[27] APITable: open-source Airtable alternative
[28] Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of SimCity, other games