Fred Brooks has died — Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

Issue #955 — November 19, 2022

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Fred Brooks has died twitter.com \| points: 1431 \| comments: 201

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Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended twitter.com \| points: 1029 \| comments: 1581

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Tailscale Funnel tailscale.com \| points: 611 \| comments: 219

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Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams years of shoddy research bigthink.com \| points: 458 \| comments: 415

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The leap second’s time is up: world votes to stop pausing clocks nature.com \| points: 361 \| comments: 275

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Go Style google.github.io \| points: 310 \| comments: 164

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Exec who cleaned up Enron calls FTX mess ’unprecedented’ apnews.com \| points: 300 \| comments: 233

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“Judas goats” were once key players in meatpacking plants agweb.com \| points: 278 \| comments: 222

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The FBI alleges TikTok poses national security concerns npr.org \| points: 272 \| comments: 363

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If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to the HQ now theverge.com \| points: 258 \| comments: 545

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Show HN: I am building a new Python library to read/write PDF files github.com \| points: 254 \| comments: 114

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Is 40 hours a week too much? okta.com \| points: 252 \| comments: 215

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Rust in the 6.2 kernel lwn.net \| points: 231 \| comments: 222

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Map of the observable universe mapoftheuniverse.net \| points: 225 \| comments: 44

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Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs arstechnica.com \| points: 224 \| comments: 392

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Hardening unused (sub)domains mailhardener.com \| points: 224 \| comments: 28

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Ask HN: Why do some people not communicate clearly? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 206 \| comments: 275

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Improving code review time engineering.fb.com \| points: 205 \| comments: 204

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Researchers quietly cracked Zeppelin ransomware keys krebsonsecurity.com \| points: 191 \| comments: 61

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99Wh Battery Linux Laptop tuxedocomputers.com \| points: 177 \| comments: 227

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