October 16th, 2023 | LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

Oct 17, 2023

This podcast discusses the layoffs at Bandcamp, LinkedIn's layoff of 700 employees, the link between the herbicide Roundup and chronic kidney disease, improvements in Go 1.22 HTTP server routing, the private YouTube client FreeTube, the nature of C programming language, and the importance of Microsoft-verified apps and transitioning to Linux.

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Introduction

00:00 • 2min

Debate on Bandcamp's Content, Marketing, and Business Models, and LinkedIn's Layoffs

01:43 • 2min

Glyphosate and Chronic Kidney Disease in Sri Lanka, Go 1.22 Improvements, and Ad-Blocking on YouTube

04:05 • 6min

Exploring the Nature of C and Memory Management in Chatbots

10:00 • 4min

Microsoft Verified Apps and Transitioning to Linux

14:09 • 5min

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 16th, 2023.

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(00:37): About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37905638&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

(02:19): LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37904518&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

(04:02): Roundup herbicide ingredient connected to epidemic chronic kidney disease
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37905251&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

(05:47): Better HTTP server routing in Go 1.22
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37898999&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

(07:59): FreeTube – The Private YouTube Client
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37897916&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

(09:51): C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37897946&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

(10:38): MemGPT – LLMs with self-editing memory for unbounded context
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37901902&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

(12:23): Windows 10 warns me to use a "Microsoft-verified" app
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37897432&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

(14:05): Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37908268&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

(15:42): Should you be scared of Unix signals? (2016)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37899098&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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