Hacker NewsSunday, November 9

YouTube removed tech YouTuber CyberCPU Tech's Windows 11 tutorials, claiming they encouraged dangerous activities risking death. The platform later restored both videos but claimed human reviewers, not AI, made the initial decisions. This highlights ongoing issues with Big Tech content moderation systems struggling to distinguish legitimate technical content from harmful material, while actual spam often goes undetected.

The article criticizes Tim Cook for diluting Apple's customer experience standards compared to Steve Jobs. It recounts how Jobs rejected placing ads in Mac OS in 1999 to preserve the pure user interface, contrasting this with Apple's current introduction of ads in Maps and App Store. The author argues Cook prioritizes revenue over user experience, abandoning Jobs' principle that protecting customer experience was paramount, even at the cost of potential profits.

This article by Nilo Stolte introduces Zig as a revolutionary programming language that goes beyond replacing C/C++. It highlights Zig's unique ability to compile C code and cross-compile out-of-the-box, along with key features like variable declaration, structs, arrays, pointers, and object-oriented programming capabilities. The piece serves as a quick-start guide for programmers wanting to learn Zig's basic concepts and commands.

Valdi is a cross-platform UI framework by Snap that compiles TypeScript code directly to native iOS, Android, and macOS views without web views or JavaScript bridges. It offers true native performance, instant hot reload, VSCode debugging, and flexible integration with existing apps.

A Chicago resident describes the daily terror of federal immigration raids targeting residents, including attacks on teachers, pastors, elected officials, and children. Agents use excessive force, tear gas, and pepper balls while ignoring court orders. The author documents systematic abuse by masked federal agents and calls for help, warning of the dangers of unchecked government enforcement that threatens democracy itself.

Jean-Baptiste Kempf received the European SFS Award 2025 from FSFE and LUGBZ for his dedication to VLC Media Player. Starting as a student project in 1996, VLC grew into a globally used media player with billions of users under Kempf's leadership since 2000.

The author explores their programming journey across different languages, ultimately finding OCaml to be the ideal balance. After experiencing Haskell's complexity and Go's limitations, they discovered OCaml offers fast compilation, strong static guarantees, functional programming features, good performance, and excellent documentation - combining the best aspects of both worlds.

Myna is a monospace font designed to treat ASCII symbols as first-class glyphs alongside letters and numbers. It aims to bring harmony to code editors by providing clear, well-aligned symbols that look like proper arrows and operators without using ligatures, maintaining ASCII simplicity while improving readability for programming languages like Perl, Haskell, and C.

This guide explains how to prevent heart disease death through proactive testing and treatment. The author discovered he had early heart disease despite normal standard tests, highlighting that expensive concierge medicine uses better biomarkers like ApoB and imaging scans that cost under $300 total. Most doctors follow outdated guidelines and won't catch heart disease early. You must advocate for yourself, demand proper tests, and take preventive action in your 30s-40s since heart disease develops silently for decades before causing sudden death.

Heated debate over whether Watson and Crick "stole" Franklin's work or properly credited her. Some argue they plagiarized her X-ray crystallography data (Photo 51), while others contend she was acknowledged and that Watson-Crick contributed significant theoretical insights beyond the experimental data.