Hacker News Weekly Top 10 @2023-10-23

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1. Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states
   902 points by dwynings 5 days ago | 328 comments

2. Write more "useless" software
   838 points by greenSunglass 5 days ago | 252 comments

3. We have used too many levels of abstractions
   795 points by riidom 1 day ago | 518 comments

4. Commercially available chairs in Star Trek
   716 points by zichy 4 days ago | 209 comments

5. Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targeting Jabber service
   706 points by f311a 2 days ago | 296 comments

6. Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
   704 points by reuven 3 days ago | 488 comments

7. Using Goatse to Stop App Theft
   677 points by joshcsimmons 5 days ago | 431 comments

8. About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off
   638 points by donohoe 6 days ago | 607 comments

9. Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data
   634 points by gslin 1 week ago | 246 comments

10. Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security
    628 points by danso 5 days ago | 578 comments

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