HackerNews Summary (2023-04-28 09AM)

Source: Oil company ExxonMobil reports record profits of $11.4bn

Summary
Exxon is suing the EU to halt the new windfall tax on oil firms.

Fact

💼 Exxon is caught up in a legal case with the European Union.

⚖️ Exxon is suing the EU.

💸 EU has imposed a new windfall tax on oil firms.

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Source: Rep. Angie Craig drops college requirement for staffers

Summary
Rep. Angie Craig has announced that her staffers will no longer be required to have college degrees, becoming the first member of Congress to do so. This move aims to expand the pool of candidates amid declining enrollment and rising education costs.

Fact
💼 Rep. Angie Craig’s staffers will no longer be required to have college degrees, becoming the first member of Congress to do so.
💻 The decision is in response to declining enrollment and rising education costs.
🎓 The cost of college in the US has escalated out of control, creating a population unable to access the next level of college career.

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Source: Plan 9 from User Space

Summary
Plan9port derives from Plan 9 from Bell Labs and is a result of the team’s years of work. Rob Pike suggested the original X11 port of libdraw and William Josephson handled troff(1) of many supporting programs.

Fact

🧑‍💻 Rob Pike suggested the X11 port of libdraw and encouraged the Mac OS X work.

📝 William Josephson handled troff(1) and inspired the thread library clean-up.

🔎 Andrey Mirtchovski and Axel Belinfante dealt with X11 cases and fine-tuned rio(1).

🐞 Latchesar Ionkov contributed many fixes, and got factotum(4) up and running.

✨ Many others have helped, ported programs, written bug reports, sent useful patches, and got plan9port running on new systems.

🔤 Bigelow & Holmes, Inc. granted permission to redistribute the screen fonts in the luc, lucm, lucsans, and pelm directories with plan9port.

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Source: Tell HN: Cloudflare verification is breaking the internet

Summary
CloudFlare verification process goes into an infinite loop on some pages, asking to verify human identity and repeating the process after each attempt. Deleting cookies and cache doesn’t help. The workaround is to use Chrome. The problem is not specific to certain VPN or Tor users or Ad-blockers, and no support is provided.

Facts

🌩️ CloudFlare verification loops indefinitely, requesting human verification and repeating the process after each attempt.

🦊 Deleting cookies and cache doesn’t stop the infinite loop.

🌐 The problem doesn’t seem to be specific to certain VPN or Tor users or Ad-blockers.

❌ No support is offered by CloudFlare for the issue.

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