Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (November 02, 2023)
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<h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
<p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for November 02, 2023 :</p>
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Cosmopolitan Third Edition
Summary: Cosmopolitan library announces version 3.0.1 release after a year of development, with sponsorship from Mozilla's MIECO program and a Google open source peer bonus. The release introduces a new linker, apelink.c, enabling fat binaries to run on multiple platforms. The "Cosmos" Fat Linux Distro includes programs like Emacs, Vim, CoreUtils, Curl, and Git. The library now supports Cosmo development on Apple Silicon and Microsoft Windows systems and offers improved Windows and MacOS support.
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Despite spooky Consumer Reports' testing, metals in chocolates aren't scary
Summary: Consumer Reports (CR) found small amounts of toxic metals lead and cadmium in chocolates, raising concerns about heavy metals in candy. However, medical toxicologists indicate that the risk is low. CR used a conservative threshold not backed by major health agencies, including the WHO and FDA.