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November 7, 2023

Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (November 08, 2023)

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        <h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
        <p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for November 08, 2023 :</p>

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Nature retracts controversial superconductivity paper by embattled physicist

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03398-4

Summary: Nature has retracted a controversial superconductivity paper by physicist Ranga Dias, marking his third high-profile retraction. The paper claimed the discovery of a room-temperature superconductor, but eight co-authors requested the retraction, citing issues that undermine the paper's integrity. The retractions have raised concerns about the field's reputation and the editorial review process at Nature.

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Gleam: a type safe language on the Erlang VM

https://gleam.run/

Summary: Gleam is a friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems, running on the Erlang virtual machine. It combines the power of a type system, functional programming, and a highly concurrent, fault-tolerant runtime with a modern syntax. Gleam offers a multi-core actor-based concurrency system, fast immutable data structures, and a concurrent garbage collector. It comes with a compiler, build tool, formatter, editor integrations, and package manager. Gleam programs can use thousands of published packages from the BEAM ecosystem, and it can compile to JavaScript, enabling code use in browsers or other JavaScript environments.

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