Hacker News on 2 November 2021

• Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public
• Curves and Surfaces
• Physics Student Earns PhD at Age 89
• Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)
• Zillow to stop flipping homes, loses more than $550M, lays off 25% of staff
• The metaverse is already here – it's Minecraft
• Trump’s new social media platform found using Mastodon code
• People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates over skill competency
• Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if internal drive failed
• Backblaze IPO