Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2024-04-13

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending April 13, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Faces.js, a JavaScript library for generating vector-based cartoon faces
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• How to found a company in Germany: 14 \"easy\" steps and lots of pain
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• How much faster are the Gnome 46 terminals?
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• Hello World
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• Lore Harp McGovern built a microcomputer empire from her suburban home
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• Llm.c – LLM training in simple, pure C/CUDA
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• Show HN: I made a discrete logic network card
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• Show HN: We built PriceLevel to find out what companies pay for SaaS
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• Beeper acquired by Automattic
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• Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, has died
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• Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness
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• U.S. imposes first-ever national drinking water limits on PFAS
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• Double-entry bookkeeping as a directed graph
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• AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License
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• Anyone got a contact at OpenAI. They have a spider problem
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• Show HN: I made a new sensor out of 3D printer filament for my PhD
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• An open source initiative to share and compare heat pump performance data
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• Hacked Nvidia 4090 GPU driver to enable P2P
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• I Lost Faith in Kagi
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• Show HN: Mazelit - My wife and I released our first game
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2024-04-06

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending April 06, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Xz: Can you spot the single character that disabled Linux landlock?
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• Xz: A microcosm of the interactions in open source projects
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• Guess my RGB
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• LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs
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• Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backdoor
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• The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining
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• Low Cost Robot Arm
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• Timeline of the xz open source attack
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• The xz attack shell script
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• 3D + 2D: Testing out my cross-platform WASM graphics engine
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• CityGaussian: Real-time high-quality large-scale scene rendering with Gaussians
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• 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
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• Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners
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• Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone
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• Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
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• AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License
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• The design philosophy of Great Tables
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• Mario meets Pareto
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• FFmpeg 7.0
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• Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2024-03-30

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending March 30, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• SQLite Schema Diagram Generator
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• Linux Crisis Tools
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• Monolith – CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file
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• Radios, how do they work?
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• Commission opens non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta
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• Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia will be completed in 2026
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• The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Has Collapsed
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• Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses
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• Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor
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• DBRX: A new open LLM
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• Daniel Kahneman has died
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• Writing Gnome Apps with Swift
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• Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
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• What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane
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• The race to replace Redis
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• Doom Captcha (2021)
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• Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy
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• Simon Riggs has died
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• Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
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• XZ backdoor: \"It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable.\"
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2024-03-23

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending March 23, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Fuzzing Ladybird with tools from Google Project Zero
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• Hackintosh is almost dead
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• How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
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• The return of the frame pointers
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• Grok
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• 900 Sites, 125M accounts, 1 Vulnerability
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• YouTube now requires to label their realistic-looking videos made using AI
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• Stability.ai – Introducing Stable Video 3D
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• How to Start Google
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• Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map
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• Suspicious discontinuities (2020)
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• Shattered Pixel Dungeon is an open-source traditional roguelike dungeon crawler
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• Vernor Vinge has died
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• The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis
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• Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax
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• U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly
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• Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance
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• Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation
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• Google Ordered to Identify Who Watched Certain YouTube Videos
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• Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2024-03-16

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending March 16, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Monodraw
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• Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
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• S3 is files, but not a filesystem
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• JSON Canvas – An open file format for infinite canvas data
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• Webb and Hubble confirm Universe's expansion rate
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• Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
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• Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation
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• Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU
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• Building Meta's GenAI infrastructure
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• JIT WireGuard
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• A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments
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• Spreadsheets are all you need
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• Oregon passes right-to-repair law Apple lobbied to kill
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• Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
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• Why are most sofas so bad?
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• How Figma's databases team lived to tell the scale
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• CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com founded dozens of people-search firms
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• Class Action Against General Motors LLC, OnStar LLC, LexisNexis Risk Solutions [pdf]
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• Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right
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• Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards
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