Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2020-10-24

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending October 24, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings
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• Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being
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• Gravity is not a force – free-fall parabolas are straight lines in spacetime
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• This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine
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• No-till no-herbicide farming system in trial since 1981
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• Face ID and Touch ID for the Web
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• How Discord Won
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• Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
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• Early Work
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• U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly
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• Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur
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• Hands-Free Coding: How I develop software using dictation and eye-tracking
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• PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network
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• Facebook Container for Firefox
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• Notes on My Colon Cancer
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• I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API
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• You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks
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• Bongo Cat
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• YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
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• I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps
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