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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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2020-10-17

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending October 17, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• They're Made Out of Meat (1991)
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• Cameras and secret trackers reveal where Amazon returns end up
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• Please stop using CDNs for external JavaScript libraries
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• Rust After the Honeymoon
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• The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of the Linux Kernel
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• Ferrari is bricked during upgrade due to no mobile reception while underground
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• The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled
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• 2.1M of the oldest Usenet posts are now online for anyone to read
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• Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account
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• Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time
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• HashiCorp Boundary
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• Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting
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• Dropbox Converts to Permanent WFH
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• Congress should invest in open-source software
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• Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims
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• A warning about Glassdoor
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• Waypoint: Build, deploy, and release applications across any platform
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• Google disabled my husband's account
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• Animation of how bridges were built in Central Europe in the Middle Ages [video]
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• AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2020-10-10

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending October 10, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Honda quits F1, invests in carbon-free tech instead
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• French bar owners arrested for offering free WiFi but not keeping logs
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• Running a Unix-like OS on a home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler
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• Darling: macOS Translation Layer for Linux
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• Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid
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• Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel
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• Stop the Earn IT Bill Before It Breaks Encryption
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• Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
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• DigitalOcean App Platform
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• Eddie Van Halen has died
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• Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay
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• Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
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• Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling industry veteran says
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• We Hacked Apple for 3 Months
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• Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google
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• AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video]
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• IBM is splitting itself into two public companies
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• Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other
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• ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion'
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• Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in Belarus
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