Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2020-11-28

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending November 28, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Booting from a vinyl record
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• Building Your Color Palette
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• Oxford University breakthrough on global COVID-19 vaccine
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• Solomon Islands set to ban Facebook in the name of 'national unity'
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• WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)
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• Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt
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• Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County CCW case
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• Zoomquilt (2004)
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• Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics built in
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• Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert
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• Email a Dumpster Fire
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• Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery
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• macOS has checked app signatures online for over 2 years
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• hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet
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• I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track
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• How io_uring and eBPF Will Revolutionize Programming in Linux
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• Tell HN: Thank You Dang
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• CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
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• How to Think for Yourself
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• Tony Hsieh has died
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2020-11-21

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending November 21, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Intel's disruption is now complete
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• Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur
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• Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, trials show
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• YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
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• Standing up for developers: YouTube-dl is back
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• Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut (2019)
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• What Gödel Discovered
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• Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode
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• 2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test
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• Servo’s new home
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• Apple Announces App Store Small Business Program
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• Six Months of Tiny Projects
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• TailwindCSS v2.0
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• ‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the world’s democracies
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• DisneyMustPay Alan Dean Foster
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• Beirut Port Explosion
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• YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them
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• Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dismantled
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• 1MB Club
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• Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2020-11-14

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending November 14, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Alex Trebek has died
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• About iSH’s pending removal from the App Store
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• EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]
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• No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This
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• Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection
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• Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says
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• I sold Baremetrics
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• On Apple's Piss-Poor Documentation
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• .NET 5.0
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• Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers
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• Introducing the next generation of Mac
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• How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home
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• An updated daily front page of The New York Times as artwork on your wall
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• Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro
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• Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft
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• macOS Big Sur
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• macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
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• Your Computer Isn't Yours
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• So you've made a mistake and it's public
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• Don't use third party auth to sign in
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2020-11-07

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending November 07, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Photos from inside a Typhoon class submarine
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• Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built with React
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• New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1
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• Danish military intelligence uses XKEYSCORE to tap cables in co-op with the NSA
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• Google users locked out after 15 years' use
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• Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC
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• A tech antitrust problem no one is talking about: US broadband providers
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• South Park creators have new political satire series with AI-generated deepfakes
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• “Before cancelling your subscription, you must agree to the following”
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• GitHub: Widespread Injection Vulnerabilities in Actions
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• A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack
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• Disclosure: Unlimited Chase Ultimate Rewards Points
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• GitHub Source Code Leak
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• Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel
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• SVG Path Editor
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• Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service
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• Deprecating scp
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• Technical debt as a lack of understanding
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• HP Instant Ink is “ink as a service”
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• Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2020-10-31

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending October 31, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Pandoc – A universal document converter
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• YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git
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• Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest
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• I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers
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• Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response among old and young
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• Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla
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• Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account
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• How journalists use youtube-dl
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• Type in the exact number of machines to proceed
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• AMD to Acquire Xilinx
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• RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO
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• Over 80% of Covid-19 patients in a hospital study have Vitamin D deficiency
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• Google's new logos are bad
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• Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab
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• Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself
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• I Violated a Code of Conduct
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• My Resignation from the Intercept
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• Show HN: What would mechanical programming look like?
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• From McDonald's to Google
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• Sean Connery has died
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