Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2020-12-26

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending December 26, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Being kind to others is good for your health
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• All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014)
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• The web is 30 years old today
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• Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ‘Zero-Click’ Exploit
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• More challenging projects every programmer should try
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• Nikon Is ending 70 years of camera production in Japan
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• Russian opposition leader Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned
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• Write code. Not too much. Mostly functions.
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• Why can’t you buy a good webcam?
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• Hotwire: HTML over the Wire
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• How bad is your Spotify?
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• Tips for a Better Life
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• Tokio 1.0 – async runtime for Rust
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• No, Cellebrite Cannot “Break Signal Encryption”
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• Comic Mono
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• How We Saved Dot Org
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• Ruby 3.0
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• Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?
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• Dasung just released a 25 inch eInk monitor
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• Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results?
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2020-12-19

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending December 19, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can
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• I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel
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• Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys
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• U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government – sources
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• Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain
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• Google outage – resolved
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• U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise
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• Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died
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• Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules
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• Gmail having issues
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• Firefox Was Always Enough
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• Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder
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• States bring action against Google under federal and state antitrust laws [pdf]
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• No Cookie for You
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• Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews
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• Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature
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• Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help
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• I Have Resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee
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• Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020
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• Zoom executive charged with disrupting meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2020-12-12

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending December 12, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Linus Torvalds' good taste argument for linked lists, explained
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• Zero-click, wormable, cross-platform remote code execution in Microsoft Teams
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• With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
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• A Modern JavaScript Tutorial
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• AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits
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• Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built Covid-19 dashboard
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• Chuck Yeager has died
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• AirPods Max
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• Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
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• GitHub Releases Dark Mode
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• Cameras and Lenses
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• EU countries team up for semiconductor push
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• YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
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• FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization
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• Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics
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• Deno 1.6 supports compiling TypeScript to a single executable
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• Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
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• Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts
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• Who Americans spend their time with, by age
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• Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2020-12-05

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending December 05, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet
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• Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
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• A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Android user space
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• AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
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• AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
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• Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast?
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• Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
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• Arecibo Observatory Collapsed
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• AWS Lambda pricing now per ms
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• Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
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• An iOS zero-click radio proximity exploit odyssey
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• S3 Strong Consistency
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• Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz
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• Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges
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• Stripe Treasury
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• Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions
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• Drone Footage of Arecibo Observatory Collapse
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• Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)
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• Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
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• Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub
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