Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-01-30

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending January 30, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Software engineering topics I changed my mind on
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• Pip has dropped support for Python 2
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• Deskreen – Turn any device with a web browser to a second computer screen
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• WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update
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• Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamander (2019)
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• The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
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• Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies
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• I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go?
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• IKEA Buys 11,000 Acres of U.S. Forest to Keep It from Being Developed
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• Heavy social media use associated with lower mental health in adolescents
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• GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine
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• The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company
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• Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
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• EU citizens’ rights are under threat from anti-encryption proposals
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• Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop
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• We Are Preparing a Class Action Lawsuit Against Robinhood
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• Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store
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• Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult
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• Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop frenzy
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• Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-01-23

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending January 23, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free
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• Software effort estimation is mostly fake research
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• I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea
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• What You Should Know Before Leaking a Zoom Meeting
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• Ask HN: Anyone else burnt out due to extended lockdown and work-from-home?
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• Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing
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• IPFS Support in Brave
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• Kids find a security flaw in Linux Mint by mashing keys
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• Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster
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• I no longer trust The Great Suspender
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• Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App
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• Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon
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• Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle
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• New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects
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• Rust for Windows
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• Still alive
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• AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
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• Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client
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• Atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time
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• Brad Cox has died
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-01-16

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending January 16, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
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• Wikipedia is 20
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• What Silicon Valley gets about engineers that traditional companies do not
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• GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
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• Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time
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• Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair
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• 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers
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• Tell HN: Aaron Swartz died today, 8 years ago
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• Sci-Hub Is Now on the ‘Uncensorable Web’
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• How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler
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• If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a chat room
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• Signal community: Reminder: Please be nice
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• Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app”
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• WRT54G History: The Router That Accidentally Went Open Source
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• Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.2 beta 2
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• Null
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• We don't need data scientists, we need data engineers
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• Thanks HN: You helped save a company that now helps thousands make a living
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• Signal is having technical difficulties
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• Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-01-09

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending January 09, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Open Source Smartwatch
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• Show HN: I shot high-res stitched panoramas in Iceland using a thermal camera
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• How to overcome Phone Addiction
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• ECC matters
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• Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend
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• USA vs. Julian Assange Judgment
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• A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize
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• Slack is down
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• Ditherpunk: The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering
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• Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles
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• GitHub is fully available in Iran
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• DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
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• What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry
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• U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
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• WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app
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• Poll: Switching from WhatsApp
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• Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump
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• No meetings, no deadlines, no full-time employees
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• Signal WhatsApp Chats Import
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• Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-01-02

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending January 02, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Photocatalyst splits water into H and O2 at quantum efficiency near 100%
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• California Public Utilities Commission fired director who exposed missing $200M
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• Just Wanted to Say Thanks
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• Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America?
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• Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating
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• Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior
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• iPhone workers given choice of forced labor or being sent to detention centers
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• Do You Love Me? [video]
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• Show HN: PSX Party – Online Multiplayer Playstation 1 Emulator Using WebRTC
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• Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on chores'
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• SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code
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• Happy New Year HN
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• Bitcoin is a disaster
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• TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem
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• California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement
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• EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors and 2nm Technology
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• My Experience at Apple
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• School or Prison
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• Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store
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• A half-hour to learn Rust
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