Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-03-27

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending March 27, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Don't End the Week with Nothing (2014)
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• Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF
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• Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook
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• Firefox 87 trims HTTP Referrers by default to protect user privacy
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• Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed
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• Crystal 1.0 – What to expect
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• Plan 9 from Bell Labs in Cyberspace
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• Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default
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• Suez canal blocked by a massive ship
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• Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store
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• Show HN: I wrote a book about Go
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• The solution of the Zodiac killer’s 340-character cipher
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• SQLite is not a toy database
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• RIP Google Reader
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• All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk
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• Is that ship still stuck?
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• The Drivers Cooperative
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• Apt Encounters of the Third Kind
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• Only Google is really allowed to crawl the web
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• Louvre makes its entire collection available online
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-03-20

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

• Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
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• Reprojecting the Perseverance landing footage onto satellite imagery
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• Security.txt
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• Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
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• Satellite imagery shows Northern California kelp forests have collapsed
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• A hacker got all my texts for $16
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• Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, official update coming
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• Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
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• GitHub, fuck your name change
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• Show HN: Video Game in a Font
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• Manim – an animation engine for explanatory math videos
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• Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana
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• WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
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• Show HN: Sorted CSS Colors – Sort the named CSS colors in a nice way
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• Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers”
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• We found and fixed a rare race condition in our session handling
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• Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp
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• Duke Nukem 3D Mirror Universe
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• Click
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• Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-03-13

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending March 13, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Animated Engines
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• Dolt is Git for Data: a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge
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• NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap
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• Why I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consistency, mastery, and fun
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• Switzerland votes against electronic ID system provided by private companies
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• Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Challenger launch
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• Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it
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• Fuckin' user interface design, I swear
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• -2000 Lines of Code
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• “ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them”
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• I want a computer that I own
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• Write libraries instead of services, where possible
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• Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while cloning
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• Hackers break into thousands of security cameras, exposing Tesla, jail, hospital
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• Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building
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• I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
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• How I earn a living selling my open-source web-based invoicing application
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• Bitwarden Send - A trusted way to securely share information with anyone
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• Speed of Rust vs. C
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• Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-03-06

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending March 06, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Actually Portable Executables
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• How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
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• On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't
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• Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are (2020)
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• Apple Card Disabled My iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID Accounts
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• Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut
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• NASA's Perseverance rover sends stunning images
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• ICANN Refuses to Accredit Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Due to His ‘Background’
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• Google to stop selling ads based on your specific web browsing
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• Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling
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• Killing TurboTax
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• Flutter 2
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• Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B
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• It Can Happen to You
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• HTTPWTF
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• “User engagement” is code for “addiction”
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• Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
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• Git's list of banned C functions
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• Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux
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• 30k U.S. organizations newly hacked via holes in Microsoft Exchange Server
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