Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-05-29

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending May 29, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds
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• One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks
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• Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says
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• Belarus diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist
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• Why I prefer making useless stuff
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• It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)
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• Stripe Payment Links
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• YouTube approves ad by Belarusian gov with journalist from hijackd Ryanair plane
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• Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side
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• M1racles: An Apple M1 covert channel vulnerability
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• Upheaval at freenode
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• Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B
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• Neovim 0.5 is overpowering
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• Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
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• Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022
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• Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer science research
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• River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
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• How I, as someone who is visually impaired, use my iPhone (2020)
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• Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?
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• I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-05-22

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending May 22, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Observing my cellphone switch towers
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• Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio
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• Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps?
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• AMP pages no longer get preferential treatment in Google search
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• Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
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• The tools and tech I use to run a one-woman hardware company
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• Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together
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• Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
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• A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work
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• Poor in Tech
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• I'm leaving Freenode for a new network
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• Welcome to Libera Chat
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• Improving Firefox stability on Linux
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• Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022
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• Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called \"feature phones\"
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• Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning
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• Sublime Text 4
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• Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likely due to memory leak
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• Learn CSS
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• 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-05-15

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending May 15, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Chrome extension recommends local businesses while shopping on Amazon or eBay
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• The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences
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• The Ultimate Guide to Inflation
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• The Animal Is Tired
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• US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack
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• Writing books is not really a good idea
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• Can I Email?
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• Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?
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• Amazon Sidewalk
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• Germany bans Facebook from handling WhatsApp data over privacy concerns
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• FragAttacks: new security vulnerabilities that affect wi-fi devices
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• Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering
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• Show HN: I wrote my own RTS game engine in C
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• What I learnt roasting 200 landing pages
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• Pentagon surveilling Americans without a warrant, Senator Wyden reveals
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• Zulip 4.0: Threaded open source team chat
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• Scala 3.0
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• DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized
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• A URL Lengthener
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• Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years (2020)
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-05-08

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending May 08, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• “Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”
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• Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM
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• Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster
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• Request for comments regarding topics to be discussed at Dark Patterns workshop
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• Dave Herman’s contributions to Rust
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• Amazon knew seller data was used to boost company sales
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• The Unix Magic Poster
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• Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class
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• Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
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• Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython
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• Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt
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• ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs
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• White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help meet climate targets
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• Send: A Fork of Mozilla's Firefox Send
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• HTML Tips (2020)
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• LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online
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• Why I Work on Ads
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• Crazy New Ideas
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• Hatetris – Tetris which always gives you the worst piece
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• I’ve had the same supper for 10 years
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-05-01

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending May 01, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (1985)
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• Apple sued for terminating account with $25k worth of apps and videos
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• Has UML died without anyone noticing?
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• Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers
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• Changes at Basecamp
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• Pfizer is testing a pill that, if successful, could cure Covid-19
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• Experian’s credit freeze security is still a joke
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• My Current HTML Boilerplate
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• Google have declared Droidscript is malware
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• Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting competition and consumers
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• The health benefits of better air
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• Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads
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• Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died
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• Yayagram
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• Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic
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• Internal Combustion Engine
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• EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after Spotify complaint
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• It's your device, you should be able to repair it
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• “About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”
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• Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]
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