Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-07-24

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending July 24, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with native performance
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• Inserting a billion rows in SQLite under a minute
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• Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon
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• Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists
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• Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship
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• An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up
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• Apple sued by teen wrongly accused of shoplifting by unreliable facial-rec tech
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• Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance
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• Assange case: Key witness admits he lied, media ignores exculpatory revelations
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• Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?
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• Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups
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• Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted with Pegasus
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• Papers every developer should read at least twice (2009)
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• Our lawsuit against ChessBase
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• Kubernetes is our generation's Multics
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• The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair
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• Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
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• The Framework Laptop is now shipping
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• BirdNet – Identify Birds by Sound
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• AWS's Egregious Egress
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