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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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-07-17

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending July 17, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• “One Day Longer and Those 13 Boys Would Be Dead”
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• Instagram Has Become SkyMall
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• EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales (2017)
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• People Staring at Computers
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• Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card
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• Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
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• Organic and regenerative agriculture are revitalizing rural Montana economies
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• This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator
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• Tesla’s $16k Quote for a $700 Fix Is Why Right to Repair Matters
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• Reddit is forcing SaveVideo to shut down
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• The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)
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• Give me /events, not webhooks
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• The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday
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• Valve Steam Deck
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• Alphafold
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• Intel in talks to buy GlobalFoundries for about $30B
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• The Alexander: Why did you build such a long piano?
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• Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch
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• Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”
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• Why we're blind to the color blue
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-07-10

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending July 10, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• GPT-J-6B – A 6 billion parameter, autoregressive text generation model
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• Audacity may collect “Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation” and more
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• Is Alexandra Elbakyan in real trouble this time?
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• Show HN: RSS feeds for arbitrary websites using CSS selectors
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• No More Movies
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• Linux Rust Support
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• Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environment variable
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• Poisson's Equation
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• European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communication
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• Npm Audit: broken by design?
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• A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013)
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• All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot
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• Juul bought an entire issue of a scholarly journal
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• We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments
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• The Greatest Regex Trick Ever (2014)
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• Building a data team at a mid-stage startup
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• Google Internal Comics
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• Protect student privacy: ban eproctoring
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• NDA expired, let’s spill the beans on a weird startup
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• Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-07-03

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending July 03, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• I spent 5 years writing my own operating system
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• Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team or ad spend
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• Dear Google: Public domain compositions exist
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• I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC
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• The 'Fuck You' Pattern
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• How to Work Hard
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• GitHub Copilot: your AI pair programmer
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• A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing
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• Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements
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• GitHub co-pilot as open source code laundering?
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• Intuit sabotages the Child Tax Credit
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• Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations
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• SparkFun Hooks a Patent Troll
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• The most precious resource is agency
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• Intuit to share payroll data from 1.4M small businesses with Equifax
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• Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020)
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• Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits lying
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• Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments
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• US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack
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• I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as training for Copilot
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