Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-08-28

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending August 28, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Google’s ‘Project Hug’ paid out huge sums to keep game devs in the Play Store
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• PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations
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• My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019)
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• The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
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• A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shops instead
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• How I Experience Web Today
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• The most underused browser feature: reader mode
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• Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
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• Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco
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• How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)
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• Googlespeak – How Google limits thought about antitrust
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• OnlyFans drops planned porn ban
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• Prettymaps: Small Python library to draw customized maps from OpenStreetMap data
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• Burning out and quitting
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• The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy
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• TSMC hikes chip prices up to 20% amid supply shortage
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• Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes
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• I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple
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• Apple agrees to settle potential class action suit by U.S. developers
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• Arm China Has Gone Rogue
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-08-21

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending August 21, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Asahi Linux for Apple M1 progress report, August 2021
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• Widelands is a free, open-source real-time strategy game
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• Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust
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• Economic costs of war
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• A shot to prevent Lyme disease could be on its way
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• Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web
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• Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine
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• Lawrence Livermore claims a milestone in laser fusion
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• Asking nicely for root command execution and getting it
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• Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful way – what can I do?
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• Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model
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• Apple is suing Corellium
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• Show HN: Neural-hash-collider – Find target hash collisions for NeuralHash
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• ImageNet contains naturally occurring Apple NeuralHash collisions
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• OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October
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• Apple explicitly asks employees to merge their personal and work accounts
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• Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt
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• Manim: An animation engine for explanatory math videos
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• Facebook hacker beat my 2FA, bricked my Oculus, and hit the company credit card
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• Google's Secret Initiative – “Project Hug”
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-08-14

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending August 14, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free
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• Apps Getting Worse
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• One Bad Apple
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• Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
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• Messaging and chat control
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• Apple’s Mistake
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• Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)
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• Firefox 91 introduces enhanced cookie clearing
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• TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app
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• Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US
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• An old hacker's tips on staying employed
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• GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
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• ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning
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• A future for SQL on the web
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• Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings
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• Internet of Snitches
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• The deceptive PR behind Apple’s “expanded protections for children”
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• Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources
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• Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning'
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• FOSS app removed from the Play Store for linking to the project's website
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-08-07

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending August 07, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company's mission
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• Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization
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• New in Git: switch and restore
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• My tiny side project has had more impact than my decade in the software industry
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• The rise of never-ending job interviews
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• Launch HN: Heimdal (YC S21) – Carbon neutral cement
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• Life before smartphones (2020)
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• WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implementation for the Windows kernel
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• NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guidance [pdf]
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• The surreal experience of my first developer job
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• Airyx OS
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• Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow
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• Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech
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• Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life
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• On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Personal Story
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• An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology
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• CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative
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• The Problem with Perceptual Hashes
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• Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence
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• An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-07-31

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending July 31, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Introduction to open source private LTE and 5G networks
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• Please, enough with the dead butterflies (2017)
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• Anna Kiesenhofer: Mathematician, amateur cyclist, Olympic champion
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• Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts
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• TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe chip plant
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• Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to electric vehicles
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• The Insecurity Industry
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• Element raises $30M to boost Matrix
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• Naval Architecture
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• Postgres Full-Text Search: A search engine in a database
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• Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk
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• Windows 96
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• The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
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• How Dwarf Fortress is built
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• Crafting Interpreters is available in print
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• Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale
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• Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”
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• Who Owns My Name?
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• 1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee
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• Show HN: Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file
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