Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-10-30

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending October 30, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations
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• Google digital advertising antitrust litigation [pdf]
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• Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker
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• Google has a secret deal with FB called “Jedi Blue” that they knew was illegal
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• Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux
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• NYT journalist hacked with Pegasus after reporting on previous hacking attempts
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• The Financial Times’ 404 page
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• WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers
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• Show HN: I built a fake VS Code to browse live cricket score in office
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• Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details
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• The FBI's internal guide for getting data from AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon
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• A patent troll backs off
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• This word does not exist
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• New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacement design since 2012
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• I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own
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• Facebook Renames to Meta
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• What caused all the supply chain bottlenecks?
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• 55 GiB/s FizzBuzz
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• Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California
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• The metaverse is bullshit
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-10-23

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending October 23, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations
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• Roger Hui has died
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• AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go
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• Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors
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• MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
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• Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined
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• The FDA wants you to be able to buy a hearing aid without a prescription
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• Overly analytical guide to escorting
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• Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser
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• Vscode.dev
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• Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021
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• Willingness to look stupid
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• Beyond Smart
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• Magit, the magical Git interface (2017)
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• Police can’t demand you reveal your phone passcode then tell a jury you refused
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• Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?
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• John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset
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• An enormous thread on alleged Google Facebook collusion
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• RSS is wonderful
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• Google 'colluded' with Facebook to bypass Apple privacy
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-10-16

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending October 16, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news
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• HN 15 Years ago
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• I keep making things out of checkboxes
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• Jörg Schilling has died
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• Open Source Tractor
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• Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf]
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• Sony to join TSMC on new $7B chip plant in Japan
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• Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely
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• Rancher Desktop, a Docker Desktop Replacement
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• Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ triggered in a lab
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• IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district
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• Apple silently fixes iOS zero-day, asks bug reporter to keep quiet
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• Esbuild – An extremely fast JavaScript bundler
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• Gitlab from YC to IPO
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• Apple Joins Blender Development Fund
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• Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
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• Oculess – Removes account requirements and telemetry from Oculus Quest devices
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• Most Canadians believe Facebook harms their mental health
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• A viable solution for Python concurrency
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• Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-10-09

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending October 09, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich
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• E-Ink Magic Calendar that runs off a battery powered Raspberry Pi
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• It takes a PhD to develop that
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• Facebook-owned sites were down
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• Apple execs describe a “unique arrangement” with Netflix (2018)
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• What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?
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• Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet
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• Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm?
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• Phrack Issue 70
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• Facebook Whistleblower Leaks Thousands of Pages of Incriminating Internal Docs
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• Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and physics
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• Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked
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• How to permanently delete your Facebook account
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• Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore starting January 31
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• Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions
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• Moths in slow motion [video]
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• Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return
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• Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer
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• Facebook bans, sends C&D letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension
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• EU court rules no EULA can forbid decompilation, if you want to fix a bug
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-10-02

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending October 02, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Congratulations, Mini, you made the stupidest turn signals ever
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• Apple’s app review prevents developer from submitting fix to game for the blind
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• Moiré No More
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• I just don’t want to be busy anymore
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• How big tech runs tech projects and the curious absence of Scrum
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• Prevent Google from mangling search result links when click/copying on Firefox
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• Something weird is happening on Facebook
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• What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week
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• Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees
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• You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation
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• Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux
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• Making bracket pair colorization faster
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• YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content
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• When users never use the features they asked for
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• Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist
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• PostgreSQL 14
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• Cloudflare's Disruption
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• Understanding Awk
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• NFT projects are just MLMs for tech elites
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• Ocean drone captures video from inside a hurricane
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