Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-11-27

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending November 27, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Microsoft Edge’s new ‘Buy now, pay later’ feature is the definition of bloatware
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• Advent of Code 2021
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• Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
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• The World's Deadliest Thing
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• Fingerprints can be hacked
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• Rust Moderation Team Resigns
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• Remix – A framework focused on web fundamentals and modern UX
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• Full key extraction of Nvidia TSEC
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• Cocaine Paraphernalia Ads in the 70s
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• Boards are dangerous to founder/CEOs
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• Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware
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• QOI: Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time
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• Samsung plans $17B chip plant in Taylor, Texas
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• Apple will notify users about state-sponsored cybersecurity threats
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• Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone
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• OpenLGTV: Legal reverse engineering and research of LG TVs firmware
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• Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful
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• New German government calls for European ban on biometric mass surveillance
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• 90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before
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• Einstein award going to Paul Ginsparg for creating arXiv.org
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-11-20

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

• Restic – Backups Done Right
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• The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI
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• Blacksmith – Rowhammer bit flips on all DRAM devices today despite mitigations
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• YouTube takes down independent court livestreams
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• Individuals Matter
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• I hate password rules
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• There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada
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• Security issue related to the NPM registry
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• Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
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• “Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says
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• Microsoft calls Firefox’s browser workaround “improper,” will block it
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• Apple announces Self Service Repair
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• Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any website
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• How to grow sodium chloride crystals at home
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• Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors
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• SerenityOS demo at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video]
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• Elfshaker: Version control system fine-tuned for binaries
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• Show HN: Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence
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• Crypto Wash Trading
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• Vertiwalk Vertical Walking
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-11-13

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending November 13, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• What is AT&T doing at 1111340002?
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• A terrible schema from a clueless programmer
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• Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro
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• Aaron Swartz Rememberance Day This Monday
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• Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
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• ProctorU is dystopian spyware
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• Lesser-known Postgres features
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• We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem
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• Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors
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• Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer
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• Business Essentials
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• How to make a CPU – a simple picture-based explanation
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• Making the dislike count private across YouTube
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• The gradual extinction of softness
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• American spy hacked Booking.com, company stayed silent
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• I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
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• Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time
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• 3D printed mirror array
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• Show HN: Long Range E-Bike
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• Sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-11-06

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending November 06, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Taking apart the 2010 Fisher Price re-released Music Box Record Player
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• Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open
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• Avoiding bot detection: How to scrape the web without getting blocked?
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• Report on Stablecoins [pdf]
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• Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)
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• Physics Student Earns PhD at Age 89
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• Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public
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• The metaverse is already here – it's Minecraft
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• Curves and Surfaces
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• Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)
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• Zillow to stop flipping homes, loses more than $550M, lays off 25% of staff
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• Thank you, GitHub
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• An oral history of Bank Python
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• Stockholm parents built their own school app, then the city called the cops
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• Why is Excalidraw so good?
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• HashiCorp – S1
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• Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85%
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• Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
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• Helion
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• How credit cards make money
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