Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-01-15

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending January 15, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Upwork asking me for a $12.5k refund as the client was using someone else’s card
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• Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker', breaking thousands of apps
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• Oh, 2022
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• YC’s $500k Standard Deal
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• T-Mobile begins blocking iPhone users from enabling iCloud Private Relay in US
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• New Year, New CEO
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• U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient
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• I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now
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• CSS Gradients that avoid the “gray dead zone”
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• Is the madness ever going to end?
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• Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt
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• In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (2016)
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• Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's membership programs (2018)
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• Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?
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• More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest numbers in 50 years
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• Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time
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• Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel CPU platform?
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• PayPal faces lawsuit for freezing customer accounts and funds
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• Multiple Sclerosis Causality
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• Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga and Fiji
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