Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-01-29

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending January 29, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
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• IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts
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• Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous
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• Ask HN: Gmail account security
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• I got pwned by my cloud costs
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• Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement
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• How big was the Tonga eruption?
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• PRQL – A proposal for a better SQL
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• Bolt founder on Stripe/YC
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• James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in space, million miles away
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• Nvidia prepares to abandon $40B Arm bid
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• Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone
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• AirPods don't “just work”
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• A Minimum Viable Computer, or Linux for $15
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• Washington state shuts down Amazon price-fixing program nationwide
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• I won the local election, but my township ignored the results and state law
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• Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit
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• Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta
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• I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)
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• Don't you lecture me with your thirty dollar website
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-01-22

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending January 22, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch
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• The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)
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• An anatomy of Bitcoin price manipulation
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• Israel police uses NSO’s Pegasus to spy on citizens
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• Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
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• GPS
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• Locked out of 'God Mode', runners are hacking their treadmills
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• Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx
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• 1Password Has Raised $620M
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• I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone
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• The internet changed my life
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• JSON support
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• Roblox October Outage Postmortem
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• Free Postgres databases for small projects
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• FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
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• Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest chip plant
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• Danish government makes its new economic model open source
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• Open-Sourcing our Firmware
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• My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated
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• On Leaving Facebook
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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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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-01-08

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending January 08, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Boeing 777 departing Dubai nearly had a major incident after takeoff
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• Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map
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• Fixing stutters in Papers Please on Linux
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• Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories
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• Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
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• Elizabeth Holmes found guilty
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• Burn My Windows
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• The UX on this small child is terrible
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• I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months
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• Darling – Run Mac apps on Linux
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• We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
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• What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922)
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• Chatbots: Still dumb after all these years
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• New York City will make it mandatory for companies to post salaries on job ads
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• Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions
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• Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
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• Computers as I used to love them
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• Drop a raindrop anywhere in the world and watch where it ends up
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• My First Impressions of Web3
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• James Webb is fully deployed
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-01-01

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending January 01, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ruby 3.1
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• A New Coefficient of Correlation
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• You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
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• Anti-mimetic tactics for living a counter-cultural life
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• Ontario bans non-competes and creates right to disconnect from work
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• Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth of games for inactivity
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• Italian Courts Find Open Source Software Terms Enforceable
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• Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked?
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• Alexa suggests lethal challenge to child
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• Prince of Persia in JavaScript
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• “Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs
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• Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content
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• FAA investigating controversial crash video
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• Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective in controlled study
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• The gift of it's your problem now
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• iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo
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• Linux Kernel RNG is now Blake2 instead of SHA1 and 3x faster
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• A single line of code made a 24-core server slower than a laptop
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• Don't Waste the Good Days
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• Microsoft Exchange stops passing mail due to bug on 1/1/22
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