Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-03-26

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending March 26, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area
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• Decrypting your own HTTPS traffic with Wireshark
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• I think US college education is nearer to collapsing than it appears
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• Windows needs a change in priorities
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• Please put units in names
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• Hackers claim to have breached Okta systems
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• Mercedes to accept legal responsibility for a vehicle when Drive Pilot is active
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• Ask HN: Who operates at scale without containers?
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• Folding bicycle small enough to fit in hand luggage
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• Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses (2020)
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• Web3 is centralized and inefficient
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• A one in a million bug in Switch kernel
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• Start Self Hosting
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• But life had other plans
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• MDN Plus
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• The end of the nice GTK button
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• Microsoft is tied to hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign bribes
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• I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
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• `COPY –chmod` reduced the size of my container image by 35%
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• Mourning loss as a remote team
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-03-19

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending March 19, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• A short conversation with a bank
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• EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batteries in household items
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• Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust
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• Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes
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• On Being Indispensable
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• Medical student surgically implants Bluetooth into own ear to cheat in final
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• Why is it hard to buy things that work well?
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• Cities should not pay for new stadiums
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• DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks
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• Popular Tibetan singer Tsewang Norbu dies of self-immolation protest
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• Go 1.18
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• US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
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• How our free plan stays free
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• In-flight surgery with a coat-hanger and silverware
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• H.264 is Magic (2016)
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• Zotero 6
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• Each Firefox download has a unique identifier
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• How Zillow's homebuying scheme lost $881M
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• First images from James Webb telescope exceed expectations
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• Asahi Linux alpha release
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-03-12

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending March 12, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Modern smartphone lenses are crazy
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• GE won’t let me use convection roast on my new oven without connecting to WiFi
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• Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones to read their messages
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• My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll
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• The campaign to shut down YouTube-dl continues
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• The Dirty Pipe Vulnerability
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• So you want to study mathematics
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• An update on the threat landscape
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• I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer
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• The new silent majority: People who don't tweet
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• Apple Mac Studio
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• Apple M1 Ultra
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• The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)
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• Some tiny personal programs I've written
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• Pockit: A tiny, powerful, modular computer [video]
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• Earn-IT threatens encryption and therefore user freedom
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• uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox
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• Inspecting Web Views in macOS
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• Teaching is a slow process of becoming everything you hate
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• Finland starts much-delayed nuclear plant, brings respite to power market
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-03-05

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending March 05, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• '50% of transactions were fraudulent' when Steam accepted Bitcoin for payments
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• Lambda Calculus in 400 Bytes
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• Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman
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• How to take credit for someone else's work on GitHub
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• Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
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• Tell HN: If You Are in Russia
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• Solid.js feels like what I always wanted React to be
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• Trapped in Silicon Valley’s hidden caste system
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• Zain Nadella, Satya Nadella's son, dies at 26
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• Show HN: I made a web game called Almost Pong
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• Write plain text files
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• SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file
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• SPAs Were a Mistake
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• Epic Games acquires Bandcamp
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• Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4
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• My Stripe Tax Story
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• How “latency numbers everybody should know” decreased from 1990–2020
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• Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe's largest
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• Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most unusual demands ever
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• YouTube suspends The Hill for playing clip of Trump denying election results
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