Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-04-23

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending April 23, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers
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• How to write more clearly, think more clearly, and learn complex material [pdf]
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• Ask HN: Internet magically gets faster when opening speedtest?
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• The best engineering interview question I've ever gotten
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• TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing
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• James Webb telescope's coldest instrument reaches operating temperature
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• Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms
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• UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus
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• Overhauling Mario 64's code to reach 30 FPS and render 6x faster on N64 [video]
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• Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years
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• De-AMP: Cutting out Google and enhancing privacy
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• HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]
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• Framework Laptop Mainboard
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• A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA says
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• Web color is still broken
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• Column – a chartered bank for developers
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• Apple Discontinues macOS Server
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• Magic-trace – High-resolution traces of what a process is doing
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• Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very broken
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• My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-04-16

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending April 16, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Heresy
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• Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)
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• Van life (cancer edition) finale
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• I must announce the immediate end of service of SSLPing
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• Etsy Strike
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• Europe is investing heavily in trains
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• Human brain compresses working memories into low-res ‘summaries’
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• Eden
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• New(ish) command line tools
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• U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow
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• Inside the longest Atlassian outage
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• A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine
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• Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
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• We lost 54k GitHub stars
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• Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy
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• Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company
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• Moreutils: A collection of Unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago
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• DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results
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• When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code
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• Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-04-09

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending April 09, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: When did 7 interviews become “normal”?
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• Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to run any trains today
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• Jd
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• Are you a baby? A litmus test
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• What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016)
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• Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor”
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• USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)
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• Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't remove it
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• One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine
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• Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors
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• Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal
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• The next Google
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• Dall-E 2
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• Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes
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• The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII in 1996
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• What software engineers can learn from the rapid collapse of Fast
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• Zas Editor
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• Dall-E 2 illustrations of Twitter bios
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• Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL
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• MIT graduate students vote to unionize
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-04-02

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending April 02, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Show HN: I'm writing a free book called Computer Networks from Scratch
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• Maybe you should do less 'work'
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• Majority in Japan backs nuclear power for first time since Fukushima
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• I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea (2020)
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• Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles
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• Difftastic: A diff that understands syntax
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• Hackers gaining power of subpoena via fake “emergency data requests”
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• $625M worth of ETH drained on Axie Infinity's Ronin Network
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• Visa's marketing opt-out has been down for over a week. Is this a legal issue?
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• FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign
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• SerenityOS Browser now passes the Acid3 test
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• Google terminated our Developer Account, says it is “associated”
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• Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco
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• The Uselessness of Phenylephrine
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• Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out
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• The smallest and worst HDMI display
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• I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed
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• A few things to know before stealing my 914
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• Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize
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• A database for 2022
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