Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-05-28

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending May 28, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Kinopio
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• Keep the web free, say no to Web3
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• Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happiness (2020)
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• Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model
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• Starlink for RVs
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• Cat S22 Flip Phone
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• Tell HN: Job interview canceled due to looming recession
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• YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos
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• Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?
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• Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits
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• FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting
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• Original Pong did not have any code or even a microprocessor
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• Show HN: I turned my face rec system into a video codec
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• Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B
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• SQLite 3 Fiddle
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• What did Earth look like X million years ago?
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• GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
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• Knots 3D – Learn how to tie over 150 useful knots
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• Neon – Serverless Postgres
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• Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-05-21

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending May 21, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Shaped Charges – Sheet of copper going through 1ft of solid steel (2010) [video]
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• Almost all searches on my independent search engine are now from SEO spam bots
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• Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem
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• Taking a break from social media makes you happier and less anxious
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• I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone
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• Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore
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• I spent two years launching tiny projects
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• Billing systems are a nightmare for engineers
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• I'm an addict
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• YC W22 Stablegains is being sued for losing $42m in funds from 4878 customers
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• Outhorse Your Email
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• Rust: A Critical Retrospective
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• The new and upgraded Framework Laptop
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• Y Combinator's Message to Founders
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• Vangelis has died
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• Tell HN: The loneliness of a pretty good developer
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• 9-Euro-Ticket
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• “Amateur” programmer fought cancer with 50 Nvidia Geforce 1080Ti
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• Ancient civilisation under eastern Turkey estimated to be 11k-13k years old
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• Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-05-14

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending May 14, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Everything with a battery should have an off switch
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• Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work
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• PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities
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• Yep, I created the new Avatar font
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• I'm all-in on server-side SQLite
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• No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me
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• We need a middle class for startups
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• Apple is discontinuing the iPod
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• The ACLU Has Lost Its Way
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• Markdoc: Stripe's Markdown-based authoring framework
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• Passenger with “no idea how to fly” lands plane after pilot incapacitated
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• Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules
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• Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did
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• Finland will seek NATO membership immediately
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• Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy
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• Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring
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• Apple Maps location scan spikes WiFi latency every 60 seconds
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• Map of Reddit
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• Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold
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• The Apple GPU and the impossible bug
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-05-07

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending May 07, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Noto emoji, a new black and white emoji font with less color
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• Internet Archive joins opposition to the “SMART Copyright Act”
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• Fig
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• I accidentally loaned all my money to the US government
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• We think this cool study we found is flawed. Help us reproduce it
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• How to professionally say
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• DALL-E 2 open source implementation
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• Using QGIS to apply a 1777 style to today's OpenStreetMap data
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• Microsoft 3D Movie Maker Source Code
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• Tailscale raises $100M
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• What are your most used self-hosted applications?
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• The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-oriented cultures
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• Mechanical Watch
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• IBM's Asshole Test
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• Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a major contributing cause [pdf]
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• 7GUIs
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• Please stop disabling zoom
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• Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash
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• Microsoft insults dev, then takes credit for their idea
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• Why do you waste so much time on the internet?
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-04-30

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending April 30, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Apple says they're removing my game because it's more than 2 years old
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• Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
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• No one expects young men to do anything and they are responding by doing nothing
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• French fighter jet joy ride goes très, très wrong (2020)
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• 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
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• Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
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• Elegant six-page proof reveals the emergence of random structure
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• Be careful with that thing, it's a confidential coffee maker
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• Infinite Mac
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• 3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work
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• Khan Academy launches Khan World School online high school
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• Apple’s Self Service Repair now available
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• Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year
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• Public Money, Public Code
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• Snap launches its first drone
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• Gnome patent troll stripped of patent rights
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• Bits of advice I wish I had known
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• Airbnb’s design to live and work anywhere
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• Actual is going open-source
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• You can now ask Google to remove your phone number, email or address from search
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