Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-08-27

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending August 27, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• There’s no speed limit (2009)
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• Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk
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• A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal
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• Nobody wants to teach anymore
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• Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday
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• Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps
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• Stable Diffusion Public Release
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• An odd discovery on Spotify
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• Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless cybersecurity policies
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• Design the next iPhone
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• Show HN: Pornpen.ai – AI-Generated Porn
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• Things people blamed on bicycles
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• Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit
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• A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page
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• Removal of Heroku free product plans
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• Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay
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• SpaceX, T-Mobile to connect satellites to cellphones in remote areas
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• Engineer distributes resume via IPv6 traceroute
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• Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus
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• One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-08-20

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

• Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridge compressor autopsy
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• Breaking all macOS security layers with a single vulnerability
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• Add ability to choose a custom coordination server
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• Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know
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• How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency
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• A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one big weekly workout
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• Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination
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• Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade
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• It wasn't for nothing
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• RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD
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• Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds
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• Accounting For Developers, Part I
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• Learn Postgres at the Playground – Postgres compiled to WASM running in browser
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• Vietnam to make Apple Watch and MacBook
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• I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
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• Learn to sew your own outdoor gear
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• See what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser
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• Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]
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• Resolving an unusual WiFi issue
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• App Store doesn't accept “too simple” apps
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-08-13

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending August 13, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones
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• Fake IMDB credits
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• “Code” 2nd Edition Now Available
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• No More “Insight Porn”
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• To uncover a deepfake video call, ask the caller to turn sideways
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• I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
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• The Story of Mel (1983)
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• “It’s time for Apple to fix texting”
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• An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter
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• Freeciv – open-source Civilization clone
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• Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes
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• 'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm
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• Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser
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• OnlyFans bribed Meta to put porn stars on terror watchlist: lawsuits
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• The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN
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• Mindustry – Open-Source Game
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• A 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor
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• Is this the end of social networking?
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• The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root access on macOS
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• I hacked my car
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-08-06

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending August 06, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design
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• Google Timer is gone
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• Why I built a dictionary app
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• Librarian's Letter to Google Security
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• How I regained concentration and focus
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)
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• Understanding Jane Street
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• Use one big server
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• I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo
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• Robinhood lays off 23% of staff
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• MIT invents $4 solar desalination device
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• What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?
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• Productivity porn
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• Tell HN: I interviewed my dad before he died
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• We're improving search results when you use quotes
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• Asus Zenbook 17 Fold OLED
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• Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B
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• Twitter says Musk’s spam analysis used tool that called his own account a bot
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• NSA, NIST, and post-quantum crypto: my second lawsuit against the US government
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• GraphQL kinda sucks
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