Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-10-29

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

• A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes
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• Five origami books by Shuzo Fujimoto are now public domain
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• 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
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• Fake Books
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• I help seniors with technology issues
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• Sonic: Fast, lightweight and schema-less search backend
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• What’s wrong with medieval pigs in videogames
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• What “work” looks like
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• Python 3.11.0 final
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• My dad's resume and skills from 1980
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• Turbopack, the successor to Webpack
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• I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived (2009)
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• SiriSpy – iOS bug allowed apps to eavesdrop on your conversations with Siri
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• Lego Is Discontinuing Mindstorms
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• Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting things
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• Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza
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• Which emoji scissors close (2020)
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• Pokemon Card Animation
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• Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far
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• Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language, has died
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-10-22

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

• The Chaostron: An Important Advance in Learning Machines (1961)
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• Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator
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• Moving from React to htmx
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• Compiler Explorer
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• GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copyrighted code
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• Never trust a system that seems to be working
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• GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion
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• How to become a pirate archivist
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• I am endlessly fascinated with content tagging systems
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• Sound
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• 75% of the time we spend with our kids in our lifetime will be spent by age 12
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• Write better error messages
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• Inside the Proton
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• NASA’s Webb takes star-filled portrait of Pillars of Creation
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• EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers
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• Google is forcing us to make our open source VoIP app worse
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• The HTTP crash course nobody asked for
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• Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
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• Linux M1 GPU driver passes 99% of the dEQP-GLES2 compliance tests
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• The Commodordion
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-10-15

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending October 15, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• I Listened to 1000 B2B SaaS Sales Calls
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• Leap: Neovim’s Answer to the Mouse
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• Dutch employee fired by U.S. firm for shutting off webcam awarded €75K in court
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• The Hummingbird Clock: date videos by background mains hum
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• Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS
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• How Wine works 101
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• Private Prisons Are Behind the Push for Homeless Criminalization
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• I wish my web server were in the corner of my room
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• Meta Quest Pro
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• How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports
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• MAR1D: First-Person Mario
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• Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)
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• Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app
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• PostgreSQL 15
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• TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging
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• Toyota suffered a data breach by accidentally exposing a secret key on GitHub
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• Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs
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• Low Earth Orbit Visualization
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• Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs
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• Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-10-08

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

• Companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots
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• Stadia died because no one trusts Google
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• Tell HN: A disabled 40-year-old person founded a startup and makes a living
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• The PS5 Has Been Jailbroken
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• Postgres WASM
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• Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own anti-tracking crackdown
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• How fateful?
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• EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
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• The deception of “buying” digital movies
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• Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print
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• LAPD Officer Killed During Training Exercise Was Investigating Cops About Rape
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• The Illustrated Stable Diffusion
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• Imagen Video: high definition video generation with diffusion models
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• What does the ??!??! operator do in C?
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• SimulaVR Has Been Subpoenaed by Meta Platforms, Inc
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• Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of Marijuana
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• Managers with a business degree reduce employees' wages, do not increase profit
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• Mastodon.technology Shutdown
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• Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access 3 times a year
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• Lufthansa bans AirTags in checked luggage
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-10-01

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

• 58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere
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• Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar
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• Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used
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• Turns are better than radians
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• Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don’t need updates
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• Dear Chess World
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• Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI
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• Workerd: Open-source Cloudflare workers runtime
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• Someone is pretending to be me
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• Ken Thompson really did launch his \"trusting trust\" trojan attack in real life
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• ButtFish – Transmit Morse Code of chess moves to your butt
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• How to build a personal webpage from scratch
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• Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1
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• Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text
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• Google is shutting down Stadia
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• DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion
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• Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022
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• Tell HN: The Internet situation inside Iran
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• Select * from cloud
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• Microsoft bakes a VPN into Edge and turns it on
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