Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2023-04-29

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending April 29, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Show HN: I made a SQL game to help people learn / challenge their skills
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• The “Build Your Own Database” book is finished
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• iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe
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• Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Postgres
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• MouthPad – In-Mouth Bluetooth Mouse Uses Tongue Sensitive Trackpad
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• Transformers from Scratch (2021)
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• Smartphones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm
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• Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing
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• UK Blocks Microsoft’s $69B Activision Deal
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• Why is OAuth still hard in 2023?
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• Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative
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• Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens
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• Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity
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• Datomic is Free
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• Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
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• Colorado governor signs tractor right-to-repair law opposed by John Deere
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• As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling
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• Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index
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• Check if your IKEA chair is compatible with your screen
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• Scrcpy: Display and control your Android devices connected over USB or TCP/IP
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2023-04-22

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending April 22, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Load Balancing
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• De-Stressing Booking.com
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• I used Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth to create an art portrait of my dog
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• MiniGPT-4
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• RedPajama: Reproduction of LLaMA with friendly license
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• Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival
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• Astral
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• Clock
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• Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand – the simple way
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• StableLM: A new open-source language model
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• Space Elevator
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• User: Junnn11
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• Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant – customer data not compromised
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• Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years
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• SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas
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• Google DeepMind
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• Spinning Diagrams with CSS
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• CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg
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• Tell HN: Eid Mubarak
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• The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2023-04-15

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending April 15, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• New Orleans teenagers found a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
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• The LLama Effect: Leak Sparked a Series of Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT
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• Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station
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• Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source
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• RePalm
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• Effective Spaced Repetition
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• Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox-related CPU use by 75%
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• I worked at Google for -10 days
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• Substack Notes Launched
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• SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue
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• Deck.of.cards
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• Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard
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• Mass layoffs and absentee bosses create a morale crisis at Meta
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• Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages
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• Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers
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• Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech
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• The early days of Linux
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• Animated Drawings
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• Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island (2007)
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• Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2023-04-08

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending April 08, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ryuichi Sakamoto has died
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• The day Windows died
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• Show HN: Unknown Pleasures, a tiny web experiment with WebGL
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• The Mullvad Browser
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• How to be a -10x Engineer
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• Tell HN: iOS lets carriers add WiFi networks that you can’t stop from joining
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• Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco
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• Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion
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• CAN Injection: Keyless car theft
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• Segment Anything Model (SAM) can \"cut out\" any object in an image
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• Grid World
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• Remembering Bob Lee
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• Firefox engineers discover a Windows Defender bug that causes high CPU usage
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• Neural Networks: Zero to Hero
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• The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS
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• Chrome ships WebGPU
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• If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed
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• Show HN: Tabby – A self-hosted GitHub Copilot
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• Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails
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• Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2023-04-01

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending April 01, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney
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• Jacob Ziv has died
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• BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4
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• The chat control proposal does not belong in democratic societies
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• Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news
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• CFTC sues Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao [pdf]
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• Apple passwords deserve an app
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• PayPal has restricted our account after we invoiced a key containing “ALEP”
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• Bicycle
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• Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
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• The age of average
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• TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse [video]
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• There's something off about LED bulbs
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• Is Y Combinator worth the money? Brutally honest review of W22 batch experience
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• Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children
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• Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
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• AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects
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• Postgres as a graph database
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• Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
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• Llama.cpp 30B runs with only 6GB of RAM now
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