Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2023-07-29

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

• Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node
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• Llama2.c: Inference llama 2 in one file of pure C
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• All foster kids in California can now attend any state college for free
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• Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
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• Zenbleed
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• Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator
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• 40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight
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• Attention Is Off By One
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• Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web
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• The Fall of Stack Overflow
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• Mozilla Standards Positions Opposes Web Integrity API
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• Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his SPARC4 was running slow
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• The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?
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• Unpacking Google’s Web Environment Integrity specification
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• Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium
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• Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be
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• Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints
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• Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3
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• BlazingMQ: High-performance open source message queuing system
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• Cap'n Proto 1.0
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2023-07-22

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

• A third of North America’s birds have vanished
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• Discord is not documentation
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• LazyVim
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• A Firefox-only minimap (2021)
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• Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
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• Llama 2
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• Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity
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• ASUS to manufacture and sell Intel’s NUC products
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• Advanced Python Mastery
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• Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt
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• Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers
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• Kevin Mitnick has died
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• Docuseal: Open-source DocuSign alternative
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• No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers
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• Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption
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• FedNow Is Live
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• TypeChat
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• Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it
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• I have written a JVM in Rust
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• I am dying of squamous cell carcinoma, and potential treatments are out of reach
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2023-07-15

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

• If PEP 703 is accepted, Meta can commit three engineer-years to no-GIL CPython
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• Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company
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• Show HN: Workout.lol – a web app to easily create a workout routine
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• Thunderbird 115
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• Firefox address bar
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• First U.S. ban on sale of cellphone location data might be coming
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• Lima: A nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac
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• Tuition costs have risen 710% since 1983
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• Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone
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• Shortening the Let's Encrypt chain of trust
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• GPT-4 details leaked?
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• Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share
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• Displayport: A Better Video Interface
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• Newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request
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• Kelly Rowland couldn't have used the =HYPERLINK() function to message Nelly
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• Chiptune.app
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• Disney, Netflix, and more are fighting FTC's 'click to cancel' proposal
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• Passkeys will come at a cost
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• Internet Archive expands Flash support
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• Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2023-07-08

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

• Far Cry 1.34 source code (2006)
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• Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
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• Fake reviews are illegal and subject to big fines under new FTC rules
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• First 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan
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• Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it
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• Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
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• Threads, an Instagram app
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• Companies must stop using Google Analytics
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• More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck
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• Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)
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• Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in The Netherlands
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• PhD Simulator
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• Why is desalination so difficult?
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• Show HN: Hacker News user blogroll
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• Fast
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• Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
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• GPT-4 API General Availability
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• Excellence is a habit, but so is failure
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• Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)
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• When an app asks for permissions, it should have a “feed fake data” option
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2023-07-01

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

• Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located
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• XML is the future
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• Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser
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• Ignoring boys' emotional needs fuels public health risks
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• Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings
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• Show HN: Mofi – Content-aware fill for audio to change a song to any duration
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• Discovering that a Bluetooth car battery monitor is siphoning location data
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• macOS command-line tools you might not know about
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• Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default
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• The Password Game
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• The hidden cost of air quality monitoring
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• We raised a bunch of money
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• YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers
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• Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions
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• Valve bans games using AI generated graphics or text from Steam
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• Terrible real estate agent photographs
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• Hurl 4.0.0
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• Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
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• Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo
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• How to Do Great Work
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