Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2023-10-28

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending October 28, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• What every developer should know about GPU computing
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• A Dutch graphic artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D
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• Protomaps – A free and open source map of the world
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• Software disenchantment
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• Embeddings: What they are and why they matter
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• SumatraPDF Reader
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• NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B miles away
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• Animated AI
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• Halfsies
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• California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment
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• Show HN: OpenAPI DevTools – Chrome extension that generates an API spec
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• iLeakage: Browser-Based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices
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• Jina AI launches open-source 8k text embedding
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• The Cloud Computer
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• The negative impact of mobile-first web design on desktop
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• Interactive intro to shaders
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• Lean4 helped Terence Tao discover a small bug in his recent paper
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• Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Site Reliability Engineering
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• 'Not of faculty quality': How Penn mistreated Katalin Karikó
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• Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaScript
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2023-10-21

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending October 21, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data
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• About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off
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• Write more \"useless\" software
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• Encrypting private data and private communications is now an ethical duty
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• Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security
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• Frasier Fantasy
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• Using Goatse to Stop App Theft
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• Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
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• Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states
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• Psytrance Guide
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• Commercially available chairs in Star Trek
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• What is the Demoscene? An interview
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• Hacker leaks millions more 23andMe user records on cybercrime forum
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• Localsend: Open-Source Airdrop Alternative
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• Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off
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• Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
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• ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades
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• Nota is a language for writing documents, like academic papers and blog posts
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• Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targeting Jabber service
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• We have used too many levels of abstractions
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2023-10-14

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending October 14, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• What we learned making a plastic injection mold with a Chinese mold maker
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• Paperless-ngx – Open source document management system
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• Organization probably doesn't want to improve things
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• Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird Implemented in MacOS Finder
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• My personal C coding style as of late 2023
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• Blackmagic Camera for iPhone
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• John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity
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• Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years
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• The largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps
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• Show HN: Building a 42-inch E-Ink frame for generative art
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• Log is the \"Pro\" in iPhone 15 Pro
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• Starlink Direct to Cell
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• Introduction to Modern Statistics
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• First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student
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• Scrollbars are becoming a problem
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• Why you shouldn't join Y Combinator
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• Every app that adds AI looks like this
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• ChatGPT’s system prompts
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• Undermining Democracy: The EU Commission's Controversial Push for Surveillance
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• Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the actual date
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2023-10-07

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending October 07, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics
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• Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7
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• Nomnoml
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• What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023
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• Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman
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• Exploiting the iPhone 4
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• Python 3.12
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• Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It
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• Running Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 in 298MB of RAM
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• Show HN: Classic Video Poker
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• The FTC sues to break up Amazon over an economy-wide “hidden tax”
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• An interactive intro to CRDTs
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• Pixel 8 Pro
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• Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras (2009)
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• HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly
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• Where does my computer get the time from?
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• How fast are Linux pipes anyway? (2022)
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• Making Hard Things Easy
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• AMD may get across the CUDA moat
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• Wired has removed \"How Google alters search queries\" story
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2023-09-30

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending September 30, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem
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• A hacker's guide to language models [video]
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• Choose Postgres queue technology
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• Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic
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• We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT
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• Unity's oldest community announces dissolution
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• A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma controversy
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• FTC sues Amazon for illegally maintaining monopoly power
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• Show HN: Unity like game editor running in pure WASM
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• The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing
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• I got robbed of my first kernel contribution
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• Mistral 7B
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• Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses
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• Raspberry Pi 5
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• WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight
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• Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
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• Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned
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• Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted
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• Draggable objects
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• RealFill: Image completion using diffusion models
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