Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2023-12-30

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

• Xmas.c (1988)
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• Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims
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• Costs of running a macOS app studio business
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• Tell HN: Merry Christmas
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• Ask HN: How do I train a custom LLM/ChatGPT on my own documents in Dec 2023?
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• Ruby 3.3
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• Challenging projects every programmer should try (2019)
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• Japan to crack down on Apple and Google app store monopolies
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• A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors
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• DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching
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• The curse of the goitre in Switzerland
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• First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation
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• 3D Map of Shinjuku Station in Three.js
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• Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)
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• 4B If Statements
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• IDEs we had 30 years ago
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• Cold-blooded software
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• Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading
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• In 2024, please switch to Firefox
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• Blot turns a folder into a website
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2023-12-23

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending December 23, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• More product, fewer product managers
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• How to learn chess as an adult (2021)
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• Ventoy
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• The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)
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• Wasm3 entering a minimal maintenance phase
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• Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger
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• Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook
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• James Webb Space Telescope captures high-resolution image of Uranus
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• Simulating fluids, fire, and smoke in real-time
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• Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms
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• Fantasy Map Brushes
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• Apple allows some iOS apps to track user locations via lists of nearby SSIDs
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• Beeper – Moving Forward
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• ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format
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• Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays
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• Mindustry: Open-source automation tower defense game
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• Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers
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• From Nand to Tetris (2017)
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• How big is YouTube?
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• Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2023-12-16

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending December 16, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application
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• A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32
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• Mechanical Watch (2022)
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• Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet
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• Mistral: Mixtral of Experts
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• Modern iOS Navigation Patterns
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• Beeper Mini is back
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• Epic vs. Google: Google Loses
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• YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads
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• FFmpeg lands CLI multi-threading as its \"most complex refactoring\" in decades
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• 23andMe changed its terms of service to prevent hacked customers from suing
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• 'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture
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• Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted
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• SMERF: Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields
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• Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find
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• Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
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• Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
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• Database Fundamentals
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• I bricked my Christmas lights
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• Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2023-12-09

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending December 09, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• LLM Visualization
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• LLM Visualization
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• Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%
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• Harvard gutted team examining Facebook Files following $500M Zuckerberg donation
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• A decade of Have I Been Pwned
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• Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops
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• Firefox on the brink?
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• Show HN: How did your computer reach my server?
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• Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android
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• iMessage, explained
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• JSONB has landed
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• Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications
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• Apple confirms governments using push notifications to surveil users
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• Gemini AI
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• Gemini: Google's most capable AI model yet
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• Gemini \"duck\" demo was not done in realtime or with voice
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• Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking
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• The pro-Israel information war
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• Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
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• If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2023-12-02

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending December 02, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• The Dunning-Kruger effect is autocorrelation
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• Brother have gotten to where they are now by not innovating
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• Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
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• $20k bounty was claimed
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• My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar
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• Writing documentation for your house
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• MeshGPT: Generating triangle meshes with decoder-only transformers
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• Charlie Munger has died
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• My $500M Mars rover mistake
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• The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster
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• Rust std fs slower than Python? No, it's hardware
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• Llamafile lets you distribute and run LLMs with a single file
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• Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board
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• Visual Anagrams: Generating optical illusions with diffusion models
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• Marker: Convert PDF to Markdown quickly with high accuracy
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• Code is run more than read
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• The Seamless Communication models
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• Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage
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• You don't need JavaScript for that
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• Tiny volumetric display
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