Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-05-08

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending May 08, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• “Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”
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• Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM
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• Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster
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• Request for comments regarding topics to be discussed at Dark Patterns workshop
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• Dave Herman’s contributions to Rust
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• Amazon knew seller data was used to boost company sales
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• The Unix Magic Poster
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• Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class
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• Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
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• Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython
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• Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt
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• ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs
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• White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help meet climate targets
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• Send: A Fork of Mozilla's Firefox Send
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• HTML Tips (2020)
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• LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online
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• Why I Work on Ads
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• Crazy New Ideas
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• Hatetris – Tetris which always gives you the worst piece
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• I’ve had the same supper for 10 years
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