Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-11-06

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending November 06, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Taking apart the 2010 Fisher Price re-released Music Box Record Player
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• Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open
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• Avoiding bot detection: How to scrape the web without getting blocked?
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• Report on Stablecoins [pdf]
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• Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)
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• Physics Student Earns PhD at Age 89
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• Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public
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• The metaverse is already here – it's Minecraft
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• Curves and Surfaces
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• Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)
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• Zillow to stop flipping homes, loses more than $550M, lays off 25% of staff
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• Thank you, GitHub
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• An oral history of Bank Python
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• Stockholm parents built their own school app, then the city called the cops
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• Why is Excalidraw so good?
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• HashiCorp – S1
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• Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85%
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• Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
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• Helion
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• How credit cards make money
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