Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2022-02-12

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending February 12, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Unlearning perfectionism
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• The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever
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• Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?
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• Thank You, Valve
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• Show HN: SHA-256 explained step-by-step visually
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• You can change your number
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• Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone
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• Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds
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• Heuristics that almost always work
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• Why is the Zoom app listening on my microphone when not in a meeting?
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• Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm
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• Thousands of Mazdas in the Seattle area are stuck on a single FM radio station
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• Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy
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• The data are clear: The boys are not all right
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• Words known better by males than females, and vice versa
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• Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority
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• Show HN: EdgeDB 1.0
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• France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors
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• Newly declassified documents reveal previously secret CIA bulk collection
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• Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act
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