Hacker News Weekly

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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