Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2024-05-04

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending May 04, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
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• A small lathe built in a Japanese prison camp (1949)
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• 93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019)
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• Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe
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• Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail
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• Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation
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• GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS?
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• Why SQLite Uses Bytecode
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• Pyinfra: Automate Infrastructure Using Python
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• Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go
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• US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana
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• Printing Music with CSS Grid
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• Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)
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• New startup sells coffee through SSH
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• Teranoptia – a typeface that allows you to imagine chimeric creatures
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• Making a 3D modeler in C in a week
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• I’m writing a new vector search SQLite Extension
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• Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software
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• DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android
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