Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2024-08-24

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending August 24, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out
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• Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely
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• Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player
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• Dasel: Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV
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• Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules
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• Markov chains are funnier than LLMs
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• The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud
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• 13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted
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• Artificial intelligence is losing hype
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• Toasts are bad UX
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• Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection
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• MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract
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• Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
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• Calling All Hackers
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• I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it
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• I'm tired of fixing customers' AI generated code
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• Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
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• 17-year-old student exposes Germany's 'secret' pirate site blocklist
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• Did you lose your AirPods?
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• Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport
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