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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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2024-08-17

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending August 17, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: why π² ≈ g
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• Captain Disillusion debunks David Beckham beach kicks [video]
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• I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust
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• Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS
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• Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine
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• SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube
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• There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)
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• Apple's requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon
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• Repair and Remain (2022)
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• Federal appeals court finds geofence warrants “categorically” unconstitutional
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• Google Pixel 9 Pro
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• All of Earth's water in a single sphere (2019)
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• Disney seeks dismissal of wrongful death lawsuit citing waiver in Disney+ terms
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• Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting
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• Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
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• How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40
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• Inside the \"3 billion people\" national public data breach
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• GitHub was down
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• Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand
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• VanillaJSX.com
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2024-08-10

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending August 10, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Open Source Farming Robot
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• Starting Hospice
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• Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?
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• Launch HN: Airhart Aeronautics (YC S22) – A modern personal airplane
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• Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones
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• Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay
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• Structured Outputs in the API
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• How French Drains Work
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• Medieval
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• Show HN: I've spent nearly 5y on a web app that creates 3D apartments
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• Puppeteer Support for Firefox
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• Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy
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• Prevention of HIV
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• I got almost all of my wishes granted with RP2350
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• Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out
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• LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime
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• Do quests, not goals
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• Jake Seliger has died
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• .INTERNAL is now reserved for private-use applications
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• Susan Wojcicki has died
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2024-08-03

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending August 03, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• An experiment in UI density created with Svelte
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• One-man SaaS, 9 Years In
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• FastHTML – Modern web applications in pure Python
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• SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos
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• After 10 years, Yelp gave my app 4 days
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• Porffor: A from-scratch experimental ahead-of-time JS engine
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• Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?
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• Our audit of Homebrew
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• macOS in QEMU in Docker
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• Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election
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• How I got my laser eye injury
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• I recreated Shazam’s algorithm with Go
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• Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters
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• Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech
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• Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead
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• CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
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• Hackberry-Pi_Zero – A handheld Linux terminal using Raspberry Pi Zero 2W
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• The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community
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• The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning
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• \"We ran out of columns\"
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