Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2024-11-23

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending November 23, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Voyager 1 breaks its silence with NASA via radio transmitter not used since 1981
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• Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties
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• The Bluesky firehose viewed in the style of a Windows XP screensaver
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• CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple`
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• Reverse Engineering iOS 18 Inactivity Reboot
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• Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted
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• Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS
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• DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
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• Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke
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• AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing
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• What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021)
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• Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT
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• Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking
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• ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials
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• Handling cookies is a minefield
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• OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now
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• Show HN: Llama 3.2 Interpretability with Sparse Autoencoders
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• Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify
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• Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic
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• Phased Array Microphone (2023)
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2024-11-16

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending November 16, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• All the data can be yours: reverse engineering APIs
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• Show HN: I made a tiny device for automatically recording digital pianos
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• Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab
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• IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine
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• OpenCoder: Open Cookbook for Top-Tier Code Large Language Models
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• Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough
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• IMG_0416
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• I Don't Have Spotify
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• How I ship projects at big tech companies
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• Leaving and Waving
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• Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages
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• M4 Mac mini's efficiency
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• No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains
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• OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI
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• The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development
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• MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia
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• The Onion buys Infowars
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• Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time
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• Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess
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• Thomas E. Kurtz has died
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2024-11-09

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending November 09, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Get me out of data hell
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• Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back
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• Scientists glue two proteins together, driving cancer cells to self-destruct
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• A change of heart regarding employee metrics
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• In Memory of Stiver
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• New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike
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• Diagram as Code
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• Hacking 700M Electronic Arts accounts
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• Title drops in movies
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• Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities
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• Trump wins presidency for second time
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• Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize
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• Passport Photos
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• Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada
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• Using Ghidra and Python to reverse engineer Ecco the Dolphin
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• QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image
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• Stabilizing the Obra Dinn 1-bit dithering process (2017)
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• Multiple new macOS sandbox escape vulnerabilities
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• Mitochondria Are Alive
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• Delta: A syntax-highlighting pager for Git, diff, grep, and blame output
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2024-11-02

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending November 02, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Character amnesia in China
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• New iMac with M4
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• Buy payphones and retire
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• We're forking Flutter
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• A return to hand-written notes by learning to read and write
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• How to get the whole planet to send abuse complaints to your best friends
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• Vector databases are the wrong abstraction
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• GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic
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• Using an 8K TV as a Monitor
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• Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI
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• Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
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• M4 MacBook Pro
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• Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid
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• Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages
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• OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it
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• ChatGPT Search
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• An Update on Apple M1/M2 GPU Drivers
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• Make It Yourself
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• Apple acquires Pixelmator
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• Notepad++ is 21 years old
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