Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2024-12-28

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending December 28, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• US judge finds NSO Group liable for hacking journalists via WhatsApp
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• Why we use our own hardware
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• GPT-5 is behind schedule
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• Cognitive load is what matters
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• My Colleague Julius
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• What happened to the world's largest tube TV? [video]
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• The number pi has an evil twin
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• macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time
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• Merry Christmas Everyone
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• That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection
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• This open problem taught me what topology is [video]
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• Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server
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• Should more of us be moving to live near friends?
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• Ghostty 1.0
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• Missiles are now the biggest killer of airline passengers
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• Does current AI represent a dead end?
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• Scale Model of Boeing 777-300ER, Made from Manila Folders
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• Cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland 'was loaded with spying equipment'
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• They have not been trained for this
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• Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2024-12-21

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending December 21, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study
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• A visual proof that a^2 – b^2 = (a + b)(a – b)
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• Map of GitHub
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• OpenERV
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• Why is it so hard to buy things that work well? (2022)
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• Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant
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• Veo 2: Our video generation model
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• Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Safety Act is enforced)
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• Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]
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• Moon
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• FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices
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• A 10-Year Battery for AirTag
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• Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices
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• Ghost artists on Spotify
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• Nullboard: Kanban board in a single HTML file
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• The era of open voice assistants
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• Tldraw Computer
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• Building Effective \"Agents\"
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• Grayjay Desktop App
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• OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2024-12-14

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending December 14, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Just: Just a Command Runner
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• Compromising OpenWrt Supply Chain
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• Itch.io Taken Down by Funko
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• Willow, Our Quantum Chip
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• Sora is here
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• What we know about CEO shooting suspect
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• \"This is not a joke, Funko just called my mom\"
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• Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
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• The Google Willow Thing
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• From where I left
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• Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion
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• Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era
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• FCC opens entire 6 GHz band to low power device operations
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• 2400 phone providers may be shut down by the FCC for failing to stop robocalls
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• Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History
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• Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history
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• Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinder
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• Test
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• Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit
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• OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2024-12-07

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending December 07, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Geometric line-art of Wacław Szpakowski (2017)
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• Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)
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• Advent of Code 2024
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• Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines
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• Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger
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• World Labs: Generate 3D worlds from a single image
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• South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift it
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• Egoless Engineering
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• My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
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• Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here
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• IMG_0001
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• Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model
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• Diátaxis – A systematic approach to technical documentation authoring
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• ChatGPT Pro
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• The correct amount of ads is zero
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• The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding
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• Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round
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• Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for government employees
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• Every V4 UUID
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• My second year without a job
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2024-11-30

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending November 30, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Highest-resolution images ever captured of the sun’s surface
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• Frosted glass from games to the web
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• Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest
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• Starlink Direct to Cell
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• This website is hosted on Bluesky
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• The two factions of C++
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• SQLiteStudio: Create, edit, browse SQLite databases
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• RFC 35140: HTTP Do-Not-Stab (2023)
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• Model Context Protocol
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• Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)
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• The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory
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• Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone
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• You can use C-Reduce for any language
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• Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230
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• Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices
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• The UX of Lego Interface Panels (2020)
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• Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter
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• Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers
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• What does this button do? – My new car has a mysterious and undocumented switch
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• Breaking the 4Chan CAPTCHA
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