Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-01-04

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending January 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Where can you go in Europe by train in 8h?
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• I automated my job application process
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• Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15
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• Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus
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• Jimmy Carter has died
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• I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps
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• AI companies cause most of traffic on forums
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• Tell HN: John Friel my father, internet pioneer and creator of QModem, has died
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• Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
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• Happy New Year 2025
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• Static search trees: faster than binary search
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• 30% drop in O1-preview accuracy when Putnam problems are slightly variated
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• DOOM CAPTCHA
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• Databases in 2024: A Year in Review
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• One of my papers got declined today
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• MitmProxy2Swagger: Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs
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• uBlock Origin GPL code being stolen by team behind honey browser extension
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• iTerm2 critical security release
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• I am rich and have no idea what to do
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• Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?
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