Hacker News Weekly

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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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2024-10-26

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending October 26, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Language is not essential for the cognitive processes that underlie thought
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• Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories
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• Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens
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• Egypt declared malaria-free after 100-year effort
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• First images from Euclid are in
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• Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan
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• Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
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• FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect
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• Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license
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• Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week
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• Show HN: RF Hunter – Find hidden cameras and other devices
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• Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate
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• Rider is now free for non-commercial use
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• Quantized Llama models with increased speed and a reduced memory footprint
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• Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3
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• Company named \"><SCRIPT SRC=HTTPS://MJT.XSS.HT> LTD\" forced to change it (2020)
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• We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines
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• Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris
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• Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court
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• Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2024-10-19

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending October 19, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Psilocybin bests SSRI for major depression in first long-term comparison
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• Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail
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• Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX
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• Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]
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• The quiet art of attention
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• Inkscape 1.4
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• Busy Status Bar
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• Google commits to buying power generated by nuclear-energy startup Kairos Power
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• Web Browser Engineering (2021)
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• Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator
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• The C23 edition of Modern C
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• Sqlite3 WebAssembly
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• Show HN: Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app
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• FTC announces \"click-to-cancel\" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions
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• Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
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• ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives
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• Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen
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• Crokinole
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• Secret 3D scans in the French Supreme Court
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• The feds are coming for John Deere over the right to repair
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2024-10-12

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending October 12, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Jazz – Apps with Distributed State
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• John Carmack on inlined code (2014)
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• Sq.io: jq for databases and more
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• Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter?
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• Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge
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• The Static Site Paradox
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• Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]
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• Differential Transformer
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• Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction
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• Dookie Demastered
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• Internet Archive: Security breach alert
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• Helping wikis move away from Fandom
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• AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux
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• DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing
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• Show HN: HTML for People
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• The Copenhagen Book: general guideline on implementing auth in web applications
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• \"Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable\"
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• Working from home is powering productivity
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• 1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor
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• How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
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