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Hacker News (Aug 2021)

  1. Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life

    2220 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  2. Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources

    1763 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  3. One Bad Apple

    1469 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  4. Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'

    1432 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  5. Apple and Google must allow other in-app payment systems, Korean law declares

    1343 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  6. Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model

    1341 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  7. Apple’s Mistake

    1238 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  8. Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics

    1209 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  9. Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web

    1182 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  10. Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos

    1155 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  11. An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology

    1135 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  12. My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019)

    1133 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  13. Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow

    1129 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  14. OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

    1126 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  15. Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust

    1116 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  16. An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning

    1035 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  17. TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app

    1003 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  18. China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week

    1001 points • comment • aug 30, 2021

  19. CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative

    994 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  20. Prettymaps: Small Python library to draw customized maps from OpenStreetMap data

    975 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  21. Facebook hacker beat my 2FA, bricked my Oculus, and hit the company credit card

    958 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  22. The rise of never-ending job interviews

    951 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  23. Googlespeak – How Google limits thought about antitrust

    937 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  24. On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Personal Story

    925 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  25. Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful way – what can I do?

    921 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  26. A future for SQL on the web

    914 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  27. How I Experience Web Today

    882 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  28. Arm China Has Gone Rogue

    882 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  29. Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

    875 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  30. The most underused browser feature: reader mode

    872 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  31. Burning out and quitting

    866 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  32. New in Git: switch and restore

    855 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  33. ImageNet contains naturally occurring Apple NeuralHash collisions

    854 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  34. GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces

    834 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  35. FOSS app removed from the Play Store for linking to the project's website

    816 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  36. Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)

    814 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  37. Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine

    811 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  38. Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

    804 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  39. The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy

    799 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  40. Apps Getting Worse

    794 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  41. PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations

    758 points • comment • aug 22, 2021

  42. An old hacker's tips on staying employed

    752 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  43. Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free

    745 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  44. The Coronavirus Is Here Forever

    740 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  45. The deceptive PR behind Apple’s “expanded protections for children”

    726 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  46. The surreal experience of my first developer job

    725 points • comment • aug 04, 2021

  47. Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech

    716 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  48. Widelands is a free, open-source real-time strategy game

    697 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  49. Airyx OS

    694 points • comment • aug 05, 2021

  50. Apple agrees to settle potential class action suit by U.S. developers

    691 points • comment • aug 27, 2021

  51. Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies

    691 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  52. The Problem with Perceptual Hashes

    691 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  53. How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)

    680 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  54. OnlyFans drops planned porn ban

    679 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  55. Google’s ‘Project Hug’ paid out huge sums to keep game devs in the Play Store

    675 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  56. Firefox 91 introduces enhanced cookie clearing

    670 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  57. Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence

    660 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  58. My tiny side project has had more impact than my decade in the software industry

    659 points • comment • aug 01, 2021

  59. A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shops instead

    650 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  60. Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt

    647 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  61. The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks

    646 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  62. I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple

    642 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  63. Economic costs of war

    640 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  64. Life before smartphones (2020)

    638 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  65. Apple explicitly asks employees to merge their personal and work accounts

    633 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  66. NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guidance [pdf]

    629 points • comment • aug 03, 2021

  67. TSMC hikes chip prices up to 20% amid supply shortage

    627 points • comment • aug 26, 2021

  68. My House

    618 points • comment • aug 31, 2021

  69. Launch HN: Heimdal (YC S21) – Carbon neutral cement

    615 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  70. WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implementation for the Windows kernel

    613 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  71. Google's Secret Initiative – “Project Hug”

    609 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  72. Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco

    605 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  73. Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings

    604 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  74. Show HN: Neural-hash-collider – Find target hash collisions for NeuralHash

    600 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  75. Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance

    600 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  76. Internet of Snitches

    594 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  77. Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship

    590 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  78. Messaging and chat control

    588 points • comment • aug 09, 2021

  79. Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US

    586 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  80. Asahi Linux for Apple M1 progress report, August 2021

    585 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  81. A shot to prevent Lyme disease could be on its way

    575 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  82. Please log in with router's password

    575 points • comment • aug 10, 2021

  83. Asking nicely for root command execution and getting it

    575 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  84. FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent

    573 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  85. Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning'

    572 points • comment • aug 13, 2021

  86. Apple is suing smartphone emulation software startup Corellium

    571 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  87. Why wild foxes led you to treasure in Skyrim

    569 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  88. Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African warehouse

    567 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  89. In internal memo, Apple addresses concerns around new Photo scanning features

    566 points • comment • aug 07, 2021

  90. Manim: An animation engine for explanatory math videos

    565 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  91. Apple’s crackdown on multicast

    561 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  92. Introducing the PineNote

    559 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  93. Lawrence Livermore claims a milestone in laser fusion

    558 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  94. FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine

    556 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  95. Debian 11

    555 points • comment • aug 14, 2021

  96. ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning

    554 points • comment • aug 12, 2021

  97. Chip shortage: Toyota to cut global production by 40%

    552 points • comment • aug 19, 2021

  98. Patterns in Confusing Explanations

    551 points • comment • aug 21, 2021

  99. 1Password 8 will be subscription only and won’t support local vaults

    550 points • comment • aug 11, 2021

  100. ASML, a $300B Dutch firm, makes the machines that make semiconductors

    548 points • comment • aug 22, 2021