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Hacker News (Aug 2021)
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Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life
2220 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources
1763 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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One Bad Apple
1469 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
1432 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Apple and Google must allow other in-app payment systems, Korean law declares
1343 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model
1341 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Apple’s Mistake
1238 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
1209 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web
1182 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos
1155 points • comment • aug 29, 2021
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An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology
1135 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019)
1133 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow
1129 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October
1126 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust
1116 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning
1035 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app
1003 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week
1001 points • comment • aug 30, 2021
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CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative
994 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Prettymaps: Small Python library to draw customized maps from OpenStreetMap data
975 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Facebook hacker beat my 2FA, bricked my Oculus, and hit the company credit card
958 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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The rise of never-ending job interviews
951 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Googlespeak – How Google limits thought about antitrust
937 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Personal Story
925 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful way – what can I do?
921 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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A future for SQL on the web
914 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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How I Experience Web Today
882 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Arm China Has Gone Rogue
882 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
875 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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The most underused browser feature: reader mode
872 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Burning out and quitting
866 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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New in Git: switch and restore
855 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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ImageNet contains naturally occurring Apple NeuralHash collisions
854 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
834 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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FOSS app removed from the Play Store for linking to the project's website
816 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)
814 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine
811 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes
804 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy
799 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Apps Getting Worse
794 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations
758 points • comment • aug 22, 2021
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An old hacker's tips on staying employed
752 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free
745 points • comment • aug 08, 2021
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The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
740 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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The deceptive PR behind Apple’s “expanded protections for children”
726 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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The surreal experience of my first developer job
725 points • comment • aug 04, 2021
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Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech
716 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Widelands is a free, open-source real-time strategy game
697 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Airyx OS
694 points • comment • aug 05, 2021
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Apple agrees to settle potential class action suit by U.S. developers
691 points • comment • aug 27, 2021
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Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies
691 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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The Problem with Perceptual Hashes
691 points • comment • aug 06, 2021
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How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)
680 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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OnlyFans drops planned porn ban
679 points • comment • aug 25, 2021
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Google’s ‘Project Hug’ paid out huge sums to keep game devs in the Play Store
675 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Firefox 91 introduces enhanced cookie clearing
670 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence
660 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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My tiny side project has had more impact than my decade in the software industry
659 points • comment • aug 01, 2021
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A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shops instead
650 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt
647 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks
646 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple
642 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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Economic costs of war
640 points • comment • aug 16, 2021
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Life before smartphones (2020)
638 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Apple explicitly asks employees to merge their personal and work accounts
633 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guidance [pdf]
629 points • comment • aug 03, 2021
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TSMC hikes chip prices up to 20% amid supply shortage
627 points • comment • aug 26, 2021
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My House
618 points • comment • aug 31, 2021
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Launch HN: Heimdal (YC S21) – Carbon neutral cement
615 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implementation for the Windows kernel
613 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Google's Secret Initiative – “Project Hug”
609 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco
605 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings
604 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Show HN: Neural-hash-collider – Find target hash collisions for NeuralHash
600 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance
600 points • comment • aug 02, 2021
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Internet of Snitches
594 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship
590 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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Messaging and chat control
588 points • comment • aug 09, 2021
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Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US
586 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Asahi Linux for Apple M1 progress report, August 2021
585 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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A shot to prevent Lyme disease could be on its way
575 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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Please log in with router's password
575 points • comment • aug 10, 2021
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Asking nicely for root command execution and getting it
575 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent
573 points • comment • aug 28, 2021
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Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning'
572 points • comment • aug 13, 2021
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Apple is suing smartphone emulation software startup Corellium
571 points • comment • aug 18, 2021
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Why wild foxes led you to treasure in Skyrim
569 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African warehouse
567 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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In internal memo, Apple addresses concerns around new Photo scanning features
566 points • comment • aug 07, 2021
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Manim: An animation engine for explanatory math videos
565 points • comment • aug 20, 2021
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Apple’s crackdown on multicast
561 points • comment • aug 24, 2021
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Introducing the PineNote
559 points • comment • aug 15, 2021
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Lawrence Livermore claims a milestone in laser fusion
558 points • comment • aug 17, 2021
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FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine
556 points • comment • aug 23, 2021
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Debian 11
555 points • comment • aug 14, 2021
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ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning
554 points • comment • aug 12, 2021
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Chip shortage: Toyota to cut global production by 40%
552 points • comment • aug 19, 2021
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Patterns in Confusing Explanations
551 points • comment • aug 21, 2021
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1Password 8 will be subscription only and won’t support local vaults
550 points • comment • aug 11, 2021
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ASML, a $300B Dutch firm, makes the machines that make semiconductors
548 points • comment • aug 22, 2021