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Hacker News (07 Aug 2021)

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

    1035 points • 416 comments • aug 07, 2021

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

    660 points • 313 comments • aug 07, 2021

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

    566 points • 392 comments • aug 07, 2021

  4. Sci-Hub is fundraising

    486 points • 111 comments • aug 07, 2021

  5. Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way an AI does

    406 points • 351 comments • aug 07, 2021

  6. After DeepMind’s cofounder was placed on leave for bullying, Google promoted him

    390 points • 307 comments • aug 07, 2021

  7. Very fast rocket

    365 points • 100 comments • aug 07, 2021

  8. What it was like developing for NES back in 1990

    220 points • 55 comments • aug 07, 2021

  9. Bug in Lynx's SSL certificate validation – leaks password in clear text via SNI

    197 points • 63 comments • aug 07, 2021

  10. Open-source intelligence challenges state monopolies on information

    195 points • 32 comments • aug 07, 2021