top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-07-18

Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with native performance

https://looking-glass.io/

5 years ago

An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up

https://fanfan.rambo.codes/

5 years ago

Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/right-or-left-you-should-be-worried-about-big-tech-censorship

5 years ago

Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2021/nso-spyware-pegasus-cellphones/

5 years ago

Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/18/revealed-leak-uncovers-global-abuse-of-cyber-surveillance-weapon-nso-group-pegasus

5 years ago

Inserting a billion rows in SQLite under a minute

https://avi.im/blag/2021/fast-sqlite-inserts/

5 years ago

iOS 14.6 device hacked with a zero-click iMessage exploit to install Pegasus

https://twitter.com/billmarczak/status/1416801514685796352

5 years ago

The Perils of M1 Ownership

https://eclecticlight.co/2021/07/18/last-week-on-my-mac-the-perils-of-m1-ownership/

5 years ago

Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang (2020)

https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replacement-gcc-clang.html

5 years ago

Word gap: When money’s tight, parents talk less to kids

https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/07/16/word-gap-when-moneys-tight-parents-talk-less-to-kids/

5 years ago

Show HN: I built an app to create repeatable checklists to help with ADHD

https://checkyourlist.app/

5 years ago

Don’t Let Police Arm Autonomous or Remote-Controlled Robots and Drones

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/dont-let-police-arm-autonomous-or-remote-controlled-robots-and-drones

5 years ago

“Neuroprosthesis” restores words to man with paralysis

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2021/07/420946/neuroprosthesis-restores-words-man-paralysis

5 years ago

ToyDB: Distributed SQL Database in Rust

https://github.com/erikgrinaker/toydb

5 years ago

Tell HN: Coming soon – “Meet the Batch” threads for parallel Launch HNs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27877280

5 years ago

Tesseract OCR

https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

5 years ago

Greenland bans all oil exploration

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/greenland-oil-1.6105230

5 years ago

Police destroy Bitcoin miners with steamroller in Malaysia

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kv739/police-destroy-1069-bitcoin-miners-with-big-ass-steamroller-in-malaysia

5 years ago

Diffsitter: A tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs

https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter

5 years ago

How NSO's Pegasus Is Used to Spy on Journalists

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/.premium-how-nso-s-pegasus-is-used-to-spy-on-journalists-1.10010560

5 years ago