2260
824
Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-different-about-encryption-opens-backdoor-your-private-life
5 years ago
1182
724
Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow
https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1423071186616000513
728
170
Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/mozilla-common-voice-adds-16-new-languages-and-4600-new-hours-of-speech/
699
254
Airyx OS
http://airyx.org/
447
835
Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship
https://www.axios.com/wealthy-people-are-renouncing-american-citizenship-67fbada4-e2e4-4699-b106-c986839f209d.html
438
269
Facebook executive helped Cuomo smear sex-harassment accuser: AG report
https://nypost.com/2021/08/04/facebook-exec-helped-cuomo-smear-sex-harassment-accuser-ag/
413
89
Kid Pix as a JavaScript App
https://kidpix.app/
393
112
HTTP/2-exclusive threats caused by implementation flaws and RFC imperfections
https://portswigger.net/research/http2
372
366
Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery
https://www.ft.com/content/14440f81-d405-452f-97e2-a81458f5411f
309
421
Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Gulf Stream
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/05/climate-crisis-scientists-spot-warning-signs-of-gulf-stream-collapse
302
253
Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two years
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/05/hawaii-mistaken-identity-arrest/
296
105
Facebook’s claims about the Ad Observer are wrong
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/news/why-facebooks-claims-about-the-ad-observer-are-wrong/
287
126
Firefox: Performance in Progress
https://blog.mozilla.org/performance/2021/08/05/performance-in-progress/
283
96
Show HN: Visualizing a Codebase
https://octo.github.com/projects/repo-visualization
278
92
Giraffes are as socially complex as elephants
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/04/africa/giraffes-complex-behavior-scn/index.html
270
134
In Praise of PostgreSQL
https://drewdevault.com/2021/08/05/In-praise-of-Postgres.html
196
Ethereum just activated its ‘London’ hard fork
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/05/ethereum-just-activated-its-london-hard-fork-and-its-a-big-deal.html
242
142
The human ear detects half a millisecond delay in sound
https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/the-human-ear-detects-half-a-millisecond-delay-in-sound
232
175
Years of fighting every wildfire helped fuel the Western megafires of today
https://theconversation.com/how-years-of-fighting-every-wildfire-helped-fuel-the-western-megafires-of-today-163165
230
368
Expanded Protections for Children
https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
229
236
Senators move to exempt Bitcoin, crypto miners from proposed U.S. tax rules
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/senators-move-to-exempt-bitcoin-crypto-miners-from-proposed-u-s-tax-rules-11628102530
224
52
Reverse Engineering the M1 [pdf]
https://i.blackhat.com/USA21/Wednesday-Handouts/us-21-Reverse-Engineering-The-M1.pdf
215
132
Affinity 1.10
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/latest-update/
214
138
Personal Computing on an Amiga in 2021
https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/personal-computing-on-an-amiga-in-2021
199
150
Xsolla fires 150 employees using analysis of chat and email activity
https://gameworldobserver.com/2021/08/04/xsolla-fires-150-employees-using-big-data-and-ai-analysis-ceos-letter-causes-controversy
188
50
The insides of pro bowling balls
https://www.popsci.com/story/technology/bowling-ball-insides-photos/
31
How PostgreSQL aggregation works and how it inspired our hyperfunctions’ design
https://blog.timescale.com/blog/how-postgresql-aggregation-works-and-how-it-inspired-our-hyperfunctions-design-2/
186
87
Comma Three [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbLiehrC2DQ
183
84
EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals
https://emacsconf.org/2021/cfp/
168
41
The Drunken Bishop Algorithm
https://www.jfurness.uk/the-drunken-bishop-algorithm/
164
30
Apophenia: How the Internet Transforms the Individual into a Conspiracy of One
https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/conspiracy-pt2
162
312
Hospital exec says employees are walking off the job
https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2021/08/05/arkansas-covid-burnout-savidge-dnt-ebof-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/coronavirus/
155
45
Mathematicians solve decades-old classification problem
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-solve-decades-old-classification-problem-20210805/
141
182
Amazon postpones return to office until January 2022
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/05/amazon-postpones-return-to-office-until-january-2022-.html
139
54
Build your own SPARC workstation
https://learn.adafruit.com/build-your-own-sparc-with-qemu-and-solaris
73
System on SO-DIMM
https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1423078973064441858
131
249
A Bit Overcomplicated
https://thedailywtf.com/articles/a-bit-overcomplicated
130
161
Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28073548
120
137
Google Co-Founder Larry Page Allowed into New Zealand Despite Closed Border
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/google-co-founder-larry-page-allowed-into-new-zealand-despite-closed-border-2503055
125
Going forward, Unity devs will need Unity Pro to publish on consoles
https://gamasutra.com/view/news/386242/Going_forward_Unity_devs_will_need_Unity_Pro_to_publish_on_consoles.php
111
Yann LeCun on his start in AI, recent self-supervised learning research [video]
https://thegradientpub.substack.com/p/yann-lecun-on-his-start-in-research
104
17
Golang Security Checker
https://github.com/securego/gosec
103
Stanford AIMI releases free open-source repository of medical datasets
https://hai.stanford.edu/news/open-source-movement-comes-medical-datasets
102
116
A $100k Prize for a Decentralized Inflation Dashboard
https://1729.com/inflation/
101
42
Tech Companies with Four-Day Work Weeks
https://4dayweek.io/blog/10-tech-companies-with-4-day-work-weeks-2021
100
Google hits undo on limiting JavaScript capabilities in cross-origin iframes
https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/05/google_chrome_iframe/
22
Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree
https://eylenburg.github.io/os_familytree.htm
98
69
On Time, Money and Health
https://todaypurpose.com/posts/time-money-health/
93
26
Developers Complain as App Store Feature Promotes Rip-Off Apps
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/developers-complain-as-app-store-feature-promotes-rip-off-apps.2306605/
85
Most security is based on the honor system
https://mhd-aboelez.medium.com/when-you-get-right-down-to-it-most-security-is-based-on-the-honor-system-517eec985e64