top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-08-06

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

https://appleprivacyletter.com/

5 years ago

CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative

https://calyxos.org/

5 years ago

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

https://areoform.wordpress.com/2021/08/06/on-apples-expanded-protections-for-children/

5 years ago

The Problem with Perceptual Hashes

https://rentafounder.com/the-problem-with-perceptual-hashes/

5 years ago

Surveys show Americans want more walkable cities

https://www.governing.com/community/vehicles-still-firmly-in-control-of-city-streets

5 years ago

New UUID Formats – IETF Draft

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-peabody-dispatch-new-uuid-format

5 years ago

Scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthier and smarter

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/scientist-says-cleaning-indoor-air-could-make-us-healthier-and-smarter

5 years ago

Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competition point of view

https://blog.quintarelli.it/2021/08/apples-child-new-abuse-prevention-system-an-antritustcompetition-point-of-view.html

5 years ago

U.S. FTC says Facebook misused privacy decree to shut down ad research

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tech-facebook-ftc/u-s-ftc-says-facebook-misused-privacy-decree-to-shut-down-ad-research-idUSKBN2F702X

5 years ago

Reflections on 10k Hours of Programming

https://matt-rickard.com/reflections-on-10-000-hours-of-programming/

5 years ago

LÖVR – An open source framework for rapidly building immersive 3D experiences

https://lovr.org

5 years ago

Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28087309

5 years ago

Dating in Delhi when you're poor

https://www.reuters.com/article/delhi-dating-idUSKBN1DU0NE

5 years ago

Postgres.app

https://postgresapp.com/

5 years ago

“People have asked if we'll adopt this system for WhatsApp. The answer is no.”

https://twitter.com/wcathcart/status/1423701473624395784

5 years ago

Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroying mistake (2020)

https://iism.org/article/driving-engineers-to-an-arbitrary-date-is-a-value-destroying-mistake-49

5 years ago

Semver doesn't mean major.minor.patch, it means fails.features.bugs

https://twitter.com/willmcgugan/status/1423678688802058244

5 years ago

Warning Signals for Collapse of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01097-4.epdf

5 years ago

Atlantic Ocean currents weaken, signalling big weather changes: study

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/atlantic-ocean-currents-weaken-signalling-big-weather-changes-study-2021-08-05/

5 years ago

Why Disney World doesn't have mosquitoes

https://www.greenmatters.com/p/why-no-mosquitoes-disney-world

5 years ago