top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-08-06

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

https://appleprivacyletter.com/

4 years ago

1187 upvotes – 670 comments

CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative

https://calyxos.org/

4 years ago

1010 upvotes – 477 comments

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

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

4 years ago

961 upvotes – 522 comments

The Problem with Perceptual Hashes

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

4 years ago

705 upvotes – 418 comments

Surveys show Americans want more walkable cities

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

4 years ago

553 upvotes – 356 comments

New UUID Formats – IETF Draft

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

4 years ago

525 upvotes – 245 comments

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

4 years ago

476 upvotes – 445 comments

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

4 years ago

451 upvotes – 287 comments

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

4 years ago

438 upvotes – 112 comments

Reflections on 10k Hours of Programming

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

4 years ago

421 upvotes – 215 comments

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

https://lovr.org

4 years ago

385 upvotes – 122 comments

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

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

4 years ago

377 upvotes – 741 comments

Dating in Delhi when you're poor

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

4 years ago

358 upvotes – 268 comments

Postgres.app

https://postgresapp.com/

4 years ago

325 upvotes – 154 comments

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

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

4 years ago

298 upvotes – 181 comments

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

4 years ago

290 upvotes – 200 comments

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

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

4 years ago

275 upvotes – 166 comments

Warning Signals for Collapse of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

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

4 years ago

269 upvotes – 248 comments

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/

4 years ago

262 upvotes – 157 comments

Why Disney World doesn't have mosquitoes

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

4 years ago

262 upvotes – 125 comments

Give to Thunderbird

https://give.thunderbird.net

4 years ago

260 upvotes – 122 comments

Whistleblowers expose corruption in EPA Chemical Safety Office

https://theintercept.com/2021/07/02/epa-chemical-safety-corruption-whistleblowers/

4 years ago

253 upvotes – 62 comments

Looking into Zig

https://ayende.com/blog/194404-A/looking-into-zig

4 years ago

242 upvotes – 121 comments

A cocktail of pesticides, parasites and hunger leaves bees down and out

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02079-4

4 years ago

227 upvotes – 102 comments

Beware of 'shrinkflation,' inflation's devious cousin

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/07/06/1012409112/beware-of-shrinkflation-inflations-devious-cousin

4 years ago

224 upvotes – 313 comments

Clubhouse Is a Cargo Cult

https://ianvanagas.com/2021/08/06/clubhouse-is-a-cargo-cult/

4 years ago

204 upvotes – 104 comments

Show HN: Open-source A/B testing framework

https://github.com/growthbook/growthbook

4 years ago

199 upvotes – 37 comments

Learning APL

https://xpqz.github.io/learnapl/intro.html

4 years ago

199 upvotes – 102 comments

Letter from Acting Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection to Facebook

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/consumer-blog/2021/08/letter-acting-director-bureau-consumer-protection-samuel

4 years ago

186 upvotes – 44 comments

The CIA’s outsourced torture is lost to history

https://foreverwars.substack.com/p/the-cias-outsourced-torture-is-lost

4 years ago

179 upvotes – 46 comments

The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy

https://karl-voit.at/2021/07/23/emacs-lock-in/

4 years ago

175 upvotes – 265 comments

Body mapping study suggests chronic pain comes in nine distinct types

https://www.sciencealert.com/large-body-map-study-suggests-chronic-pain-comes-in-9-distinct-types

4 years ago

172 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: Visualizer for High Level System Design

https://honzaap.github.io/Systemizer

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast

https://papertime.app

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 36 comments

The smart home is flailing as a concept

https://www.fastcompany.com/90660570/the-smart-home-is-flailing-as-a-concept-because-it-sucks

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 290 comments

Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks

http://reggit.bubbleapps.io/

4 years ago

152 upvotes – 164 comments

Richard Stallman and the History of Free Software and Open Source (2016)

https://www.cmpod.net/all-transcripts/history-open-source-free-software-text/

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 98 comments

Fooling Neural Networks [pdf]

https://slazebni.cs.illinois.edu/fall18/lec12_adversarial.pdf

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 37 comments

Bones hoarded by hyenas over thousands of years

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-uncover-extensive-pile-animal-and-human-bones-saudi-arabia-cave-180978375/

4 years ago

145 upvotes – 38 comments

Feelings at the Fall of the Republic, Ancient and Medieval Living Standards

https://acoup.blog/2021/08/06/referenda-ad-senatum-august-6-2021-feelings-at-the-fall-of-the-republic-ancient-and-medieval-living-standards-and-zombies/

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 83 comments

Tools to Run Kubernetes Locally

https://yankee.dev/6-tools-to-run-kubernetes-locally

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 61 comments

Driving 1725km in an electric car in 2 days

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/08/05/Western-Electric

4 years ago

137 upvotes – 290 comments

Starship has been fully stacked

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1423659261452709893

4 years ago

120 upvotes – 46 comments

Mozilla: *Privacy Not Included

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 65 comments

Apple to scan iPhones for child sex abuse images

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58109748

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 89 comments

Ask HN: Best privacy preserving alternatives to Apple products?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28087201

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 62 comments

Haskell for the Elm Enthusiast

https://blog.noredink.com/post/658510851000713216/haskell-for-the-elm-enthusiast

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 53 comments

Reasons Not to Use Apple

https://stallman.org/apple.html

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 21 comments

A macOS-like operating system based on FreeBSD

https://github.com/mszoek/airyx

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 67 comments

Scientists have detected warning signs of the collapse of the Gulf Stream

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/08/05/change-ocean-collapse-atlantic-meridional/

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 73 comments

Homelessness is about housing

https://www.slowboring.com/p/homelessness-housing

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 155 comments

In praise of habits

https://psyche.co/ideas/in-praise-of-habits-so-much-more-than-mindless-reflexes

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 16 comments
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