1187
670
An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology
https://appleprivacyletter.com/
5 years ago
1010
477
CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative
https://calyxos.org/
961
522
On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Personal Story
https://areoform.wordpress.com/2021/08/06/on-apples-expanded-protections-for-children/
705
418
The Problem with Perceptual Hashes
https://rentafounder.com/the-problem-with-perceptual-hashes/
553
356
Surveys show Americans want more walkable cities
https://www.governing.com/community/vehicles-still-firmly-in-control-of-city-streets
525
245
New UUID Formats – IETF Draft
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-peabody-dispatch-new-uuid-format
476
445
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
451
287
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
438
112
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
421
215
Reflections on 10k Hours of Programming
https://matt-rickard.com/reflections-on-10-000-hours-of-programming/
385
122
LÖVR – An open source framework for rapidly building immersive 3D experiences
https://lovr.org
377
741
Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28087309
358
268
Dating in Delhi when you're poor
https://www.reuters.com/article/delhi-dating-idUSKBN1DU0NE
325
154
Postgres.app
https://postgresapp.com/
298
181
“People have asked if we'll adopt this system for WhatsApp. The answer is no.”
https://twitter.com/wcathcart/status/1423701473624395784
290
200
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
275
166
Semver doesn't mean major.minor.patch, it means fails.features.bugs
https://twitter.com/willmcgugan/status/1423678688802058244
269
248
Warning Signals for Collapse of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01097-4.epdf
262
157
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/
125
Why Disney World doesn't have mosquitoes
https://www.greenmatters.com/p/why-no-mosquitoes-disney-world
260
Give to Thunderbird
https://give.thunderbird.net
253
62
Whistleblowers expose corruption in EPA Chemical Safety Office
https://theintercept.com/2021/07/02/epa-chemical-safety-corruption-whistleblowers/
242
121
Looking into Zig
https://ayende.com/blog/194404-A/looking-into-zig
227
102
A cocktail of pesticides, parasites and hunger leaves bees down and out
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02079-4
224
313
Beware of 'shrinkflation,' inflation's devious cousin
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/07/06/1012409112/beware-of-shrinkflation-inflations-devious-cousin
204
104
Clubhouse Is a Cargo Cult
https://ianvanagas.com/2021/08/06/clubhouse-is-a-cargo-cult/
199
37
Show HN: Open-source A/B testing framework
https://github.com/growthbook/growthbook
Learning APL
https://xpqz.github.io/learnapl/intro.html
186
44
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
179
46
The CIA’s outsourced torture is lost to history
https://foreverwars.substack.com/p/the-cias-outsourced-torture-is-lost
175
265
The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy
https://karl-voit.at/2021/07/23/emacs-lock-in/
172
54
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
167
11
Show HN: Visualizer for High Level System Design
https://honzaap.github.io/Systemizer
161
36
Show HN: Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast
https://papertime.app
155
The smart home is flailing as a concept
https://www.fastcompany.com/90660570/the-smart-home-is-flailing-as-a-concept-because-it-sucks
152
164
Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks
http://reggit.bubbleapps.io/
149
98
Richard Stallman and the History of Free Software and Open Source (2016)
https://www.cmpod.net/all-transcripts/history-open-source-free-software-text/
Fooling Neural Networks [pdf]
https://slazebni.cs.illinois.edu/fall18/lec12_adversarial.pdf
145
38
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/
142
83
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/
140
61
Tools to Run Kubernetes Locally
https://yankee.dev/6-tools-to-run-kubernetes-locally
137
Driving 1725km in an electric car in 2 days
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/08/05/Western-Electric
120
Starship has been fully stacked
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1423659261452709893
113
65
Mozilla: *Privacy Not Included
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/
89
Apple to scan iPhones for child sex abuse images
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58109748
109
Ask HN: Best privacy preserving alternatives to Apple products?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28087201
53
Haskell for the Elm Enthusiast
https://blog.noredink.com/post/658510851000713216/haskell-for-the-elm-enthusiast
106
21
Reasons Not to Use Apple
https://stallman.org/apple.html
97
67
A macOS-like operating system based on FreeBSD
https://github.com/mszoek/airyx
94
73
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/
93
Homelessness is about housing
https://www.slowboring.com/p/homelessness-housing
92
16
In praise of habits
https://psyche.co/ideas/in-praise-of-habits-so-much-more-than-mindless-reflexes
