top 10 hacker news stories for 2021-08-07

An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning

https://github.com/nadimkobeissi/appleprivacyletter

5 years ago

Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence

https://www.nzz.ch/english/swiss-phd-students-dismissal-spotlights-chinas-influence-ld.1638771

5 years ago

In internal memo, Apple addresses concerns around new Photo scanning features

https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/06/apple-internal-memo-icloud-photo-scanning-concerns/

5 years ago

Sci-Hub is fundraising

https://sci-hub.do/donate

5 years ago

Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way an AI does

https://clivethompson.medium.com/why-captcha-pictures-are-so-unbearably-depressing-20679b8cf84a

5 years ago

After DeepMind’s cofounder was placed on leave for bullying, Google promoted him

https://www.morningbrew.com/emerging-tech/stories/2021/08/04/deepminds-cofounder-placed-leave-bullying-google-promoted

5 years ago

Very fast rocket

http://makc.github.io/misc/relativity-1.html

5 years ago

What it was like developing for NES back in 1990

https://twitter.com/KevEdwardsRetro/status/1423653418439254026

5 years ago

Open-source intelligence challenges state monopolies on information

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/08/07/open-source-intelligence-challenges-state-monopolies-on-information

5 years ago

Bug in Lynx's SSL certificate validation – leaks password in clear text via SNI

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/08/07/1

5 years ago