top 20 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

Crypto community slams ‘disastrous’ new amendment to big infrastructure bill

https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/06/crypto-biden-amendment-infrastructure-bill-proof-of-work/

5 years ago

Everything has changed in iOS 14, but Jailbreak is eternal [pdf]

https://i.blackhat.com/USA21/Wednesday-Handouts/us-21-Everything-Has-Changed-In-IOS-14-But-Jailbreak-Is-Eternal.pdf

5 years ago

Powering the Lunar Base

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/04/25/powering-the-lunar-base/

5 years ago

Framework Patterns (2019)

https://blog.startifact.com/posts/framework-patterns.html#

5 years ago

The Era of Cheap Natural Gas Ends as Prices Surge by 1000%

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-06/the-era-of-cheap-natural-gas-ends-as-prices-surge-by-1-000

5 years ago

The Apple Psi System [pdf]

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Apple_PSI_System_Security_Protocol_and_Analysis.pdf

5 years ago

With a nudge from AI, ketamine emerges as a potential rare disease treatment

https://www.statnews.com/2021/08/05/artificial-intelligence-rare-disease-andp-medikanren/

5 years ago

Show HN: Object Detection in an Hour

https://www.strayrobots.io/blog/object-detection-in-an-hour

5 years ago

When Encryption Was a Crime: The 1990s Battle for Free Speech in Software

https://reason.com/video/2020/10/21/cryptowars-gilmore-zimmermann-cryptography/

5 years ago

Live the Dream, Make the Change, Move to Pitcairn Island (2018)

http://www.immigration.gov.pn/immigrate/index.html

5 years ago