1082
430
An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning
https://github.com/nadimkobeissi/appleprivacyletter
4 years ago
694
332
Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence
https://www.nzz.ch/english/swiss-phd-students-dismissal-spotlights-chinas-influence-ld.1638771
596
406
In internal memo, Apple addresses concerns around new Photo scanning features
https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/06/apple-internal-memo-icloud-photo-scanning-concerns/
518
122
Sci-Hub is fundraising
https://sci-hub.do/donate
416
358
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
402
324
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
373
100
Very fast rocket
http://makc.github.io/misc/relativity-1.html
230
60
What it was like developing for NES back in 1990
https://twitter.com/KevEdwardsRetro/status/1423653418439254026
202
65
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
32
Open-source intelligence challenges state monopolies on information
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/08/07/open-source-intelligence-challenges-state-monopolies-on-information
193
126
Crypto community slams ‘disastrous’ new amendment to big infrastructure bill
https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/06/crypto-biden-amendment-infrastructure-bill-proof-of-work/
191
64
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
176
242
Powering the Lunar Base
https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/04/25/powering-the-lunar-base/
175
43
Framework Patterns (2019)
https://blog.startifact.com/posts/framework-patterns.html#
172
217
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
168
98
The Apple Psi System [pdf]
https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Apple_PSI_System_Security_Protocol_and_Analysis.pdf
167
133
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/
166
34
Show HN: Object Detection in an Hour
https://www.strayrobots.io/blog/object-detection-in-an-hour
165
26
When Encryption Was a Crime: The 1990s Battle for Free Speech in Software
https://reason.com/video/2020/10/21/cryptowars-gilmore-zimmermann-cryptography/
156
111
Live the Dream, Make the Change, Move to Pitcairn Island (2018)
http://www.immigration.gov.pn/immigrate/index.html
154
74
The Babylonians used Pythagorean ideas long before Pythagoras
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/the-babylonians-used-pythagorean-ideas-long-before-pythagoras/21803301
134
46
A plain text note-taking system for problem solving
https://calculist.io/
88
NASA is looking for people who want to spend a year simulating a mission on Mars
https://www.theblaze.com/news/nasa-is-looking-for-people-who-want-to-spend-a-year-simulating-a-mission-on-mars
132
20
Introduction To Program Synthesis (2018)
https://people.csail.mit.edu/asolar/SynthesisCourse/Lecture1.htm
130
138
World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/world-to-hit-temperature-tipping-point-10-years-faster-than-forecast-20210805-p58g7u
129
66
Qatar Airways grounds 13 Airbus A350s as fuselage degrading
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/qatar-airways-grounds-13-airbus-a350s-as-fuselage-degrading/ar-AAMYDOB
115
Captcha Patent Is an All-American Nightmare
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/captcha-patent-all-american-nightmare
108
50
A woman who rifles through New York’s garbage, exposing the city’s excesses
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/07/new-york-city-garbage-trash-walks-anna-sacks
104
112
WeWork Book: The $10T Mirage
https://www.axios.com/10-trillion-mirage-wework-book-0ee98f74-5370-419e-81ea-e0914bdc0f00.html
103
Apple’s New ‘Child Safety’ Initiatives, and the Slippery Slope
https://daringfireball.net/2021/08/apple_child_safety_initiatives_slippery_slope
87
Squatting or Kneeling May Be Beneficial for Health
https://pressroom.usc.edu/squatting-or-kneeling-may-be-beneficial-for-health/
97
What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed?
https://thewalrus.ca/what-do-you-do-with-a-billion-grams-of-surplus-weed/
90
30
Making Reasonable Use of Computer Resources
https://vfoley.xyz/reasonable-use/
81
Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens (2015)
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002198
89
1
Ray Tracing Gems II
http://www.realtimerendering.com/raytracinggems/rtg2/index.html
15
Python, OCaml, and Machine Learning (2020)
https://signalsandthreads.com/python-ocaml-and-machine-learning/
86
42
‘Massive melting event’ sinks billions of tons of Greenland ice amid heat wave
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/massive-melting-event-sinks-billions-of-tons-of-ice-amid-heat-wave/993907/
11
NOAA Smoke Forecast Model Visualization
https://hwp-viz.gsd.esrl.noaa.gov/smoke/index.html
84
24
A USB adapter for a classic Depraz mouse
https://jfloren.net/b/2021/8/6/1
79
40
Scientists make discovery of dead zones where nothing can live on two US coasts
https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/climate-change/566674-scientists-make-shocking-discovery-of-dead
77
63
‘Apocalyptic’ scenes hit Greece as Athens besieged by fire
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/07/apocalyptic-scenes-hit-greece-as-athens-besieged-by-fire
36
NPM silently suspends package adoption
https://twitter.com/Andrewmd5/status/1423915743410745346
Live the Dream, Make the Change, Move to Pitcairn Island (2018)