top 10 hacker news stories for 2021-08-08

One Bad Apple

https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/929-One-Bad-Apple.html

5 years ago

Apps Getting Worse

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/08/07/Apps-Get-Worse

5 years ago

Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/major-uk-science-funder-require-grantees-make-papers-immediately-free-all

5 years ago

A street snack that has baffled botanists

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/indian-street-snack-root

5 years ago

Why I Wrote PGP (1999)

https://philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html

5 years ago

Space Station incident demands independent investigation

https://spectrum.ieee.org/space-station-accident-needs-independant-investigation

5 years ago

Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02134-0

5 years ago

I'm reading the FT and WSJ from 100 years ago each week leading to 1929

https://roaring20s.substack.com/p/august-8-1921

5 years ago

Screw You, Microsoft Edge

http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2021/08/Screw-You-Microsoft-Edge.html

5 years ago

Big Tech are supposed to be the plumbers, not patricians of internet discourse

https://bombthrower.com/articles/when-dissent-is-misinformation-fallacies-become-facts/

5 years ago