top 10 hacker news stories for 2021-08-09

Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58130705

5 years ago

1465 upvotes – 1532 comments

Apple’s Mistake

https://stratechery.com/2021/apples-mistake/

5 years ago

1273 upvotes – 790 comments

Messaging and chat control

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/message-screening/?lang=en

5 years ago

643 upvotes – 317 comments

WhatsApp lead and other tech experts fire back at Apple’s Child Safety plan

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/6/22613365/apple-icloud-csam-scanning-whatsapp-surveillance-reactions

5 years ago

489 upvotes – 360 comments

New carnivorous plant discovered in Pacific Northwest

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/09/1026091196/this-sweet-white-flower-is-actually-a-sneaky-carnivore-scientists-discovered

5 years ago

480 upvotes – 101 comments

American parents are sending their kids to 'Russian math' (2017)

https://www.wbur.org/news/2017/04/13/russian-math-school

5 years ago

465 upvotes – 525 comments

Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world’s hyper-polluting power plants

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Top-5-Polluting-Power-Plants-Account-For-73-Of-Global-Emissions.html

5 years ago

451 upvotes – 114 comments

Interactive introduction to game theory and trust

https://ncase.me/trust/

5 years ago

405 upvotes – 62 comments

Wildfire restored a Yosemite watershed

https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/08/09/how-wildfire-restored-a-yosemite-watershed/

5 years ago

333 upvotes – 160 comments

Happy Birthday, OpenStreetMap

https://www.tomtom.com/blog/maps/tomtom-openstreetmaps-mapmetrics-map-editing/

5 years ago

324 upvotes – 42 comments
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