top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-08-09

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

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

4 years ago

1465 upvotes – 1532 comments

Apple’s Mistake

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

4 years ago

1273 upvotes – 790 comments

Messaging and chat control

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

4 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

4 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

4 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

4 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

4 years ago

451 upvotes – 114 comments

Interactive introduction to game theory and trust

https://ncase.me/trust/

4 years ago

405 upvotes – 62 comments

Wildfire restored a Yosemite watershed

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

4 years ago

333 upvotes – 160 comments

Happy Birthday, OpenStreetMap

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

4 years ago

324 upvotes – 42 comments

The World of CSS Transforms

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/transforms/

4 years ago

294 upvotes – 70 comments

Done with YC: Age Discrimination

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28121086

4 years ago

288 upvotes – 130 comments

Localhost

https://transparencyreport.google.com/copyright/domains/localhost

4 years ago

272 upvotes – 47 comments

The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

https://www.mindat.org/a/minecraft

4 years ago

270 upvotes – 78 comments

Stupidity is a specific cognitive failing

https://psyche.co/ideas/why-some-of-the-smartest-people-can-be-so-very-stupid

4 years ago

264 upvotes – 163 comments

Crystal arrangement results in more power from ferroelectric solar cells

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/08/04/crystal-arrangement-results-in-1000x-more-power-from-ferroelectric-solar-cells/

4 years ago

264 upvotes – 80 comments

Anti-Lukashenka hackers seize senior Belarusian officials' personal data

https://en.currenttime.tv/a/seeking-change-anti-lukashenka-hackers-seize-senior-belarusian-officials-personal-data-/31392092.html

4 years ago

255 upvotes – 125 comments

How Watches Work

https://www.fratellowatches.com/how-watches-work-what-is-an-automatic-watch-and-what-different-types-of-winding-weights-are-there/

4 years ago

254 upvotes – 138 comments

Bring back hydrogen lifting gas

https://www.thecgo.org/news/bring-back-hydrogen-lifting-gas/

4 years ago

253 upvotes – 341 comments

Why does it take so long to get to Mercury?

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/BepiColombo/Why_does_it_take_so_long_to_get_to_Mercury

4 years ago

235 upvotes – 116 comments
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