top 50% 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

The World of CSS Transforms

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

5 years ago

294 upvotes – 70 comments

Done with YC: Age Discrimination

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

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 130 comments

Localhost

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

5 years ago

272 upvotes – 47 comments

The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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

5 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

5 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/

5 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

5 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/

5 years ago

254 upvotes – 138 comments

Bring back hydrogen lifting gas

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

5 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

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 116 comments

Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately improved your life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28119393

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 419 comments

Stages of Denial

https://beyondloom.com/blog/denial.html

5 years ago

225 upvotes – 117 comments

Build your own NeXT with a virtual machine

https://learn.adafruit.com/build-your-own-next-with-a-virtual-machine?view=all

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 128 comments

'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy (2007)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 83 comments

A wind-powered vehicle that can travel twice as fast as the wind itself

https://www.businessinsider.com/youtuber-won-10000-bet-with-physicist-over-wind-powered-vehicle-2021-7

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 254 comments

Hello Yarn 2, Goodbye node_modules

https://freddixx.medium.com/hello-yarn-2-goodbye-node-modules-21d97afc1a75

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 154 comments

2,400-year-old baskets still filled with fruit found in submerged Egyptian city

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-uncover-2400-year-old-fruit-baskets-underwater-egyptian-city-180978350/

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 44 comments

Machine learning won't solve natural language understanding

https://thegradient.pub/machine-learning-wont-solve-the-natural-language-understanding-challenge/

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 188 comments

IPCC: Sixth Assessment Report

https://www.ipcc.ch/assessment-report/ar6/

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 87 comments

Amazon third-party sellers reportedly hound customers who leave bad reviews

https://gizmodo.com/heres-how-amazon-third-party-sellers-reportedly-hound-c-1847446648

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 95 comments

Facebook shuts out NYU academics’ research on political ads

https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-5d3021ed9f193bf249c3af158b128d18

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 34 comments

Bloom Filters: More than a space-efficient hashmap

https://boyter.org/posts/bloom-filter/

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 53 comments

Canberra asks to introduce detection capabilities in encrypted communication

https://www.zdnet.com/article/canberra-asks-big-tech-to-introduce-detection-capabilities-in-encrypted-communication/

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 63 comments

Fundamentals of Incident Management

https://bitfieldconsulting.com/blog/got-game-secrets-of-great-incident-management

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 59 comments

About 90% of Animators Quit Their Jobs Within 3 Years

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2021-08-06/animator-dorm-project-about-90-percent-of-animators-quit-their-jobs-within-3-years/.175908

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 106 comments

Show HN: Free, Accessible AI Art Generator

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1n_xrgKDlGQcCF6O-eL3NOd_x4NSqAUjK

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 31 comments

When zero cost abstractions aren't zero cost

https://blog.polybdenum.com/2021/08/09/when-zero-cost-abstractions-aren-t-zero-cost.html

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 97 comments

VCs are financing an economy of servants

https://sifted.eu/articles/servant-economy/

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 147 comments

Apple wants to redefine what it means to violate your privacy. We mustn’t let it

https://ar.al/2021/08/08/apple-is-trying-to-redefine-what-it-means-to-violate-your-privacy-we-must-not-let-it/

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 79 comments

A Lisp interpreter written in Lisp (2017)

https://www.lvguowei.me/post/the-most-beautiful-program-ever-written/

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 55 comments

Incentives in Computer Science

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~tr/s20/s20.html

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 10 comments

U.S. Senate Vote in Favor of Amendment That Threatens Crypto Industry

https://decrypt.co/78038/senate-votes-for-amendment-that-threatens-crypto-industry

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 159 comments

It's not SEO: something is fundamentally broken in Google Search

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28113007

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 53 comments

Big Tech call center workers face pressure to accept home surveillance

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/big-tech-call-center-workers-face-pressure-accept-home-surveillance-n1276227

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 57 comments

The 3x+1 Problem [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=094y1Z2wpJg

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 94 comments

Am I stuck in a local maximum?

https://blog.ploeh.dk/2021/08/09/am-i-stuck-in-a-local-maximum/

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 108 comments

BBC Sport's Tokyo Olympics studio [video]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/olympics/58113457

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 42 comments

Essence – An Operating System

https://gitlab.com/nakst/essence

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 42 comments

The Top Shelf Principle (2019)

https://listed.to/@mo/4733/the-top-shelf-principle

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 25 comments

Summer 2021 has changed our understanding of extreme weather

https://theconversation.com/how-summer-2021-has-changed-our-understanding-of-extreme-weather-165268

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 86 comments

Sigstore – A new standard for signing, verifying and protecting software

https://sigstore.dev

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 79 comments

Show HN: Torrentinim – low memory-footprint, API-only torrent search engine

https://github.com/sergiotapia/torrentinim

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 31 comments

Why Valve Is Switching from Debian to Arch for Steam Deck's Linux OS

https://www.pcgamer.com/this-is-why-valve-is-switching-from-debian-to-arch-for-steam-decks-linux-os/

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 121 comments

Difficult math is about recognizing patterns

https://get21stnight.com/2021/08/09/difficult-math-is-about-recognizing-patterns-lessons-from-jeff-bezos/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 59 comments

What happens if you stick your head in a particle accelerator? (2017)

https://aeon.co/ideas/why-we-can-stop-worrying-and-love-the-particle-accelerator

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 48 comments

Newly designed 'smart' insulin could improve type 1 diabetes treatment

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-new-kind-of-smart-insulin-could-help-diabetics-avoid-the-risks-of-low-blood-sugar-levels

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 50 comments

Beyond coupling and cohesion: strategies for un-fucking yourself

https://jesseduffield.com/Beyond-Coupling-And-Cohesion/

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 12 comments

Wealth Shown to Scale

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 138 comments

Surveillance Under Surveillance

https://sunders.uber.space/

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 15 comments

The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf]

https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/library/UsefulnessHarpers.pdf

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 23 comments

Does this medieval fresco show a hallucinogenic mushroom in the Garden of Eden?

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/muscaria-hallucinogenic-mushroom-fresco

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 106 comments

2,500-year-old olive tree burned down in Evia fires in Greece

https://greekreporter.com/2021/08/08/evia-fire-greece-ancient-olive-tree-burned/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 29 comments

Supine Computing (2019)

https://mgsloan.com/posts/supine-computing/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 49 comments

Why is the US Green Party's site blocked?

https://github.com/blocklistproject/Lists/issues/453

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 48 comments

Launch HN: Lightly (YC S21): Label only the data which improves your ML model

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28116371

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 25 comments

Why the McFlurry machine company just got hit with a restraining order

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ymbp/why-the-mcflurry-machine-company-just-got-hit-with-a-restraining-order

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 67 comments

Zig Pathtracer

http://msinilo.pl/blog2/post/zig-pathtracer/

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 21 comments

Elle: A transactional consistency checker for black-box databases

https://github.com/jepsen-io/elle

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 8 comments

CBD Inhibits SARS-CoV-2 Replication and Promotes the Host Innate Immune Response

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7987002/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: Ots – share a secret via one-time URL

https://github.com/sniptt-official/ots

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 44 comments

Why I Wrote PGP (1999)

http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 5 comments

Supercritical CO2 Tech Team

https://www.energy.gov/supercritical-co2-tech-team

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 50 comments
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