1007
679
TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/TikTok-overtakes-Facebook-as-world-s-most-downloaded-app
5 years ago
847
218
Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusive-idUSKBN1ZK1CT
695
224
Firefox 91 introduces enhanced cookie clearing
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/08/10/firefox-91-introduces-enhanced-cookie-clearing/
597
365
Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US
https://culdesac.com/
583
255
Please log in with router's password
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Please+log+in+with+router%27s+password%22
547
319
Elementary OS 6 Odin
https://blog.elementary.io/elementary-os-6-odin-released/
461
501
Apple says photos in iCloud will be checked by child abuse detection system
https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-says-photos-icloud-will-be-checked-by-child-abuse-detection-system-2021-08-09/
395
196
“My scooter was stolen. Unknown to the thief, I hid two AirTags inside it.”
https://twitter.com/dguido/status/1424921645483966466
380
681
Google employees who work from home could lose money
https://www.reuters.com/world/the-great-reboot/pay-cut-google-employees-who-work-home-could-lose-money-2021-08-10/
372
174
OpenAI Codex
https://openai.com/blog/openai-codex/
353
184
Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn
https://thecounter.org/mexico-phaseout-glyphosate-genetically-engineered-corn-united-states/
334
89
How to Hack APIs in 2021
https://labs.detectify.com/2021/08/10/how-to-hack-apis-in-2021/
324
339
$600M taken in largest DeFi hack to date
https://blockworks.co/hackers-steal-over-600m-biggest-in-defi-history/
308
329
End of the line for Uber?
https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/10/unter/#bezzle-no-more
289
151
Vue 3.2
https://blog.vuejs.org/posts/vue-3.2.html
280
331
How far could a spaceship go if we never ran out of thrust? (2020)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2021/12/30/how-far-could-a-spaceship-go-if-we-never-ran-out-of-thrust/
263
173
So you want to write a GUI framework
https://www.cmyr.net/blog/gui-framework-ingredients.html
260
120
MinIO: A Bare Metal Drop-In for AWS S3
https://tech.marksblogg.com/minio-aws-s3-hdfs.html
251
231
BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-economy-biontech-idUSKBN2FB15A
242
118
Turn your Android phone into SMS API gateway
https://github.com/traccar/traccar-sms-gateway
157
Crows have been shown to understand the concept of zero
https://www.quantamagazine.org/animals-can-count-and-use-zero-how-far-does-their-number-sense-go-20210809/
220
219
Firefox 91
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/91.0/releasenotes/
198
88
Unity to acquire Parsec for $320M
https://investors.unity.com/news/news-details/2021/Unity-Enters-Into-Agreement-to-Acquire-Parsec/default.aspx
190
51
Siberia’s wildfires are bigger than all the world’s other blazes combined
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/11/siberia-fires-russia-climate/
189
80
Noyb.eu files 422 formal GDPR complaints on nerve-wrecking “Cookie Banners”
https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-files-422-formal-gdpr-complaints-nerve-wrecking-cookie-banners
181
252
The 'Great Resignation' is really the 'Great Discontent'
https://www.gallup.com/workplace/351545/great-resignation-really-great-discontent.aspx
170
110
JPL's Plan for the Next Mars Helicopter
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-next-mars-helicopter
169
103
The World’s Biggest Tire Graveyard in Kuwait Is on Fire
https://scoopempire.com/kuwait-tire-graveyards/
167
Incident with GitHub Actions, API Requests, Git Operations, Issues and more
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/rmfrw9dfbtbp
165
Show HN: Lona – Framework for responsive web apps in full Python without JS
http://lona-web.org
158
186
Federal Court Orders BitMEX to Pay $100M over Illegal Crypto Trading
https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8412-21
142
58
Unsong, a fantasy novel where the universe is programmable with Hebrew (2015)
https://unsongbook.com/
136
Summary of the semantics of inline in C and C++
https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2021-August/152031.html
134
74
Deno 1.13 Release
https://deno.com/blog/v1.13
128
36
Facebook Shuts Down Researchers Looking into Misinformation
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/10/opinion/facebook-misinformation.html
127
26
Rust in Production: Qovery
https://serokell.io/blog/rust-in-production-qovery
124
Mea culpa: How developers fix their own simple bugs differently from other devs
https://neverworkintheory.org/2021/08/10/developers-fix-their-own-simple-bugs-differently-from-other-developers.html
41
4th person in US mysteriously stricken with deadly bacteria from South Asia
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/4th-person-in-us-mysteriously-stricken-with-deadly-bacteria-from-south-asia/
116
121
Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28128957
115
55
“Raiders of the Lost Ark” Story Conference Transcript (1978)
https://nloewen.com/docs/lucas-spielberg-kasdan--raiders-of-the-lost-ark-story-conference/
114
35
Memory Bandwidth
https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/memory-bandwidth/
113
A Message to Our Customers (2016)
https://www.apple.com/customer-letter/
112
129
Show HN: Write universally accessible SQL, not library-specific ORM wrapper APIs
https://github.com/craigmichaelmartin/pure-orm
102
175
U.S. Kids Are Getting Nearly 70% of Their Calories from 'Ultra-Processed' Foods
https://gizmodo.com/u-s-kids-are-now-getting-nearly-70-of-their-calories-1847457103
97
5
After China Objects, Apple Removes App Used by Hong Kong Protestors (2019)
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/10/768841864/after-china-objects-apple-removes-app-used-by-hong-kong-protesters
94
46
What China Wants and Why
https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/what-china-wants
93
Ask HN: Senior Software Engineer to Engineering Manager
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28129546
86
21
Build you own SGI Indy workstation with MAME
https://sgi.neocities.org/
890M-year-old sponge fossil may be the earliest animal yet found
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/890-million-year-old-sponge-fossil-may-be-the-earliest-animal-known
43
Who Funds the Taliban?
https://theconversation.com/the-taliban-are-megarich-heres-where-they-get-the-money-they-use-to-wage-war-in-afghanistan-147411
82
13
Bevy's First Birthday: a year of open source Rust game engine development
https://bevyengine.org/news/bevys-first-birthday/
81
42
How we built the Evervault Encryption Engine (E3)
https://evervault.com/blog/e3
38
An intro to Pen Plotters (2019)
https://medium.com/quarterstudio/an-intro-to-pen-plotters-29b6bd4327ba
79
The mystery of the lost Roman herb (2017)
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170907-the-mystery-of-the-lost-roman-herb
0
Please pray for me: female reporter being hunted by the Taliban tells her story
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/aug/10/please-pray-for-me-female-reporter-being-hunted-by-the-taliban-tells-her-story
75
77
Updated GNOME User Interface Guidelines are now official
https://developer.gnome.org/hig/
Police to begin regular, warrant-free searches of homes for child abuse material
https://drewdevault.com/2021/08/10/Apple-CSAM-scanning.html
Astronomical Engineering: A Strategy for Modifying Planetary Orbits (2001)
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001Ap%26SS.275..349K/abstract
73
111
2020 U.S. Migration Map
https://www.northamerican.com/migration-map
MapReduce is making a comeback
https://www.estuary.dev/blog/why-mapreduce-is-making-a-comeback
17
NASA's “Tour of Asteroid Bennu” Selected for Siggraph Film Festival
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasas-tour-of-asteroid-bennu-selected-for-prestigious-computer-graphics-film-festival
3
Better Than Free (2008)
http://kk.org/thetechnium/better-than-fre/
72
32
Show HN: YouTube Musical Spectrum – visualizer for YouTube with musical notes
https://github.com/mfcc64/youtube-musical-spectrum
71
Practical introduction to algebraic datatypes (ADTs) in TypeScript
https://medium.com/@el3ng/practical-introduction-to-algebraic-datatypes-adts-in-typescript-1cb6952e4c6d
