top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-08-12

Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-apples-child-protection-features-spark-concern-within-its-own-ranks-2021-08-12/

5 years ago

A future for SQL on the web

https://jlongster.com/future-sql-web

5 years ago

The deceptive PR behind Apple’s “expanded protections for children”

https://piotr.is/2021/08/12/apple-csam/

5 years ago

Internet of Snitches

https://puri.sm/posts/internet-of-snitches/

5 years ago

Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings

https://fishdraw.glitch.me/

5 years ago

ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning

https://0ver.org/

5 years ago

Mosh: The Mobile Shell

https://mosh.org

5 years ago

Git password authentication is shutting down

https://github.blog/changelog/2021-08-12-git-password-authentication-is-shutting-down/

5 years ago

Life Improvements Since the 1990s

https://www.gwern.net/Improvements

5 years ago

For programmers, remote working is becoming the norm

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/08/11/for-programmers-remote-working-is-becoming-the-norm

5 years ago

Thunderbird 91.0

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/91.0/releasenotes/

5 years ago

Typography in Alien (2014)

https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/12/01/alien/

5 years ago

Scanning “private” content

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/865756/a7f67aaa8ea52862/

5 years ago

Reddit raises $410M in new funding

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/technology/reddit-new-funding.html

5 years ago

Darts: A Python library for easy manipulation and forecasting of time series

https://github.com/unit8co/darts

5 years ago

There’s a crack in the iPhone foundation and it could get a lot worse

https://www.macworld.com/article/353003/apples-new-csam-feature-is-a-crack-in-the-wall.html/

5 years ago

NodeJS security cheat sheet

https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Nodejs_Security_Cheat_Sheet.html

5 years ago

Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches

https://www.cnet.com/news/twitters-new-font-chirp-is-apparently-giving-some-users-headaches/

5 years ago

US real estate a safe haven for billions in dirty money, report says

https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/a-kleptocrats-dream-us-real-estate-a-safe-haven-for-billions-in-dirty-money-report-says

5 years ago

Activist arrested by London police after downloading docs found on Google search

https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/10/police_raid_man_for_downloading_google_search_docs/

5 years ago