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/

4 years ago

1778 upvotes – 813 comments

A future for SQL on the web

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

4 years ago

925 upvotes – 218 comments

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

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

4 years ago

753 upvotes – 571 comments

Internet of Snitches

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

4 years ago

632 upvotes – 275 comments

Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings

https://fishdraw.glitch.me/

4 years ago

614 upvotes – 87 comments

ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning

https://0ver.org/

4 years ago

570 upvotes – 262 comments

Mosh: The Mobile Shell

https://mosh.org

4 years ago

449 upvotes – 153 comments

Git password authentication is shutting down

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

4 years ago

440 upvotes – 339 comments

Life Improvements Since the 1990s

https://www.gwern.net/Improvements

4 years ago

424 upvotes – 462 comments

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

4 years ago

351 upvotes – 438 comments

Thunderbird 91.0

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

4 years ago

338 upvotes – 258 comments

Typography in Alien (2014)

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

4 years ago

300 upvotes – 97 comments

Scanning “private” content

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

4 years ago

267 upvotes – 77 comments

Reddit raises $410M in new funding

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

4 years ago

243 upvotes – 480 comments

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

https://github.com/unit8co/darts

4 years ago

239 upvotes – 43 comments

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/

4 years ago

229 upvotes – 285 comments

NodeJS security cheat sheet

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

4 years ago

226 upvotes – 45 comments

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/

4 years ago

225 upvotes – 252 comments

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

4 years ago

216 upvotes – 168 comments

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/

4 years ago

198 upvotes – 90 comments
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