1778
813
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
925
218
A future for SQL on the web
https://jlongster.com/future-sql-web
753
571
The deceptive PR behind Apple’s “expanded protections for children”
https://piotr.is/2021/08/12/apple-csam/
632
275
Internet of Snitches
https://puri.sm/posts/internet-of-snitches/
614
87
Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings
https://fishdraw.glitch.me/
570
262
ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning
https://0ver.org/
449
153
Mosh: The Mobile Shell
https://mosh.org
440
339
Git password authentication is shutting down
https://github.blog/changelog/2021-08-12-git-password-authentication-is-shutting-down/
424
462
Life Improvements Since the 1990s
https://www.gwern.net/Improvements
351
438
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
338
258
Thunderbird 91.0
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/91.0/releasenotes/
300
97
Typography in Alien (2014)
https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/12/01/alien/
267
77
Scanning “private” content
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/865756/a7f67aaa8ea52862/
243
480
Reddit raises $410M in new funding
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/technology/reddit-new-funding.html
239
43
Darts: A Python library for easy manipulation and forecasting of time series
https://github.com/unit8co/darts
229
285
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/
226
45
NodeJS security cheat sheet
https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Nodejs_Security_Cheat_Sheet.html
225
252
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/
216
168
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
198
90
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/
197
80
Who Is Being Monitored?
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/wer-wird-belauscht/
195
72
Overthinking
https://kerkour.com/blog/overthinking/
191
296
Poly Network hacker returns $258M after stealing $600M
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2021/08/11/crypto-hacker-returns-258-million-after-stealing-600-million-solicits-donations-for-hacking-for-good/
189
19
Intro to Deep Learning
https://sebastianraschka.com/blog/2021/dl-course.html
175
92
Facebook may be forced to sell Giphy one year after buying it
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/facebook-may-be-forced-to-sell-giphy-one-year-after-buying-it/
167
60
Fault Injection Attacks Against AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.04575
164
133
Single cortical neurons as deep artificial neural networks
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627321005018?dgcid=coauthor
160
201
Tether minted most USDT to just 2 firms – Alameda and Cumberland
https://protos.com/tether-minted-usdt-stablecoin-crypto-two-alameda-cumberland/
156
42
Phil Agre saw the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/12/philip-agre-ai-disappeared/
150
138
Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013)
https://web.archive.org/web/20160304012020/http://aaronwinborn.com/blogs/aaron/monday-was-my-46th-birthday-and-likely-my-last-anything-awesome-i-should-try-after-i-die
145
34
Mosh's tolerance for high packet loss helps a guy escape from an elevator
https://mosh.org/elevator.txt
142
212
How green is blue hydrogen?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ese3.956
136
107
Ask HN: What are you using to replace shared iCloud Photos albums?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28150772
132
38
Physicists Create a Bizarre ‘Wigner Crystal’ Made Purely of Electrons
https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-create-a-bizarre-wigner-crystal-made-purely-of-electrons-20210812/
131
122
The bug which lost more than $600M in various cryptocurrencies a few hours ago
https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1425333588610801667
127
63
YouTube deletes “lawsuit against vaccine passport” press conference video
https://twitter.com/NMalliotakis/status/1425919714476363778
125
39
Quality and Effort (2018)
https://seths.blog/2018/11/quality-and-effort/
119
69
Xsolla lays off 150 after an algorithm ruled staff 'unengaged and unproductive'
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/386534/Xsolla_lays_off_150_after_an_algorithm_ruled_staff_unengaged_and_unproductive.php
118
162
Strange domain names that developers bought
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/08/11/the-strange-domain-names-that-developers-bought/
115
111
C++ Exceptions: Under the Hood (2013)
https://monkeywritescode.blogspot.com/p/c-exceptions-under-hood.html
112
50
MathML Progress
https://www.igalia.com/2021/08/09/MathML-Progress.html
108
Packaging Con 2021: a conference for package management devs and communities
https://packaging-con.org/
106
Jackson structured programming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_structured_programming
104
114
Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #6
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28156460
102
86
The American diversity meat grinder
https://www.thepullrequest.com/p/the-american-diversity-meat-grinder
100
40
Tesla valve
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_valve
99
‘A Form of Brainwashing’: China Remakes Hong Kong
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/world/asia/hong-kong-security-law-anniversary.html
94
157
Leaked voting machine BIOS passwords may implicate Q-friendly county clerk
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/08/8chans-ron-watkins-scores-a-major-own-goal-with-leaked-bios-passwords/
93
66
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Delta Among Vaccinated Healthcare Workers, Vietnam
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3897733
Commodore 64 BASIC and KERNAL on Atari 8-bit hardware
https://github.com/unbibium/atari64
11
Absurd-SQL – Use sqlite3 on the web with storage in IndexedDB
https://github.com/jlongster/absurd-sql
91
Annual reminder of Uber missing this goal
https://twitter.com/emilmichael/status/1425122075161899011
89
109
China releases a five-year regulation blueprint for broader crackdown
https://www.bloombergquint.com/global-economics/china-signals-regulatory-crackdown-will-deepen-in-long-push
88
I'm the guy who bought 259684 BTC for under $3000 yesterday (2011)
https://web.archive.org/web/20110716064544/https://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20207.0
85
105
Buddha and Mind
https://www.neh.gov/article/buddha-and-mind
Balena Etcher Pro – Fast write to multiple cards or USB disks at once
https://www.balena.io/etcher/pro/
129
Nearly half of American workers don’t earn enough to afford a one-bedroom (cont)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/aug/12/housing-renter-affordable-data-map
2
Geometric Deep Learning Course: Grids, Groups, Graphs, Geodesics, and Gauges
https://geometricdeeplearning.com/lectures/
79
25
GitHub.Dev is now available on any GitHub repo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28157661
30
Next.js 11.1
https://nextjs.org/blog/next-11-1
78
EU looking into new possible side-effects of mRNA Covid-19 shots
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/eu-drugs-regulator-looking-new-possible-side-effects-mrna-vaccines-2021-08-11/
5
Sicily Hits 48.8°C, the Highest Temperature Ever Recorded in Europe
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2286967-sicily-hits-48-8c-the-highest-temperature-ever-recorded-in-europe/
76
20
With No Hope of Real Profits, Uber and Lyft Double Down on Fake Profit Metrics
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/08/hubert-horan-can-uber-ever-deliver-part-twenty-six-with-no-hope-of-real-profits-uber-and-lyft-double-down-on-fake-profit-metrics.html
18
Apple and Google seem spooked by bill requiring more app stores and sideloading
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/apple-and-google-seem-spooked-by-bill-requiring-more-app-stores-and-sideloading/?comments=1
74
53
Nvidia’s “Kitchen” Keynote was faked (rendered) and nobody noticed
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/08/11/omniverse-making-of-gtc/
73
What if a deadly heatwave hit India?
https://www.economist.com/what-if/2021/07/03/what-if-a-deadly-heat-wave-hit-india
Nvidia Releases CUDA Python
https://nvidia.github.io/cuda-python/overview.html
101
Mike Lindell's “packet captures” are garbage data provided by serial con-man
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/aug/11/mike-lindells-lead-cyber-expert-says-they-cant-pro/
Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches