top 50% 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

1778 upvotes – 813 comments

A future for SQL on the web

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

5 years ago

925 upvotes – 218 comments

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

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

5 years ago

753 upvotes – 571 comments

Internet of Snitches

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

5 years ago

632 upvotes – 275 comments

Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings

https://fishdraw.glitch.me/

5 years ago

614 upvotes – 87 comments

ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning

https://0ver.org/

5 years ago

570 upvotes – 262 comments

Mosh: The Mobile Shell

https://mosh.org

5 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/

5 years ago

440 upvotes – 339 comments

Life Improvements Since the 1990s

https://www.gwern.net/Improvements

5 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

5 years ago

351 upvotes – 438 comments

Thunderbird 91.0

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

5 years ago

338 upvotes – 258 comments

Typography in Alien (2014)

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

5 years ago

300 upvotes – 97 comments

Scanning “private” content

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

5 years ago

267 upvotes – 77 comments

Reddit raises $410M in new funding

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

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 480 comments

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

https://github.com/unit8co/darts

5 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/

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 285 comments

NodeJS security cheat sheet

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

5 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/

5 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

5 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/

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 90 comments

Who Is Being Monitored?

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/wer-wird-belauscht/

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 80 comments

Overthinking

https://kerkour.com/blog/overthinking/

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 72 comments

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/

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 296 comments

Intro to Deep Learning

https://sebastianraschka.com/blog/2021/dl-course.html

5 years ago

189 upvotes – 19 comments

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/

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 92 comments

Fault Injection Attacks Against AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization

https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.04575

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 60 comments

Single cortical neurons as deep artificial neural networks

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627321005018?dgcid=coauthor

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 133 comments

Tether minted most USDT to just 2 firms – Alameda and Cumberland

https://protos.com/tether-minted-usdt-stablecoin-crypto-two-alameda-cumberland/

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 201 comments

Phil Agre saw the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/12/philip-agre-ai-disappeared/

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 42 comments

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

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 138 comments

Mosh's tolerance for high packet loss helps a guy escape from an elevator

https://mosh.org/elevator.txt

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 34 comments

How green is blue hydrogen?

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ese3.956

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 212 comments

Ask HN: What are you using to replace shared iCloud Photos albums?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28150772

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 107 comments

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/

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 38 comments

The bug which lost more than $600M in various cryptocurrencies a few hours ago

https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1425333588610801667

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 122 comments

YouTube deletes “lawsuit against vaccine passport” press conference video

https://twitter.com/NMalliotakis/status/1425919714476363778

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 63 comments

Quality and Effort (2018)

https://seths.blog/2018/11/quality-and-effort/

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 39 comments

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

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 69 comments

Strange domain names that developers bought

https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/08/11/the-strange-domain-names-that-developers-bought/

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 162 comments

C++ Exceptions: Under the Hood (2013)

https://monkeywritescode.blogspot.com/p/c-exceptions-under-hood.html

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 111 comments

MathML Progress

https://www.igalia.com/2021/08/09/MathML-Progress.html

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 50 comments

Packaging Con 2021: a conference for package management devs and communities

https://packaging-con.org/

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 38 comments

Jackson structured programming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_structured_programming

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 69 comments

Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #6

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28156460

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 114 comments

The American diversity meat grinder

https://www.thepullrequest.com/p/the-american-diversity-meat-grinder

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 86 comments

Tesla valve

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_valve

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 40 comments

‘A Form of Brainwashing’: China Remakes Hong Kong

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/world/asia/hong-kong-security-law-anniversary.html

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 60 comments

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/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 157 comments

Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Delta Among Vaccinated Healthcare Workers, Vietnam

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3897733

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 66 comments

Commodore 64 BASIC and KERNAL on Atari 8-bit hardware

https://github.com/unbibium/atari64

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 38 comments

Absurd-SQL – Use sqlite3 on the web with storage in IndexedDB

https://github.com/jlongster/absurd-sql

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 11 comments

Annual reminder of Uber missing this goal

https://twitter.com/emilmichael/status/1425122075161899011

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 94 comments

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

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 109 comments

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

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 80 comments

Buddha and Mind

https://www.neh.gov/article/buddha-and-mind

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 105 comments

Balena Etcher Pro – Fast write to multiple cards or USB disks at once

https://www.balena.io/etcher/pro/

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 111 comments

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

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 129 comments

Geometric Deep Learning Course: Grids, Groups, Graphs, Geodesics, and Gauges

https://geometricdeeplearning.com/lectures/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 2 comments

GitHub.Dev is now available on any GitHub repo

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28157661

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 25 comments

Next.js 11.1

https://nextjs.org/blog/next-11-1

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 30 comments

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 years ago

78 upvotes – 99 comments

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/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 5 comments

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

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 20 comments

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

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 18 comments

Nvidia’s “Kitchen” Keynote was faked (rendered) and nobody noticed

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/08/11/omniverse-making-of-gtc/

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 53 comments

What if a deadly heatwave hit India?

https://www.economist.com/what-if/2021/07/03/what-if-a-deadly-heat-wave-hit-india

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 85 comments

Nvidia Releases CUDA Python

https://nvidia.github.io/cuda-python/overview.html

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 11 comments

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/

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 101 comments
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