853
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FOSS app removed from the Play Store for linking to the project's website
https://github.com/language-transfer/lt-app/pull/44
4 years ago
585
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Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning'
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58206543
511
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Abandoned Motorola Headquarters (2020)
https://www.abandonedspaces.com/industry/motorola.html
414
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Dad makes teddies with health conditions to help children with medical disorders
https://inews.co.uk/news/real-life/this-leeds-dad-makes-teddies-with-health-conditions-to-help-children-living-with-medical-disorders-1148392
413
388
Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles under a fake name
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/deansterlingjones/snopes-cofounder-plagiarism-mikkelson
408
555
It’s official: July was Earth’s hottest month on record
https://www.noaa.gov/news/its-official-july-2021-was-earths-hottest-month-on-record
406
79
Second IC
http://sam.zeloof.xyz/second-ic/
383
438
Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach News Literacy
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/12/1026993142/illinois-is-the-first-state-to-have-high-schools-teach-news-literacy
366
141
Egui: An easy-to-use immediate mode GUI
https://github.com/emilk/egui
365
42
Interactive Linear Algebra (2019)
http://textbooks.math.gatech.edu/ila/index.html
325
374
Security Threat Model Review of the Apple Child Safety Features [pdf]
https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Security_Threat_Model_Review_of_Apple_Child_Safety_Features.pdf
285
158
Show HN: Nomad Visa – Working remotely? Explore your visa options
https://nomadvisa.io/
263
240
After criticism, Apple to only seek abuse images flagged in multiple nations
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2FE21K
262
159
How Google bought Android
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/08/excerpt-the-history-of-android-as-written-by-a-longtime-android-developer/
230
GNU nano is my editor of choice
https://ariadne.space/2021/08/13/gnu-nano-is-my-editor-of-choice/
229
114
Little kids burn so much energy, they’re like a different species, study finds
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/little-kids-burn-so-much-energy-they-re-different-species-study-finds
228
134
WinCompose – A Compose Key for Windows
https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose
218
50
Loss of animals’ shared knowledge threatens their survival
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/13/culture-shock-how-loss-of-animals-shared-knowledge-threatens-their-survival
217
198
WHO inquiry chief 'had concerns' about lab close to first Covid cases
https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-joe-biden-business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-986f0ff0f97af020de3b4eb3d76b23cd
214
90
‘Likes’ and ‘shares’ teach people to express more outrage online: study
https://news.yale.edu/2021/08/13/likes-and-shares-teach-people-express-more-outrage-online
98
Guide to cognitive biases
https://en.shortcogs.com/
195
55
Huawei stole our tech and created a 'backdoor' to spy on Pakistan, claims IT biz
https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/13/huawei_accused_of_trade_secret/
189
46
AlgorithmWatch shuts down Instagram monitoring after threats from Facebook
https://algorithmwatch.org/en/instagram-research-shut-down-by-facebook/
178
85
Nvidia Reveals Its CEO Was Computer Generated in Keynote Speech
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88nbpa/nvidia-reveals-its-ceo-was-computer-generated-in-keynote-speech
166
175
First batch of student’s washing machines shipped to Iraq
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-58083385
153
What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (2019)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11090
150
169
Commonly used idioms in the tech industry
https://levelup.gitconnected.com/demystifying-5-commonly-used-idioms-in-the-tech-industry-827e8a6d653a
148
51
Archaeologists discover 4k-year-old ancient city in Iraqi desert
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/archaeologists-discover-4-000-year-old-ancient-city-in-iraqi-desert
137
239
There Is a Tennis Ball Shortage Too Now
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k78y5e/there-is-a-tennis-ball-shortage-too-now
135
124
The case against crisis-mongering
https://www.slowboring.com/p/fake-crisis
92
The secretive, semi-illicit world of WhatsApp mango importing
https://www.eater.com/22618349/pakistani-mangoes-chaunsa-anwar-ratol-buy-usa-whatsapp-shipping-supply-chain
82
Show HN: Instantly listen to any URL
https://per.quest/
132
35
Trinidadian fishers film ‘half-hearted’ oil spill clean-up
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/13/its-outrageous-trinidadian-fishers-film-half-hearted-oil-spill-clean-up
131
94
Nearly 200M in U.S. under heat advisories, warnings as two heat domes form
https://www.axios.com/nearly-200-million-heat-warnings-heat-domes-us-39292523-9387-4024-bd99-aa7499114a13.html
208
U.S. Embassy in Kabul Tells Staff to Destroy Sensitive Material and Evacuate
https://text.npr.org/1027390545
128
57
Show HN: Lisp implementation in modern Java, Go, C#, TypeScript, Python
https://github.com/eatonphil/lisp-rosetta-stone
127
41
Machu Picchu older than expected, study reveals
https://news.yale.edu/2021/08/04/machu-picchu-older-expected-study-reveals
125
On Digital Minimalsim (2016)
https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2016/12/18/on-digital-minimalism/
219
Afghan women forced from banking jobs as Taliban take control
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/afghan-women-bankers-forced-roles-taliban-takes-control-2021-08-13/
123
49
How Actors Work Internally in Swift
https://swiftrocks.com/how-actors-work-internally-in-swift
122
67
PlayCover: Run iOS apps and games on the M1 Mac
https://github.com/Letscoder/PlayCover
120
32
July 2021 was the warmest July on record for the globe
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-climate-202107
119
97
Do not do in code what can be done in infrastructure (2017)
https://rogerjohansson.blog/2017/05/19/do-not-do-in-code-what-can-be-done-in-infrastructure/
118
96
Dealing with Out-of-Memory Conditions in Rust
https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/dealing-with-out-of-memory-conditions-in-rust/
107
To make programming easier, first be conscious of what makes it hard (2014)
http://lighttable.com/2014/05/16/pain-we-forgot/
53
Ask HN: Do you use Purism, PinePhone, or Fairphone?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28164208
103
64
Show HN: Judo - Build Native App Experiences with No Code
https://www.judo.app/
33
Show HN: C programming language extension: Cedro pre-processor
https://sentido-labs.com/en/library/cedro/202106171400/
21
Develop Native Mobile Apps with JVM Clojure, GraalVM, SCI and Skia
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28168065
95
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Berlin, a divided city. The events of 60 years ago
https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-a-divided-city/a-58851305
93
New Anti Anti-Money Laundering Services for Crooks
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/08/new-anti-anti-money-laundering-services-for-crooks/
5
A Common Lisp Library to Use Nvidia CUDA
https://github.com/takagi/cl-cuda
17
These People Who Work from Home Have a Secret: They Have Two Jobs
https://www.wsj.com/articles/these-people-who-work-from-home-have-a-secret-they-have-two-jobs-11628866529
58
Launch HN: Iona Mind (YC S21) – App-based cognitive behavioural therapy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28168336
86
15
Teaching Paradox, Victoria II, Part I: Mechanics and Gears
https://acoup.blog/2021/08/13/collections-teaching-paradox-victoria-ii-part-i-mechanics-and-gears/
115
Cuba’s Bitcoin Revolution
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/cubas-bitcoin-revolution
Adda as a Way of Life
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210812-adda-the-secret-to-bengali-conviviality
3
Yale study finds social media ‘likes’ train users to act outraged
https://www.slashgear.com/yale-study-finds-social-media-likes-train-users-to-act-outraged-13686659/
84
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AstraZeneca Scientist Says Delta Variant Makes Herd Immunity Impossible
https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immunity-not-possible-astrazeneca-developer-2021-8
83
Modern SQL
https://winand.at/sql-slides-for-developers
7
Machine Learning – A First Course for Engineers and Scientists
http://smlbook.org/
Show HN: Alicorn Cloud – Easily move between AWS, GCP and Azure
https://alicorncloud.io/
30
Unfuck: A utility for deobfuscating Python 2.7 bytecode
https://github.com/landaire/unfuck
How to teach programming and other things (2019) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1ib43q3uXQ
80
81
How do vaccinated people spread Delta? What the science says
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02187-1
75
236
Millionaires call for an emergency tax on billionaires
https://www.fastcompany.com/90665399/millionaires-are-calling-for-an-emergency-tax-on-billionaires
73
65
Why SteamOS Switched from Debian to Arch Linux
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/heres-why-steamos-switched-from-debian-to-arch-linux
72
Launch HN: FirstIgnite (YC S21) – Matching scientists with relevant businesses
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28168813
70
40
Mozilla tests if 'Firefox/100.0' user agent breaks websites
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/mozilla-tests-if-firefox-1000-user-agent-breaks-websites/
69
Pfizer, Moderna seen reaping billions from Covid-19 vaccine booster market
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizer-moderna-seen-reaping-billions-covid-19-vaccine-booster-market-2021-08-13/
Show HN: Lisp implementation in modern Java, Go, C#, TypeScript, Python