top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-08-13

FOSS app removed from the Play Store for linking to the project's website

https://github.com/language-transfer/lt-app/pull/44

5 years ago

853 upvotes – 278 comments

Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning'

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58206543

5 years ago

585 upvotes – 734 comments

Abandoned Motorola Headquarters (2020)

https://www.abandonedspaces.com/industry/motorola.html

5 years ago

511 upvotes – 207 comments

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

5 years ago

414 upvotes – 78 comments

Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles under a fake name

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/deansterlingjones/snopes-cofounder-plagiarism-mikkelson

5 years ago

413 upvotes – 388 comments

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

5 years ago

408 upvotes – 555 comments

Second IC

http://sam.zeloof.xyz/second-ic/

5 years ago

406 upvotes – 79 comments

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

5 years ago

383 upvotes – 438 comments

Egui: An easy-to-use immediate mode GUI

https://github.com/emilk/egui

5 years ago

366 upvotes – 141 comments

Interactive Linear Algebra (2019)

http://textbooks.math.gatech.edu/ila/index.html

5 years ago

365 upvotes – 42 comments

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

5 years ago

325 upvotes – 374 comments

Show HN: Nomad Visa – Working remotely? Explore your visa options

https://nomadvisa.io/

5 years ago

285 upvotes – 158 comments

After criticism, Apple to only seek abuse images flagged in multiple nations

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2FE21K

5 years ago

263 upvotes – 240 comments

How Google bought Android

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/08/excerpt-the-history-of-android-as-written-by-a-longtime-android-developer/

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 159 comments

GNU nano is my editor of choice

https://ariadne.space/2021/08/13/gnu-nano-is-my-editor-of-choice/

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 230 comments

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

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 114 comments

WinCompose – A Compose Key for Windows

https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose

5 years ago

228 upvotes – 134 comments

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

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 50 comments

WHO inquiry chief 'had concerns' about lab close to first Covid cases

https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-joe-biden-business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-986f0ff0f97af020de3b4eb3d76b23cd

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 198 comments

‘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

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 90 comments

Guide to cognitive biases

https://en.shortcogs.com/

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 98 comments

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/

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 55 comments

AlgorithmWatch shuts down Instagram monitoring after threats from Facebook

https://algorithmwatch.org/en/instagram-research-shut-down-by-facebook/

5 years ago

189 upvotes – 46 comments

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

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 85 comments

First batch of student’s washing machines shipped to Iraq

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-58083385

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 175 comments

What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (2019)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11090

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 153 comments

Commonly used idioms in the tech industry

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/demystifying-5-commonly-used-idioms-in-the-tech-industry-827e8a6d653a

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 169 comments

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

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 51 comments

There Is a Tennis Ball Shortage Too Now

https://www.vice.com/en/article/k78y5e/there-is-a-tennis-ball-shortage-too-now

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 239 comments

The case against crisis-mongering

https://www.slowboring.com/p/fake-crisis

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 124 comments

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

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 92 comments

Show HN: Instantly listen to any URL

https://per.quest/

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 82 comments

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

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 35 comments

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

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 94 comments

U.S. Embassy in Kabul Tells Staff to Destroy Sensitive Material and Evacuate

https://text.npr.org/1027390545

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 208 comments

Show HN: Lisp implementation in modern Java, Go, C#, TypeScript, Python

https://github.com/eatonphil/lisp-rosetta-stone

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 57 comments

Machu Picchu older than expected, study reveals

https://news.yale.edu/2021/08/04/machu-picchu-older-expected-study-reveals

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 41 comments

On Digital Minimalsim (2016)

https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2016/12/18/on-digital-minimalism/

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 50 comments

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/

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 219 comments

How Actors Work Internally in Swift

https://swiftrocks.com/how-actors-work-internally-in-swift

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 49 comments

PlayCover: Run iOS apps and games on the M1 Mac

https://github.com/Letscoder/PlayCover

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 67 comments

July 2021 was the warmest July on record for the globe

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-climate-202107

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 32 comments

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/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 97 comments

Dealing with Out-of-Memory Conditions in Rust

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/dealing-with-out-of-memory-conditions-in-rust/

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 96 comments

To make programming easier, first be conscious of what makes it hard (2014)

http://lighttable.com/2014/05/16/pain-we-forgot/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 82 comments

Ask HN: Do you use Purism, PinePhone, or Fairphone?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28164208

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: Judo - Build Native App Experiences with No Code

https://www.judo.app/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: C programming language extension: Cedro pre-processor

https://sentido-labs.com/en/library/cedro/202106171400/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 33 comments

Develop Native Mobile Apps with JVM Clojure, GraalVM, SCI and Skia

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28168065

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 21 comments

Berlin, a divided city. The events of 60 years ago

https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-a-divided-city/a-58851305

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 91 comments

New Anti Anti-Money Laundering Services for Crooks

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/08/new-anti-anti-money-laundering-services-for-crooks/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 55 comments

A Common Lisp Library to Use Nvidia CUDA

https://github.com/takagi/cl-cuda

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 5 comments

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

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 17 comments

Launch HN: Iona Mind (YC S21) – App-based cognitive behavioural therapy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28168336

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 58 comments

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/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 15 comments

Cuba’s Bitcoin Revolution

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/cubas-bitcoin-revolution

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 115 comments

Adda as a Way of Life

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210812-adda-the-secret-to-bengali-conviviality

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 35 comments

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/

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 3 comments

AstraZeneca Scientist Says Delta Variant Makes Herd Immunity Impossible

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immunity-not-possible-astrazeneca-developer-2021-8

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 176 comments

Modern SQL

https://winand.at/sql-slides-for-developers

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 15 comments

Machine Learning – A First Course for Engineers and Scientists

http://smlbook.org/

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 7 comments

Show HN: Alicorn Cloud – Easily move between AWS, GCP and Azure

https://alicorncloud.io/

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 41 comments

Unfuck: A utility for deobfuscating Python 2.7 bytecode

https://github.com/landaire/unfuck

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 30 comments

How to teach programming and other things (2019) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1ib43q3uXQ

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 42 comments

How do vaccinated people spread Delta? What the science says

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02187-1

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 81 comments

Millionaires call for an emergency tax on billionaires

https://www.fastcompany.com/90665399/millionaires-are-calling-for-an-emergency-tax-on-billionaires

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 236 comments

Why SteamOS Switched from Debian to Arch Linux

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/heres-why-steamos-switched-from-debian-to-arch-linux

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 65 comments

Launch HN: FirstIgnite (YC S21) – Matching scientists with relevant businesses

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28168813

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 33 comments

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/

5 years ago

70 upvotes – 40 comments

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/

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 92 comments
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