top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-08-18

Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model

https://github.com/AsuharietYgvar/AppleNeuralHash2ONNX/issues/1

5 years ago

1389 upvotes – 696 comments

Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful way – what can I do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28216733

5 years ago

964 upvotes – 282 comments

Apple is suing smartphone emulation software startup Corellium

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/08/17/1032113/apple-says-researchers-can-vet-its-child-safety-features-its-suing-a-startup-that-does-just-that/

5 years ago

602 upvotes – 107 comments

SEC charges Netflix insider trading ring

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-158

5 years ago

550 upvotes – 387 comments

Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28220968

5 years ago

529 upvotes – 470 comments

Convert Apple NeuralHash model for CSAM Detection to ONNX

https://github.com/AsuharietYgvar/AppleNeuralHash2ONNX

5 years ago

505 upvotes – 178 comments

German parliament pens letter to Apple with concerns over CSAM detection system

https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/17/german-parliament-pens-letter-to-tim-cook-with-concerns-over-csam-detection-system/

5 years ago

430 upvotes – 80 comments

Richard Bartle releases his classic “Designing Virtual Worlds” book for free

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2021/08/richard-bartle-designing-virtual-worlds-free-book.html

5 years ago

424 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly

https://github.com/maxvfischer/DIY-ai-art

5 years ago

399 upvotes – 153 comments

Performance Improvements in .NET 6

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvements-in-net-6/

5 years ago

362 upvotes – 252 comments

Apple defends anti-child abuse imagery tech after claims of ‘hash collisions’

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx5yzq/apple-defends-its-anti-child-abuse-imagery-tech-after-claims-of-hash-collisions

5 years ago

361 upvotes – 450 comments

Canada calls screen scraping ‘unsecure,’ sets Open Banking target for 2023

https://finledger.com/2021/08/09/canada-sets-open-banking-target-for-2023/

5 years ago

349 upvotes – 248 comments

T-Mobile: Breach Exposed SSN/DOB of 40M+ People

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/08/t-mobile-breach-exposed-ssn-dob-of-40m-people/

5 years ago

327 upvotes – 266 comments

Apple’s device surveillance plan is a threat to user privacy – and press freedom

https://freedom.press/news/apples-device-surveillance-plan-is-a-threat-to-user-privacy-and-press-freedom/

5 years ago

310 upvotes – 135 comments

1800s Astronomical Drawings vs. NASA Images (2016)

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/08/19/1800s-astronomical-drawings

5 years ago

289 upvotes – 71 comments

Elm at Rakuten

https://engineering.rakuten.today/post/elm-at-rakuten/

5 years ago

281 upvotes – 172 comments

Launch HN: Govly (YC S21) – Making it easier to sell to the U.S. government

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28224792

5 years ago

274 upvotes – 112 comments

Secret FBI Watchlist Leaks Online

https://gizmodo.com/secret-fbi-watchlist-leaks-online-and-boy-do-the-feds-1847500747

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 2 comments

B-Trees: More Than I Thought I'd Want to Know

https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2021/08/17/B-Trees-More-Than-I-Thought-Id-Want-to-Know/

5 years ago

239 upvotes – 63 comments

Not-a-Linux distro review: SerenityOS is a Unix-y love letter to the ‘90s

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/not-a-linux-distro-review-serenityos-is-a-unix-y-love-letter-to-the-90s/

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 113 comments

Show HN: Pop.com – pair programming with low-latency, Screenhero-style sharing

https://pop.com/home

5 years ago

225 upvotes – 125 comments

Wgpu-0.10 released: WebGPU implementation now in pure Rust

https://gfx-rs.github.io/2021/08/18/release-0.10.html

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 83 comments

Time to retire the CSV?

https://www.bitsondisk.com/writing/2021/retire-the-csv/

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 567 comments

Launch HN: Flow Club (YC S21) – Virtual co-working space for focused work

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28222242

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 75 comments

As cities grow in size, the poor 'get nothing at all': study

https://santafe.edu/news-center/news/new-study-prosperity-cities-benefits-few

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 277 comments

Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as 'ignition' triggered in a lab

https://phys.org/news/2021-08-major-nuclear-fusion-milestone-ignition.html

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 37 comments

When did Neil Armstrong set foot on Mars?

https://www.google.com/search?q=when+did+neil+armstrong+set+foot+on+mars

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 127 comments

Ask HN: I joined a FAANG and it is awful

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28221821

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 237 comments

Guerrilla artist faked downtown LA freeway sign in 2001

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/guerrilla-artist-fakes-downtown-la-freeway-sign-stays-up-for-years/

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 55 comments

GoKart: A static analysis tool for securing Go code

https://github.com/praetorian-inc/gokart

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 83 comments

Facebook’s Widely Viewed Content Report is strange

https://ethanzuckerman.com/2021/08/18/i-read-facebooks-widely-viewed-content-report-its-really-strange/

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 59 comments

The Zettelkasten Method (2019)

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NfdHG6oHBJ8Qxc26s/the-zettelkasten-method-1

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 90 comments

Xerox Alto Emulator

https://archives.loomcom.com/contraltojs/

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 47 comments

Leaky sewers are likely responsible for large amounts of medications in streams

https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/presspacs/2021/acs-presspac-august-18-2021/leaky-sewers-are-likely-responsible-for-large-amounts-of-medications-in-streams.html

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 109 comments

HTML over DNS: Serving Blog Content over DNS

https://jacobkiers.net/hod/

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 71 comments

First Beta for Krita 5.0 released

https://krita.org/en/item/first-beta-for-krita-5-0-released/

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 58 comments

Using a laser to blast away a Bayer filter array from a CCD

https://hackaday.com/2021/08/09/using-a-laser-to-blast-away-a-bayer-array/

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 38 comments

Dubai Is a Parody of the 21st Century

https://youtube.com/watch?v=SacQ2YdVOyk&t=613s

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 36 comments

NetBSD Explained: The Unix System That Can Run on Anything

https://www.makeuseof.com/what-is-netbsd/

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 71 comments

Marc Andreessen on Investing and Tech

https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/flying-x-wings-into-the-death-star

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 109 comments

C++20 Modules with GCC11

https://blog.feabhas.com/2021/08/c20-modules-with-gcc11/

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 108 comments

Reverse-engineering a vintage power supply chip from die photos

https://www.righto.com/2021/08/reverse-engineering-vintage-power.html

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 39 comments

JSON for Modern C++ version 3.10.0

https://github.com/nlohmann/json/releases/tag/v3.10.0

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 101 comments

Hire for slope, not Y-Intercept

https://matt-rickard.com/hire-slope-not-intercept/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 91 comments

Show HN: Video conference from 6ft away using your hands or phone to interact

https://www.wakasaba.com/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 52 comments

From a Single Repo, to Multi-Repos, to Monorepo, to Multi-Monorepo

https://css-tricks.com/from-a-single-repo-to-multi-repos-to-monorepo-to-multi-monorepo/

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 68 comments

Software Engineering Salaries in Europe vs. the United States

https://4dayweek.io/blog/software-engineering-salaries-in-europe-vs-the-united-states-2021

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 189 comments

GitHub Discussions is out of beta

https://github.blog/2021-08-17-github-discussions-out-of-beta/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 41 comments

How is efficacy vs. severe disease strong if 60% of hospitalized are vaccinated?

https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-efficacy-vs-severe-disease-be-strong-when-60-of-hospitalized-are-vaccinated

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 40 comments

Live electricity production/consumption CO2 map

https://www.electricitymap.org/map

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 36 comments

Apple censors engraving service, report claims

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58258385

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 41 comments

Best RealSense replacements?

https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/issues/9653

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 82 comments

Where did the web archive go?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.05939

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: Tangram – Train a model from a CSV file on the command line

https://www.tangram.dev

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: Sturdy – online-first version control focused on collaboration

https://getsturdy.com/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 42 comments

Programmable icosahedral shell system for virus trapping

https://cacm.acm.org/news/254865-programmable-trap-can-kill-viruses/fulltext

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 29 comments

What happens to your brain when you give up sugar

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210818-what-happens-when-you-quit-sugar

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 110 comments

Building PlanetScale with PlanetScale

https://planetscale.com/blog/building-planetscale-with-planetscale

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 22 comments

Slow Electricity: The Return of DC Power? (2016)

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2016/04/slow-electricity-the-return-of-low-voltage-dc-power.html

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 230 comments

Rust API Guidelines Checklist

https://rust-lang.github.io/api-guidelines/checklist.html

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 24 comments

Resigning from the AMP Advisory Committee

https://adactio.com/journal/18350

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 51 comments

Understanding Foreign Data Wrappers in Postgres and Postgres_fdw

https://blog.crunchydata.com/blog/understanding-postgres_fdw

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 22 comments

The past, present and future of image formats

https://dither8.xyz/blog/img-future/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 55 comments

Deleting no longer prompts on Android

https://support.google.com/voice/thread/121731933/deleting-no-longer-prompts-on-android-delete-icon-next-to-archive

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 53 comments

Apple’s biggest problem is only getting bigger

https://www.macworld.com/article/353387/macalope-apple-app-store-monopoly-developers-congress.html

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 68 comments

Minecraft is helping children with autism make new friends (2016)

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23030713-100-how-is-helping-children-with-autism-make-new-friends/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 65 comments
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