top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-08-19

OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-19/onlyfans-to-block-sexually-explicit-videos-starting-in-october

4 years ago

1147 upvotes – 1313 comments

ImageNet contains naturally occurring Apple NeuralHash collisions

https://blog.roboflow.com/nerualhash-collision/

4 years ago

860 upvotes – 510 comments

Google’s ‘Project Hug’ paid out huge sums to keep game devs in the Play Store

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/19/22632818/google-project-hug-game-developers-play-store-millions-epic-lawsuit-complaint

4 years ago

688 upvotes – 472 comments

Show HN: Neural-hash-collider – Find target hash collisions for NeuralHash

https://github.com/anishathalye/neural-hash-collider

4 years ago

623 upvotes – 351 comments

Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28232165

4 years ago

614 upvotes – 380 comments

Why wild foxes led you to treasure in Skyrim

https://twitter.com/joelburgess/status/1428008043556622336

4 years ago

613 upvotes – 217 comments

Chip shortage: Toyota to cut global production by 40%

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58266794

4 years ago

567 upvotes – 694 comments

The Polar Bear – Open-Source, Multipurpose CNC Machine with a Rotary Axis

https://www.kadirilkimen.com/thepolarbear/

4 years ago

448 upvotes – 150 comments

We built a system like Apple’s to flag CSAM and concluded the tech was dangerous

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/19/apple-csam-abuse-encryption-security-privacy-dangerous/

4 years ago

425 upvotes – 119 comments

FTC files new antitrust complaint against Facebook

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2021/08/ftc-alleges-facebook-resorted-illegal-buy-or-bury-scheme-crush

4 years ago

414 upvotes – 135 comments

Harbormaster: Anti-Kubernetes for your personal server

https://gitlab.com/stavros/harbormaster

4 years ago

411 upvotes – 160 comments

Gmail is opening and caching URLs within emails without user intervention (2019)

https://support.google.com/mail/thread/16878288/gmail-is-opening-and-caching-urls-within-emails-without-user-intervention-how-and-why?hl=en

4 years ago

390 upvotes – 267 comments

The thing standing between procrastination and daily progress is ritual

https://forge.medium.com/the-thing-standing-between-procrastination-and-daily-progress-is-ritual-2823d97ffa47

4 years ago

315 upvotes – 114 comments

Policy groups ask Apple to drop plans to inspect messages, scan for abuse images

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-apple-privacy/exclusive-policy-groups-ask-apple-to-drop-plans-to-inspect-imessages-scan-for-abuse-images-idUSKBN2FK09P

4 years ago

296 upvotes – 203 comments

A collection of free/public APIs you can use to build stuff

https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis

4 years ago

288 upvotes – 29 comments

What is ‘elite overproduction’?

https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/08/what-is-elite-overproduction.html

4 years ago

288 upvotes – 351 comments

The world must cooperate to avoid colliding satellites and space debris

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02167-5

4 years ago

263 upvotes – 185 comments

Automating a Software Company with GitHub Actions

https://posthog.com/blog/automating-a-software-company-with-github-actions/

4 years ago

247 upvotes – 70 comments

Fructose in diet expands the surface of the gut and promotes nutrient absorption

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02195-1

4 years ago

239 upvotes – 141 comments

How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry (2015)

https://www.fastcompany.com/3047428/how-two-bored-1970s-housewives-helped-create-the-pc-industry

4 years ago

233 upvotes – 118 comments
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