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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
5 years ago
860
510
ImageNet contains naturally occurring Apple NeuralHash collisions
https://blog.roboflow.com/nerualhash-collision/
688
472
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
623
351
Show HN: Neural-hash-collider – Find target hash collisions for NeuralHash
https://github.com/anishathalye/neural-hash-collider
614
380
Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28232165
613
217
Why wild foxes led you to treasure in Skyrim
https://twitter.com/joelburgess/status/1428008043556622336
567
694
Chip shortage: Toyota to cut global production by 40%
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58266794
448
150
The Polar Bear – Open-Source, Multipurpose CNC Machine with a Rotary Axis
https://www.kadirilkimen.com/thepolarbear/
425
119
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/
414
135
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
411
160
Harbormaster: Anti-Kubernetes for your personal server
https://gitlab.com/stavros/harbormaster
390
267
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
315
114
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
296
203
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
288
29
A collection of free/public APIs you can use to build stuff
https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
What is ‘elite overproduction’?
https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/08/what-is-elite-overproduction.html
263
185
The world must cooperate to avoid colliding satellites and space debris
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02167-5
247
70
Automating a Software Company with GitHub Actions
https://posthog.com/blog/automating-a-software-company-with-github-actions/
239
141
Fructose in diet expands the surface of the gut and promotes nutrient absorption
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02195-1
233
118
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
230
92
Don't attach tooltips to document.body
https://atfzl.com/don-t-attach-tooltips-to-document-body
214
231
A Dyson sphere around a black hole
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.15181
207
182
Google introducing tool for under-18s to remove images of them from search
https://blog.google/technology/families/giving-kids-and-teens-safer-experience-online/
95
Data-Mining Wikipedia for Fun and Profit
https://billpg.com/data-mining-wikipedia/
196
163
How Does FaceTime Work?
https://matduggan.com/how-does-facetime-work/
189
76
A Visual Guide to React Rendering
https://alexsidorenko.com/blog/react-render-always-rerenders/
176
34
Why it’s difficult to build teams in high growth organisations
https://jchyip.medium.com/why-its-difficult-to-build-teams-in-high-growth-organisations-e1aee8446337
122
Apple urged to drop plans to scan iMessages, images for sex abuse
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/19/apple-privacy-rights-groups-child-sex-abuse-imessage
156
286 vs. 386SX
https://dfarq.homeip.net/286-vs-386sx/
145
66
Japanese gaming arcades are on their last life
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2021/06/06/digital/japanese-gaming-arcades-pandemic/
144
130
Second largest US mortgage lender will accept crypto payments this year
https://www.fxstreet.com/cryptocurrencies/news/second-largest-us-mortgage-lender-will-accept-crypto-payments-this-year-202108190251
138
91
Tensions rise as Iranian dams cut off Iraqi water supplies
https://www.dw.com/en/tensions-rise-as-iranian-dams-cut-off-iraqi-water-supplies/a-58764729
132
45
Rain at the Summit of Greenland
https://nsidc.org/greenland-today/2021/08/rain-at-the-summit-of-greenland/
131
88
“Pack it in, mathematicians, someone owes LLVM a million bucks”
https://twitter.com/jckarter/status/1428093469755527168
129
37
A 5x reduction in RAM usage with Zoekt memory optimizations
https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/zoekt-memory-optimizations-for-sourcegraph-cloud
8
LLVM Internals: The Bitcode Format
https://blog.yossarian.net/2021/07/19/LLVM-internals-part-1-bitcode-format
128
Google Voice has stopped forwarding SMS
https://support.google.com/voice/answer/9182115?authuser=1
126
75
Building Container Images with Nix
https://thewagner.net/blog/2021/02/25/building-container-images-with-nix/
121
19
Using Rust with Elixir for code reuse and performance
https://blog.doctave.com/2021/08/19/using-rust-with-elixir-for-code-reuse-and-performance.html
120
Wanted: Disgruntled Employees to Deploy Ransomware
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/08/wanted-disgruntled-employees-to-deploy-ransomware/
117
54
For precision, the sapphire clock outshines even the best atomic clocks
https://spectrum.ieee.org/for-precision-the-sapphire-clock-outshines-even-the-best-atomic-clocks
57
VisiCalc: Information from Its Creators, Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston
http://danbricklin.com/visicalc.htm
110
11
The web browser as a tool of thought
https://thesephist.com/posts/browser/
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‘Horizon Workrooms’: remote collaboration reimagined
https://www.oculus.com/blog/workrooms/
104
85
U.S. Senate Democrats roll out draft bill to legalize weed
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-democrats-release-discussion-draft-federally-legalize-cannabis-2021-07-14/
103
61% of Americans paid no income taxes in 2020
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/18/61percent-of-americans-paid-no-federal-income-taxes-in-2020-tax-policy-center-says.html
32
Zimki, the world's first Platform as a Service that belonged to Canon
https://blog.porter.run/history-of-paas-how-canon-almost-became-a-major-cloud-provider/
97
Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28233916
The quest to recreate a lost and ‘terrifying’ medieval mead
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-make-medieval-mead-bochet
96
15
Rick and Morty’s Thanksploitation Deciduous Decision Tree
https://swagitda.com/blog/posts/rick-morty-thanksploitation-decision-tree/
Let's write a compiler, part 5: A code generator
https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210818.html
94
24
Policy Groups Urge Apple to Abandon Building Surveillance Capabilities
https://cdt.org/insights/international-coalition-calls-on-apple-to-abandon-plan-to-build-surveillance-capabilities-into-iphones-ipads-and-other-products/
142
Nobel scientist's deletion from Wikipedia points to wider bias
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/wikipedia-bias-1.6129073
82
41
Water Conflict Chronology
http://www.worldwater.org/conflict/list/
80
2
OnlyFans to Block Sexually Explicit Videos Starting in October
https://twitter.com/business/status/1428422301536727043
79
26
Google considered coordinated, multinational hostile takeover attempt of Epic
https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1428429185345785865
77
73
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the Past Decade
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/18/1027159166/best-books-science-fiction-fantasy-past-decade
74
Unix shell programming: the next 50 years
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3458336.3465294
47
The Triple Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Triple_Revolution
FTC requests Facebook to sell WhatsApp and Instagram
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/facebook-ftc-whatsapp-instagram-antitrust-b1905429.html
72
A Circumplanetary Disk Around PDS70 C [pdf]
https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso2111/eso2111a.pdf
86
Reading Hayek in Holland
https://marketurbanism.com/2021/08/19/reading-hayek-in-holland/
71
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Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice (2011)
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer/
How database indexing works internally
https://blog.pankajtanwar.in/how-database-indexing-actually-works-internally
69
25
The protocol designed to heal the ozone layer may also have fended off warming
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/08/18/1032168/montreal-protocol-warming-lessons-climate-change-ozone/
Moving beyond “algorithmic bias is a data problem”
https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(21)00061-1
68
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Breaking down a ripple animation in JavaScript
https://www.bryanbraun.com/2021/04/15/ripple-animation-in-javascript/