top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-08-20

Facebook hacker beat my 2FA, bricked my Oculus, and hit the company credit card

https://codewriteplay.com/2021/08/20/a-facebook-hacker-beat-my-2fa-bricked-my-oculus-quest-and-hit-the-company-credit-card/

4 years ago

962 upvotes – 366 comments

Apple explicitly asks employees to merge their personal and work accounts

https://twitter.com/oilyraincloud/status/1428497203253833731

4 years ago

669 upvotes – 344 comments

Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt

https://scotthelme.co.uk/heres-another-free-ca-as-an-alternative-to-lets-encrypt/

4 years ago

652 upvotes – 202 comments

Manim: An animation engine for explanatory math videos

https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim

4 years ago

576 upvotes – 67 comments

A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong

https://twitter.com/postcultrev/status/1428584131835748359

4 years ago

443 upvotes – 419 comments

Princeton Researchers Who Built a CSAM Scanning System Urge Apple to Not Use It

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/20/university-researchers-csam-dangerous/

4 years ago

314 upvotes – 79 comments

Roblox faces criticism for 'exploiting' young game developers

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/387113/Roblox_faces_criticism_for_exploiting_young_game_developers.php

4 years ago

297 upvotes – 203 comments

FFmpeg for browser and Node, powered by WebAssembly

https://ffmpegwasm.netlify.app/

4 years ago

274 upvotes – 87 comments

Your devices and your employer

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/08/20/phones/

4 years ago

260 upvotes – 171 comments

Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”

https://electrek.co/2021/08/19/tesla-bot-humanoid-robot/

4 years ago

254 upvotes – 396 comments

Claimed AT&T hack of 70M customer records including SSN, name, address

https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/20/claimed-att-hack/

4 years ago

246 upvotes – 160 comments

Free Software, not as in ‘free speech’, nor as in ‘free beer’

https://ahmadhaghighi.com/blog/2021/us-restricted-free-software/

4 years ago

241 upvotes – 233 comments

Apple's bright idea for CSAM scanning could start persecution on a global basis

https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/19/apple_csam_condemned/

4 years ago

240 upvotes – 193 comments

macOS 11’s hidden security improvements

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/mac/2021/08/macos-11s-hidden-security-improvements/

4 years ago

235 upvotes – 145 comments

20 Years of Haiku

https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2021-08-18_20_years_of_haiku/

4 years ago

207 upvotes – 119 comments

The mutation that helps Delta spread

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02275-2

4 years ago

201 upvotes – 611 comments

Uber prices seem to increase when phone battery is low

https://twitter.com/NerdyAndNatural/status/1427614996738068485

4 years ago

190 upvotes – 121 comments

A third of Stitch Fix employees quit after new CEO ends flexible work hours

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/stitch-fix-employees-quitting

4 years ago

187 upvotes – 75 comments

Home Prices Are Now Higher Than the Peak of the 2000s Housing Bubble

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/08/17/1028083046/home-prices-are-now-higher-than-the-peak-of-the-2000s-housing-bubble-what-gives

4 years ago

187 upvotes – 272 comments

Tell HN: Heroku bans 10 year account without notice or explanation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28249216

4 years ago

182 upvotes – 25 comments
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