962
366
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/
5 years ago
669
344
Apple explicitly asks employees to merge their personal and work accounts
https://twitter.com/oilyraincloud/status/1428497203253833731
652
202
Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt
https://scotthelme.co.uk/heres-another-free-ca-as-an-alternative-to-lets-encrypt/
576
67
Manim: An animation engine for explanatory math videos
https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim
443
419
A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong
https://twitter.com/postcultrev/status/1428584131835748359
314
79
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/
297
203
Roblox faces criticism for 'exploiting' young game developers
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/387113/Roblox_faces_criticism_for_exploiting_young_game_developers.php
274
87
FFmpeg for browser and Node, powered by WebAssembly
https://ffmpegwasm.netlify.app/
260
171
Your devices and your employer
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/08/20/phones/
254
396
Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”
https://electrek.co/2021/08/19/tesla-bot-humanoid-robot/
246
160
Claimed AT&T hack of 70M customer records including SSN, name, address
https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/20/claimed-att-hack/
241
233
Free Software, not as in ‘free speech’, nor as in ‘free beer’
https://ahmadhaghighi.com/blog/2021/us-restricted-free-software/
240
193
Apple's bright idea for CSAM scanning could start persecution on a global basis
https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/19/apple_csam_condemned/
235
145
macOS 11’s hidden security improvements
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/mac/2021/08/macos-11s-hidden-security-improvements/
207
119
20 Years of Haiku
https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2021-08-18_20_years_of_haiku/
201
611
The mutation that helps Delta spread
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02275-2
190
121
Uber prices seem to increase when phone battery is low
https://twitter.com/NerdyAndNatural/status/1427614996738068485
187
272
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
75
A third of Stitch Fix employees quit after new CEO ends flexible work hours
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/stitch-fix-employees-quitting
182
25
Tell HN: Heroku bans 10 year account without notice or explanation
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28249216
181
85
Show HN: Duedilly.io – Accuracy of Reddit Trading Ideas
http://duedilly.io/
176
62
Sometimes it is just a bad battery
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/08/19/batt/
69
Peru is reviving a pre-Incan technology for water
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210510-perus-urgent-search-for-slow-water
174
10
Index 1.6B Keys with Automata and Rust (2015)
https://blog.burntsushi.net/transducers/
173
57
Chronically lonely flies overeat and lose sleep
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02194-2
120
Google's payments team is seeing an exodus of executives and employees
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-pay-payments-team-seeing-executive-exodus-turnover-caesar-sengupta-2021-8
165
72
We Will Do Anything to Get You to Work for Us Except Pay You Enough [McSweeneys]
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-will-do-anything-to-get-you-to-work-for-us-except-pay-you-enough
157
104
Collaborative filtering doesn't work for us
https://about.chatroulette.com/posts/better-match-making-part-1/
153
Dumb Phone
https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6ce99700e3090139df2b002590d8e506
155
125
An inside look at the custom CPUs in Tesla's Dojo Supercomputer
https://semianalysis.com/tesla-dojo-ai-super-computer-unique-packaging-and-chip-design-allow-an-order-magnitude-advantage-over-competing-ai-hardware/
257
I won over $55M in the lottery, but didn’t tell my friends or family
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/i-won-over-55-million-in-the-california-lottery-but-didnt-tell-my-friends-or-family-did-i-do-the-right-thing-11625001363
150
65
Rain falls at the summit of Greenland Ice Sheet for first time on record
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/08/19/greenland-melt-august-summit-rain/
100
Google is dismantling its health division
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-health-shutting-down-david-feinberg-leaves-2021-8
138
Thought-Terminating Cliché
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9
132
45
CS/A65: A 6502 computer with USB, Ethernet and co-processors
http://www.6502.org/users/andre/csa/index.html
Experience: I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (2010)
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/28/29-years-solitary-confinement-robert-king/print
130
Cproc C Compiler
https://github.com/michaelforney/cproc
126
76
Nitrous Oxide – A forgotten greenhouse gas
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210603-nitrous-oxide-the-worlds-forgotten-greenhouse-gas
122
31
The Ruin of War
https://acoup.blog/2021/08/20/collections-teaching-paradox-victoria-ii-part-ii-the-ruin-of-war/
51
Memfd_secret() in 5.14
https://lwn.net/Articles/865256/
112
The End of Social Media
https://miikavonbell.com/posts/end-of-social-media/
118
Tesla AI Day [video]
https://livestream.tesla.com
117
15
Quantum Mechanics of Gravitational Waves
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.081602
Full-body tracking in VR using AprilTag markers
https://github.com/ju1ce/April-Tag-VR-FullBody-Tracker
137
California family dies under mysterious circumstances
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/20/1029582815/california-family-dies-under-mysterious-circumstances-toxic-algae-may-be-to-blam
66
Google is shutting down its Android Auto mobile app in favor of Google Assistant
https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/20/22633755/google-android-auto-for-phone-screens-shutting-down-android-12-google-assistant-driving-mode
102
17
How Big Data Carried Graph Theory into New Dimensions
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-big-data-carried-graph-theory-into-new-dimensions-20210819/
36
The lost tablet and secret documents: Clues pointing to a shadowy Russian army
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/8iaz6xit26/the-lost-tablet-and-the-secret-documents
97
23
New SARS-CoV-2 variants have changed the pandemic. What will the virus do next?
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/new-sars-cov-2-variants-have-changed-pandemic-what-will-virus-do-next
96
20
Cuttlefish remember the what, when, and where of meals, even into old age
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/cuttlefish-remember-the-what-when-and-where-of-meals-even-into-old-age/
94
7
Apple's Past Sideloading Plans
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/20/apple-sideloading-plans-ecosystem-lock-in-revealed/
93
22
View your browser's TLS fingerprint
https://tlsfingerprint.io/
92
50
Archaeologists Discover 'Lost Golden City of Luxor'
https://www.dw.com/en/archaeologists-discover-lost-golden-city-of-luxor/g-57141238
89
Animals changed by proximity to humans
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210805-the-animals-changed-by-proximity-to-humans
86
204
Who gets to define what’s ‘racist?’ (2020)
https://contexts.org/blog/who-gets-to-define-whats-racist/
83
Launch HN: Ancana (YC S21) – Fractional ownership of vacation homes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28247379
82
Point-to-point Wi-Fi bridging between buildings–the cheap and easy way
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/point-to-point-wi-fi-bridging-between-buildings-the-cheap-and-easy-way/
35
Citation File Format
https://citation-file-format.github.io/
77
71
Sad, lonely people more likely to be ‘natural’ social psychologists (2018)
https://news.yale.edu/2018/03/15/study-sad-lonely-people-more-likely-be-natural-social-psychologists
14M ton of carbon offset forest is burning in California
https://twitter.com/BodieCabiyo/status/1427683107788845056
Open source Pocket code
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1343006#c10
74
33
Fun with regular expressions: part I
https://yurichev.com/news/20210819_RE1/
32
Apple forced an employee to handover “pics of my boobs”
https://twitter.com/ashleygjovik/status/1428495420917837826