top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-08-21

Google's Secret Initiative – “Project Hug”

https://twitter.com/jowens510/status/1428415192480698371

5 years ago

643 upvotes – 15 comments

Patterns in Confusing Explanations

https://jvns.ca/blog/confusing-explanations/

5 years ago

566 upvotes – 159 comments

EFF Joins Global Coalition Asking Apple CEO Tim Cook to Stop Phone-Scanning

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/eff-joins-global-coalition-asking-apple-ceo-tim-cook-stop-phone-scanning

5 years ago

549 upvotes – 209 comments

An Opinionated Guide to Xargs

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/08/xargs.html

5 years ago

402 upvotes – 130 comments

I Don’t Want to Be Like a Family with My Co-Workers

https://www.thecut.com/article/i-dont-want-to-be-like-a-family-with-my-co-workers.html

5 years ago

371 upvotes – 234 comments

Beware state surveillance of your lives – governments can change for the worse

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/21/beware-state-surveillance-of-your-lives-governments-can-change-afghanistan

5 years ago

360 upvotes – 139 comments

Urban Dictionary on Hacker News (2013)

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hacker%20news

5 years ago

342 upvotes – 183 comments

Strict Tables – Column type constraints in SQLite - Draft

https://www.sqlite.org/draft/stricttables.html

5 years ago

331 upvotes – 107 comments

How to Remember What You Read

https://fs.blog/2021/08/remember-books/

5 years ago

330 upvotes – 91 comments

Don’t starve, Diablo – Parallax 7 (2016)

http://simonschreibt.de/gat/dont-starve-diablo-parallax-7/

5 years ago

323 upvotes – 55 comments

Court rules California's Prop. 22 on Uber, Lyft drivers unconstitutional

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article253647838.html

5 years ago

312 upvotes – 304 comments

Facebook suppressed report that made it look bad

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/20/22634841/facebook-most-viewed-content-report-look-bad

5 years ago

275 upvotes – 30 comments

Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticated' drone near Tucson

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42021/radio-transmissions-from-police-helicopters-chase-of-bizarre-craft-over-tucson-add-to-mystery

5 years ago

275 upvotes – 257 comments

Generics enabled by default in Go tip

https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/343732/

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 365 comments

Thoughts of work invaded my life until I learned how to unplug

https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2021/08/thoughts-work-invaded-my-life-until-i-learned-how-unplug

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 113 comments

GitHub Issues-only project management

https://blog.placemark.io/2021/07/19/issues-only-management.html

5 years ago

250 upvotes – 123 comments

The Janet Programming Language

https://janet-lang.org/

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 114 comments

Tikz.net – Graphics with TikZ in LaTeX

https://tikz.net/

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 43 comments

I won't be posting any more preimages against neuralhash for now

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28261147

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 7 comments

Launch HN: Fella (YC W20) – Tackling men's obesity using medication and coaching

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28257352

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 309 comments
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