top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-08-26

The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy

https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i

4 years ago

861 upvotes – 380 comments

Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

4 years ago

822 upvotes – 332 comments

I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple

https://markosaric.com/linux/

4 years ago

679 upvotes – 838 comments

TSMC hikes chip prices up to 20% amid supply shortage

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/TSMC-hikes-chip-prices-up-to-20-amid-supply-shortage

4 years ago

630 upvotes – 596 comments

Canistilluse.com

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2021/canistilluse.com/

4 years ago

555 upvotes – 361 comments

Show HN: With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I have finally finished my first MVP

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28320346

4 years ago

501 upvotes – 194 comments

Linux in a Pixel Shader – A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat

https://blog.pimaker.at/texts/rvc1/

4 years ago

428 upvotes – 98 comments

Work Hard (2007)

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/work-hard/

4 years ago

416 upvotes – 188 comments

Silent changes to Western Digital’s budget SSD may lower speeds by up to 50%

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/silent-changes-to-western-digitals-budget-ssd-may-lower-speeds-by-up-to-50/

4 years ago

386 upvotes – 104 comments

Sailfish 4

https://sailfishos.org/

4 years ago

375 upvotes – 144 comments

Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people

https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/pbloje/almost_all_of_the_top_subreddits_are_moderated_by/

4 years ago

357 upvotes – 298 comments

Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme disease vaccine candidate

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/valneva-and-pfizer-announce-initiation-phase-2-study-lyme

4 years ago

350 upvotes – 248 comments

Why are hyperlinks blue?

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/deep-dives/why-are-hyperlinks-blue/

4 years ago

348 upvotes – 255 comments

Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search engine in 2021

https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/25/analysts-google-to-pay-apple-15-billion-to-remain-default-safari-search-engine-in-2021/

4 years ago

348 upvotes – 324 comments

Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/23/big-oil-coined-carbon-footprints-to-blame-us-for-their-greed-keep-them-on-the-hook

4 years ago

313 upvotes – 270 comments

Ask HN: Where can I live off 1k USD per month?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28309520

4 years ago

306 upvotes – 533 comments

Microsoft warns thousands of cloud customers of exposed databases

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-microsoft-warns-thousands-cloud-customers-exposed-databases-emails-2021-08-26/

4 years ago

306 upvotes – 149 comments

There is no such thing as a “glibc based alpine image”

https://ariadne.space/2021/08/26/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-glibc-based-alpine-image/

4 years ago

290 upvotes – 198 comments

My Tungsten Cube (2019)

https://thume.ca/2019/03/03/my-tungsten-cube/

4 years ago

288 upvotes – 330 comments

Rent control isn’t working in Sweden

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58317555

4 years ago

254 upvotes – 481 comments

T-Mobile Hacker Who Stole Data on 50M Customers: ‘Their Security Is Awful’

https://www.wsj.com/articles/t-mobile-hacker-who-stole-data-on-50-million-customers-their-security-is-awful-11629985105

4 years ago

248 upvotes – 128 comments

Immunity Generated from Covid-19 Vaccines Differs from an Infection

https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/06/22/how-immunity-generated-from-covid-19-vaccines-differs-from-an-infection/

4 years ago

240 upvotes – 231 comments

Squatters in Spain who demand a "ransom" before they will leave a property

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-58310532

4 years ago

230 upvotes – 450 comments

CCP publication calls Tibet policy a template for other ethnic minority regions

https://www.tibetanreview.net/70th-party-anniversary-publication-calls-chinas-tibet-policy-a-template-for-other-ethnic-minority-regions/

4 years ago

230 upvotes – 218 comments

‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament

https://www.innovationaus.com/extraordinary-new-hacking-powers-pass-parliament/

4 years ago

225 upvotes – 212 comments

An Illustrated Guide to Post-Orwellian Censorship

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/an-illustrated-guide-to-post-orwellian-censorship/

4 years ago

223 upvotes – 154 comments

The dream of carbon air capture edges toward reality

https://e360.yale.edu/features/the-dream-of-co2-air-capture-edges-toward-reality

4 years ago

215 upvotes – 290 comments

The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes (2018)

https://jdlm.info/articles/2018/03/18/markov-decision-process-2048.html

4 years ago

209 upvotes – 50 comments

FBI Palantir glitch allowed unauthorized access to private data

https://nypost.com/2021/08/25/fbi-palantir-glitch-allowed-unauthorized-access-to-private-data/

4 years ago

206 upvotes – 57 comments

Writing a simple JSON library from scratch: a tour through modern C++

https://notes.eatonphil.com/writing-a-simple-json-library-in-modern-cpp.html

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 113 comments

“Does induced demand apply to bike lanes?” and other questions

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/8/24/does-induced-demand-apply-to-bike-lanes-and-other-questions

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 220 comments

Federal government to expand use of facial recognition despite growing concerns

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/25/federal-facial-recognition-expansion/

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 43 comments

Unit testing a TCP stack (2015)

http://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2015-07-09-unit-testing-a-tcp-stack/

4 years ago

135 upvotes – 35 comments

Toshiba reports milestone in quantum cryptography

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210826_10/

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 51 comments

PureOS – a pure Linux phone experience

https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/pureos-mobile/

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 113 comments

LimeSDR

https://limemicro.com/products/boards/limesdr/

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 126 comments

Cat Automatic Sprayer

http://www.fabidouille.com/?p=286

4 years ago

120 upvotes – 75 comments

Google has killed Discord's best music bot

https://www.pcgamer.com/google-has-killed-discords-best-music-bot/

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 63 comments

High Performance Correctly Rounded Math Libraries for 32-Bit Floating Point

https://blog.sigplan.org/2021/08/26/high-performance-correctly-rounded-math-libraries-for-32-bit-floating-point-representations/

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 73 comments

UK to overhaul privacy rules in post-Brexit departure from GDPR

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/26/uk-to-overhaul-privacy-rules-in-post-brexit-departure-from-gdpr

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 64 comments

Visualizing observed deaths using polar coordinates

https://mcculley.github.io/VisualizingObservedDeaths/

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 66 comments

Apple has surpassed Facebook and Google in violating user trust

https://tinyapps.org/blog/202108260700_apple_violates_trust.html

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 58 comments

The Dual-Drive IDE Hell

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-dual-drive-ide-hell/

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 71 comments

Nauka's Troubled Flight–Before It Tumbled the ISS

https://spectrum.ieee.org/naukas-troubled-flight-t

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 38 comments

You and Your Research (1986)

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 35 comments

Zero Shot Object Tracking

https://blog.roboflow.com/zero-shot-object-tracking/

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 12 comments

Seeking early signals of dementia in driving and credit scores

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/23/health/dementia-behavior-alzheimers.html

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 89 comments

The Chief People Officer as PM

https://review.firstround.com/the-chief-people-officer-as-pm:-rethinking-the-systems-and-tools-that-run-the-company

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 33 comments

Hospitalizations hit 100k in United States for first time since January

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/26/covid-delta-variant-live-updates/

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 159 comments

Adding Optimistic Locking to an API

https://www.moderntreasury.com/journal/designing-ledgers-with-optimistic-locking

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 37 comments

Monitoring Raspberry Pi Devices Using Telegraf, InfluxDB and Grafana

https://blog.thecloudside.com/raspberry-pi-monitoring-using-telegraf-influxdb-and-grafana-defb63127fe3

4 years ago

73 upvotes – 28 comments
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