top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-08-28

The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/28/onlyfans-scandal-platforms-banks-ban-sexual-content-sex-workers

5 years ago

FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent

https://twitter.com/kylejohnmorris/status/1431714982782066688

5 years ago

The Future of discord.py

https://gist.github.com/Rapptz/4a2f62751b9600a31a0d3c78100287f1

5 years ago

Weird Languages

http://paulgraham.com/weird.html

5 years ago

Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/samsung-seemingly-caught-swapping-components-in-its-970-evo-plus-ssds/

5 years ago

Apple can read your iMessages (even though they’re E2E encrypted)

https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/pcb3ej/a_timely_reminder_that_apple_can_read_your/

5 years ago

Watch Windows 95 crash live as it exceeds 49.7 days uptime [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdrRoSdBM5M

5 years ago

Zoom RCE from Pwn2Own 2021

https://sector7.computest.nl/post/2021-08-zoom/

5 years ago

Apple’s new Private Relay is leaking your original address through WebRTC

https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/pd4y5m/apples_new_private_relay_is_leaking_your_original/

5 years ago

EU agency advises against using search and browsing history for credit scores

https://therecord.media/eu-agency-advises-against-using-search-browsing-history-for-credit-scores/

5 years ago

NetBSD Booting on the Apple M1

https://twitter.com/jmcwhatever/status/1431575270436319235

5 years ago

Corporations Are Crappy Archivists

https://www.pcjs.org/blog/2017/10/13/

5 years ago

TekSavvy takes pirate site blocking battle to Canada’s Supreme Court

https://torrentfreak.com/teksavvy-takes-pirate-site-blocking-battle-to-canadas-supreme-court-210826/

5 years ago

Climate change will alter where many crops are grown

https://www.economist.com/international/2021/08/28/climate-change-will-alter-where-many-crops-are-grown

5 years ago

LucidVR open source force feedback VR gloves

https://github.com/LucidVR/lucidgloves/releases/tag/Proto4

5 years ago

Role-based access control like it was meant to be

https://tailscale.com/blog/rbac-like-it-was-meant-to-be/

5 years ago

Next-gen chips will be powered from below

https://spectrum.ieee.org/next-gen-chips-will-be-powered-from-below

5 years ago

This Is Water (2005)

https://fs.blog/2012/04/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/

5 years ago

New study examines ‘Achilles heel’ of cancer tumours

https://www.med.ubc.ca/news/new-study-examines-achilles-heel-of-cancer-tumours-paving-the-way-for-new-treatment-strategies/

5 years ago

AT&T Archives: The Unix Operating System [video] (1982)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0

5 years ago