top 50% 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

675 upvotes – 346 comments

FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent

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

5 years ago

608 upvotes – 447 comments

The Future of discord.py

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

5 years ago

493 upvotes – 163 comments

Weird Languages

http://paulgraham.com/weird.html

5 years ago

472 upvotes – 508 comments

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

315 upvotes – 129 comments

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

304 upvotes – 131 comments

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

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

5 years ago

278 upvotes – 88 comments

Zoom RCE from Pwn2Own 2021

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

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 122 comments

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

253 upvotes – 51 comments

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

192 upvotes – 117 comments

NetBSD Booting on the Apple M1

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

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 115 comments

Corporations Are Crappy Archivists

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

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 67 comments

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

177 upvotes – 54 comments

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

175 upvotes – 172 comments

LucidVR open source force feedback VR gloves

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

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 40 comments

Role-based access control like it was meant to be

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

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 37 comments

Next-gen chips will be powered from below

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

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 82 comments

This Is Water (2005)

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

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 75 comments

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

151 upvotes – 20 comments

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

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

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 28 comments

Pocuter – A coin-sized micro computer with WiFi and BLE

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zepsch/pocuter

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 34 comments

After 18 years, SCO's IBM litigation may be settled for $14.5M

https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/08/28/0237243/after-18-years-scos-ibm-litigation-may-be-settled-for-145-million

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 112 comments

I believe California is the dumping ground for America's homeless problem

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2021/08/i-believe-california-is-dumping-ground.html

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 305 comments

Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway (2019)

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190201

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 114 comments

Researcher experiences of funder suppression of health trial findings

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0255704

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 28 comments

Repairs of leaning San Francisco skyscraper on hold

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/08/27/repairs-sinking-san-francisco-skyscraper-on-hold-engineering-expert-blasts-plan/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 89 comments

Israeli Study: Natural Immunity Is 13x Stronger Than Pfizer Covid Shots

https://thinkcivics.com/israeli-study-natural-immunity-is-13x-stronger-than-pfizer-covid-shots/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 143 comments

Missile Base for Sale

http://mobile.missilebaseforsale.com/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 134 comments

Brazil prisoners reading books to shorten their sentences (2020)

http://prison-off.com/brazil-prisoners-reading-books-to-shorten-their-sentences/?lang=en

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 78 comments

Canada, April: Under-65 excess mortality exceeds under-65 Covid-19 deaths

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/210712/dq210712b-eng.htm

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 114 comments

A comment in Hacker News led Girish Mathrubootham to create Freshworks (2019)

https://yourstory.com/2019/11/turning-point-freshworks-chennai-saas-startup-girish-mathrubootham/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 30 comments

Familia Toledo: The most inexpensive computer USD $99.00

http://www.biyubi.com/eng_principal.html

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 69 comments

Emacs Modernization: Simple Changes Emacs Should Adopt (2006)

http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/modernization.html

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 169 comments

Life After White Collar Crime

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/30/life-after-white-collar-crime

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 74 comments

Developers aren’t impressed with Apple’s App Store changes

https://www.macworld.com/article/354291/developers-arent-impressed-with-apples-app-store-changes.html

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 27 comments

Chicago sues Grubhub and DoorDash for allegedly deceptive practices

https://chicago.eater.com/2021/8/27/22644787/chicago-grubhub-doordash-lawsuit-third-party-delivery

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 54 comments

The 20x24 Polaroid instant camera

https://20x24studio.com/?page_id=1653

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 17 comments

Tupolev Tu-144: The Soviets' doomed rival to Concorde (2017)

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/tupolev-tu-144-concordski/index.html

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 136 comments

Away from Exceptions: Errors as Values

https://humanlytyped.hashnode.dev/away-from-exceptions-errors-as-values

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 136 comments

Do You Need a Blockchain? (2017)

http://doyouneedablockchain.com/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 48 comments

Police in the US shoot dogs so often, an expert calls it an “epidemic” (2016)

https://qz.com/870601/police-killing-dogs-is-an-epidemic-according-to-the-justice-department/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 91 comments

Snap is Scheme disguised as Scratch [pdf]

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/snap/baby3.pdf

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 40 comments

Google: 'Reverse Warrants' Becoming Law Enforcement's Go-To Investigative Tool

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210821/10494847401/google-report-shows-reverse-warrants-are-swiftly-becoming-law-enforcements-go-to-investigative-tool.shtml

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 33 comments

In a patch of Arizona, everyone knows Waymo, but few use it

https://www.morningbrew.com/emerging-tech/stories/2021/08/23/patch-arizona-everyone-knows-waymo-use

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 114 comments

Show HN: Simple tool for creating command-line bar charts

https://github.com/TurkeyMcMac/barchart

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 23 comments

The Psychology of Online Political Hostility

https://psyarxiv.com/hwb83/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 49 comments

Tesla Packs 50B Transistors onto D1 Dojo Chip

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tesla-d1-ai-chip

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 59 comments

Getting started with large format film photography

https://shootitwithfilm.com/getting-started-with-large-format-film-photography/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 30 comments

Vega Strike

https://www.vega-strike.org/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 41 comments

The Sunk Cost Fallacy

https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/the-sunk-cost-fallacy/

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 69 comments

Mortuaries fill, hospitals clog in rural California towns with low vaccination

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-28/la-me-rural-california-covid-surge-vaccinations-lag

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 27 comments

Ask HN: Is there a recruiter email blocklist somewhere?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28336742

5 years ago

68 upvotes – 63 comments

Elizabeth Holmes to Accuse Ex-Boyfriend of Abuse at Trial

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/28/1031961327/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-trial-boyfriend-balwani-emotional-sexual-abuse

5 years ago

64 upvotes – 44 comments

Anthropic Bias (2020)

https://www.anthropic-principle.com/q=book/table_of_contents/

5 years ago

63 upvotes – 12 comments
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