top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-09-04

Delays aren’t good enough – Apple must abandon its surveillance plans

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/delays-arent-good-enough-apple-must-abandon-its-surveillance-plans

4 years ago

1236 upvotes – 335 comments

uBlock Origin review

https://addons.mozilla.org/blog/ublock-origin-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-ad-blocker/

4 years ago

722 upvotes – 245 comments

How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to everyday life?

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/09/04/how-did-american-wokeness-jump-from-elite-schools-to-everyday-life

4 years ago

525 upvotes – 1274 comments

Back Orifice (1998)

https://web.archive.org/web/20180715070715/http://www.cultdeadcow.com/tools/bo.html

4 years ago

389 upvotes – 221 comments

200 Years Ago, Faraday Invented the Electric Motor

https://spectrum.ieee.org/200-years-ago-faraday-invented-the-electric-motor

4 years ago

363 upvotes – 96 comments

Migrating from Docker to Podman

https://marcusnoble.co.uk/2021-09-01-migrating-from-docker-to-podman

4 years ago

337 upvotes – 107 comments

Writing Well-Documented Code – Learn from Examples

https://codecatalog.org/2021/09/04/well-documented-code.html

4 years ago

333 upvotes – 142 comments

Shlinkedin – Satirical Social Network

https://www.shlinkedin.com/

4 years ago

307 upvotes – 57 comments

OpenAI Sold its Soul for $1B

https://onezero.medium.com/openai-sold-its-soul-for-1-billion-cf35ff9e8cd4

4 years ago

303 upvotes – 86 comments

Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know (2018)

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/

4 years ago

274 upvotes – 146 comments

GoDaddy is cutting off Texas Right to Life’s abortion ‘whistleblowing’ website

https://gizmodo.com/godaddy-is-giving-texas-abortion-snitching-site-the-boo-1847616447

4 years ago

267 upvotes – 366 comments

Kubescape – tool for testing if Kubernetes is deployed securely

https://github.com/armosec/kubescape

4 years ago

259 upvotes – 95 comments

Neurocracy

https://neurocracy.site/

4 years ago

249 upvotes – 39 comments

Why video game doors are so hard to get right [video]

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

4 years ago

239 upvotes – 117 comments

Many young people diagnosed with Tourette’s after watching a YouTube channel

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tourettes-youtube-jan-zimmermann

4 years ago

236 upvotes – 261 comments

Faust: Functional programming language for sound synthesis and audio processing

https://faust.grame.fr/

4 years ago

222 upvotes – 27 comments

Flowers Make a Nice Gift

https://www.echevarria.io/blog/flowers-make-a-nice-gift/index.html

4 years ago

214 upvotes – 139 comments

An Epidemic of Wage Theft Is Costing Workers Hundreds of Millions a Year (2014)

https://www.epi.org/publication/epidemic-wage-theft-costing-workers-hundreds/

4 years ago

201 upvotes – 111 comments

Forgetting My First Language

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/forgetting-my-first-language

4 years ago

192 upvotes – 171 comments

Pint – A Python package to define, operate and manipulate physical quantities

https://pint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

4 years ago

191 upvotes – 55 comments
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