top 10 hacker news stories for 2022-08-21

A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveillance-toddler-photo.html

2 years ago

949 upvotes – 559 comments

Nobody wants to teach anymore

https://jessicalexicus.medium.com/nobody-wants-to-teach-anymore-66f09b877b11

2 years ago

666 upvotes – 966 comments

Good conversations have lots of doorknobs

https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/good-conversations-have-lots-of-doorknobs

2 years ago

585 upvotes – 147 comments

Hacker News Official API

https://github.com/HackerNews/API

2 years ago

500 upvotes – 132 comments

uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox

2 years ago

438 upvotes – 230 comments

Turning SQLite into a Distributed Database

https://univalence.me/posts/mvsqlite

2 years ago

347 upvotes – 71 comments

Why don’t we do email verification in reverse?

https://blog.yossarian.net/2022/08/20/Why-dont-we-do-email-verification-in-reverse

2 years ago

298 upvotes – 321 comments

LibGen's Bloat Problem

https://liberalgeneral.neocities.org/libgens-bloat-problem/

2 years ago

286 upvotes – 143 comments

Ask HN: Anyone working 4 day week here, as an employee?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32544315

2 years ago

259 upvotes – 258 comments

The Church of Interruption (2018)

https://sambleckley.com/writing/church-of-interruption.html

2 years ago

250 upvotes – 95 comments
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