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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life

2260

2

Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources

1778

3

1484

4

Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'

1465

5

Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model

1389

6

Apple and Google must allow other in-app payment systems, Korean law declares

1354

7

Apple’s Mistake

1273

8

Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics

1214

9

An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology

1187

10

Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow

1182

Top Ask HN

1

Google is confusing me with others in a harmful way – what can I do?

964

2

What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?

614

3

Why does Zoom Desktop examine all processes and arguments?

547

4

What Apple alternatives are you switching to?

529

5

Who is hiring? (August 2021)

357

6

Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

312

7

Where can I live off 1k USD per month?

306

8

Has anyone fully embraced an event-driven architecture?

284

9

What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

263

10

Managing career progression for those with no interest in progressing?

248

Top Show HN

1

Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web

1216

2

We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos

1180

3

Neural-hash-collider – Find target hash collisions for NeuralHash

623

4

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

501

5

I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

418

6

I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly

399

7

59a34eabe31910abfb06f308 – NeuralHash Collision Demo

338

8

Nomad Visa – Working remotely? Explore your visa options

285

9

Visualizing a Codebase

283

10

Pop.com – pair programming with low-latency, Screenhero-style sharing

225

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Apple and Google must allow other in-app payment systems, Korean law declares

1354

2

Google’s ‘Project Hug’ paid out huge sums to keep game devs in the Play Store

688

3

A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shops instead

652

4

Apple is suing smartphone emulation software startup Corellium

602

5

Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns state government

568

6

WhatsApp lead and other tech experts fire back at Apple’s Child Safety plan

489

7

Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence

459

8

Terrorist watchlist exposed via misconfigured Elasticsearch cluster

439

9

T-Mobile Confirms It Was Hacked

432

10

Amazon Unlawfully Confiscated Union Literature, NLRB Finds

406

News [?]

1

Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources

1778

2

Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'

1465

3

OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

1147

4

China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week

1030

5

TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app

1007

6

The rise of never-ending job interviews

967

7

Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)

847

8

The Coronavirus Is Here Forever

773

9

Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies

725

10

Apple agrees to settle potential class action suit by U.S. developers

695

Scientific publications [?]

1

Space Station incident demands independent investigation

394

2

Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation

248

3

A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

223

4

The Real Story of Pixar

223

5

A Dyson sphere around a black hole

214

6

Chronofold: A data structure for versioned text (2020)

207

7

Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as 'ignition' triggered in a lab

174

8

JPL's Plan for the Next Mars Helicopter

170

9

Fault Injection Attacks Against AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization

167

10

The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (2013)

166

Dev Blogs [?]

1

GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces

861

2

Firefox 91 introduces enhanced cookie clearing

695

3

Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance

498

4

Git password authentication is shutting down

440

5

Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0%

401

6

HTTP/2-exclusive threats caused by implementation flaws and RFC imperfections

393

7

372

8

Performance Improvements in .NET 6

362

9

Why are hyperlinks blue?

348

10

Nerds don't respond to marketing; try technical documentation instead

345

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life

2260

2

Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship

618

3

In internal memo, Apple addresses concerns around new Photo scanning features

596

4

EFF Joins Global Coalition Asking Apple CEO Tim Cook to Stop Phone-Scanning

549

5

German parliament pens letter to Apple with concerns over CSAM detection system

430

6

Platforms want to be utilities, self-govern like empires

426

7

Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision is a privacy disaster

426

8

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

348

9

Princeton Researchers Who Built a CSAM Scanning System Urge Apple to Not Use It

314

10

iPhone 13 to support LEO satellite communication

248

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple acquires classical music streaming service Primephonic

421

2

Security Threat Model Review of the Apple Child Safety Features [pdf]

325

3

Expanded Protections for Children

230

4

The Apple Psi System [pdf]

168

5

A Message to Our Customers (2016)

113

6

Apple Makes Magic Keyboard with Touch ID Available for Purchase

106

7

AWS Identity service handles 400M API calls every second

101

8

Amazon Genomics CLI

94

9

CSAM Detection Technical Summary [pdf]

60

10

Amazon MemoryDB for Redis – A Redis-Compatible, Durable Database

53

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Apple’s Mistake

1273

2

A street snack that has baffled botanists

484

3

Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP addresses

385

4

A sewing page that never closed its font size HTML tags

367

5

U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, report finds (2020)

361

6

Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticated' drone near Tucson

275

7

Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”

254

8

Fake animal rescue videos have become a new frontier for animal abuse

181

9

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

177

10

The Zettelkasten Method (2019)

159

Science News [?]

1

Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free

761

2

Scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthier and smarter

476

3

Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science

329

4

Warning Signals for Collapse of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

269

5

The world must cooperate to avoid colliding satellites and space debris

263

6

Thoughts of work invaded my life until I learned how to unplug

257

7

Physicist discovered an escape from Hawking’s black hole paradox

255

8

Fructose in diet expands the surface of the gut and promotes nutrient absorption

239

9

Reducing sugar in packaged foods can prevent disease in millions

236

10

Years of fighting every wildfire helped fuel the Western megafires of today

232

Social [?]

1

Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow

1182

2

My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019)

1137

3

Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

912

4

Apple explicitly asks employees to merge their personal and work accounts

669

5

Google's Secret Initiative – “Project Hug”

643

6

Why wild foxes led you to treasure in Skyrim

613

7

FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent

608

8

ASML, a $300B Dutch firm, makes the machines that make semiconductors

575

9

Discontinuing FlickType Keyboard for iPhone

503

10

A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong

443

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model

1389

2

Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust

1138

3

An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning

1082

4

Prettymaps: Small Python library to draw customized maps from OpenStreetMap data

982

5

FOSS app removed from the Play Store for linking to the project's website

853

6

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

822

7

PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations

763

8

Manim: An animation engine for explanatory math videos

576

9

Convert Apple NeuralHash model for CSAM Detection to ONNX

505

10

The Future of discord.py

493

Wikipedia [?]

1

Extreme Ironing

411

2

Trevor Moore has died

172

3

Thought-Terminating Cliché

138

4

Carolyn Shoemaker has died

115

5

Jackson structured programming

106

6

100

7

Airliner Number 4

85

8

The Apollo Affair

79

9

The Triple Revolution

75

10

64

Blogs [?]

1

Patterns in Confusing Explanations

566

2

Weird Languages

472

3

Some Reasons to Measure

201

4

You Are Not Lazy or Undisciplined. You Have Internal Resistance

192

5

I could do that in a weekend (2016)

121

6

One Week of Bugs (2014)

89

7

An intro to Pen Plotters (2019)

80

8

Boring Languages Are Underrated (2015)

75

9

Practical introduction to algebraic datatypes (ADTs) in TypeScript

71

10

Building a Better Search Engine for Semantic Scholar (2020)

58

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How can I get this 8 year old VBA 64-bit compiler bug fixed?

146

2

What is the most evil code you have ever seen in production?

16

3

What Is Opinionated Software?

5

4

Stack Overflow Is Down

5

5

Getting the nth character of a String in Swift

2

6

Comparing ECMA6 sets for equality

1

7

How does JavaScript VM implements Object property access?

1

Substack [?]

1

Arm China Has Gone Rogue

995

2

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

861

3

An old hacker's tips on staying employed

815

4

Life before smartphones (2020)

669

5

Where are the robotic bricklayers?

452

6

Use Pixar's story formula to win over investors

439

7

Bye CUPS: Printing with Netcat

417

8

I'm reading the FT and WSJ from 100 years ago each week leading to 1929

323

9

Why is China smashing its tech industry?

311

10

271