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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 enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow

1182

3

The rise of never-ending job interviews

967

4

Who Owns My Name?

908

5

New in Git: switch and restore

872

6

Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company's mission

751

7

The surreal experience of my first developer job

743

8

Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech

728

9

My tiny side project has had more impact than my decade in the software industry

701

10

699

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (August 2021)

357

2

Has anyone fully embraced an event-driven architecture?

284

3

My country may be in the midst of a coup – how should I get prepared?

274

4

Do you have a process or a framework to learn specific skills quickly?

247

5

Who wants to be hired? (August 2021)

128

6

Why is YouTube adding “&pp=sAQA” to video URLs?

109

7

Solopreneurs, what is your day and week like?

85

8

Best resources to support a partner with depression?

63

9

Examples of email-first projects or startups?

58

10

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2021)

47

Top Show HN

1

Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file

796

2

Visualizing a Codebase

283

3

Micro HTTP server in 22 lines of C

223

4

Till – Unblock and scale your web scrapers, with minimal code changes

209

5

A work-in-progress C compiler from scratch

159

6

Hookdeck – An infrastructure to consume webhooks

126

7

118

8

Python Source Code Refactoring Toolkit via AST

110

9

Mathematics Chalkboard with LaTeX and Markdown Support

89

10

Learn to identify the birds at any location

71

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

We Still Don’t Get Things Done

425

2

Amazon Unlawfully Confiscated Union Literature, NLRB Finds

406

3

Blizzard's reputation collapsed in just three years

377

4

SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocket last night

253

5

Jeff Bezos loses attempt to block the Moon-landing contract NASA gave to SpaceX

245

6

CIA’s fake Hepatitis B vaccine program in Pakistan helped fuel vaccine distrust

192

7

The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream

188

8

Big tech companies are at war with employees over remote work

175

9

Police can get your data – even if you aren’t suspected of a crime

174

10

AI tools have been built to catch Covid, but none of them helped

151

News [?]

1

The rise of never-ending job interviews

967

2

1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee

646

3

The Push for a “PBS for the Internet”

525

4

Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era

487

5

Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship

447

6

FB users buying Oculus VR headsets to get customer service prioritization

445

7

Facebook executive helped Cuomo smear sex-harassment accuser: AG report

438

8

NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings

410

9

Pegasus spyware found on journalists’ phones, French intelligence confirms

404

10

38% of remote workers work from bed

383

Scientific publications [?]

1

New exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered at CERN

555

2

The Real Story of Pixar

223

3

Chronofold: A data structure for versioned text (2020)

207

4

The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (2013)

166

5

China Says It's Closing in on Thorium Nuclear Reactor

163

6

The future of deep learning is photonic

103

7

Fast, Efficient Neural Networks Copy Dragonfly Brains

97

8

Image synthesis and editing with stochastic differential equations

84

9

Where Do Models Go Wrong? Parameter-Space Saliency Maps for Explainability

84

10

London’s Crossrail Is a $21B Test of Virtual Modeling (2016)

78

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0%

401

2

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

393

3

Facebook’s claims about the Ad Observer are wrong

296

4

Firefox: Performance in Progress

287

5

AMD and Valve Working on New Linux CPU Performance Scaling Design

172

6

I Am Parting with My Crypto Library

147

7

Google Tensor SoC debuts on the new Pixel 6 this fall

120

8

Descriptorless Files for Io_uring

113

9

Algorithmic bias bounty challenge

104

10

Strict memcpy() bounds checking for the Linux kernel

70

Tech blogs [?]

1

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

2260

2

Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision is a privacy disaster

426

3

Facebook reportedly researching ways to use encrypted WhatsApp messages for ads

133

4

Intel Executive Posts Thunderbolt 5 Photo Then Deletes It: 80 Gbps and Pam-3

58

5

House Judiciary says Apple “actively undermines the open web's progress on iOS”

11

6

Solid state batteries, ready to ship

8

7

YouTube Tests Cheaper 'Premium Lite' Subscription for Ad-Free Viewing

7

8

Apple to announce client-side photo hashing system to detect child abuse images

7

9

Apple boots ‘Tinder for anti-vaxxers’ from App Store for violating Covid rules

6

10

Home Depot is selling power tools that require activation in-store

5

FAANG+ [?]

1

Download a CSV of your Amazon purchases

238

2

Expanded Protections for Children

230

3

Apple Makes Magic Keyboard with Touch ID Available for Purchase

106

4

Student IDs on iPhone and Apple Watch Expand to Canada and More US Universities

36

5

Keeping clients of OpenSearch and Elasticsearch compatible with open source

8

6

Microsoft MakeCode

5

7

Mac Pro Technology Overview [pdf]

4

8

Apple CSAM Detection: Technical Summary [pdf]

4

9

Amazon EKS now supports Multus CNI

4

10

Make Every feature Binary: A sparse neural network for improved search

4

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

A sewing page that never closed its font size HTML tags

367

2

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

361

3

Typos, tricks and misprints

84

4

Amazonian moths that drink the tears of sleeping birds

64

5

Tesla Owner Billed over $14,000 for Accidental Full Self-Driving Purchase

53

6

The sea was never blue (2017)

23

7

The UK pm’s climate spokesperson has range anxiety, so she drives a diesel VW

23

8

The Pentagon Is Experimenting with Using AI to “See Days in Advance”

10

9

What Happens When Your Career Becomes Your Whole Identity

6

10

Stop Making Excuses for Toxic Bosses

6

Science News [?]

1

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

232

2

Why extraterrestrial life may not seem alien

195

3

Mathematicians solve decades-old classification problem

155

4

Cheap material converts heat to electricity

142

5

A blood marker predicts who gets ‘breakthrough’ Covid

135

6

Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real

98

7

Galois Groups and the Symmetries of Polynomials

89

8

Testing quantum mechanics in space

73

9

Single-celled organism has evolved a natural mechanical computer

61

10

Longer days on early Earth may have set stage for complex life

52

Social [?]

1

Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow

1182

2

PhD student in Switzerland expelled after criticizing the CCP in Twitter

338

3

Safari extension rejected because developer not “reputable”

203

4

AdObserver Blocked by Facebook

202

5

Comma Three [video]

186

6

“Safari's buggy” is valid criticism, “Safari's behind Chrome in features” is not

173

7

L0phtcrack 7 will be released as open source

160

8

System on SO-DIMM

138

9

Common UI/UX mistakes devs make

120

10

Mirror image DNA polymerase has been engineered

53

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Ssheven: A modern SSH client for Mac OS 7-9

339

2

B-tree Path Hints

282

3

Lang Jam: create a programming language in a weekend

272

4

Lisp in an “impossible” language, the most complex Malbolge program to date

263

5

Trying to extract Widewine key: A journey to failure

189

6

The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide

154

7

154

8

Lumen: Alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly

148

9

EASTL: An Alternative C++ Standard Library

144

10

MacType: Better Font Rendering for Windows

142

Wikipedia [?]

1

Mobile phones on aircraft

48

2

42

3

36

4

25

5

Wikipedia: Thagomizer

15

6

13

7

Vaccine-Preventable Diseases

12

8

Matrioshka Brain

12

9

11

10

Vulcan, West Virginia

8

Blogs [?]

1

You Are Not Lazy or Undisciplined. You Have Internal Resistance

192

2

Life Without Google: Australia Is Now Facing the Unthinkable

29

3

Stop Using UI Frameworks

24

4

If You Need a Content Warning, Maybe It’s Time for You to Quit Reading

21

5

Peg Parsing Series Overview (2019)

20

6

We got $1M donations via “Pay Want You Want” model in EdTech

14

7

Hazard Play: How I damaged my inner ears when playing VR fitness with Oculus

13

8

Pggen: A Golang ORM Alternative

10

9

Using Yfinance to Download Financial Data (Python)

7

10

Pivoting my bootstrapped startup to revenue

6

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What Is Opinionated Software?

5

2

TIL: UTC vs. GMT

2

3

Getting the nth character of a String in Swift

2

Substack [?]

1

Life before smartphones (2020)

669

2

Where are the robotic bricklayers?

452

3

Bye CUPS: Printing with Netcat

417

4

Why is China smashing its tech industry?

311

5

Personal Computing on an Amiga in 2021

214

6

Apophenia: How the Internet Transforms the Individual into a Conspiracy of One

164

7

139

8

A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important

118

9

Yann LeCun on his start in AI, recent self-supervised learning research [video]

111

10

I, Token: The untold story of the hole in Bitcoin's heart

105