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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

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

1778

2

1484

3

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

1465

4

Apple’s Mistake

1273

5

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

1187

6

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

1082

7

CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative

1010

8

TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app

1007

9

On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Personal Story

961

10

A future for SQL on the web

925

Top Ask HN

1

What tiny purchases have disproportionately improved your life?

233

2

Is anyone working on an open hardware 3G/4G dongle?

153

3

What are you using to replace shared iCloud Photos albums?

136

4

Best privacy preserving alternatives to Apple products?

109

5

Is domain squatting still profitable? Is there a solution?

98

6

Senior Software Engineer to Engineering Manager

93

7

Inconsistent expression calculation between programming languages

83

8

How to become a ridiculously good back end staff eng?

77

9

How many of you are quitting over return to office?

68

10

How did web development become so bizarrely complex?

67

Top Show HN

1

Open-source A/B testing framework

199

2

Free, Accessible AI Art Generator

169

3

Visualizer for High Level System Design

167

4

Object Detection in an Hour

166

5

Lona – Framework for responsive web apps in full Python without JS

165

6

Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast

161

7

Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks

152

8

Torrentinim – low memory-footprint, API-only torrent search engine

117

9

Yet another Homebrew Video Game Console, this time FPGA-based

114

10

Write universally accessible SQL, not library-specific ORM wrapper APIs

112

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

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

489

2

Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches

225

3

Crypto community slams ‘disastrous’ new amendment to big infrastructure bill

193

4

Amazon third-party sellers reportedly hound customers who leave bad reviews

178

5

Facebook may be forced to sell Giphy one year after buying it

175

6

Canberra asks to introduce detection capabilities in encrypted communication

172

7

The smart home is flailing as a concept

155

8

4th person in US mysteriously stricken with deadly bacteria from South Asia

120

9

Why Valve Is Switching from Debian to Arch for Steam Deck's Linux OS

117

10

U.S. Kids Are Getting Nearly 70% of Their Calories from 'Ultra-Processed' Foods

102

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

TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app

1007

4

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

847

5

New carnivorous plant discovered in Pacific Northwest

480

6

Apple says photos in iCloud will be checked by child abuse detection system

461

7

U.S. FTC says Facebook misused privacy decree to shut down ad research

438

8

Google employees who work from home could lose money

380

9

Dating in Delhi when you're poor

358

10

For programmers, remote working is becoming the norm

351

Scientific publications [?]

1

Space Station incident demands independent investigation

394

2

JPL's Plan for the Next Mars Helicopter

170

3

Fault Injection Attacks Against AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization

167

4

Fairer Chess: A Reversal of Two Opening Moves in Chess Creates Balance

112

5

A dubious writing style emerging in science

110

6

Jewish Problems (2011)

110

7

The Design of the NetBSD I/O Subsystems (2002)

89

8

CBD Inhibits SARS-CoV-2 Replication and Promotes the Host Innate Immune Response

80

9

NASA's “Tour of Asteroid Bennu” Selected for Siggraph Film Festival

73

10

Mitigating dataset harms requires stewardship: Lessons from 1000 papers

64

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

372

6

Scanning “private” content

267

7

Strange domain names that developers bought

118

8

The Elasticsearch Saga Continues

104

9

A thorough introduction to bpftrace

66

10

Phishing sites targeting scammers and thieves

61

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship

618

2

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

596

3

Apple call center workers fear AI-powered surveillance cameras in their homes

197

4

Captcha Patent Is an All-American Nightmare

115

5

Open Compute Project: An Interview with Intel's Rebecca Weekly

52

6

Apple drops Lawsuit against Corellium

52

7

Canada: Fast-moving proposal creates filtering, blocking and reporting rules

34

8

New US Antitrust Bill Would Require Apple, Google to Allow 3rd-Party App Stores

25

9

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

24

10

Apple Open to Expanding New Child Safety Features to Third-Party Apps

19

FAANG+ [?]

1

The Apple Psi System [pdf]

168

2

A Message to Our Customers (2016)

113

3

CSAM Detection Technical Summary [pdf]

60

4

Expanded Protections for Children – FAQ [pdf]

45

5

Keeping clients of OpenSearch and Elasticsearch compatible with open source

41

6

Apple CSAM Detection – Technical Summary [pdf]

7

7

AWS Service Terms – Zombie apocolypse in section 42.10

7

8

Make Every feature Binary: A 135B parameter sparse neural network in production

3

9

AWS Transfer Family

3

10

Amazon's top Graph Theory books are graph paper notebooks

3

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

Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013)

150

5

Plants, heavy metals, and the lingering scars of World War I

137

6

What happens if you stick your head in a particle accelerator? (2017)

116

7

Does this medieval fresco show a hallucinogenic mushroom in the Garden of Eden?

95

8

Anti-Piracy Firm Asks Google to Block 127.0.0.1

89

9

I'm the guy who bought 259684 BTC for under $3000 yesterday (2011)

88

10

890M-year-old sponge fossil may be the earliest animal yet found

86

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

Crows have been shown to understand the concept of zero

231

6

A cocktail of pesticides, parasites and hunger leaves bees down and out

227

7

2,400-year-old baskets still filled with fruit found in submerged Egyptian city

200

8

Flawed data led to a connection between time spent on devices and mental health

172

9

Body mapping study suggests chronic pain comes in nine distinct types

172

10

Single cortical neurons as deep artificial neural networks

164

Social [?]

1

“My scooter was stolen. Unknown to the thief, I hid two AirTags inside it.”

395

2

“People have asked if we'll adopt this system for WhatsApp. The answer is no.”

298

3

Semver doesn't mean major.minor.patch, it means fails.features.bugs

275

4

What it was like developing for NES back in 1990

230

5

The first two hours of MTV (1981) [video]

206

6

1Password for Mac Moving to Electron

179

7

The 3x+1 Problem [video]

136

8

The bug which lost more than $600M in various cryptocurrencies a few hours ago

131

9

YouTube deletes “lawsuit against vaccine passport” press conference video

127

10

Starship has been fully stacked

120

Github repos and gists [?]

1

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

1082

2

Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

428

3

Official Elasticsearch Python library no longer works with open-source forks

294

4

Turn your Android phone into SMS API gateway

242

5

Darts: A Python library for easy manipulation and forecasting of time series

239

6

Kind: A Modern Proof Language

232

7

ANSI Escape Codes

132

8

A macOS-like operating system based on FreeBSD

97

9

Absurd-SQL – Use sqlite3 on the web with storage in IndexedDB

92

10

Commodore 64 BASIC and KERNAL on Atari 8-bit hardware

92

Wikipedia [?]

1

Trevor Moore has died

172

2

Jackson structured programming

106

3

100

4

64

5

Max Headroom Signal Hijacking

39

6

20

7

15

8

Uncleftish Beholding

14

9

Machine Identification Code

12

10

Penny Universities

12

Blogs [?]

1

An intro to Pen Plotters (2019)

80

2

Practical introduction to algebraic datatypes (ADTs) in TypeScript

71

3

Gazing at the Mother Tongue: Analyzing Twitter’s Image Cropping Algorithm

24

4

Amazon Fired Me for Reporting Gender Bias

18

5

The Infrastructure Bill’s Targeting of Cryptocurrencies Makes Americans Poorer

13

6

How to build an AI unicorn in 6 years

11

7

What does the Delta variant mean for you?

11

8

Snowden, Phony hence Traitor?

9

9

How do transistors work? Like a flush toilet

9

10

Modern web apps without JavaScript bundling or transpiling

7

Stackoverflow [?]

1

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

16

2

Comparing ECMA6 sets for equality

1

3

How does JavaScript VM implements Object property access?

1

Substack [?]

1

An old hacker's tips on staying employed

815

2

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

323

3

The CIA’s outsourced torture is lost to history

179

4

Lies, Damned Lies, and Vaccine Statistics

73

5

I Am Not a Progressive

19

6

Dancoland, Part 2: Just-So Stories

17

7

I Need To Stop Scrolling: The diminishing returns of constant Covid news

6

8

I don't read books anymore (I read everything on my phone)

5

9

Details of the Infant Fish Oil Story

4

10

Fear of a Secular Nation

4