The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2021

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Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life eff.org · bbatsell · 5 Aug 2021

2.3k pts 824 comments

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Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources reuters.com · spenvo · 12 Aug 2021

1.8k pts 813 comments

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One Bad Apple hackerfactor.com · cwmartin · 8 Aug 2021

1.5k pts 524 comments

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Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity' bbc.com · perfunctory · 9 Aug 2021

1.5k pts 1.5k comments

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Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model github.com · sohkamyung · 18 Aug 2021

1.4k pts 696 comments

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Apple and Google must allow other in-app payment systems, Korean law declares theverge.com · commoner · 31 Aug 2021

1.4k pts 599 comments

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Apple’s Mistake stratechery.com · feross · 9 Aug 2021

1.3k pts 790 comments

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Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web somebee · 17 Aug 2021

1.2k pts 345 comments

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Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics plausible.io · robin_reala · 31 Aug 2021

1.2k pts 681 comments

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An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology appleprivacyletter.com · nomoretime · 6 Aug 2021

1.2k pts 670 comments

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Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow twitter.com · robbiet480 · 5 Aug 2021

1.2k pts 724 comments

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Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos vishnumohandas · 29 Aug 2021

1.2k pts 405 comments

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OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October bloomberg.com · minimaxir · 19 Aug 2021

1.1k pts 1.3k comments

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Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust github.com · tim-- · 16 Aug 2021

1.1k pts 422 comments

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My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019) twitter.com · Tijdreiziger · 23 Aug 2021

1.1k pts 556 comments

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An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning github.com · yewenjie · 7 Aug 2021

1.1k pts 430 comments

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China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week reuters.com · extesy · 30 Aug 2021

1k pts 1.1k comments

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CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative calyxos.org · ssklash · 6 Aug 2021

1k pts 477 comments

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TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app asia.nikkei.com · em500 · 10 Aug 2021

1k pts 679 comments

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Arm China Has Gone Rogue semianalysis.substack.com · xbmcuser · 27 Aug 2021

995 pts 639 comments

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How I Experience Web Today how-i-experience-web-today.com · mrestko · 23 Aug 2021

985 pts 315 comments

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Prettymaps: Small Python library to draw customized maps from OpenStreetMap data github.com · sebg · 25 Aug 2021

982 pts 74 comments

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The rise of never-ending job interviews bbc.com · hhs · 2 Aug 2021

967 pts 1.2k comments

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Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful way – what can I do? AndreaVass · 18 Aug 2021

964 pts 282 comments

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Facebook hacker beat my 2FA, bricked my Oculus, and hit the company credit card codewriteplay.com · tosh · 20 Aug 2021

962 pts 366 comments

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On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Personal Story areoform.wordpress.com · areoform · 6 Aug 2021

961 pts 522 comments

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Googlespeak – How Google limits thought about antitrust zyppy.com · cyrusshepard · 24 Aug 2021

954 pts 298 comments

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A future for SQL on the web jlongster.com · rasmusfabbe · 12 Aug 2021

925 pts 218 comments

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Burning out and quitting mayakaczorowski.com · czottmann · 25 Aug 2021

921 pts 346 comments

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Twitter starts to require login to view tweets reddit.com · oenetan · 24 Aug 2021

912 pts 619 comments

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The most underused browser feature: reader mode frankgroeneveld.nl · frenkel · 24 Aug 2021

882 pts 357 comments

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New in Git: switch and restore banterly.net · todsacerdoti · 1 Aug 2021

872 pts 543 comments

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GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces github.blog · todsacerdoti · 11 Aug 2021

861 pts 678 comments

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The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy edwardsnowden.substack.com · ttctciyf · 26 Aug 2021

861 pts 380 comments

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ImageNet contains naturally occurring Apple NeuralHash collisions blog.roboflow.com · yeldarb · 19 Aug 2021

860 pts 510 comments

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FOSS app removed from the Play Store for linking to the project's website github.com · timothyaveni · 13 Aug 2021

853 pts 278 comments

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Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine them.us · Saint_Genet · 17 Aug 2021

851 pts 469 comments

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Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020) reuters.com · Crash0v3rid3 · 10 Aug 2021

847 pts 218 comments

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Apps Getting Worse tbray.org · TangerineDream · 8 Aug 2021

828 pts 619 comments

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Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes github.com · makeworld · 26 Aug 2021

822 pts 332 comments

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An old hacker's tips on staying employed madned.substack.com · mad_ned · 11 Aug 2021

815 pts 347 comments

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The Coronavirus Is Here Forever theatlantic.com · lxm · 23 Aug 2021

773 pts 1.5k comments

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PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations github.com · xanthine · 22 Aug 2021

763 pts 343 comments

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Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free sciencemag.org · cyrksoft · 8 Aug 2021

761 pts 92 comments

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The deceptive PR behind Apple’s “expanded protections for children” piotr.is · arespredator · 12 Aug 2021

753 pts 571 comments

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The surreal experience of my first developer job bennuttall.com · benn_88 · 4 Aug 2021

743 pts 261 comments

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Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech foundation.mozilla.org · heyhillary · 5 Aug 2021

728 pts 170 comments

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Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies theregister.com · alanwreath · 31 Aug 2021

725 pts 571 comments

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Widelands is a free, open-source real-time strategy game widelands.org · doener · 16 Aug 2021

713 pts 177 comments

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The Problem with Perceptual Hashes rentafounder.com · rivo · 6 Aug 2021

705 pts 418 comments

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My tiny side project has had more impact than my decade in the software industry mike.zwobble.org · mwilliamson · 1 Aug 2021

701 pts 189 comments

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Airyx OS airyx.org · todsacerdoti · 5 Aug 2021

699 pts 254 comments

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How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017) blog.discord.com · ibraheemdev · 24 Aug 2021

696 pts 368 comments

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Apple agrees to settle potential class action suit by U.S. developers axios.com · throwaway888abc · 27 Aug 2021

695 pts 244 comments

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Firefox 91 introduces enhanced cookie clearing blog.mozilla.org · arthuredelstein · 10 Aug 2021

695 pts 224 comments

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Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence nzz.ch · ipnon · 7 Aug 2021

694 pts 332 comments

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OnlyFans drops planned porn ban variety.com · uptown · 25 Aug 2021

690 pts 1.1k comments

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Google’s ‘Project Hug’ paid out huge sums to keep game devs in the Play Store theverge.com · davweb · 19 Aug 2021

688 pts 472 comments

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I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple markosaric.com · miles · 26 Aug 2021

679 pts 838 comments

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The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks theguardian.com · shivbhatt · 28 Aug 2021

675 pts 346 comments