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Top of Month - Aug 2021

1. Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life
   (5 Aug 2021 | 2260 points | Comments)

2. Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources
   (12 Aug 2021 | 1778 points | Comments)

3. One Bad Apple
   (8 Aug 2021 | 1484 points | Comments)

4. Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
   (9 Aug 2021 | 1465 points | Comments)

5. Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model
   (18 Aug 2021 | 1389 points | Comments)

6. Apple and Google must allow other in-app payment systems, Korean law declares
   (31 Aug 2021 | 1354 points | Comments)

7. Apple’s Mistake
   (9 Aug 2021 | 1273 points | Comments)

8. Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web
   (17 Aug 2021 | 1216 points | Comments)

9. Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
   (31 Aug 2021 | 1214 points | Comments)

10. An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology
    (6 Aug 2021 | 1187 points | Comments)

11. Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow
    (5 Aug 2021 | 1182 points | Comments)

12. Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos
    (29 Aug 2021 | 1180 points | Comments)

13. OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October
    (19 Aug 2021 | 1147 points | Comments)

14. Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust
    (16 Aug 2021 | 1138 points | Comments)

15. My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019)
    (23 Aug 2021 | 1137 points | Comments)

16. An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning
    (7 Aug 2021 | 1082 points | Comments)

17. China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week
    (30 Aug 2021 | 1030 points | Comments)

18. CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative
    (6 Aug 2021 | 1010 points | Comments)

19. TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app
    (10 Aug 2021 | 1007 points | Comments)

20. Arm China Has Gone Rogue
    (27 Aug 2021 | 995 points | Comments)

21. How I Experience Web Today
    (23 Aug 2021 | 985 points | Comments)

22. Prettymaps: Small Python library to draw customized maps from OpenStreetMap data
    (25 Aug 2021 | 982 points | Comments)

23. The rise of never-ending job interviews
    (2 Aug 2021 | 967 points | Comments)

24. Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful way – what can I do?
    (18 Aug 2021 | 964 points | Comments)

25. Facebook hacker beat my 2FA, bricked my Oculus, and hit the company credit card
    (20 Aug 2021 | 962 points | Comments)

26. On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Personal Story
    (6 Aug 2021 | 961 points | Comments)

27. Googlespeak – How Google limits thought about antitrust
    (24 Aug 2021 | 954 points | Comments)

28. A future for SQL on the web
    (12 Aug 2021 | 925 points | Comments)

29. Burning out and quitting
    (25 Aug 2021 | 921 points | Comments)

30. Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
    (24 Aug 2021 | 912 points | Comments)

31. The most underused browser feature: reader mode
    (24 Aug 2021 | 882 points | Comments)

32. New in Git: switch and restore
    (1 Aug 2021 | 872 points | Comments)

33. GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
    (11 Aug 2021 | 861 points | Comments)

34. The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy
    (26 Aug 2021 | 861 points | Comments)

35. ImageNet contains naturally occurring Apple NeuralHash collisions
    (19 Aug 2021 | 860 points | Comments)

36. FOSS app removed from the Play Store for linking to the project's website
    (13 Aug 2021 | 853 points | Comments)

37. Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine
    (17 Aug 2021 | 851 points | Comments)

38. Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)
    (10 Aug 2021 | 847 points | Comments)

39. Apps Getting Worse
    (8 Aug 2021 | 828 points | Comments)

40. Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes
    (26 Aug 2021 | 822 points | Comments)

41. An old hacker's tips on staying employed
    (11 Aug 2021 | 815 points | Comments)

42. The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
    (23 Aug 2021 | 773 points | Comments)

43. PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations
    (22 Aug 2021 | 763 points | Comments)

44. Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free
    (8 Aug 2021 | 761 points | Comments)

45. The deceptive PR behind Apple’s “expanded protections for children”
    (12 Aug 2021 | 753 points | Comments)

46. The surreal experience of my first developer job
    (4 Aug 2021 | 743 points | Comments)

47. Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech
    (5 Aug 2021 | 728 points | Comments)

48. Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies
    (31 Aug 2021 | 725 points | Comments)

49. Widelands is a free, open-source real-time strategy game
    (16 Aug 2021 | 713 points | Comments)

50. The Problem with Perceptual Hashes
    (6 Aug 2021 | 705 points | Comments)

51. My tiny side project has had more impact than my decade in the software industry
    (1 Aug 2021 | 701 points | Comments)

52. Airyx OS
    (5 Aug 2021 | 699 points | Comments)

53. How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)
    (24 Aug 2021 | 696 points | Comments)

54. Firefox 91 introduces enhanced cookie clearing
    (10 Aug 2021 | 695 points | Comments)

55. Apple agrees to settle potential class action suit by U.S. developers
    (27 Aug 2021 | 695 points | Comments)

56. Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence
    (7 Aug 2021 | 694 points | Comments)

57. OnlyFans drops planned porn ban
    (25 Aug 2021 | 690 points | Comments)

58. Google’s ‘Project Hug’ paid out huge sums to keep game devs in the Play Store
    (19 Aug 2021 | 688 points | Comments)

59. I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple
    (26 Aug 2021 | 679 points | Comments)

60. The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks
    (28 Aug 2021 | 675 points | Comments)

61. Life before smartphones (2020)
    (2 Aug 2021 | 669 points | Comments)

62. Apple explicitly asks employees to merge their personal and work accounts
    (20 Aug 2021 | 669 points | Comments)

63. Economic costs of war
    (16 Aug 2021 | 666 points | Comments)

64. Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt
    (20 Aug 2021 | 652 points | Comments)

65. A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shops instead
    (23 Aug 2021 | 652 points | Comments)

66. Messaging and chat control
    (9 Aug 2021 | 643 points | Comments)

67. Google's Secret Initiative – “Project Hug”
    (21 Aug 2021 | 643 points | Comments)

68. NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guidance [pdf]
    (3 Aug 2021 | 635 points | Comments)

69. My House
    (31 Aug 2021 | 633 points | Comments)

70. Internet of Snitches
    (12 Aug 2021 | 632 points | Comments)

71. TSMC hikes chip prices up to 20% amid supply shortage
    (26 Aug 2021 | 630 points | Comments)

72. Show HN: Neural-hash-collider – Find target hash collisions for NeuralHash
    (19 Aug 2021 | 623 points | Comments)

73. WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implementation for the Windows kernel
    (2 Aug 2021 | 622 points | Comments)

74. Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco
    (24 Aug 2021 | 620 points | Comments)

75. Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship
    (11 Aug 2021 | 618 points | Comments)

76. Launch HN: Heimdal (YC S21) – Carbon neutral cement
    (2 Aug 2021 | 617 points | Comments)

77. Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance
    (2 Aug 2021 | 616 points | Comments)

78. Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings
    (12 Aug 2021 | 614 points | Comments)

79. Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
    (19 Aug 2021 | 614 points | Comments)

80. Why wild foxes led you to treasure in Skyrim
    (19 Aug 2021 | 613 points | Comments)

81. FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent
    (28 Aug 2021 | 608 points | Comments)

82. Apple is suing smartphone emulation software startup Corellium
    (18 Aug 2021 | 602 points | Comments)

83. Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US
    (10 Aug 2021 | 597 points | Comments)

84. In internal memo, Apple addresses concerns around new Photo scanning features
    (7 Aug 2021 | 596 points | Comments)

85. Asahi Linux for Apple M1 progress report, August 2021
    (14 Aug 2021 | 596 points | Comments)

86. A shot to prevent Lyme disease could be on its way
    (17 Aug 2021 | 595 points | Comments)

87. Asking nicely for root command execution and getting it
    (17 Aug 2021 | 589 points | Comments)

88. Introducing the PineNote
    (15 Aug 2021 | 586 points | Comments)

89. Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning'
    (13 Aug 2021 | 585 points | Comments)

90. FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine
    (23 Aug 2021 | 585 points | Comments)

91. Please log in with router's password
    (10 Aug 2021 | 583 points | Comments)

92. Debian 11
    (14 Aug 2021 | 579 points | Comments)

93. Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African warehouse
    (24 Aug 2021 | 579 points | Comments)

94. 1Password 8 will be subscription only and won’t support local vaults
    (11 Aug 2021 | 577 points | Comments)

95. Manim: An animation engine for explanatory math videos
    (20 Aug 2021 | 576 points | Comments)

96. Apple’s crackdown on multicast
    (24 Aug 2021 | 576 points | Comments)

97. ASML, a $300B Dutch firm, makes the machines that make semiconductors
    (22 Aug 2021 | 575 points | Comments)

98. ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning
    (12 Aug 2021 | 570 points | Comments)

99. Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns state government
    (17 Aug 2021 | 568 points | Comments)

100. Chip shortage: Toyota to cut global production by 40%
     (19 Aug 2021 | 567 points | Comments)