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August 2021 discussion archive

Browse 154 retained Hacker News discussion records from August 2021, with reading status and captured HN facts shown for every entry.

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  1. My House31 Aug 2021 · 633 points · 230 commentsPartial reading withheld
  2. Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies31 Aug 2021 · 725 points · 571 commentsPartial reading withheld
  3. Mob justice is trampling democratic discourse31 Aug 2021 · 277 points · 273 commentsPartial reading withheld
  4. South Korea will require Apple, Google to allow competing payment systems31 Aug 2021 · 286 points · 2 commentsPartial reading withheld
  5. Apple and Google must allow other in-app payment systems, Korean law declares31 Aug 2021 · 1,354 points · 599 commentsPartial reading withheld
  6. Rugby: Head impact study shows cognitive decline after just one season31 Aug 2021 · 276 points · 213 commentsPartial reading withheld
  7. Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics31 Aug 2021 · 1,214 points · 681 commentsPartial reading withheld
  8. A quick and simple editor for cron schedule expressions30 Aug 2021 · 288 points · 78 commentsPartial reading withheld
  9. China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week30 Aug 2021 · 1,030 points · 1,053 commentsPartial reading withheld
  10. Writing Programs with Ncurses30 Aug 2021 · 280 points · 89 commentsPartial reading withheld
  11. Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt30 Aug 2021 · 280 points · 140 commentsPartial reading withheld
  12. Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos29 Aug 2021 · 1,180 points · 405 commentsPartial reading withheld
  13. “Worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine” discovered in Microsoft Azure29 Aug 2021 · 272 points · 87 commentsPartial reading withheld
  14. Summary After Four Months with Ada29 Aug 2021 · 286 points · 175 commentsPartial reading withheld
  15. FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent28 Aug 2021 · 608 points · 447 commentsPartial reading withheld
  16. Watch Windows 95 crash live as it exceeds 49.7 days uptime [video]28 Aug 2021 · 278 points · 88 commentsPartial reading withheld
  17. The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks28 Aug 2021 · 675 points · 346 commentsPartial reading withheld
  18. Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional27 Aug 2021 · 287 points · 401 commentsPartial reading withheld
  19. Arm China Has Gone Rogue27 Aug 2021 · 995 points · 639 commentsPartial reading withheld
  20. Apple agrees to settle potential class action suit by U.S. developers27 Aug 2021 · 695 points · 244 commentsPartial reading withheld
  21. I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple26 Aug 2021 · 679 points · 838 commentsPartial reading withheld
  22. Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes26 Aug 2021 · 822 points · 332 commentsPartial reading withheld
  23. My Tungsten Cube (2019)26 Aug 2021 · 288 points · 330 commentsPartial reading withheld
  24. TSMC hikes chip prices up to 20% amid supply shortage26 Aug 2021 · 630 points · 596 commentsPartial reading withheld
  25. There is no such thing as a “glibc based alpine image”26 Aug 2021 · 290 points · 198 commentsPartial reading withheld
  26. The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy26 Aug 2021 · 861 points · 380 commentsPartial reading withheld
  27. Burning out and quitting25 Aug 2021 · 921 points · 346 commentsPartial reading withheld
  28. Haiku has hired an existing contributor to work on Haiku full-time25 Aug 2021 · 284 points · 105 commentsPartial reading withheld
  29. Prettymaps: Small Python library to draw customized maps from OpenStreetMap data25 Aug 2021 · 982 points · 74 commentsPartial reading withheld
  30. My MacBook Pro had over 10k USD in repairs25 Aug 2021 · 276 points · 477 commentsPartial reading withheld
  31. OnlyFans drops planned porn ban25 Aug 2021 · 690 points · 1,081 commentsPartial reading withheld
  32. Miller CLI – Like Awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for CSV, TSV and JSON25 Aug 2021 · 273 points · 66 commentsPartial reading withheld
  33. Googlespeak – How Google limits thought about antitrust24 Aug 2021 · 954 points · 298 commentsPartial reading withheld
  34. Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End24 Aug 2021 · 274 points · 50 commentsPartial reading withheld
  35. How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)24 Aug 2021 · 696 points · 368 commentsPartial reading withheld
  36. Tools for Thinking24 Aug 2021 · 292 points · 133 commentsPartial reading withheld
  37. Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco24 Aug 2021 · 620 points · 669 commentsPartial reading withheld
  38. Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African warehouse24 Aug 2021 · 579 points · 694 commentsPartial reading withheld
  39. Twitter starts to require login to view tweets24 Aug 2021 · 912 points · 619 commentsPartial reading withheld
  40. Apple’s crackdown on multicast24 Aug 2021 · 576 points · 438 commentsPartial reading withheld
  41. The most underused browser feature: reader mode24 Aug 2021 · 882 points · 357 commentsPartial reading withheld
  42. Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The Physics of Magic Windows23 Aug 2021 · 272 points · 24 commentsPartial reading withheld
  43. How I Experience Web Today23 Aug 2021 · 985 points · 315 commentsPartial reading withheld
  44. A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shops instead23 Aug 2021 · 652 points · 393 commentsPartial reading withheld
  45. FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine23 Aug 2021 · 585 points · 1,000 commentsPartial reading withheld
  46. America Had an Atomic Mecha Warrior Robot23 Aug 2021 · 286 points · 77 commentsPartial reading withheld
  47. The Coronavirus Is Here Forever23 Aug 2021 · 773 points · 1,547 commentsPartial reading withheld
  48. My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019)23 Aug 2021 · 1,137 points · 556 commentsPartial reading withheld
  49. PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations22 Aug 2021 · 763 points · 343 commentsPartial reading withheld
  50. ASML, a $300B Dutch firm, makes the machines that make semiconductors22 Aug 2021 · 575 points · 262 commentsPartial reading withheld
  51. Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticated' drone near Tucson21 Aug 2021 · 275 points · 257 commentsPartial reading withheld
  52. Facebook suppressed report that made it look bad21 Aug 2021 · 275 points · 30 commentsPartial reading withheld
  53. Google's Secret Initiative – “Project Hug”21 Aug 2021 · 643 points · 15 commentsPartial reading withheld
  54. Patterns in Confusing Explanations21 Aug 2021 · 566 points · 159 commentsPartial reading withheld
  55. FFmpeg for browser and Node, powered by WebAssembly20 Aug 2021 · 274 points · 87 commentsPartial reading withheld
  56. Facebook hacker beat my 2FA, bricked my Oculus, and hit the company credit card20 Aug 2021 · 962 points · 366 commentsPartial reading withheld
  57. Manim: An animation engine for explanatory math videos20 Aug 2021 · 576 points · 67 commentsPartial reading withheld
  58. Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt20 Aug 2021 · 652 points · 202 commentsPartial reading withheld
  59. Apple explicitly asks employees to merge their personal and work accounts20 Aug 2021 · 669 points · 344 commentsPartial reading withheld
  60. What is ‘elite overproduction’?19 Aug 2021 · 288 points · 351 commentsPartial reading withheld
  61. Google’s ‘Project Hug’ paid out huge sums to keep game devs in the Play Store19 Aug 2021 · 688 points · 472 commentsPartial reading withheld
  62. OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October19 Aug 2021 · 1,147 points · 1,313 commentsPartial reading withheld
  63. ImageNet contains naturally occurring Apple NeuralHash collisions19 Aug 2021 · 860 points · 510 commentsPartial reading withheld
  64. Chip shortage: Toyota to cut global production by 40%19 Aug 2021 · 567 points · 694 commentsPartial reading withheld
  65. A collection of free/public APIs you can use to build stuff19 Aug 2021 · 288 points · 29 commentsPartial reading withheld
  66. Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?19 Aug 2021 · 614 points · 380 commentsPartial reading withheld
  67. Why wild foxes led you to treasure in Skyrim19 Aug 2021 · 613 points · 217 commentsPartial reading withheld
  68. Show HN: Neural-hash-collider – Find target hash collisions for NeuralHash19 Aug 2021 · 623 points · 351 commentsPartial reading withheld
  69. Launch HN: Govly (YC S21) – Making it easier to sell to the U.S. government18 Aug 2021 · 274 points · 112 commentsPartial reading withheld
  70. Elm at Rakuten18 Aug 2021 · 281 points · 172 commentsPartial reading withheld
  71. Apple is suing smartphone emulation software startup Corellium18 Aug 2021 · 602 points · 107 commentsPartial reading withheld
  72. Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model18 Aug 2021 · 1,389 points · 696 commentsPartial reading withheld
  73. 1800s Astronomical Drawings vs. NASA Images (2016)18 Aug 2021 · 289 points · 71 commentsPartial reading withheld
  74. Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful way – what can I do?18 Aug 2021 · 964 points · 282 commentsPartial reading withheld
  75. Asking nicely for root command execution and getting it17 Aug 2021 · 589 points · 137 commentsPartial reading withheld
  76. Lawrence Livermore claims a milestone in laser fusion17 Aug 2021 · 564 points · 292 commentsPartial reading withheld
  77. Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns state government17 Aug 2021 · 568 points · 229 commentsPartial reading withheld
  78. Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine17 Aug 2021 · 851 points · 469 commentsPartial reading withheld
  79. Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web17 Aug 2021 · 1,216 points · 345 commentsPartial reading withheld
  80. A shot to prevent Lyme disease could be on its way17 Aug 2021 · 595 points · 421 commentsPartial reading withheld
  81. Economic costs of war16 Aug 2021 · 666 points · 573 commentsPartial reading withheld
  82. Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust16 Aug 2021 · 1,138 points · 422 commentsPartial reading withheld
  83. Widelands is a free, open-source real-time strategy game16 Aug 2021 · 713 points · 177 commentsPartial reading withheld
  84. The Bullshit15 Aug 2021 · 271 points · 195 commentsPartial reading withheld
  85. Programming Idioms15 Aug 2021 · 285 points · 98 commentsPartial reading withheld
  86. Introducing the PineNote15 Aug 2021 · 586 points · 111 commentsPartial reading withheld
  87. India is leading IPv6 migration with 61.67% adoption15 Aug 2021 · 276 points · 281 commentsPartial reading withheld
  88. SoundStream: An End-to-End Neural Audio Codec15 Aug 2021 · 286 points · 103 commentsPartial reading withheld
  89. I hate almost all software (2011)14 Aug 2021 · 292 points · 247 commentsPartial reading withheld
  90. Asahi Linux for Apple M1 progress report, August 202114 Aug 2021 · 596 points · 183 commentsPartial reading withheld
  91. Debian 1114 Aug 2021 · 579 points · 285 commentsPartial reading withheld
  92. FOSS app removed from the Play Store for linking to the project's website13 Aug 2021 · 853 points · 278 commentsPartial reading withheld
  93. Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning'13 Aug 2021 · 585 points · 734 commentsPartial reading withheld
  94. Show HN: Nomad Visa – Working remotely? Explore your visa options13 Aug 2021 · 285 points · 158 commentsPartial reading withheld
  95. Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources12 Aug 2021 · 1,778 points · 813 commentsPartial reading withheld
  96. The deceptive PR behind Apple’s “expanded protections for children”12 Aug 2021 · 753 points · 571 commentsPartial reading withheld
  97. Internet of Snitches12 Aug 2021 · 632 points · 275 commentsPartial reading withheld
  98. Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings12 Aug 2021 · 614 points · 87 commentsPartial reading withheld
  99. A future for SQL on the web12 Aug 2021 · 925 points · 218 commentsPartial reading withheld
  100. ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning12 Aug 2021 · 570 points · 262 commentsPartial reading withheld
  101. Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship11 Aug 2021 · 618 points · 303 commentsPartial reading withheld
  102. 1Password 8 will be subscription only and won’t support local vaults11 Aug 2021 · 577 points · 661 commentsPartial reading withheld
  103. GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces11 Aug 2021 · 861 points · 679 commentsPartial reading withheld
  104. YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days11 Aug 2021 · 285 points · 752 commentsPartial reading withheld
  105. An old hacker's tips on staying employed11 Aug 2021 · 815 points · 347 commentsPartial reading withheld
  106. Please log in with router's password10 Aug 2021 · 583 points · 255 commentsPartial reading withheld
  107. Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US10 Aug 2021 · 597 points · 365 commentsPartial reading withheld
  108. TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app10 Aug 2021 · 1,007 points · 679 commentsPartial reading withheld
  109. Firefox 91 introduces enhanced cookie clearing10 Aug 2021 · 695 points · 224 commentsPartial reading withheld
  110. How far could a spaceship go if we never ran out of thrust? (2020)10 Aug 2021 · 280 points · 331 commentsPartial reading withheld
  111. Vue 3.210 Aug 2021 · 289 points · 151 commentsPartial reading withheld
  112. Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)10 Aug 2021 · 847 points · 218 commentsPartial reading withheld
  113. Done with YC: Age Discrimination09 Aug 2021 · 288 points · 130 commentsPartial reading withheld
  114. Apple’s Mistake09 Aug 2021 · 1,273 points · 790 commentsPartial reading withheld
  115. The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft09 Aug 2021 · 270 points · 78 commentsPartial reading withheld
  116. Messaging and chat control09 Aug 2021 · 643 points · 317 commentsPartial reading withheld
  117. Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'09 Aug 2021 · 1,465 points · 1,532 commentsPartial reading withheld
  118. Localhost09 Aug 2021 · 272 points · 47 commentsPartial reading withheld
  119. One Bad Apple08 Aug 2021 · 1,484 points · 524 commentsPartial reading withheld
  120. Apps Getting Worse08 Aug 2021 · 828 points · 619 commentsPartial reading withheld
  121. Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free08 Aug 2021 · 761 points · 92 commentsPartial reading withheld
  122. An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning07 Aug 2021 · 1,082 points · 430 commentsPartial reading withheld
  123. Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence07 Aug 2021 · 694 points · 332 commentsPartial reading withheld
  124. In internal memo, Apple addresses concerns around new Photo scanning features07 Aug 2021 · 596 points · 406 commentsPartial reading withheld
  125. The Problem with Perceptual Hashes06 Aug 2021 · 705 points · 418 commentsPartial reading withheld
  126. CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative06 Aug 2021 · 1,010 points · 477 commentsPartial reading withheld
  127. Semver doesn't mean major.minor.patch, it means fails.features.bugs06 Aug 2021 · 275 points · 166 commentsPartial reading withheld
  128. An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology06 Aug 2021 · 1,187 points · 670 commentsPartial reading withheld
  129. Warning Signals for Collapse of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation06 Aug 2021 · 269 points · 248 commentsPartial reading withheld
  130. Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroying mistake (2020)06 Aug 2021 · 290 points · 200 commentsPartial reading withheld
  131. On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Personal Story06 Aug 2021 · 961 points · 522 commentsPartial reading withheld
  132. Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life05 Aug 2021 · 2,260 points · 824 commentsPartial reading withheld
  133. Firefox: Performance in Progress05 Aug 2021 · 287 points · 126 commentsPartial reading withheld
  134. In Praise of PostgreSQL05 Aug 2021 · 270 points · 134 commentsPartial reading withheld
  135. Show HN: Visualizing a Codebase05 Aug 2021 · 283 points · 96 commentsPartial reading withheld
  136. Giraffes are as socially complex as elephants05 Aug 2021 · 278 points · 92 commentsPartial reading withheld
  137. Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech05 Aug 2021 · 728 points · 170 commentsPartial reading withheld
  138. Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow05 Aug 2021 · 1,182 points · 724 commentsPartial reading withheld
  139. Airyx OS05 Aug 2021 · 699 points · 254 commentsPartial reading withheld
  140. Good Design is Imperfect Design, Part 1: Honest Names04 Aug 2021 · 292 points · 126 commentsPartial reading withheld
  141. The surreal experience of my first developer job04 Aug 2021 · 743 points · 261 commentsPartial reading withheld
  142. NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guidance [pdf]03 Aug 2021 · 635 points · 165 commentsPartial reading withheld
  143. WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implementation for the Windows kernel02 Aug 2021 · 622 points · 182 commentsPartial reading withheld
  144. Life before smartphones (2020)02 Aug 2021 · 669 points · 482 commentsPartial reading withheld
  145. Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance02 Aug 2021 · 616 points · 117 commentsPartial reading withheld
  146. Launch HN: Heimdal (YC S21) – Carbon neutral cement02 Aug 2021 · 617 points · 220 commentsPartial reading withheld
  147. Ask HN: Has anyone fully embraced an event-driven architecture?02 Aug 2021 · 284 points · 168 commentsPartial reading withheld
  148. Red delicious apples weren’t always horrible02 Aug 2021 · 275 points · 250 commentsPartial reading withheld
  149. The rise of never-ending job interviews02 Aug 2021 · 967 points · 1,169 commentsPartial reading withheld
  150. Square to acquire Afterpay for $29B01 Aug 2021 · 283 points · 350 commentsPartial reading withheld
  151. Todo apps are meant for robots01 Aug 2021 · 272 points · 201 commentsPartial reading withheld
  152. Extracting Objects Recursively with Jq01 Aug 2021 · 268 points · 71 commentsPartial reading withheld
  153. My tiny side project has had more impact than my decade in the software industry01 Aug 2021 · 701 points · 189 commentsPartial reading withheld
  154. New in Git: switch and restore01 Aug 2021 · 872 points · 543 commentsPartial reading withheld