2021-07-19 front | Hacker News

Stories from July 19, 2021

Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.

1.		Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups (krebsonsecurity.com)
		599 points by picture on July 19, 2021 \| 316 comments
2.		Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise? (bmj.com)
		857 points by lnyan on July 19, 2021 \| 479 comments
3.		Apple sued by teen wrongly accused of shoplifting by unreliable facial-rec tech (theregister.com)
		689 points by walterbell on July 19, 2021 \| 204 comments
4.		Assange case: Key witness admits he lied (thewire.in)
		875 points by graderjs on July 19, 2021 \| 281 comments
5.		Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 (2004) [pdf] (imaginary.org)
		521 points by sebg on July 19, 2021 \| 318 comments
6.		Linux 5.0 shown to boot on ESP32 processor (cnx-software.com)
		290 points by MrBuddyCasino on July 19, 2021 \| 79 comments
7.		Deurbanising the Web [pdf] (lab6.com)
		496 points by ColinWright on July 19, 2021 \| 413 comments
8.		Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance (theguardian.com)
		800 points by ipster_io on July 19, 2021 \| 152 comments
9.		“Neuroprosthesis” restores words to man with paralysis (ucsf.edu)
		278 points by porsager on July 18, 2021 \| 118 comments
10.		New Shape Opens ‘Wormhole’ Between Numbers and Geometry (quantamagazine.org)
		193 points by theafh on July 19, 2021 \| 35 comments
11.		Senet (wikipedia.org)
		293 points by tosh on July 19, 2021 \| 119 comments
12.		Bouba/Kiki Effect (wikipedia.org)
		238 points by thunderbong on July 19, 2021 \| 94 comments
13.		Black 3.0 – The blackest black acrylic paint (culturehustle.com)
		260 points by woliveirajr on July 19, 2021 \| 146 comments
14.		Giant tsunami from dino-killing asteroid impact revealed in fossilized ripples (sciencemag.org)
		140 points by mathgenius on July 19, 2021 \| 75 comments
15.		Edward Snowden calls for spyware trade ban amid Pegasus revelations (theguardian.com)
		340 points by georgecmu on July 19, 2021 \| 82 comments
16.		Thread Pools on the JVM (gist.github.com)
		217 points by ovis on July 19, 2021 \| 117 comments
17.		Brython: an implementation of Python 3 running in the browser (github.com/brython-dev)
		194 points by redfox2 on July 19, 2021 \| 74 comments
18.		I had to give a wrong answer to get the job (2017) (dewitters.com)
		351 points by Starz0r on July 19, 2021 \| 387 comments
19.		RAWGraphs: missing link between spreadsheets and data visualization (rawgraphs.io)
		146 points by sonograph on July 19, 2021 \| 34 comments
20.		Launch HN: Hypercontext (YC S21) – Meeting notes, actions, and OKRs in one app
		145 points by brennanm on July 19, 2021 \| 60 comments
21.		Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure (vice.com)
		479 points by fieryscribe on July 19, 2021 \| 242 comments
22.		Tesseract OCR (github.com/tesseract-ocr)
		223 points by tosh on July 18, 2021 \| 64 comments
23.		Show HN: Angle Grinder – A terminal app to slice, dice, and aggregate your logs (github.com/rcoh)
		144 points by rusbus on July 19, 2021 \| 21 comments
24.		Children are spoofing Covid-19 tests with soft drinks (bbc.com)
		332 points by 34679 on July 19, 2021 \| 239 comments
25.		Nebulus: An IPFS-Less IPFS (nebulus.dev)
		143 points by skogard on July 19, 2021 \| 41 comments
26.		What’s it like hauling nuclear weapons across the country? (freightwaves.com)
		131 points by Stratoscope on July 19, 2021 \| 211 comments
27.		MVT – forensic tool to look for infections on smartphones (github.com/mvt-project)
		93 points by bjoko on July 18, 2021 \| 17 comments
28.		U.S. and key allies accuse China of Microsoft Exchange cyberattacks (axios.com)
		286 points by jimmy2020 on July 19, 2021 \| 247 comments
29.		Habits of Expert Software Designers (2019) (mitpress.mit.edu)
		176 points by headalgorithm on July 18, 2021 \| 43 comments
30.		Julia Computing raises $24M Series A (hpcwire.com)
		378 points by dklend122 on July 19, 2021 \| 238 comments
		More

HN For You