Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-08-14

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending August 14, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free
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• Apps Getting Worse
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• One Bad Apple
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• Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
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• Messaging and chat control
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• Apple’s Mistake
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• Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)
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• Firefox 91 introduces enhanced cookie clearing
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• TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app
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• Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US
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• An old hacker's tips on staying employed
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• GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
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• ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning
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• A future for SQL on the web
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• Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings
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• Internet of Snitches
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• The deceptive PR behind Apple’s “expanded protections for children”
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• Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources
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• Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning'
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• FOSS app removed from the Play Store for linking to the project's website
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