Hacker News on 4 August 2021

• The surreal experience of my first developer job
• The historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games
• Facebook bans researchers who were investigating Facebook ads
• PhD student in Switzerland expelled after criticizing the CCP in Twitter
• My small revenge on Apple
• Simple Systems Have Less Downtime (2020)
• SAML Is Insecure by Design
• Good Design is Imperfect Design, Part 1: Honest Names
• Woman sues L.A. after being struck by car on a street where tents block sidewalk
• Ray Tracing Gems II available as free download