Hacker News on 21 August 2021

• Google's Secret Initiative – “Project Hug”
• Patterns in Confusing Explanations
• EFF Joins Global Coalition Asking Apple CEO Tim Cook to Stop Phone-Scanning
• An Opinionated Guide to Xargs
• I Don’t Want to Be Like a Family with My Co-Workers
• Beware state surveillance of your lives – governments can change for the worse
• Urban Dictionary on Hacker News (2013)
• Strict Tables – Column type constraints in SQLite - Draft
• How to Remember What You Read
• Don’t starve, Diablo – Parallax 7 (2016)