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1.		Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf] (freebsd.org)
		707 points by drewg123 on Sept 19, 2021 \| 293 comments
2.		Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication (freenetproject.org)
		526 points by brian_herman on Sept 19, 2021 \| 417 comments
3.		Show HN: Fully-searchable Library Genesis on IPFS (libgen.fun)
		452 points by sixtyfourbits on Sept 19, 2021 \| 100 comments
4.		Excision's CRISPR HIV therapy is heading into human testing after FDA clearance (fiercebiotech.com)
		338 points by rastafang on Sept 18, 2021 \| 98 comments
5.		Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube [video] (diode.zone)
		442 points by x14km2d on Sept 19, 2021 \| 295 comments
6.		Show HN: I built four eight-foot-long handwriting robots (twitter.com/aarondfrancis)
		408 points by aarondf on Sept 19, 2021 \| 164 comments
7.		Can You See the Republic of Ireland from England? (anglezarke.net)
		282 points by qwertyuiop_ on Sept 18, 2021 \| 122 comments
8.		Paradise lost: The rise and ruin of Couchsurfing.com (inputmag.com)
		313 points by jakobgreenfeld on Sept 19, 2021 \| 160 comments
9.		Spy tech that followed kids home for remote learning (the74million.org)
		329 points by arkadiyt on Sept 19, 2021 \| 262 comments
10.		Amazon says it’s permanently banned 600 Chinese brands for review fraud (theverge.com)
		418 points by WaitWaitWha on Sept 18, 2021 \| 297 comments
11.		Why we picture bombs as round black balls with a burning wick (2016) (atlasobscura.com)
		235 points by leohonexus on Sept 19, 2021 \| 185 comments
12.		Was Germany’s 19th century industrial expansion due to an absence of copyright? (spiegel.de)
		257 points by _Microft on Sept 18, 2021 \| 159 comments
13.		Visual Git Cheat Sheet (ndpsoftware.com)
		191 points by SiggyF on Sept 18, 2021 \| 40 comments
14.		The Elements of Git (cuddly-octo-palm-tree.com)
		139 points by todsacerdoti on Sept 19, 2021 \| 39 comments
15.		Banks beware, Amazon and Walmart are cracking the code for finance (reuters.com)
		153 points by bryanrasmussen on Sept 19, 2021 \| 168 comments
16.		Games that emphasize emergent narrative (emergentmage.com)
		137 points by amichail on Sept 19, 2021 \| 44 comments
17.		What is property-based testing? (2016) (hypothesis.works)
		106 points by rahimnathwani on Sept 19, 2021 \| 35 comments
18.		Shellac (buildingconservation.com)
		61 points by brudgers on Sept 18, 2021 \| 56 comments
19.		Calculator Forensics (2002) (rskey.org)
		68 points by xeeeeeeeeeeenu on Sept 17, 2021 \| 19 comments
20.		Show HN: KySync – A C++ rewrite of Zsync with performance boost (kyall.notion.site)
		118 points by kyotov on Sept 19, 2021 \| 35 comments
21.		Bestline: Light self-contained readline alternative (github.com/jart)
		95 points by cassepipe on Sept 16, 2021 \| 48 comments
22.		Currying in JavaScript (javascript.info)
		141 points by corentin88 on Sept 19, 2021 \| 158 comments
23.		University of Florida gets a 1% cut of Gatorade profits (thehustle.co)
		263 points by Anon84 on Sept 19, 2021 \| 73 comments
24.		Elite Biases Make Policy Biases (overcomingbias.com)
		153 points by sfg on Sept 19, 2021 \| 148 comments
25.		Russia restricts opposition election voting app (netblocks.org)
		283 points by biggunz on Sept 19, 2021 \| 231 comments
26.		An appeal for an objective, open, transparent debate re: the origin of Covid-19 (thelancet.com)
		234 points by alwillis on Sept 19, 2021 \| 307 comments
27.		The curious case of fake NASA geniuses (openthemagazine.com)
		140 points by Brajeshwar on Sept 19, 2021 \| 87 comments
28.		The financial literacy industrial complex (axios.com)
		142 points by JumpCrisscross on Sept 19, 2021 \| 135 comments
29.		The physics anomaly no one talks about: What’s up with those neutrinos? (backreaction.blogspot.com)
		168 points by nsoonhui on Sept 19, 2021 \| 68 comments
30.		Things to do before and after you write code (somehowmanage.com)
		117 points by Ozzie_osman on Sept 19, 2021 \| 53 comments
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