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1.		Facebook hacker beat my 2FA, bricked my Oculus, and hit the company credit card (codewriteplay.com)
		962 points by tosh on Aug 20, 2021 \| 366 comments
2.		Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt (scotthelme.co.uk)
		652 points by Jaruzel on Aug 20, 2021 \| 202 comments
3.		Manim: An animation engine for explanatory math videos (github.com/manimcommunity)
		576 points by agmm on Aug 20, 2021 \| 67 comments
4.		Performance Improvements in .NET 6 (devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet)
		362 points by pjmlp on Aug 18, 2021 \| 252 comments
5.		FFmpeg for browser and Node, powered by WebAssembly (ffmpegwasm.netlify.app)
		274 points by MrRolling on Aug 20, 2021 \| 87 comments
6.		Chronically lonely flies overeat and lose sleep (nature.com)
		173 points by gmays on Aug 20, 2021 \| 57 comments
7.		Apple explicitly asks employees to merge their personal and work accounts (twitter.com/oilyraincloud)
		669 points by luu on Aug 20, 2021 \| 344 comments
8.		How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry (2015) (fastcompany.com)
		233 points by edtechdev on Aug 19, 2021 \| 118 comments
9.		What is ‘elite overproduction’? (overcomingbias.com)
		288 points by cinquemb on Aug 19, 2021 \| 351 comments
10.		macOS 11’s hidden security improvements (malwarebytes.com)
		235 points by ingve on Aug 20, 2021 \| 145 comments
11.		CS/A65: A 6502 computer with USB, Ethernet and co-processors (6502.org)
		132 points by amrcnimgrnt on Aug 20, 2021 \| 45 comments
12.		Peru is reviving a pre-Incan technology for water (bbc.com)
		176 points by midnightcity on Aug 20, 2021 \| 69 comments
13.		How Does FaceTime Work? (matduggan.com)
		196 points by r4um on Aug 19, 2021 \| 163 comments
14.		20 Years of Haiku (haiku-os.org)
		207 points by bitigchi on Aug 20, 2021 \| 119 comments
15.		Memfd_secret() in 5.14 (lwn.net)
		121 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 20, 2021 \| 51 comments
16.		The Ruin of War (acoup.blog)
		122 points by Tomte on Aug 20, 2021 \| 31 comments
17.		Cuttlefish remember the what, when, and where of meals, even into old age (arstechnica.com)
		96 points by Petiver on Aug 20, 2021 \| 20 comments
18.		Google's payments team is seeing an exodus of executives and employees (businessinsider.com)
		171 points by tim_sw on Aug 20, 2021 \| 120 comments
19.		The web browser as a tool of thought (thesephist.com)
		110 points by tosh on Aug 19, 2021 \| 11 comments
20.		For precision, the sapphire clock outshines even the best atomic clocks (ieee.org)
		117 points by ystad on Aug 19, 2021 \| 54 comments
21.		View your browser's TLS fingerprint (tlsfingerprint.io)
		93 points by jonatron on Aug 20, 2021 \| 22 comments
22.		Show HN: Sturdy – online-first version control focused on collaboration (getsturdy.com)
		94 points by zegl on Aug 18, 2021 \| 42 comments
23.		Quantum Mechanics of Gravitational Waves (aps.org)
		117 points by shusaku on Aug 20, 2021 \| 15 comments
24.		Claimed AT&T hack of 70M customer records including SSN, name, address (9to5mac.com)
		246 points by kingnothing on Aug 20, 2021 \| 160 comments
25.		From a Single Repo, to Multi-Repos, to Monorepo, to Multi-Monorepo (css-tricks.com)
		122 points by leoloso on Aug 18, 2021 \| 68 comments
26.		The mutation that helps Delta spread (nature.com)
		201 points by pseudolus on Aug 20, 2021 \| 611 comments
27.		Japanese gaming arcades are on their last life (japantimes.co.jp)
		145 points by mikhael on Aug 19, 2021 \| 66 comments
28.		Cproc C Compiler (github.com/michaelforney)
		130 points by oenetan on Aug 20, 2021 \| 45 comments
29.		A collection of free/public APIs you can use to build stuff (github.com/public-apis)
		288 points by celue on Aug 19, 2021 \| 29 comments
30.		Building Container Images with Nix (thewagner.net)
		126 points by dboreham on Aug 19, 2021 \| 75 comments
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