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1.		“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says (niemanlab.org)
		3192 points by spzx on Nov 17, 2021 \| 861 comments
2.		How to grow sodium chloride crystals at home (crystalverse.com)
		1119 points by kdavis on Nov 17, 2021 \| 180 comments
3.		Apple announces Self Service Repair (apple.com)
		1285 points by todsacerdoti on Nov 17, 2021 \| 431 comments
4.		Microsoft blocks EdgeDeflector to force Windows 11 users into Edge (theverge.com)
		885 points by Vinnl on Nov 17, 2021 \| 571 comments
5.		Scan of the Month: Lego Minifigures (scanofthemonth.com)
		505 points by bookofjoe on Nov 17, 2021 \| 99 comments
6.		I hate password rules (schneier.com)
		564 points by CapitalistCartr on Nov 16, 2021 \| 435 comments
7.		XMPP, a comeback story (takebackourtech.org)
		380 points by upofadown on Nov 17, 2021 \| 302 comments
8.		.plan (plan.cat)
		516 points by niedzielski on Nov 17, 2021 \| 218 comments
9.		To be energy-efficient, brains predict their perceptions (quantamagazine.org)
		357 points by sebg on Nov 17, 2021 \| 155 comments
10.		Stacked changes: how FB and Google engineers stay unblocked and ship faster (graphite.dev)
		467 points by tomasreimers on Nov 17, 2021 \| 279 comments
11.		The OBS project has accused Streamlabs of copying their name and trademark (twitter.com/obsproject)
		541 points by vopi on Nov 17, 2021 \| 89 comments
12.		Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know (astralcodexten.substack.com)
		735 points by 4monthsaway on Nov 17, 2021 \| 755 comments
13.		What really happened at the Millennium Tower? (practical.engineering)
		336 points by chmaynard on Nov 16, 2021 \| 210 comments
14.		Netlify Drop (app.netlify.com)
		349 points by Brajeshwar on Nov 17, 2021 \| 123 comments
15.		Learn RegEx step by step, from zero to advanced (regexlearn.com)
		364 points by aykutkardas on Nov 17, 2021 \| 108 comments
16.		The Burnout Society (apposition.substack.com)
		277 points by q-base on Nov 17, 2021 \| 167 comments
17.		Cloudflare Pages goes full stack (cloudflare.com)
		350 points by samwillis on Nov 17, 2021 \| 123 comments
18.		Why Emacs: Redux (batsov.com)
		270 points by winkywooster on Nov 16, 2021 \| 206 comments
19.		Show HN: Prometeo – a Python-to-C transpiler for high-performance computing (github.com/zanellia)
		166 points by zanellia on Nov 17, 2021 \| 140 comments
20.		Doubling the PinePhone storage speed with a soldering iron (tuxphones.com)
		201 points by cunidev on Nov 17, 2021 \| 60 comments
21.		Three sins of authors in computer science and math (1997) (cmu.edu)
		126 points by kcolford on Nov 17, 2021 \| 60 comments
22.		Rust on MIPS64 Windows NT 4.0 (gamozolabs.github.io)
		203 points by ingve on Nov 16, 2021 \| 26 comments
23.		Forth vs Lisp (c2.com)
		120 points by monological on Nov 16, 2021 \| 109 comments
24.		Sed challenge: join cal -y months into a single column (jol.dev)
		110 points by jolmg on Nov 17, 2021 \| 66 comments
25.		Etsy’s Journey to TypeScript (codeascraft.com)
		173 points by elorant on Nov 16, 2021 \| 152 comments
26.		A Busy Beaver champion derived from scratch (nickdrozd.github.io)
		99 points by nickdrozd on Nov 17, 2021 \| 33 comments
27.		Daddy isn’t coming back (ft.com)
		304 points by chesterfield on Nov 17, 2021 \| 406 comments
28.		Prefix sum on portable compute shaders (raphlinus.github.io)
		116 points by raphlinus on Nov 17, 2021 \| 15 comments
29.		Amazon to stop accepting UK Visa credit cards (bloomberg.com)
		294 points by barrkel on Nov 17, 2021 \| 519 comments
30.		How to Write a Computer Emulator (komkon.org)
		135 points by marcodiego on Nov 16, 2021 \| 24 comments
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