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1.		Googlespeak – How Google limits thought about antitrust (zyppy.com)
		954 points by cyrusshepard on Aug 24, 2021 \| 298 comments
2.		Twitter starts to require login to view tweets (reddit.com)
		912 points by oenetan on Aug 24, 2021 \| 619 comments
3.		How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017) (discord.com)
		696 points by ibraheemdev on Aug 24, 2021 \| 368 comments
4.		Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African warehouse (samsung.com)
		579 points by barbacoa on Aug 24, 2021 \| 694 comments
5.		Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco (waymo.com)
		620 points by EvgeniyZh on Aug 24, 2021 \| 669 comments
6.		Ploopy: open hardware trackballs and mouse (ploopy.co)
		329 points by pabs3 on Aug 24, 2021 \| 134 comments
7.		Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide (sysprog21.github.io)
		339 points by belter on Aug 23, 2021 \| 42 comments
8.		Apple’s crackdown on multicast (thomask.sdf.org)
		576 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 24, 2021 \| 438 comments
9.		More than eighty cultures still speak in whistles (smithsonianmag.com)
		224 points by bryanrasmussen on Aug 24, 2021 \| 114 comments
10.		Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End (github.com/zedeus)
		274 points by ducktective on Aug 24, 2021 \| 50 comments
11.		The Nelua Programming Language (nelua.io)
		242 points by nonbirithm on Aug 24, 2021 \| 118 comments
12.		Gail.com (gail.com)
		525 points by isomorph on Aug 24, 2021 \| 107 comments
13.		Conditionally setting your gitconfig (utf9k.net)
		236 points by zdw on Aug 23, 2021 \| 81 comments
14.		Mental phenomena don’t map into the brain as expected (quantamagazine.org)
		174 points by theafh on Aug 24, 2021 \| 95 comments
15.		SQLModel – SQL Databases in FastAPI (github.com/tiangolo)
		224 points by dmart on Aug 24, 2021 \| 51 comments
16.		Show HN: AI-Generated Illustrations of Plants (easyzoom.com)
		137 points by Yenrabbit on Aug 24, 2021 \| 62 comments
17.		Charlie Watts has died (bbc.com)
		350 points by coloneltcb on Aug 24, 2021 \| 92 comments
18.		Rolling hash; Rabin-Karp string search (yurichev.com)
		131 points by kulikov009 on Aug 22, 2021 \| 20 comments
19.		Samsung kills the cameras on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 if you unlock the bootloader (xda-developers.com)
		358 points by Abishek_Muthian on Aug 24, 2021 \| 195 comments
20.		NetBox: Infrastructure resource modeling application for network automation (netbox.readthedocs.io)
		97 points by teleforce on Aug 22, 2021 \| 11 comments
21.		Bahraini Government Hacks Activists with NSO Group Zero-Click iPhone Exploits (citizenlab.ca)
		293 points by giuliomagnifico on Aug 24, 2021 \| 140 comments
22.		Home Lab Hardware Guide (haydenjames.io)
		196 points by ashitlerferad on Aug 23, 2021 \| 102 comments
23.		Science hobbyist website since 1994 (amasci.com)
		149 points by sudobash1 on Aug 24, 2021 \| 18 comments
24.		Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The Physics of Magic Windows (mattferraro.dev)
		272 points by Amorymeltzer on Aug 23, 2021 \| 24 comments
25.		Launch HN: Level (YC S21) – Flexible financing for early-stage lending startups
		58 points by jetblowfish on Aug 24, 2021 \| 27 comments
26.		Is Hacker News a good predictor of future tech trends? (jamespotter.dev)
		344 points by drpancake on Aug 24, 2021 \| 264 comments
27.		James Loewen, Author of ‘Lies My Teacher Told Me,’ Dies at 79 (npr.org)
		102 points by dredmorbius on Aug 24, 2021 \| 45 comments
28.		Y Combinator’s European founder intake continues to grow (sifted.eu)
		144 points by tommatsuda on Aug 24, 2021 \| 235 comments
29.		Observability: A New Theory Based on the Group of Invariance (maa.org)
		116 points by teleforce on Aug 24, 2021 \| 30 comments
30.		They thought they were going to rehab but ended up in chicken plants (2017) (revealnews.org)
		339 points by speeder on Aug 24, 2021 \| 264 comments
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