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1.		Weird Languages (paulgraham.com)
		472 points by razin on Aug 28, 2021 \| 508 comments
2.		I hacked an office telephone to play Doom (neilbostian.github.io)
		442 points by joshmanders on Aug 27, 2021 \| 57 comments
3.		FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent (twitter.com/kylejohnmorris)
		608 points by votick on Aug 28, 2021 \| 447 comments
4.		Zoom RCE from Pwn2Own 2021 (computest.nl)
		262 points by xnyhps on Aug 28, 2021 \| 122 comments
5.		The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks (theguardian.com)
		675 points by shivbhatt on Aug 28, 2021 \| 346 comments
6.		Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month (metameme.app)
		418 points by par on Aug 27, 2021 \| 217 comments
7.		The Future of discord.py (gist.github.com)
		493 points by AngelOnFira on Aug 28, 2021 \| 163 comments
8.		Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs (arstechnica.com)
		315 points by DisjointedHunt on Aug 28, 2021 \| 129 comments
9.		NetBSD Booting on the Apple M1 (twitter.com/jmcwhatever)
		191 points by jmmv on Aug 28, 2021 \| 115 comments
10.		Next-gen chips will be powered from below (ieee.org)
		164 points by jonbaer on Aug 28, 2021 \| 82 comments
11.		LucidVR open source force feedback VR gloves (github.com/lucidvr)
		170 points by danboarder on Aug 28, 2021 \| 40 comments
12.		Some Reasons to Measure (danluu.com)
		201 points by cdwhite on Aug 27, 2021 \| 17 comments
13.		A comment in Hacker News led Girish Mathrubootham to create Freshworks (2019) (yourstory.com)
		120 points by sarathyweb on Aug 28, 2021 \| 30 comments
14.		EU agency advises against using search and browsing history for credit scores (therecord.media)
		192 points by imagine99 on Aug 28, 2021 \| 117 comments
15.		Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD (bsdly.blogspot.com)
		99 points by elchief on Aug 27, 2021 \| 38 comments
16.		After 18 years, SCO's IBM litigation may be settled for $14.5M (slashdot.org)
		140 points by MilnerRoute on Aug 28, 2021 \| 112 comments
17.		This Is Water (2005) (fs.blog)
		163 points by mrpf1ster on Aug 28, 2021 \| 75 comments
18.		Unit testing a TCP stack (2015) (snellman.net)
		135 points by PuercoPop on Aug 26, 2021 \| 35 comments
19.		Zero Shot Object Tracking (roboflow.com)
		83 points by jonbaer on Aug 26, 2021 \| 12 comments
20.		Climate change will alter where many crops are grown (economist.com)
		175 points by axiomdata316 on Aug 28, 2021 \| 172 comments
21.		When correlation is better than causation (narrator.ai)
		70 points by mattjstar on Aug 27, 2021 \| 37 comments
22.		AT&T Archives: The Unix Operating System [video] (1982) (youtube.com)
		143 points by neilpanchal on Aug 28, 2021 \| 28 comments
23.		Show HN: Simple tool for creating command-line bar charts (github.com/turkeymcmac)
		86 points by jwmhjwmh on Aug 28, 2021 \| 23 comments
24.		Tupolev Tu-144: The Soviets' doomed rival to Concorde (2017) (cnn.com)
		101 points by Tomte on Aug 28, 2021 \| 136 comments
25.		Familia Toledo: The most inexpensive computer USD $99.00 (biyubi.com)
		113 points by graderjs on Aug 28, 2021 \| 69 comments
26.		The problem of effects in Rust (2020) (without.boats)
		92 points by agluszak on Aug 27, 2021 \| 45 comments
27.		Emacs Modernization: Simple Changes Emacs Should Adopt (2006) (ergoemacs.org)
		112 points by AJRF on Aug 28, 2021 \| 169 comments
28.		Burning a Magnesium NextCube (1993) (simson.net)
		122 points by detaro on Aug 27, 2021 \| 23 comments
29.		Apple can read your iMessages (even though they’re E2E encrypted) (reddit.com)
		304 points by decrypt on Aug 28, 2021 \| 131 comments
30.		Mental health impacts of a big tech job (oilyraincloud.com)
		237 points by gixo on Aug 27, 2021 \| 182 comments
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