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1.		Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources (reuters.com)
		1778 points by spenvo on Aug 12, 2021 \| 813 comments
2.		A future for SQL on the web (jlongster.com)
		925 points by rasmusfabbe on Aug 12, 2021 \| 218 comments
3.		The deceptive PR behind Apple’s “expanded protections for children” (piotr.is)
		753 points by arespredator on Aug 12, 2021 \| 571 comments
4.		Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings (fishdraw.glitch.me)
		614 points by sigil on Aug 12, 2021 \| 87 comments
5.		Internet of Snitches (puri.sm)
		632 points by nicolaslem on Aug 12, 2021 \| 275 comments
6.		Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support (github.com/samschott)
		428 points by daniel_iversen on Aug 11, 2021 \| 200 comments
7.		Mosh: The Mobile Shell (mosh.org)
		449 points by chrisaycock on Aug 12, 2021 \| 153 comments
8.		Git password authentication is shutting down (github.blog)
		440 points by judge2020 on Aug 12, 2021 \| 339 comments
9.		Typography in Alien (2014) (typesetinthefuture.com)
		300 points by tosh on Aug 12, 2021 \| 97 comments
10.		ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning (0ver.org)
		570 points by polm23 on Aug 12, 2021 \| 262 comments
11.		Darts: A Python library for easy manipulation and forecasting of time series (github.com/unit8co)
		239 points by grzracz on Aug 12, 2021 \| 43 comments
12.		Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP addresses (torrentfreak.com)
		385 points by TangerineDream on Aug 11, 2021 \| 496 comments
13.		Life Improvements Since the 1990s (gwern.net)
		424 points by janhenr on Aug 12, 2021 \| 462 comments
14.		Overthinking (kerkour.com)
		195 points by danielsokil on Aug 12, 2021 \| 72 comments
15.		Fault Injection Attacks Against AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (arxiv.org)
		167 points by sevest on Aug 12, 2021 \| 61 comments
16.		Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches (cnet.com)
		225 points by dmitryminkovsky on Aug 12, 2021 \| 252 comments
17.		Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #6
		104 points by dang on Aug 12, 2021 \| 114 comments
18.		Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship (eff.org)
		618 points by taxyovio on Aug 11, 2021 \| 303 comments
19.		Reddit raises $410M in new funding (nytimes.com)
		243 points by infodocket on Aug 12, 2021 \| 480 comments
20.		Poly Network hacker returns $258M after stealing $600M (forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano)
		191 points by paulpauper on Aug 12, 2021 \| 296 comments
21.		Packaging Con 2021: a conference for package management devs and communities (packaging-con.org)
		108 points by droelf on Aug 12, 2021 \| 38 comments
22.		The Machine Stops (1909) [pdf] (ucdavis.edu)
		129 points by animal_spirits on Aug 11, 2021 \| 38 comments
23.		Physicists Create a Bizarre ‘Wigner Crystal’ Made Purely of Electrons (quantamagazine.org)
		132 points by theafh on Aug 12, 2021 \| 38 comments
24.		“Raiders of the Lost Ark” Story Conference Transcript (1978) (nloewen.com)
		115 points by samclemens on Aug 10, 2021 \| 55 comments
25.		Single cortical neurons as deep artificial neural networks (sciencedirect.com)
		164 points by nabla9 on Aug 12, 2021 \| 133 comments
26.		Thunderbird 91.0 (thunderbird.net)
		338 points by commoner on Aug 12, 2021 \| 258 comments
27.		Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM (intel.com)
		183 points by pella on Aug 11, 2021 \| 163 comments
28.		Nearest neighbor indexes for similarity search (pinecone.io)
		125 points by gk1 on Aug 11, 2021 \| 23 comments
29.		Commodore 64 BASIC and KERNAL on Atari 8-bit hardware (github.com/unbibium)
		92 points by TMWNN on Aug 12, 2021 \| 38 comments
30.		Intro to Deep Learning (sebastianraschka.com)
		189 points by tbau50 on Aug 12, 2021 \| 19 comments
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