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1.		Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg (bmj.com)
		1599 points by DrHilarius on Dec 17, 2021 \| 644 comments
2.		TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS (twitter.com/naaackers)
		1545 points by cwaffles on Dec 17, 2021 \| 498 comments
3.		Tokio Console (tokio.rs)
		788 points by hasheddan on Dec 17, 2021 \| 118 comments
4.		President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment (purdueexponent.org)
		867 points by h2odragon on Dec 17, 2021 \| 964 comments
5.		Kinesis Advantage 360 (kinesis-ergo.com)
		394 points by ndrake on Dec 17, 2021 \| 329 comments
6.		Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation (axios.com)
		620 points by paulpauper on Dec 17, 2021 \| 809 comments
7.		I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [video] (youtube.com)
		434 points by indosauros on Dec 17, 2021 \| 229 comments
8.		Apple Helps Asahi Linux (twitter.com/marcan42)
		540 points by CraigJPerry on Dec 17, 2021 \| 174 comments
9.		Amazon still isn't doing enough to stop bait-and-switch reviews (fullstackeconomics.com)
		429 points by yedava on Dec 17, 2021 \| 226 comments
10.		Fuite: a tool for finding memory leaks in web apps (nolanlawson.com)
		219 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 17, 2021 \| 31 comments
11.		Defrag Like It's 1993 (shiplift.dev)
		362 points by centerorbit on Dec 16, 2021 \| 268 comments
12.		Two custom React hooks (molecule.dev)
		225 points by loh on Dec 17, 2021 \| 174 comments
13.		Ambiguous PNG Packer: Craft PNG files that appear different in Apple software (github.com/davidbuchanan314)
		276 points by valebes on Dec 17, 2021 \| 101 comments
14.		Ask HN: My client want an agent on my laptop. Is this the new normal?
		408 points by illud_tempus on Dec 17, 2021 \| 485 comments
15.		Polars: Fast DataFrame library for Rust and Python (pola.rs)
		238 points by daureg on Dec 16, 2021 \| 124 comments
16.		Indian online merchants cannot store credit card information from 2022 (rbi.org.in)
		266 points by vivekv on Dec 17, 2021 \| 147 comments
17.		Why start a new database conference? (scattered-thoughts.net)
		127 points by luu on Dec 17, 2021 \| 20 comments
18.		Why 'Long Rituals' Matter (longtermist.substack.com)
		127 points by anarbadalov on Dec 16, 2021 \| 76 comments
19.		Building a simple room-based chat application in Nim (using HTMX) (arhamjain.com)
		154 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 17, 2021 \| 28 comments
20.		There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home (zdnet.com)
		216 points by walterbell on Dec 17, 2021 \| 219 comments
21.		Satellite detects large mass of water in Mars canyon (cnn.com)
		259 points by ChuckMcM on Dec 17, 2021 \| 113 comments
22.		Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows (washingtonpost.com)
		190 points by ren_engineer on Dec 17, 2021 \| 485 comments
23.		How I learned to stop worrying and push to master (thenable.io)
		145 points by sparklingmango on Dec 16, 2021 \| 162 comments
24.		Show HN: I made a voice activated golf bag that shoots your clubs (youtube.com)
		142 points by nik12795 on Dec 16, 2021 \| 52 comments
25.		The rise and fall of rationality in language (pnas.org)
		124 points by olifante on Dec 17, 2021 \| 58 comments
26.		Forth BBS 2 (1985) (github.com/rickcarlino)
		103 points by eatonphil on Dec 17, 2021 \| 12 comments
27.		YouTube-dl's first release since June 2021 (github.com/ytdl-org)
		339 points by pdimitar on Dec 17, 2021 \| 106 comments
28.		We need your beginner’s mind (joshcanhelp.com)
		141 points by joshcanhelp on Dec 16, 2021 \| 45 comments
29.		Passage: A fork of password-store that uses age instead of GnuPG (github.com/filosottile)
		108 points by Shank on Dec 17, 2021 \| 55 comments
30.		Design evolution of the Windows control panel (versionmuseum.com)
		127 points by userbinator on Dec 17, 2021 \| 109 comments
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