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1.		A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design (marginalia.nu)
		3441 points by Funes- on Sept 16, 2021 \| 717 comments
2.		Sir Clive Sinclair has died (theguardian.com)
		1746 points by haasted on Sept 16, 2021 \| 438 comments
3.		The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history (theguardian.com)
		650 points by DamnInteresting on Sept 16, 2021 \| 310 comments
4.		Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer (shitlassian.com)
		1426 points by mparnisari on Sept 16, 2021 \| 733 comments
5.		Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater (cbc.ca)
		604 points by awnird on Sept 16, 2021 \| 527 comments
6.		Home Assistant – open-source home automation (home-assistant.io)
		561 points by gjvc on Sept 15, 2021 \| 177 comments
7.		The Perils of an .xyz Domain (spotvirtual.com)
		492 points by ghempton on Sept 16, 2021 \| 275 comments
8.		iOS on QEMU (github.com/alephsecurity)
		358 points by logix on Sept 16, 2021 \| 98 comments
9.		The Crime of Curiosity (piratewires.com)
		376 points by lxm on Sept 15, 2021 \| 207 comments
10.		Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord (kotaku.com)
		996 points by ClawsOnPaws on Sept 16, 2021 \| 538 comments
11.		Genius Sells to Media Lab for $80M (bloombergquint.com)
		265 points by cytosine on Sept 16, 2021 \| 232 comments
12.		Every engineer should do a stint in consulting (cloudirregular.substack.com)
		321 points by forrestbrazeal on Sept 16, 2021 \| 172 comments
13.		Is America Inc getting less dynamic, less global and more monopolistic? (economist.com)
		250 points by pseudolus on Sept 16, 2021 \| 334 comments
14.		Facebook to target harmful coordination by real accounts (reuters.com)
		164 points by hobbesthompson on Sept 16, 2021 \| 172 comments
15.		Windows 11: Just say no (computerworld.com)
		472 points by CrankyBear on Sept 16, 2021 \| 528 comments
16.		Kape Technologies buys ExpressVPN for $936M (alternativeto.net)
		193 points by schleck8 on Sept 16, 2021 \| 149 comments
17.		Glass – Photo sharing app and community (glass.photo)
		162 points by hkc on Sept 16, 2021 \| 128 comments
18.		U.S. court upholds dismissal of lawsuit against NSA on 'state secrets' grounds (reuters.com)
		246 points by commoner on Sept 16, 2021 \| 129 comments
19.		The Ultimate Commodore 1541 Disk Drive Talk [video] (pagetable.com)
		96 points by Audiophilip on Sept 16, 2021 \| 16 comments
20.		The ownership and future of Mullvad VPN (mullvad.net)
		536 points by JoachimS on Sept 16, 2021 \| 184 comments
21.		Weaponizing Middleboxes for TCP Reflected Amplification (umd.edu)
		176 points by dredmorbius on Sept 16, 2021 \| 29 comments
22.		Biologists Rethink the Logic Behind Cells’ Molecular Signals (quantamagazine.org)
		104 points by theafh on Sept 16, 2021 \| 41 comments
23.		Lawmakers Ask Zuck to Drop 'Instagram for Kids' Since App Made Kids Suicidal (gizmodo.com)
		257 points by bryan0 on Sept 16, 2021 \| 154 comments
24.		Use of eBPF in CPU Scheduler (linuxplumbersconf.org)
		147 points by marcodiego on Sept 16, 2021 \| 26 comments
25.		Cloud Infrastructure as SQL (iasql.com)
		155 points by pombo on Sept 16, 2021 \| 110 comments
26.		Is management pressuring you to deliver unfinished code? (2020) (iism.org)
		151 points by jasonbourne1901 on Sept 16, 2021 \| 76 comments
27.		Backpage founders get mistrial because US overplayed child sex trafficking claim (arstechnica.com)
		282 points by Bender on Sept 16, 2021 \| 124 comments
28.		'Dieselgate' trial opens in Germany without ex-VW boss (rfi.fr)
		170 points by belter on Sept 16, 2021 \| 151 comments
29.		Ledger of Harms (humanetech.com)
		173 points by MrsPeaches on Sept 16, 2021 \| 80 comments
30.		Useful Spy Books (berthub.eu)
		217 points by throwoutway on Sept 16, 2021 \| 54 comments
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