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1.		Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity' (bbc.com)
		1465 points by perfunctory on Aug 9, 2021 \| 1532 comments
2.		Apple’s Mistake (stratechery.com)
		1273 points by feross on Aug 9, 2021 \| 790 comments
3.		New carnivorous plant discovered in Pacific Northwest (npr.org)
		480 points by bryan0 on Aug 9, 2021 \| 101 comments
4.		Wildfire restored a Yosemite watershed (news.berkeley.edu)
		333 points by incomplete on Aug 9, 2021 \| 160 comments
5.		WhatsApp lead and other tech experts fire back at Apple’s Child Safety plan (theverge.com)
		489 points by timurtime on Aug 9, 2021 \| 360 comments
6.		Bring back hydrogen lifting gas (thecgo.org)
		253 points by harporoeder on Aug 9, 2021 \| 341 comments
7.		Why does it take so long to get to Mercury? (esa.int)
		235 points by 5faulker on Aug 9, 2021 \| 116 comments
8.		Crystal arrangement results in more power from ferroelectric solar cells (pv-magazine.com)
		264 points by vinnyglennon on Aug 9, 2021 \| 80 comments
9.		Machine learning won't solve natural language understanding (thegradient.pub)
		195 points by andreyk on Aug 9, 2021 \| 188 comments
10.		Build your own NeXT with a virtual machine (adafruit.com)
		214 points by marcodiego on Aug 9, 2021 \| 128 comments
11.		Stupidity is a specific cognitive failing (psyche.co)
		264 points by mcguire on Aug 9, 2021 \| 163 comments
12.		The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft (mindat.org)
		270 points by colinprince on Aug 9, 2021 \| 78 comments
13.		The World of CSS Transforms (joshwcomeau.com)
		294 points by joshwcomeau on Aug 9, 2021 \| 70 comments
14.		Fundamentals of Incident Management (bitfieldconsulting.com)
		171 points by bitfield on Aug 9, 2021 \| 59 comments
15.		How Watches Work (fratellowatches.com)
		254 points by nstricevic on Aug 9, 2021 \| 138 comments
16.		2,400-year-old baskets still filled with fruit found in submerged Egyptian city (smithsonianmag.com)
		200 points by diodorus on Aug 9, 2021 \| 44 comments
17.		Messaging and chat control (patrick-breyer.de)
		643 points by kristjank on Aug 9, 2021 \| 317 comments
18.		Launch HN: Lightly (YC S21): Label only the data which improves your ML model
		88 points by isusmelj on Aug 9, 2021 \| 25 comments
19.		Hello Yarn 2, Goodbye node_modules (freddixx.medium.com)
		201 points by jonas21 on Aug 9, 2021 \| 154 comments
20.		Show HN: Free, Accessible AI Art Generator (colab.research.google.com)
		169 points by hwayne on Aug 9, 2021 \| 31 comments
21.		A wind-powered vehicle that can travel twice as fast as the wind itself (businessinsider.com)
		210 points by dutchbrit on Aug 9, 2021 \| 254 comments
22.		The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons (mitpress.mit.edu)
		129 points by prismatic on Aug 8, 2021 \| 81 comments
23.		The macOS Sandbox File Limit (buckleyisms.com)
		172 points by goranmoomin on Aug 8, 2021 \| 16 comments
24.		Localhost (transparencyreport.google.com)
		272 points by perihelions on Aug 9, 2021 \| 47 comments
25.		A Lisp interpreter written in Lisp (2017) (lvguowei.me)
		160 points by capableweb on Aug 9, 2021 \| 55 comments
26.		Anti-Lukashenka hackers seize senior Belarusian officials' personal data (currenttime.tv)
		255 points by dmitryminkovsky on Aug 9, 2021 \| 125 comments
27.		Show HN: Torrentinim – low memory-footprint, API-only torrent search engine (github.com/sergiotapia)
		117 points by sergiotapia on Aug 9, 2021 \| 31 comments
28.		Amazon third-party sellers reportedly hound customers who leave bad reviews (gizmodo.com)
		178 points by rexreed on Aug 9, 2021 \| 95 comments
29.		Facebook shuts out NYU academics’ research on political ads (apnews.com)
		177 points by actually_a_dog on Aug 9, 2021 \| 34 comments
30.		Embarrassed by your Olympic javelin: did cavemen do it better? (2012) (npr.org)
		101 points by Brajeshwar on Aug 8, 2021 \| 93 comments
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