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1.		An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up (rambo.codes)
		843 points by spideymans on July 18, 2021 \| 446 comments
2.		Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with native performance (looking-glass.io)
		843 points by tambourine_man on July 18, 2021 \| 303 comments
3.		Tell HN: Coming soon – “Meet the Batch” threads for parallel Launch HNs
		272 points by dang on July 18, 2021 \| 91 comments
4.		Inserting a billion rows in SQLite under a minute (avi.im)
		573 points by todsacerdoti on July 18, 2021 \| 146 comments
5.		Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship (eff.org)
		659 points by DiabloD3 on July 18, 2021 \| 544 comments
6.		Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists (washingtonpost.com)
		643 points by tosh on July 18, 2021 \| 167 comments
7.		Word gap: When money’s tight, parents talk less to kids (news.berkeley.edu)
		286 points by ClarendonDrive on July 18, 2021 \| 160 comments
8.		WaveFunctionCollapse: Generates bitmaps that are locally similar to the input (github.com/mxgmn)
		281 points by lnyan on July 16, 2021 \| 39 comments
9.		Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon (theguardian.com)
		591 points by johnny_reilly on July 18, 2021 \| 137 comments
10.		iOS 14.6 device hacked with a zero-click iMessage exploit to install Pegasus (twitter.com/billmarczak)
		416 points by amrrs on July 18, 2021 \| 167 comments
11.		Cryptographers unearth vulnerabilities in Telegram's encryption protocol (cyberscoop.com)
		378 points by wglb on July 17, 2021 \| 226 comments
12.		Diffsitter: A tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs (github.com/afnanenayet)
		213 points by todsacerdoti on July 18, 2021 \| 53 comments
13.		ToyDB: Distributed SQL Database in Rust (github.com/erikgrinaker)
		275 points by adamnemecek on July 18, 2021 \| 48 comments
14.		Fullstaq Ruby: Ruby, optimized for production (fullstaqruby.org)
		232 points by thunderbong on July 17, 2021 \| 86 comments
15.		A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet (2017) (staltz.com)
		131 points by freediver on July 18, 2021 \| 78 comments
16.		Chernobyl's 'stalker' subculture (calvertjournal.com)
		187 points by galfarragem on July 18, 2021 \| 101 comments
17.		Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang (2020) (andrewkelley.me)
		301 points by AlexeyBrin on July 18, 2021 \| 121 comments
18.		BANCStar (2000) (archive.org)
		175 points by jasonhansel on July 18, 2021 \| 66 comments
19.		What happens in an IPO? – A Beginner's Guide (Part 2/2) (simplanations.in)
		152 points by an_d_rew on July 17, 2021 \| 13 comments
20.		Don’t Let Police Arm Autonomous or Remote-Controlled Robots and Drones (eff.org)
		282 points by DiabloD3 on July 18, 2021 \| 140 comments
21.		The Perils of M1 Ownership (eclecticlight.co)
		350 points by ingve on July 18, 2021 \| 263 comments
22.		A man in Egypt keeping a 200-year-old tradition of tile-making [video] (youtube.com)
		113 points by sakopov on July 17, 2021 \| 20 comments
23.		NIL (lispworks.com)
		154 points by susam on July 18, 2021 \| 59 comments
24.		How You Wound Up Playing ‘The Oregon Trail’ in Computer Class (2016) (smithsonianmag.com)
		147 points by NotSwift on July 18, 2021 \| 97 comments
25.		The metaphysical presuppositions of formal logic (edwardfeser.blogspot.com)
		89 points by danielam on July 17, 2021 \| 110 comments
26.		Police destroy Bitcoin miners with steamroller in Malaysia (vice.com)
		219 points by giuliomagnifico on July 18, 2021 \| 193 comments
27.		The online data that's being deleted (bbc.com)
		76 points by Someone on July 18, 2021 \| 68 comments
28.		Mighty MK-52: The Spaceworthy Soviet-era Calculator (electronicsdeli.net)
		87 points by jrepinc on July 17, 2021 \| 24 comments
29.		Nim on the Attack: Process Injection Using Nim and the Windows API (huskyhacks.dev)
		77 points by sunnyP on July 17, 2021 \| 20 comments
30.		How NSO's Pegasus Is Used to Spy on Journalists (haaretz.com)
		203 points by rcMgD2BwE72F on July 18, 2021 \| 24 comments
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