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1.		WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted (arstechnica.com)
		1279 points by bjelkeman-again on June 24, 2021 \| 672 comments
2.		User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment (userinyerface.com)
		944 points by andyjih_ on June 25, 2021 \| 215 comments
3.		Nvidia Canvas (nvidia.com)
		614 points by forgingahead on June 25, 2021 \| 177 comments
4.		Bflat: C# as you know it but with Go-like tooling (github.com/michalstrehovsky)
		335 points by tate on June 25, 2021 \| 185 comments
5.		Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enough to be rolled out (theguardian.com)
		630 points by kieranmaine on June 25, 2021 \| 377 comments
6.		Open Source Farming Robot (farm.bot)
		409 points by antoinec on June 25, 2021 \| 227 comments
7.		I was let go for refusing to deploy a dark pattern (peachesnstink.com)
		615 points by codingclaws on June 25, 2021 \| 517 comments
8.		Rally, a novel privacy-first data sharing platform (blog.mozilla.org)
		238 points by TangerineDream on June 25, 2021 \| 187 comments
9.		Hierarchical Structures in PostgreSQL (2020) (hoverbear.org)
		248 points by belter on June 25, 2021 \| 50 comments
10.		The Future of Games is an Instant Flash to the past (fortressofdoors.com)
		222 points by meheleventyone on June 25, 2021 \| 169 comments
11.		Group Video Calls (telegram.org)
		241 points by jhabdas on June 25, 2021 \| 176 comments
12.		“Please don't waste maintainers' time on your KPI grabbing patches” (lkml.org)
		517 points by belter on June 25, 2021 \| 258 comments
13.		AWS acquires Wickr (amazon.com)
		177 points by ramimac on June 25, 2021 \| 134 comments
14.		Hacker reveals smart meters are spilling secrets about the Texas snowstorm (dailydot.com)
		289 points by certifiedloud on June 25, 2021 \| 194 comments
15.		EvalAI: An Open-Source Alternative to Kaggle (eval.ai)
		119 points by optimalsolver on June 25, 2021 \| 21 comments
16.		Lewis Carroll’s Illustrations for “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground” (1864) (publicdomainreview.org)
		128 points by prismatic on June 25, 2021 \| 12 comments
17.		Where did my 256 GB go? Mobile storage Analysis [pdf] (acm.org)
		131 points by riyakhanna1983 on June 25, 2021 \| 167 comments
18.		OpenTrees: A data visualisation of publicly maintained trees around the world (github.com/stevage)
		137 points by breck on June 25, 2021 \| 21 comments
19.		Cupcake - A Rust library for lattice-based additive homomorphic encryption (github.com/facebookresearch)
		102 points by Karrot_Kream on June 22, 2021 \| 8 comments
20.		As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit' (npr.org)
		355 points by pseudolus on June 25, 2021 \| 321 comments
21.		Go 1.17 is deprecating the traditional use of 'go get' (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		265 points by nitinreddy88 on June 25, 2021 \| 215 comments
22.		Smoothstep Integral (iquilezles.org)
		70 points by mpweiher on June 22, 2021 \| 6 comments
23.		Querying Parquet with Precision Using DuckDB (duckdb.org)
		129 points by mytherin on June 25, 2021 \| 32 comments
24.		New type of ancient human discovered in Israel (bbc.com)
		122 points by tomerbd on June 25, 2021 \| 91 comments
25.		Disproportionate amount of bad online behaviour stems from psychological issues (unherd.com)
		219 points by SkyMarshal on June 23, 2021 \| 217 comments
26.		QUIC at Snapchat (snap.com)
		155 points by samk-snap on June 25, 2021 \| 45 comments
27.		Star Citizen Progress Tracker v1.0 (robertsspaceindustries.com)
		160 points by doener on June 25, 2021 \| 236 comments
28.		A man whose software ate the world (thepullrequest.com)
		139 points by jger15 on June 25, 2021 \| 48 comments
29.		The Miami condo collapse is a reminder of America's artificial land problem (theweek.com)
		161 points by fortran77 on June 25, 2021 \| 130 comments
30.		Deep dive into plastic monomers, additives, and processing aids (acs.org)
		129 points by sizzle on June 25, 2021 \| 62 comments
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