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1.		An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning (github.com/nadimkobeissi)
		1082 points by yewenjie on Aug 7, 2021 \| 430 comments
2.		In internal memo, Apple addresses concerns around new Photo scanning features (9to5mac.com)
		596 points by goindeep on Aug 7, 2021 \| 406 comments
3.		Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence (nzz.ch)
		694 points by ipnon on Aug 7, 2021 \| 332 comments
4.		Very fast rocket (makc.github.io)
		373 points by naetius on Aug 7, 2021 \| 100 comments
5.		Powering the Lunar Base (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)
		176 points by mercutio2 on Aug 7, 2021 \| 242 comments
6.		Open-source intelligence challenges state monopolies on information (economist.com)
		202 points by helsinkiandrew on Aug 7, 2021 \| 32 comments
7.		Framework Patterns (2019) (startifact.com)
		175 points by rbanffy on Aug 7, 2021 \| 43 comments
8.		Body mapping study suggests chronic pain comes in nine distinct types (sciencealert.com)
		172 points by lnyan on Aug 6, 2021 \| 54 comments
9.		Show HN: Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast (papertime.app)
		161 points by pramodbiligiri on Aug 6, 2021 \| 36 comments
10.		Show HN: Object Detection in an Hour (strayrobots.io)
		166 points by kekeblom on Aug 7, 2021 \| 34 comments
11.		Introduction To Program Synthesis (2018) (csail.mit.edu)
		132 points by optimalsolver on Aug 7, 2021 \| 20 comments
12.		After DeepMind’s cofounder was placed on leave for bullying, Google promoted him (morningbrew.com)
		402 points by thereare5lights on Aug 7, 2021 \| 324 comments
13.		Looking into Zig (ayende.com)
		242 points by GordonS on Aug 6, 2021 \| 121 comments
14.		Feelings at the Fall of the Republic, Ancient and Medieval Living Standards (acoup.blog)
		142 points by picture on Aug 6, 2021 \| 83 comments
15.		Richard Stallman and the History of Free Software and Open Source (2016) (cmpod.net)
		149 points by sanmak on Aug 6, 2021 \| 98 comments
16.		A USB adapter for a classic Depraz mouse (jfloren.net)
		84 points by floren on Aug 7, 2021 \| 24 comments
17.		Bug in Lynx's SSL certificate validation – leaks password in clear text via SNI (openwall.com)
		202 points by jwilk on Aug 7, 2021 \| 65 comments
18.		A giant crawling brain: the world of termites (2018) (theguardian.com)
		72 points by NotSwift on Aug 6, 2021 \| 14 comments
19.		The logic behind three random words (ncsc.gov.uk)
		75 points by DicIfTEx on Aug 6, 2021 \| 87 comments
20.		In praise of habits (psyche.co)
		92 points by pseudolus on Aug 6, 2021 \| 16 comments
21.		The Mystery of the Giant Clams of the Red Sea and Indian Ocean (2020) (dantheclamman.blog)
		79 points by dan-robertson on Aug 6, 2021 \| 6 comments
22.		NOAA Smoke Forecast Model Visualization (noaa.gov)
		86 points by pizza on Aug 7, 2021 \| 11 comments
23.		Ray Tracing Gems II (realtimerendering.com)
		89 points by ingve on Aug 7, 2021 \| 1 comment
24.		With a nudge from AI, ketamine emerges as a potential rare disease treatment (statnews.com)
		167 points by hassanahmad on Aug 7, 2021 \| 133 comments
25.		What it was like developing for NES back in 1990 (twitter.com/kevedwardsretro)
		230 points by _Microft on Aug 7, 2021 \| 60 comments
26.		Everything has changed in iOS 14, but Jailbreak is eternal [pdf] (blackhat.com)
		191 points by clubdorothe on Aug 7, 2021 \| 64 comments
27.		Why Disney World doesn't have mosquitoes (greenmatters.com)
		262 points by jbonniwell on Aug 6, 2021 \| 125 comments
28.		Ulam Spiral (wikipedia.org)
		64 points by tosh on Aug 6, 2021 \| 19 comments
29.		Ancient fish traps in a Vancouver Island estuary (hakaimagazine.com)
		73 points by diodorus on Aug 6, 2021 \| 9 comments
30.		Qatar Airways grounds 13 Airbus A350s as fuselage degrading (msn.com)
		129 points by jryle70 on Aug 7, 2021 \| 66 comments
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