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1.		One Bad Apple (hackerfactor.com)
		1484 points by cwmartin on Aug 8, 2021 \| 524 comments
2.		Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free (sciencemag.org)
		761 points by cyrksoft on Aug 8, 2021 \| 92 comments
3.		Apps Getting Worse (tbray.org)
		828 points by TangerineDream on Aug 8, 2021 \| 619 comments
4.		Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way an AI does (clivethompson.medium.com)
		416 points by _Microft on Aug 7, 2021 \| 358 comments
5.		Space Station incident demands independent investigation (ieee.org)
		394 points by multivac42 on Aug 8, 2021 \| 123 comments
6.		A street snack that has baffled botanists (atlasobscura.com)
		484 points by periya on Aug 8, 2021 \| 194 comments
7.		Why I Wrote PGP (1999) (philzimmermann.com)
		422 points by pdkl95 on Aug 8, 2021 \| 181 comments
8.		Sci-Hub is fundraising (sci-hub.do)
		518 points by bluish29 on Aug 7, 2021 \| 122 comments
9.		I'm reading the FT and WSJ from 100 years ago each week leading to 1929 (roaring20s.substack.com)
		323 points by roaring20s on Aug 8, 2021 \| 250 comments
10.		Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science (nature.com)
		329 points by DanBC on Aug 8, 2021 \| 256 comments
11.		Glenfiddich will use its own whisky waste to fuel its trucks (theiet.org)
		225 points by OJFord on Aug 8, 2021 \| 149 comments
12.		Evolution of Search Engines Architecture – Algolia Search Architecture Part 1 (highscalability.com)
		217 points by PretzelFisch on Aug 8, 2021 \| 67 comments
13.		Official Elasticsearch Python library no longer works with open-source forks (github.com/elastic)
		294 points by maciekmm on Aug 8, 2021 \| 136 comments
14.		Imaging Cygnus a at 8.45 GHz with ATA (destevez.net)
		166 points by picture on Aug 8, 2021 \| 31 comments
15.		The first two hours of MTV (1981) [video] (youtube.com)
		206 points by bookofjoe on Aug 8, 2021 \| 134 comments
16.		1password is considering a self-hosted option to store vaults (1password.community)
		297 points by bluish29 on Aug 8, 2021 \| 222 comments
17.		Once an Addict, Always an Addict? (deprocrastination.co)
		188 points by vitabenes on Aug 8, 2021 \| 311 comments
18.		The Babylonians used Pythagorean ideas long before Pythagoras (economist.com)
		154 points by helsinkiandrew on Aug 7, 2021 \| 74 comments
19.		Revisiting Prechelt’s paper comparing Java, Lisp, C/C++ and scripting languages (athaydes.com)
		118 points by mahmoudimus on Aug 8, 2021 \| 71 comments
20.		Kernel Pwning with eBPF: A Love Story (graplsecurity.com)
		136 points by arkadiyt on Aug 8, 2021 \| 18 comments
21.		The Principles of Newspeak (1949) (berfrois.com)
		175 points by pshaw on Aug 8, 2021 \| 134 comments
22.		The Non-Radiating Antenna (physicsworld.com)
		75 points by ithkuil on Aug 8, 2021 \| 22 comments
23.		Apple's New CSAM Protections May Make iCloud Photos Bruteforceable (crypto.stackexchange.com)
		233 points by NTroy on Aug 8, 2021 \| 81 comments
24.		Live the Dream, Make the Change, Move to Pitcairn Island (2018) (gov.pn)
		156 points by jnord on Aug 7, 2021 \| 111 comments
25.		Does Oil Come from Dinosaurs? (powells.com)
		173 points by azizsaya on Aug 8, 2021 \| 150 comments
26.		Show HN: Yet another Homebrew Video Game Console, this time FPGA-based (internalregister.github.io)
		114 points by pkiller on Aug 8, 2021 \| 15 comments
27.		A plain text note-taking system for problem solving (calculist.io)
		134 points by thomascountz on Aug 7, 2021 \| 46 comments
28.		The Kawa Scheme Language (gnu.org)
		101 points by akvadrako on Aug 8, 2021 \| 32 comments
29.		Clock Synchronization (2020) (signalsandthreads.com)
		69 points by tosh on Aug 8, 2021 \| 16 comments
30.		Launch HN: HyperLinq (YC S21) – Desktop trading terminal
		73 points by amargautam on Aug 8, 2021 \| 60 comments
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