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31.		Big Tech are supposed to be the plumbers, not patricians of internet discourse (bombthrower.com)
		300 points by StuntPope on Aug 8, 2021 \| 240 comments
32.		The Apple Psi System [pdf] (apple.com)
		168 points by lavp on Aug 7, 2021 \| 98 comments
33.		When Encryption Was a Crime: The 1990s Battle for Free Speech in Software (reason.com)
		165 points by Overton-Window on Aug 7, 2021 \| 26 comments
34.		What Irony Is Not (2020) (mitpress.mit.edu)
		54 points by elliekelly on Aug 8, 2021 \| 41 comments
35.		Python, OCaml, and Machine Learning (2020) (signalsandthreads.com)
		87 points by tosh on Aug 7, 2021 \| 15 comments
36.		Making Reasonable Use of Computer Resources (vfoley.xyz)
		90 points by Hell_World on Aug 7, 2021 \| 30 comments
37.		Bringing NetBSD to Zig's Continuous Integration (lavatech.top)
		118 points by jayp1418 on Aug 8, 2021 \| 9 comments
38.		SpaceX is buying communications smallsat operator Swarm Technologies (fcc.report)
		93 points by caiobegotti on Aug 8, 2021 \| 25 comments
39.		Put This In Your Pipe (2013) (julialang.org)
		62 points by agluszak on Aug 8, 2021 \| 1 comment
40.		Google “contemplated buying some or all of Epic” to stop “contagion” (rockpapershotgun.com)
		223 points by haunter on Aug 8, 2021 \| 180 comments
41.		MusicXML and Percussion Notation (chriskrycho.com)
		84 points by goranmoomin on Aug 8, 2021 \| 26 comments
42.		FEC Asks Congress to Ban Prechecked Recurring Donation Boxes (nytimes.com)
		182 points by geox on Aug 8, 2021 \| 53 comments
43.		The Local Minima of Suckiness (veekaybee.github.io)
		76 points by r4um on Aug 8, 2021 \| 28 comments
44.		Droidlet, a one-stop shop for modularly building intelligent agents (facebook.com)
		52 points by T-A on Aug 7, 2021 \| 6 comments
45.		Tesseract.js – A Javascript port of the Tesseract OCR engine (projectnaptha.com)
		132 points by kiyanwang on Aug 8, 2021 \| 37 comments
46.		Working with Postgres Types (jonudell.net)
		65 points by alainchabat on Aug 7, 2021 \| 27 comments
47.		Fairer Chess: A Reversal of Two Opening Moves in Chess Creates Balance (arxiv.org)
		112 points by sova on Aug 8, 2021 \| 76 comments
48.		Tokyo’s 7-Elevens and convenience stores (latimes.com)
		134 points by thunderbong on Aug 8, 2021 \| 116 comments
49.		Increase HTTP performance by fitting in the initial TCP slow start window (sirupsen.com)
		102 points by mstats on Aug 8, 2021 \| 6 comments
50.		The PDP-11 Basic Analysis Project (learningpdp11.com)
		72 points by elvis70 on Aug 8, 2021 \| 17 comments
51.		What can you learn from an IP address? (2019) (apnic.net)
		75 points by pabs3 on Aug 8, 2021 \| 22 comments
52.		; Echo “Shell Injection” (matklad.github.io)
		100 points by martin-t on Aug 8, 2021 \| 42 comments
53.		The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo (xsrus.com)
		159 points by amin on Aug 8, 2021 \| 132 comments
54.		Poseidon’s Wrath (aeon.co)
		39 points by diodorus on Aug 6, 2021 \| 2 comments
55.		Unlocking PinkRabbit: Using 90s Email Software in 2021 (jessicastokes.net)
		97 points by polm23 on Aug 8, 2021 \| 13 comments
56.		Scylla's Approach to Improve Performance for CPU-Bound Workloads (2017) (scylladb.com)
		54 points by EvgeniyZh on Aug 7, 2021
57.		Longitudinal analysis shows durable immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection (cell.com)
		195 points by briefcomment on Aug 8, 2021 \| 204 comments
58.		The U.S. government's long and shameful history of intercepting people's letters (reason.com)
		141 points by fortran77 on Aug 8, 2021 \| 51 comments
59.		Trevor Moore has died (wikipedia.org)
		172 points by pcthrowaway on Aug 8, 2021 \| 47 comments
60.		Figmage: I don't mess with images (2020) (heyraviteja.com)
		60 points by catchmeifyoucan on Aug 7, 2021 \| 18 comments
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