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1.		TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app (nikkei.com)
		1007 points by em500 on Aug 10, 2021 \| 679 comments
2.		Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020) (reuters.com)
		847 points by Crash0v3rid3 on Aug 10, 2021 \| 218 comments
3.		Firefox 91 introduces enhanced cookie clearing (blog.mozilla.org)
		695 points by arthuredelstein on Aug 10, 2021 \| 224 comments
4.		Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US (culdesac.com)
		597 points by foofoo4u on Aug 10, 2021 \| 365 comments
5.		Please log in with router's password (google.com)
		583 points by fny on Aug 10, 2021 \| 255 comments
6.		Elementary OS 6 Odin (elementary.io)
		547 points by jdhawk on Aug 10, 2021 \| 319 comments
7.		Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world’s hyper-polluting power plants (oilprice.com)
		451 points by vimy on Aug 9, 2021 \| 114 comments
8.		Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn (thecounter.org)
		353 points by walterbell on Aug 10, 2021 \| 184 comments
9.		American parents are sending their kids to 'Russian math' (2017) (wbur.org)
		465 points by b8 on Aug 9, 2021 \| 525 comments
10.		OpenAI Codex (openai.com)
		372 points by e0m on Aug 10, 2021 \| 174 comments
11.		How to Hack APIs in 2021 (detectify.com)
		334 points by sharestuff on Aug 10, 2021 \| 89 comments
12.		JPL's Plan for the Next Mars Helicopter (ieee.org)
		170 points by samizdis on Aug 10, 2021 \| 110 comments
13.		Crows have been shown to understand the concept of zero (quantamagazine.org)
		231 points by digital55 on Aug 10, 2021 \| 157 comments
14.		Apple says photos in iCloud will be checked by child abuse detection system (reuters.com)
		461 points by shivbhatt on Aug 10, 2021 \| 501 comments
15.		Stages of Denial (beyondloom.com)
		225 points by clashmeifyoucan on Aug 9, 2021 \| 117 comments
16.		MinIO: A Bare Metal Drop-In for AWS S3 (marksblogg.com)
		260 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 10, 2021 \| 120 comments
17.		Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #5
		116 points by dang on Aug 10, 2021 \| 121 comments
18.		How far could a spaceship go if we never ran out of thrust? (2020) (forbes.com/sites/startswithabang)
		280 points by ec109685 on Aug 10, 2021 \| 331 comments
19.		Turn your Android phone into SMS API gateway (github.com/traccar)
		242 points by tananaev on Aug 10, 2021 \| 118 comments
20.		Unity to acquire Parsec for $320M (unity.com)
		198 points by charlietran on Aug 10, 2021 \| 88 comments
21.		When zero cost abstractions aren't zero cost (polybdenum.com)
		166 points by harporoeder on Aug 9, 2021 \| 97 comments
22.		Flawed data led to a connection between time spent on devices and mental health (theconversation.com)
		172 points by monort on Aug 8, 2021 \| 121 comments
23.		What happens if you stick your head in a particle accelerator? (2017) (aeon.co)
		116 points by sakopov on Aug 9, 2021 \| 48 comments
24.		Vue 3.2 (vuejs.org)
		289 points by web2033 on Aug 10, 2021 \| 151 comments
25.		Incentives in Computer Science (columbia.edu)
		154 points by simonpure on Aug 9, 2021 \| 10 comments
26.		Does this medieval fresco show a hallucinogenic mushroom in the Garden of Eden? (atlasobscura.com)
		95 points by prismatic on Aug 9, 2021 \| 106 comments
27.		Newly designed 'smart' insulin could improve type 1 diabetes treatment (sciencealert.com)
		113 points by lnyan on Aug 9, 2021 \| 50 comments
28.		Google employees who work from home could lose money (reuters.com)
		380 points by pseudolus on Aug 10, 2021 \| 681 comments
29.		$600M taken in largest DeFi hack to date (blockworks.co)
		324 points by carlgreene on Aug 10, 2021 \| 339 comments
30.		The Top Shelf Principle (2019) (listed.to)
		120 points by gurjeet on Aug 9, 2021 \| 25 comments
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