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1.		PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations (github.com/nuvious)
		763 points by xanthine on Aug 22, 2021 \| 343 comments
2.		Google’s ‘Project Hug’ paid out huge sums to keep game devs in the Play Store (theverge.com)
		688 points by davweb on Aug 19, 2021 \| 472 comments
3.		Google says geofence warrants make up one-quarter of all US demands (techcrunch.com)
		387 points by arkadiyt on Aug 22, 2021 \| 259 comments
4.		How to deliver constructive feedback in difficult situations (2019) (productivityhub.org)
		302 points by ff7f00 on Aug 22, 2021 \| 84 comments
5.		ASML, a $300B Dutch firm, makes the machines that make semiconductors (twitter.com/trungtphan)
		575 points by deegles on Aug 22, 2021 \| 262 comments
6.		A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged on disputed AI evidence (theregister.com)
		372 points by Bender on Aug 22, 2021 \| 204 comments
7.		FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source (fsnot.es)
		298 points by codetrotter on Aug 22, 2021 \| 157 comments
8.		How can we make air conditioners more efficient? [video] (youtube.com)
		371 points by zeristor on Aug 22, 2021 \| 216 comments
9.		A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap (ieee.org)
		223 points by PikelEmi on Aug 22, 2021 \| 258 comments
10.		We built a system like Apple’s to flag CSAM and concluded the tech was dangerous (washingtonpost.com)
		425 points by Copernicron on Aug 19, 2021 \| 119 comments
11.		How to Remember What You Read (fs.blog)
		330 points by ajoy on Aug 21, 2021 \| 91 comments
12.		Bringing the Unix philosophy to the 21st century (2019) (kellybrazil.com)
		238 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 22, 2021 \| 146 comments
13.		Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticated' drone near Tucson (thedrive.com)
		275 points by kordlessagain on Aug 21, 2021 \| 257 comments
14.		One does not simply calculate the absolute value (habr.com)
		172 points by mot2ba on Aug 22, 2021 \| 104 comments
15.		The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental health, healthier economy (telegraph.co.uk)
		312 points by mrfusion on Aug 22, 2021 \| 421 comments
16.		WinFsp – Windows File System Proxy (github.com/billziss-gh)
		184 points by mkotowski on Aug 22, 2021 \| 53 comments
17.		The Pyret Programming Language (pyret.org)
		210 points by kristianp on Aug 22, 2021 \| 134 comments
18.		The Peril of Politicizing Science [pdf] (usc.edu)
		186 points by vikrum on Aug 22, 2021 \| 141 comments
19.		Gitfs: Version Controlled File System (presslabs.com)
		189 points by pabs3 on Aug 22, 2021 \| 58 comments
20.		Japan is holding back as the world rushes toward electric cars (nytimes.com)
		216 points by bamboozled on Aug 22, 2021 \| 346 comments
21.		Working towards a source-based bootstrapping path to a GNU+Linux system (bootstrappable.org)
		97 points by podiki on Aug 22, 2021 \| 19 comments
22.		I was there when the DC-8 went supersonic (airspacemag.com)
		131 points by areoform on Aug 22, 2021 \| 41 comments
23.		Expert help needed to decode rare piece of space history: Lunokhod data tapes (attivissimo.blogspot.com)
		148 points by pamoroso on Aug 21, 2021 \| 45 comments
24.		Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours? (twitter.com/politic_animal)
		209 points by footest on Aug 22, 2021 \| 128 comments
25.		DNS alias mode (2020) (github.com/acmesh-official)
		108 points by throw0101a on Aug 21, 2021 \| 34 comments
26.		The Triple Revolution (wikipedia.org)
		75 points by benbreen on Aug 19, 2021 \| 47 comments
27.		Airliner Number 4 (wikipedia.org)
		85 points by birriel on Aug 21, 2021 \| 8 comments
28.		The Tail End (2015) (waitbutwhy.com)
		64 points by gmays on Aug 19, 2021 \| 3 comments
29.		Data Wrangler (observablehq.com)
		72 points by polm23 on Aug 21, 2021 \| 8 comments
30.		AWS doesn’t know who I am (ben11kehoe.medium.com)
		125 points by kiyanwang on Aug 22, 2021 \| 116 comments
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