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1.		Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes (github.com/yt-dlp)
		822 points by makeworld on Aug 26, 2021 \| 332 comments
2.		TSMC hikes chip prices up to 20% amid supply shortage (nikkei.com)
		630 points by giuliomagnifico on Aug 26, 2021 \| 596 comments
3.		I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple (markosaric.com)
		679 points by miles on Aug 26, 2021 \| 838 comments
4.		Work Hard (2007) (terrytao.wordpress.com)
		416 points by somerandomness on Aug 26, 2021 \| 188 comments
5.		The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy (edwardsnowden.substack.com)
		861 points by ttctciyf on Aug 26, 2021 \| 380 comments
6.		Canistilluse.com (jim-nielsen.com)
		555 points by sjs382 on Aug 26, 2021 \| 361 comments
7.		My dead dad’s journal (seanblanda.com)
		472 points by pgcm1 on Aug 24, 2021 \| 95 comments
8.		My Tungsten Cube (2019) (thume.ca)
		288 points by defaulty on Aug 26, 2021 \| 330 comments
9.		Silent changes to Western Digital’s budget SSD may lower speeds by up to 50% (arstechnica.com)
		386 points by elsewhen on Aug 26, 2021 \| 104 comments
10.		There is no such thing as a “glibc based alpine image” (ariadne.space)
		290 points by Tomte on Aug 26, 2021 \| 198 comments
11.		The Clickbaitification of Netflix (slate.com)
		346 points by thrusong on Aug 24, 2021 \| 307 comments
12.		Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search engine in 2021 (9to5mac.com)
		348 points by miles on Aug 26, 2021 \| 324 comments
13.		The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes (2018) (jdlm.info)
		209 points by duck on Aug 26, 2021 \| 50 comments
14.		Sailfish 4 (sailfishos.org)
		375 points by nabla9 on Aug 26, 2021 \| 144 comments
15.		The rise of user-hostile software (den.dev)
		456 points by dend on Aug 24, 2021 \| 283 comments
16.		Writing a simple JSON library from scratch: a tour through modern C++ (eatonphil.com)
		161 points by eatonphil on Aug 26, 2021 \| 113 comments
17.		Thousands of Debian packages updated from their upstream Git repository (jelmer.uk)
		159 points by ecliptik on Aug 25, 2021 \| 55 comments
18.		The dream of carbon air capture edges toward reality (yale.edu)
		215 points by elsewhen on Aug 26, 2021 \| 290 comments
19.		Why are hyperlinks blue? (blog.mozilla.org)
		348 points by TangerineDream on Aug 26, 2021 \| 255 comments
20.		Why can't we just give steroids to people with muscular dystrophy? (trevorklee.com)
		153 points by klevertree on Aug 25, 2021 \| 121 comments
21.		Jsc: My New Best Friend (furbo.org)
		105 points by ingve on Aug 25, 2021 \| 43 comments
22.		LimeSDR (limemicro.com)
		122 points by octopoc on Aug 26, 2021 \| 126 comments
23.		Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else (ft.com)
		224 points by robbiet480 on Aug 25, 2021 \| 455 comments
24.		T-Mobile Hacker Who Stole Data on 50M Customers: ‘Their Security Is Awful’ (wsj.com)
		248 points by jbegley on Aug 26, 2021 \| 128 comments
25.		The Chief People Officer as PM (firstround.com)
		81 points by elsewhen on Aug 26, 2021 \| 33 comments
26.		Squatters in Spain who demand a "ransom" before they will leave a property (bbc.com)
		230 points by gumby on Aug 26, 2021 \| 450 comments
27.		FBI Palantir glitch allowed unauthorized access to private data (nypost.com)
		206 points by grej on Aug 26, 2021 \| 57 comments
28.		Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme disease vaccine candidate (pfizer.com)
		350 points by pama on Aug 26, 2021 \| 248 comments
29.		Rent control isn’t working in Sweden (bbc.com)
		254 points by ZeljkoS on Aug 26, 2021 \| 481 comments
30.		Immunity Generated from Covid-19 Vaccines Differs from an Infection (nih.gov)
		240 points by rolph on Aug 26, 2021 \| 231 comments
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