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1.		Three ex-US intelligence officers admit hacking for UAE (justice.gov)
		743 points by andrewnicolalde on Sept 15, 2021 \| 237 comments
2.		Apple blocked the FlickType Watch keyboard then announced a clone of it (inputmag.com)
		1003 points by kilotaras on Sept 15, 2021 \| 291 comments
3.		Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation over the American (erichgrunewald.com)
		612 points by erwald on Sept 15, 2021 \| 386 comments
4.		Show HN: Time travel debugger for web development (replay.io)
		681 points by jasonlaster11 on Sept 15, 2021 \| 216 comments
5.		Username ending with MIME type format is not allowed (gitlab.com/gitlab-org)
		396 points by croes on Sept 15, 2021 \| 277 comments
6.		Anonymous Hacks Epik (epikfail.win)
		413 points by cbtacy on Sept 14, 2021 \| 249 comments
7.		Turing Oversold? (idsia.ch)
		354 points by anielsen on Sept 14, 2021 \| 303 comments
8.		The first webcam was invented to keep an eye on a coffee pot (openculture.com)
		295 points by elorant on Sept 15, 2021 \| 119 comments
9.		How much faster is Java 17? (optaplanner.org)
		340 points by vips7L on Sept 15, 2021 \| 247 comments
10.		"Secret" Agent Exposes Azure Customers to Unauthorized Code Execution (wiz.io)
		296 points by craigkerstiens on Sept 14, 2021 \| 107 comments
11.		Why Authorization Is Hard (osohq.com)
		303 points by samjs on Sept 15, 2021 \| 49 comments
12.		Nikon's 2021 Photomicrography Competition Winners (nikonsmallworld.com)
		170 points by WaitWaitWha on Sept 15, 2021 \| 33 comments
13.		Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the Far-Side of the Moon (2020) (nasa.gov)
		192 points by rbanffy on Sept 13, 2021 \| 101 comments
14.		Remembering When Only Barbarians Drank Milk (2018) (atlasobscura.com)
		137 points by miduil on Sept 14, 2021 \| 105 comments
15.		Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS (joshwcomeau.com)
		398 points by nomdep on Sept 15, 2021 \| 63 comments
16.		FreeBSD SSH Hardening (gist.github.com)
		164 points by rodrigo975 on Sept 15, 2021 \| 116 comments
17.		A Tour of the Oil Language (oilshell.org)
		159 points by dmart on Sept 15, 2021 \| 42 comments
18.		GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other cars (autonews.com)
		299 points by rsj_hn on Sept 15, 2021 \| 415 comments
19.		HTTP Status 418 – I'm a teapot (developer.mozilla.org)
		193 points by evo_9 on Sept 15, 2021 \| 107 comments
20.		Futarchy: Robin Hanson on prediction markets (richardhanania.substack.com)
		150 points by jcarterwil on Sept 15, 2021 \| 193 comments
21.		Facebook under fire over secret teen research (bbc.co.uk)
		274 points by ColinWright on Sept 15, 2021 \| 217 comments
22.		Show HN: Paper to HTML Converter (papertohtml.org)
		153 points by codeviking on Sept 15, 2021 \| 58 comments
23.		Thoughts.page: hosting a small webpage for your thoughts (thoughts.page)
		135 points by eversowhatev on Sept 13, 2021 \| 106 comments
24.		Seq – A programming language for computational genomics and bioinformatics (github.com/seq-lang)
		116 points by tdido on Sept 15, 2021 \| 59 comments
25.		Michelin's airless tires are scheduled for market launch in 2024 (interestingengineering.com)
		230 points by mardiyah on Sept 15, 2021 \| 189 comments
26.		OpenBSD's Pledge and Unveil from Python (nullprogram.com)
		142 points by todsacerdoti on Sept 15, 2021 \| 40 comments
27.		Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system (2010) (twitter.com/techemails)
		395 points by ece on Sept 15, 2021 \| 255 comments
28.		Microsoft Azure silently install management agents with vulns on your Linux VMs (twitter.com/gossithedog)
		299 points by sidcool on Sept 15, 2021 \| 69 comments
29.		EU Funding for Developer Tools for the Decentralized Web (httptoolkit.tech)
		259 points by pimterry on Sept 15, 2021 \| 106 comments
30.		List Homomorphisms and Parallelism (sigkill.dk)
		83 points by sidcool on Sept 14, 2021 \| 19 comments
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