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1.		Facebook Whistleblower Leaks Thousands of Pages of Incriminating Internal Docs (npr.org)
		1143 points by sizzle on Oct 5, 2021 \| 692 comments
2.		Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet (cloudflare.com)
		1226 points by jgrahamc on Oct 4, 2021 \| 260 comments
3.		Phrack Issue 70 (phrack.org)
		717 points by bugmen0t on Oct 5, 2021 \| 110 comments
4.		Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and physics (axisofordinary.substack.com)
		936 points by raviparikh on Oct 5, 2021 \| 323 comments
5.		Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm? (arxiv.org)
		621 points by ColinWright on Oct 5, 2021 \| 318 comments
6.		Tab Unloading in Firefox 93 (hacks.mozilla.org)
		402 points by mthermidor on Oct 5, 2021 \| 275 comments
7.		Open Source Tax Software (ctskennerton.github.io)
		543 points by aidangrimshaw on Oct 5, 2021 \| 257 comments
8.		Show HN: ChessCoach – A neural chess engine that comments on each player's moves (chrisbutner.github.io)
		506 points by cbutner on Oct 5, 2021 \| 89 comments
9.		It is easier to educate a Do-er than to motivate the educated (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
		448 points by tosh on Oct 5, 2021 \| 214 comments
10.		New York Public Library ends all late fees (npr.org)
		300 points by EastOfTruth on Oct 5, 2021 \| 244 comments
11.		Google keyword warrants give U.S. government data on search users (forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster)
		289 points by spzx on Oct 4, 2021 \| 189 comments
12.		More details about the October 4 outage (fb.com)
		473 points by moneil971 on Oct 5, 2021 \| 286 comments
13.		Curiosity Is Better Than Being Smart? (durmonski.com)
		335 points by enigmatic02 on Oct 4, 2021 \| 183 comments
14.		My Logging Best Practices (2020) (tuhrig.de)
		386 points by isaacfrond on Oct 5, 2021 \| 153 comments
15.		Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party (forwardparty.com)
		555 points by nipponese on Oct 5, 2021 \| 605 comments
16.		Rowy: Open-source Airtable alternative on Google Cloud (rowy.io)
		283 points by karanbhangui on Oct 5, 2021 \| 91 comments
17.		FCC plans to rein in “gateway” carriers that bring foreign robocalls to US (arstechnica.com)
		231 points by eysquared on Oct 4, 2021 \| 182 comments
18.		A USB Fan Controller that now works under Linux (ktz.me)
		161 points by arm on Oct 5, 2021 \| 68 comments
19.		Show HN: Hurl – Run and test HTTP requests with plain text, curl and Rust (hurl.dev)
		223 points by jicea on Oct 5, 2021 \| 49 comments
20.		Facebook going down meant more than just a social network being unavailable (twitter.com/abgutman)
		277 points by MaxLeiter on Oct 4, 2021 \| 347 comments
21.		Open Tax Solver (sourceforge.net)
		128 points by cdjk on Oct 5, 2021 \| 35 comments
22.		Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids and democracy (npr.org)
		525 points by mmastrac on Oct 5, 2021 \| 688 comments
23.		Timescale Announces New Database Cloud (timescale.com)
		119 points by manigandham on Oct 5, 2021 \| 54 comments
24.		Drones Raining from the Sky in Zhengzhou (twitter.com/pitdesi)
		314 points by freddier on Oct 5, 2021 \| 123 comments
25.		Asahi Linux for M1 Macs: progress report for September 2021 (asahilinux.org)
		474 points by fanf2 on Oct 5, 2021 \| 186 comments
26.		Stripe Press (stripe.com)
		357 points by Brajeshwar on Oct 5, 2021 \| 92 comments
27.		We need to take CO2 out of the sky (orbuch.com)
		193 points by jseliger on Oct 5, 2021 \| 304 comments
28.		Update about the October 4th outage (fb.com)
		274 points by ve55 on Oct 5, 2021 \| 224 comments
29.		A quick note on airships (2020) (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)
		99 points by GDC7 on Oct 5, 2021 \| 103 comments
30.		PayPal raises fees for most domestic transaction types to 3.49% + $0.49 (paypal.com)
		337 points by kaslai on Oct 5, 2021 \| 243 comments
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