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1. Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life (eff.org)
2260 points by bbatsell on Aug 5, 2021 | 824 comments
2. Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech (foundation.mozilla.org)
728 points by heyhillary on Aug 5, 2021 | 170 comments
3. Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow (twitter.com/matthew_d_green)
1182 points by robbiet480 on Aug 5, 2021 | 724 comments
4. Airyx OS (airyx.org)
699 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 5, 2021 | 254 comments
5. Kid Pix as a JavaScript App (kidpix.app)
413 points by Evansbee on Aug 5, 2021 | 89 comments
6. Giraffes are as socially complex as elephants (cnn.com)
278 points by Tomte on Aug 5, 2021 | 92 comments
7. Facebook’s claims about the Ad Observer are wrong (blog.mozilla.org)
296 points by rbanffy on Aug 5, 2021 | 105 comments
8. SAML Is Insecure by Design (joonas.fi)
300 points by aj3 on Aug 4, 2021 | 180 comments
9. Reverse Engineering the M1 [pdf] (blackhat.com)
224 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 5, 2021 | 52 comments
10. Emacs' org-mode gets citation support (tecosaur.com)
234 points by NeutralForest on Aug 3, 2021 | 64 comments
11. Show HN: Visualizing a Codebase (octo.github.com)
283 points by wattenberger on Aug 5, 2021 | 96 comments
12. Personal Computing on an Amiga in 2021 (thedorkweb.substack.com)
214 points by shortformblog on Aug 5, 2021 | 138 comments
13. Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4
130 points by dang on Aug 5, 2021 | 161 comments
14. Mathematicians solve decades-old classification problem (quantamagazine.org)
155 points by theafh on Aug 5, 2021 | 45 comments
15. How PostgreSQL aggregation works and how it inspired our hyperfunctions’ design (timescale.com)
188 points by LoriP on Aug 5, 2021 | 31 comments
16. Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship (axios.com)
447 points by SirLJ on Aug 5, 2021 | 835 comments
17. Arcology: The city in the image of man (1969) (organism.earth)
82 points by simonebrunozzi on Aug 5, 2021 | 37 comments
18. Slitter: A slab allocator that trusts, but verifies (backtrace.io)
108 points by jsnell on Aug 4, 2021 | 31 comments
19. SQLite Is Dynamically Typed (2020) (zachwf.com)
135 points by zachthewf on Aug 3, 2021 | 122 comments
20. Facebook executive helped Cuomo smear sex-harassment accuser: AG report (nypost.com)
438 points by snomad on Aug 5, 2021 | 269 comments
21. Build your own SPARC workstation (adafruit.com)
139 points by marcodiego on Aug 5, 2021 | 54 comments
22. The human ear detects half a millisecond delay in sound (aalto.fi)
242 points by pizza on Aug 5, 2021 | 142 comments
23. Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks (serokell.io)
150 points by aroccoli on Aug 3, 2021 | 22 comments
24. System on SO-DIMM (twitter.com/foone)
138 points by _Microft on Aug 5, 2021 | 73 comments
25. Growing open source from Torch to PyTorch (soumith.ch)
78 points by plinkplonk on Aug 2, 2021 | 23 comments
26. An attempt at demystifying graph deep learning (ericmjl.github.io)
87 points by jonathanbgn on Aug 3, 2021 | 20 comments
27. Comma Three [video] (youtube.com)
186 points by hack_ml on Aug 5, 2021 | 87 comments
28. Mario Paint Masterpiece (charlieharrington.com)
143 points by whatrocks on Aug 4, 2021 | 57 comments
29. Who Is Your Audience? (leejo.github.io)
46 points by leejo on Aug 5, 2021 | 3 comments
30. Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two years (washingtonpost.com)
302 points by jbegley on Aug 5, 2021 | 253 comments

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