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1. TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app (nikkei.com)
1007 points by em500 on Aug 10, 2021 | 679 comments
2. Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020) (reuters.com)
847 points by Crash0v3rid3 on Aug 10, 2021 | 218 comments
3. Firefox 91 introduces enhanced cookie clearing (blog.mozilla.org)
695 points by arthuredelstein on Aug 10, 2021 | 224 comments
4. Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US (culdesac.com)
597 points by foofoo4u on Aug 10, 2021 | 365 comments
5. Please log in with router's password (google.com)
583 points by fny on Aug 10, 2021 | 255 comments
6. Elementary OS 6 Odin (elementary.io)
547 points by jdhawk on Aug 10, 2021 | 319 comments
7. Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world’s hyper-polluting power plants (oilprice.com)
451 points by vimy on Aug 9, 2021 | 114 comments
8. Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn (thecounter.org)
353 points by walterbell on Aug 10, 2021 | 184 comments
9. American parents are sending their kids to 'Russian math' (2017) (wbur.org)
465 points by b8 on Aug 9, 2021 | 525 comments
10. OpenAI Codex (openai.com)
372 points by e0m on Aug 10, 2021 | 174 comments
11. How to Hack APIs in 2021 (detectify.com)
334 points by sharestuff on Aug 10, 2021 | 89 comments
12. JPL's Plan for the Next Mars Helicopter (ieee.org)
170 points by samizdis on Aug 10, 2021 | 110 comments
13. Crows have been shown to understand the concept of zero (quantamagazine.org)
231 points by digital55 on Aug 10, 2021 | 157 comments
14. Apple says photos in iCloud will be checked by child abuse detection system (reuters.com)
461 points by shivbhatt on Aug 10, 2021 | 501 comments
15. Stages of Denial (beyondloom.com)
225 points by clashmeifyoucan on Aug 9, 2021 | 117 comments
16. MinIO: A Bare Metal Drop-In for AWS S3 (marksblogg.com)
260 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 10, 2021 | 120 comments
17. Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #5
116 points by dang on Aug 10, 2021 | 121 comments
18. How far could a spaceship go if we never ran out of thrust? (2020) (forbes.com/sites/startswithabang)
280 points by ec109685 on Aug 10, 2021 | 331 comments
19. Turn your Android phone into SMS API gateway (github.com/traccar)
242 points by tananaev on Aug 10, 2021 | 118 comments
20. Unity to acquire Parsec for $320M (unity.com)
198 points by charlietran on Aug 10, 2021 | 88 comments
21. When zero cost abstractions aren't zero cost (polybdenum.com)
166 points by harporoeder on Aug 9, 2021 | 97 comments
22. Flawed data led to a connection between time spent on devices and mental health (theconversation.com)
172 points by monort on Aug 8, 2021 | 121 comments
23. What happens if you stick your head in a particle accelerator? (2017) (aeon.co)
116 points by sakopov on Aug 9, 2021 | 48 comments
24. Vue 3.2 (vuejs.org)
289 points by web2033 on Aug 10, 2021 | 151 comments
25. Incentives in Computer Science (columbia.edu)
154 points by simonpure on Aug 9, 2021 | 10 comments
26. Does this medieval fresco show a hallucinogenic mushroom in the Garden of Eden? (atlasobscura.com)
95 points by prismatic on Aug 9, 2021 | 106 comments
27. Newly designed 'smart' insulin could improve type 1 diabetes treatment (sciencealert.com)
113 points by lnyan on Aug 9, 2021 | 50 comments
28. Google employees who work from home could lose money (reuters.com)
380 points by pseudolus on Aug 10, 2021 | 681 comments
29. $600M taken in largest DeFi hack to date (blockworks.co)
324 points by carlgreene on Aug 10, 2021 | 339 comments
30. The Top Shelf Principle (2019) (listed.to)
120 points by gurjeet on Aug 9, 2021 | 25 comments

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