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1. CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative (calyxos.org)
1010 points by ssklash on Aug 6, 2021 | 477 comments
2. The Problem with Perceptual Hashes (rentafounder.com)
705 points by rivo on Aug 6, 2021 | 418 comments
3. An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology (appleprivacyletter.com)
1187 points by nomoretime on Aug 6, 2021 | 670 comments
4. New UUID Formats – IETF Draft (ietf.org)
525 points by anuragsoni on Aug 6, 2021 | 245 comments
5. Surveys show Americans want more walkable cities (governing.com)
553 points by jseliger on Aug 6, 2021 | 356 comments
6. Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competition point of view (quintarelli.it)
451 points by simonebrunozzi on Aug 6, 2021 | 287 comments
7. On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Personal Story (areoform.wordpress.com)
961 points by areoform on Aug 6, 2021 | 522 comments
8. Scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthier and smarter (sciencemag.org)
476 points by sohkamyung on Aug 6, 2021 | 445 comments
9. U.S. FTC says Facebook misused privacy decree to shut down ad research (reuters.com)
438 points by ceejayoz on Aug 6, 2021 | 112 comments
10. Dating in Delhi when you're poor (reuters.com)
358 points by hidden-spyder on Aug 6, 2021 | 268 comments
11. LÖVR – An open source framework for rapidly building immersive 3D experiences (lovr.org)
385 points by wsc981 on Aug 6, 2021 | 122 comments
12. Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people
377 points by Uzo0312 on Aug 6, 2021 | 741 comments
13. Atlantic Ocean currents weaken, signalling big weather changes: study (reuters.com)
262 points by gmays on Aug 6, 2021 | 157 comments
14. Reflections on 10k Hours of Programming (matt-rickard.com)
421 points by herbertl on Aug 6, 2021 | 215 comments
15. HTTP/2-exclusive threats caused by implementation flaws and RFC imperfections (portswigger.net)
393 points by Berg0X00 on Aug 5, 2021 | 112 comments
16. Learning APL (xpqz.github.io)
199 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 6, 2021 | 102 comments
17. Bones hoarded by hyenas over thousands of years (smithsonianmag.com)
145 points by pseudolus on Aug 6, 2021 | 38 comments
18. Show HN: Open-source A/B testing framework (github.com/growthbook)
199 points by cheeseblubber on Aug 6, 2021 | 37 comments
19. The Drunken Bishop Algorithm (jfurness.uk)
168 points by palsecam on Aug 5, 2021 | 41 comments
20. Letter from Acting Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection to Facebook (ftc.gov)
186 points by donohoe on Aug 6, 2021 | 44 comments
21. Postgres.app (postgresapp.com)
325 points by simonebrunozzi on Aug 6, 2021 | 154 comments
22. Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroying mistake (2020) (iism.org)
290 points by vimes656 on Aug 6, 2021 | 200 comments
23. Whistleblowers expose corruption in EPA Chemical Safety Office (theintercept.com)
253 points by voisin on Aug 6, 2021 | 62 comments
24. A cocktail of pesticides, parasites and hunger leaves bees down and out (nature.com)
227 points by lnyan on Aug 6, 2021 | 102 comments
25. Apophenia: How the Internet Transforms the Individual into a Conspiracy of One (edwardsnowden.substack.com)
164 points by mcone on Aug 5, 2021 | 30 comments
26. Stanford AIMI releases free open-source repository of medical datasets (stanford.edu)
103 points by panabee on Aug 5, 2021 | 17 comments
27. The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy (karl-voit.at)
175 points by fipar on Aug 6, 2021 | 265 comments
28. Launch HN: Arengu (YC S21) – Frictionless Signup Flows
84 points by jacobovidal on Aug 6, 2021 | 36 comments
29. “People have asked if we'll adopt this system for WhatsApp. The answer is no.” (twitter.com/wcathcart)
298 points by amadeuspagel on Aug 6, 2021 | 181 comments
30. Years of fighting every wildfire helped fuel the Western megafires of today (theconversation.com)
232 points by onychomys on Aug 5, 2021 | 175 comments

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