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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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