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1. An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning (github.com/nadimkobeissi)
1082 points by yewenjie on Aug 7, 2021 | 430 comments
2. In internal memo, Apple addresses concerns around new Photo scanning features (9to5mac.com)
596 points by goindeep on Aug 7, 2021 | 406 comments
3. Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence (nzz.ch)
694 points by ipnon on Aug 7, 2021 | 332 comments
4. Very fast rocket (makc.github.io)
373 points by naetius on Aug 7, 2021 | 100 comments
5. Powering the Lunar Base (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)
176 points by mercutio2 on Aug 7, 2021 | 242 comments
6. Open-source intelligence challenges state monopolies on information (economist.com)
202 points by helsinkiandrew on Aug 7, 2021 | 32 comments
7. Framework Patterns (2019) (startifact.com)
175 points by rbanffy on Aug 7, 2021 | 43 comments
8. Body mapping study suggests chronic pain comes in nine distinct types (sciencealert.com)
172 points by lnyan on Aug 6, 2021 | 54 comments
9. Show HN: Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast (papertime.app)
161 points by pramodbiligiri on Aug 6, 2021 | 36 comments
10. Show HN: Object Detection in an Hour (strayrobots.io)
166 points by kekeblom on Aug 7, 2021 | 34 comments
11. Introduction To Program Synthesis (2018) (csail.mit.edu)
132 points by optimalsolver on Aug 7, 2021 | 20 comments
12. After DeepMind’s cofounder was placed on leave for bullying, Google promoted him (morningbrew.com)
402 points by thereare5lights on Aug 7, 2021 | 324 comments
13. Looking into Zig (ayende.com)
242 points by GordonS on Aug 6, 2021 | 121 comments
14. Feelings at the Fall of the Republic, Ancient and Medieval Living Standards (acoup.blog)
142 points by picture on Aug 6, 2021 | 83 comments
15. Richard Stallman and the History of Free Software and Open Source (2016) (cmpod.net)
149 points by sanmak on Aug 6, 2021 | 98 comments
16. A USB adapter for a classic Depraz mouse (jfloren.net)
84 points by floren on Aug 7, 2021 | 24 comments
17. Bug in Lynx's SSL certificate validation – leaks password in clear text via SNI (openwall.com)
202 points by jwilk on Aug 7, 2021 | 65 comments
18. A giant crawling brain: the world of termites (2018) (theguardian.com)
72 points by NotSwift on Aug 6, 2021 | 14 comments
19. The logic behind three random words (ncsc.gov.uk)
75 points by DicIfTEx on Aug 6, 2021 | 87 comments
20. In praise of habits (psyche.co)
92 points by pseudolus on Aug 6, 2021 | 16 comments
21. The Mystery of the Giant Clams of the Red Sea and Indian Ocean (2020) (dantheclamman.blog)
79 points by dan-robertson on Aug 6, 2021 | 6 comments
22. NOAA Smoke Forecast Model Visualization (noaa.gov)
86 points by pizza on Aug 7, 2021 | 11 comments
23. Ray Tracing Gems II (realtimerendering.com)
89 points by ingve on Aug 7, 2021 | 1 comment
24. With a nudge from AI, ketamine emerges as a potential rare disease treatment (statnews.com)
167 points by hassanahmad on Aug 7, 2021 | 133 comments
25. What it was like developing for NES back in 1990 (twitter.com/kevedwardsretro)
230 points by _Microft on Aug 7, 2021 | 60 comments
26. Everything has changed in iOS 14, but Jailbreak is eternal [pdf] (blackhat.com)
191 points by clubdorothe on Aug 7, 2021 | 64 comments
27. Why Disney World doesn't have mosquitoes (greenmatters.com)
262 points by jbonniwell on Aug 6, 2021 | 125 comments
28. Ulam Spiral (wikipedia.org)
64 points by tosh on Aug 6, 2021 | 19 comments
29. Ancient fish traps in a Vancouver Island estuary (hakaimagazine.com)
73 points by diodorus on Aug 6, 2021 | 9 comments
30. Qatar Airways grounds 13 Airbus A350s as fuselage degrading (msn.com)
129 points by jryle70 on Aug 7, 2021 | 66 comments

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