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1. Facebook hacker beat my 2FA, bricked my Oculus, and hit the company credit card (codewriteplay.com)
962 points by tosh on Aug 20, 2021 | 366 comments
2. Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt (scotthelme.co.uk)
652 points by Jaruzel on Aug 20, 2021 | 202 comments
3. Manim: An animation engine for explanatory math videos (github.com/manimcommunity)
576 points by agmm on Aug 20, 2021 | 67 comments
4. Performance Improvements in .NET 6 (microsoft.com)
362 points by pjmlp on Aug 18, 2021 | 252 comments
5. FFmpeg for browser and Node, powered by WebAssembly (ffmpegwasm.netlify.app)
274 points by MrRolling on Aug 20, 2021 | 87 comments
6. Chronically lonely flies overeat and lose sleep (nature.com)
173 points by gmays on Aug 20, 2021 | 57 comments
7. Apple explicitly asks employees to merge their personal and work accounts (twitter.com/oilyraincloud)
669 points by luu on Aug 20, 2021 | 344 comments
8. How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry (2015) (fastcompany.com)
233 points by edtechdev on Aug 19, 2021 | 118 comments
9. What is ‘elite overproduction’? (overcomingbias.com)
288 points by cinquemb on Aug 19, 2021 | 351 comments
10. macOS 11’s hidden security improvements (malwarebytes.com)
235 points by ingve on Aug 20, 2021 | 145 comments
11. CS/A65: A 6502 computer with USB, Ethernet and co-processors (6502.org)
132 points by amrcnimgrnt on Aug 20, 2021 | 45 comments
12. Peru is reviving a pre-Incan technology for water (bbc.com)
176 points by midnightcity on Aug 20, 2021 | 69 comments
13. How Does FaceTime Work? (matduggan.com)
196 points by r4um on Aug 19, 2021 | 163 comments
14. 20 Years of Haiku (haiku-os.org)
207 points by bitigchi on Aug 20, 2021 | 119 comments
15. Memfd_secret() in 5.14 (lwn.net)
121 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 20, 2021 | 51 comments
16. The Ruin of War (acoup.blog)
122 points by Tomte on Aug 20, 2021 | 31 comments
17. Cuttlefish remember the what, when, and where of meals, even into old age (arstechnica.com)
96 points by Petiver on Aug 20, 2021 | 20 comments
18. Google's payments team is seeing an exodus of executives and employees (businessinsider.com)
171 points by tim_sw on Aug 20, 2021 | 120 comments
19. The web browser as a tool of thought (thesephist.com)
110 points by tosh on Aug 19, 2021 | 11 comments
20. For precision, the sapphire clock outshines even the best atomic clocks (ieee.org)
117 points by ystad on Aug 19, 2021 | 54 comments
21. View your browser's TLS fingerprint (tlsfingerprint.io)
93 points by jonatron on Aug 20, 2021 | 22 comments
22. Show HN: Sturdy – online-first version control focused on collaboration (getsturdy.com)
94 points by zegl on Aug 18, 2021 | 42 comments
23. Quantum Mechanics of Gravitational Waves (aps.org)
117 points by shusaku on Aug 20, 2021 | 15 comments
24. Claimed AT&T hack of 70M customer records including SSN, name, address (9to5mac.com)
246 points by kingnothing on Aug 20, 2021 | 160 comments
25. From a Single Repo, to Multi-Repos, to Monorepo, to Multi-Monorepo (css-tricks.com)
122 points by leoloso on Aug 18, 2021 | 68 comments
26. The mutation that helps Delta spread (nature.com)
201 points by pseudolus on Aug 20, 2021 | 611 comments
27. Japanese gaming arcades are on their last life (japantimes.co.jp)
145 points by mikhael on Aug 19, 2021 | 66 comments
28. Cproc C Compiler (github.com/michaelforney)
130 points by oenetan on Aug 20, 2021 | 45 comments
29. A collection of free/public APIs you can use to build stuff (github.com/public-apis)
288 points by celue on Aug 19, 2021 | 29 comments
30. Building Container Images with Nix (thewagner.net)
126 points by dboreham on Aug 19, 2021 | 75 comments

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