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1. Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes (github.com/yt-dlp)
822 points by makeworld on Aug 26, 2021 | 332 comments
2. TSMC hikes chip prices up to 20% amid supply shortage (nikkei.com)
630 points by giuliomagnifico on Aug 26, 2021 | 596 comments
3. I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple (markosaric.com)
679 points by miles on Aug 26, 2021 | 838 comments
4. Work Hard (2007) (terrytao.wordpress.com)
416 points by somerandomness on Aug 26, 2021 | 188 comments
5. The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy (edwardsnowden.substack.com)
861 points by ttctciyf on Aug 26, 2021 | 380 comments
6. Canistilluse.com (jim-nielsen.com)
555 points by sjs382 on Aug 26, 2021 | 361 comments
7. My dead dad’s journal (seanblanda.com)
472 points by pgcm1 on Aug 24, 2021 | 95 comments
8. My Tungsten Cube (2019) (thume.ca)
288 points by defaulty on Aug 26, 2021 | 330 comments
9. Silent changes to Western Digital’s budget SSD may lower speeds by up to 50% (arstechnica.com)
386 points by elsewhen on Aug 26, 2021 | 104 comments
10. There is no such thing as a “glibc based alpine image” (ariadne.space)
290 points by Tomte on Aug 26, 2021 | 198 comments
11. The Clickbaitification of Netflix (slate.com)
346 points by thrusong on Aug 24, 2021 | 307 comments
12. Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search engine in 2021 (9to5mac.com)
348 points by miles on Aug 26, 2021 | 324 comments
13. The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes (2018) (jdlm.info)
209 points by duck on Aug 26, 2021 | 50 comments
14. Sailfish 4 (sailfishos.org)
375 points by nabla9 on Aug 26, 2021 | 144 comments
15. The rise of user-hostile software (den.dev)
456 points by dend on Aug 24, 2021 | 283 comments
16. Writing a simple JSON library from scratch: a tour through modern C++ (eatonphil.com)
161 points by eatonphil on Aug 26, 2021 | 113 comments
17. Thousands of Debian packages updated from their upstream Git repository (jelmer.uk)
159 points by ecliptik on Aug 25, 2021 | 55 comments
18. The dream of carbon air capture edges toward reality (yale.edu)
215 points by elsewhen on Aug 26, 2021 | 290 comments
19. Why are hyperlinks blue? (blog.mozilla.org)
348 points by TangerineDream on Aug 26, 2021 | 255 comments
20. Why can't we just give steroids to people with muscular dystrophy? (trevorklee.com)
153 points by klevertree on Aug 25, 2021 | 121 comments
21. Jsc: My New Best Friend (furbo.org)
105 points by ingve on Aug 25, 2021 | 43 comments
22. LimeSDR (limemicro.com)
122 points by octopoc on Aug 26, 2021 | 126 comments
23. Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else (ft.com)
224 points by robbiet480 on Aug 25, 2021 | 455 comments
24. T-Mobile Hacker Who Stole Data on 50M Customers: ‘Their Security Is Awful’ (wsj.com)
248 points by jbegley on Aug 26, 2021 | 128 comments
25. The Chief People Officer as PM (firstround.com)
81 points by elsewhen on Aug 26, 2021 | 33 comments
26. Squatters in Spain who demand a "ransom" before they will leave a property (bbc.com)
230 points by gumby on Aug 26, 2021 | 450 comments
27. FBI Palantir glitch allowed unauthorized access to private data (nypost.com)
206 points by grej on Aug 26, 2021 | 57 comments
28. Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme disease vaccine candidate (pfizer.com)
350 points by pama on Aug 26, 2021 | 248 comments
29. Rent control isn’t working in Sweden (bbc.com)
254 points by ZeljkoS on Aug 26, 2021 | 481 comments
30. Immunity Generated from Covid-19 Vaccines Differs from an Infection (nih.gov)
240 points by rolph on Aug 26, 2021 | 231 comments

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