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31. Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in 24 hours (tutanota.com)
508 points by ghoda on Aug 31, 2021 | 361 comments
32. Glean – System for collecting, deriving and querying facts about source code (glean.software)
213 points by dons on Aug 31, 2021 | 81 comments
33. Judge in Nokia and Apple lawsuit owned Apple stock during proceedings (appleinsider.com)
227 points by decrypt on Aug 31, 2021 | 63 comments
34. Reasonable Person Principle (2009) (cmu.edu)
152 points by Tomte on Aug 31, 2021 | 109 comments
35. Zoom court hearing postponed after accused found in same location as witness (sturgisjournal.com)
232 points by georgecmu on Aug 31, 2021 | 167 comments
36. Pen Plotter Art and Algorithms, Part 1 (2017) (mattdesl.svbtle.com)
75 points by Tomte on Aug 30, 2021 | 25 comments
37. Navajo Water Project (uswateralliance.org)
73 points by DoreenMichele on Aug 31, 2021 | 9 comments
38. The U.S. Army tried portable nuclear power at remote bases 60 years ago (atlasobscura.com)
111 points by bcaulfield on Aug 31, 2021 | 151 comments
39. PostgreSQL Subtransactions Considered Harmful (postgres.ai)
110 points by samokhvalov on Aug 31, 2021 | 41 comments
40. Clinging Desperately to a Metaphor (2011) (ursulakleguin.com)
158 points by lcam84 on Aug 31, 2021 | 108 comments
41. White House Launches US Digital Corps (fedscoop.com)
160 points by elsewhen on Aug 31, 2021 | 208 comments
42. Chaikin’s Algorithm: Drawing Curves (bit-101.com)
87 points by ingve on Aug 30, 2021 | 12 comments
43. Remind – a sophisticated calendar and alarm program (skoll.ca)
78 points by thunderbong on Aug 31, 2021 | 29 comments
44. More wind energy was installed in 2020 than any other energy source (energy.gov)
151 points by geox on Aug 31, 2021 | 159 comments
45. Generic engine to evaluate logical circuits on homomorphic encryption (github.com/virtualsecureplatform)
38 points by EvgeniyZh on Aug 30, 2021 | 3 comments
46. Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ contaminate indoor air at worrying levels (theguardian.com)
200 points by hiddencache on Aug 31, 2021 | 144 comments
47. [dupe] South Korea will require Apple, Google to allow competing payment systems (wsj.com)
286 points by darrinm on Aug 31, 2021 | 2 comments
48. The ABS Programing Language (abs-lang.org)
61 points by themodelplumber on Aug 28, 2021 | 22 comments
49. Optional Value Handling in Nim (peterme.net)
43 points by mikenew on Aug 30, 2021 | 24 comments
50. Forest Service officials close all California national forests (latimes.com)
191 points by uptown on Aug 31, 2021 | 219 comments
51. Mob justice is trampling democratic discourse (theatlantic.com)
277 points by tysone on Aug 31, 2021 | 273 comments
52. Wild boars are able to open traps to free their fellows (nature.com)
118 points by giuliomagnifico on Aug 30, 2021 | 29 comments
53. Notes Regarding Dupuis’ 1910 Elements of Astronomy [pdf] (gron.ca)
83 points by mymythisisthis on Aug 31, 2021 | 14 comments
54. GCC Rust Monthly Report #9 August 2021 (thephilbert.io)
108 points by ingve on Aug 31, 2021 | 124 comments
55. Australian Police get online account takeover, data disruption powers (itnews.com.au)
148 points by adrian_mrd on Aug 31, 2021 | 83 comments
56. Allbirds S-1 IPO (sec.gov)
103 points by marc__1 on Aug 31, 2021 | 121 comments
57. SPWN – A programming language that compiles to Geometry Dash levels (github.com/spu7nix)
32 points by memorable on Aug 30, 2021 | 3 comments
58. Remind HN: .com prices increase Sep 1, 2021
125 points by ohashi on Aug 31, 2021 | 59 comments
59. Non-Commercial Licenses Are Non-Free Licenses (susam.in)
105 points by susam on Aug 31, 2021 | 158 comments
60. Amplitude (YC W12) IPO S1 (sec.gov)
90 points by alonmower on Aug 31, 2021 | 28 comments

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