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1. Weird Languages (paulgraham.com)
472 points by razin on Aug 28, 2021 | 508 comments
2. I hacked an office telephone to play Doom (neilbostian.github.io)
442 points by joshmanders on Aug 27, 2021 | 57 comments
3. FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent (twitter.com/kylejohnmorris)
608 points by votick on Aug 28, 2021 | 447 comments
4. Zoom RCE from Pwn2Own 2021 (computest.nl)
262 points by xnyhps on Aug 28, 2021 | 122 comments
5. The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks (theguardian.com)
675 points by shivbhatt on Aug 28, 2021 | 346 comments
6. Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month (metameme.app)
418 points by par on Aug 27, 2021 | 217 comments
7. The Future of discord.py (gist.github.com)
493 points by AngelOnFira on Aug 28, 2021 | 163 comments
8. Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs (arstechnica.com)
315 points by DisjointedHunt on Aug 28, 2021 | 129 comments
9. NetBSD Booting on the Apple M1 (twitter.com/jmcwhatever)
191 points by jmmv on Aug 28, 2021 | 115 comments
10. Next-gen chips will be powered from below (ieee.org)
164 points by jonbaer on Aug 28, 2021 | 82 comments
11. LucidVR open source force feedback VR gloves (github.com/lucidvr)
170 points by danboarder on Aug 28, 2021 | 40 comments
12. Some Reasons to Measure (danluu.com)
201 points by cdwhite on Aug 27, 2021 | 17 comments
13. A comment in Hacker News led Girish Mathrubootham to create Freshworks (2019) (yourstory.com)
120 points by sarathyweb on Aug 28, 2021 | 30 comments
14. EU agency advises against using search and browsing history for credit scores (therecord.media)
192 points by imagine99 on Aug 28, 2021 | 117 comments
15. Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD (bsdly.blogspot.com)
99 points by elchief on Aug 27, 2021 | 38 comments
16. After 18 years, SCO's IBM litigation may be settled for $14.5M (slashdot.org)
140 points by MilnerRoute on Aug 28, 2021 | 112 comments
17. This Is Water (2005) (fs.blog)
163 points by mrpf1ster on Aug 28, 2021 | 75 comments
18. Unit testing a TCP stack (2015) (snellman.net)
135 points by PuercoPop on Aug 26, 2021 | 35 comments
19. Zero Shot Object Tracking (roboflow.com)
83 points by jonbaer on Aug 26, 2021 | 12 comments
20. Climate change will alter where many crops are grown (economist.com)
175 points by axiomdata316 on Aug 28, 2021 | 172 comments
21. When correlation is better than causation (narrator.ai)
70 points by mattjstar on Aug 27, 2021 | 37 comments
22. AT&T Archives: The Unix Operating System [video] (1982) (youtube.com)
143 points by neilpanchal on Aug 28, 2021 | 28 comments
23. Show HN: Simple tool for creating command-line bar charts (github.com/turkeymcmac)
86 points by jwmhjwmh on Aug 28, 2021 | 23 comments
24. Tupolev Tu-144: The Soviets' doomed rival to Concorde (2017) (cnn.com)
101 points by Tomte on Aug 28, 2021 | 136 comments
25. Familia Toledo: The most inexpensive computer USD $99.00 (biyubi.com)
113 points by graderjs on Aug 28, 2021 | 69 comments
26. The problem of effects in Rust (2020) (without.boats)
92 points by agluszak on Aug 27, 2021 | 45 comments
27. Emacs Modernization: Simple Changes Emacs Should Adopt (2006) (ergoemacs.org)
112 points by AJRF on Aug 28, 2021 | 169 comments
28. Burning a Magnesium NextCube (1993) (simson.net)
122 points by detaro on Aug 27, 2021 | 23 comments
29. Apple can read your iMessages (even though they’re E2E encrypted) (reddit.com)
304 points by decrypt on Aug 28, 2021 | 131 comments
30. Mental health impacts of a big tech job (oilyraincloud.com)
237 points by gixo on Aug 27, 2021 | 182 comments

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