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1. Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources (reuters.com)
1778 points by spenvo on Aug 12, 2021 | 813 comments
2. A future for SQL on the web (jlongster.com)
925 points by rasmusfabbe on Aug 12, 2021 | 218 comments
3. The deceptive PR behind Apple’s “expanded protections for children” (piotr.is)
753 points by arespredator on Aug 12, 2021 | 571 comments
4. Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings (fishdraw.glitch.me)
614 points by sigil on Aug 12, 2021 | 87 comments
5. Internet of Snitches (puri.sm)
632 points by nicolaslem on Aug 12, 2021 | 275 comments
6. Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support (github.com/samschott)
428 points by daniel_iversen on Aug 11, 2021 | 200 comments
7. Mosh: The Mobile Shell (mosh.org)
449 points by chrisaycock on Aug 12, 2021 | 153 comments
8. Git password authentication is shutting down (github.blog)
440 points by judge2020 on Aug 12, 2021 | 339 comments
9. Typography in Alien (2014) (typesetinthefuture.com)
300 points by tosh on Aug 12, 2021 | 97 comments
10. ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning (0ver.org)
570 points by polm23 on Aug 12, 2021 | 262 comments
11. Darts: A Python library for easy manipulation and forecasting of time series (github.com/unit8co)
239 points by grzracz on Aug 12, 2021 | 43 comments
12. Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP addresses (torrentfreak.com)
385 points by TangerineDream on Aug 11, 2021 | 496 comments
13. Life Improvements Since the 1990s (gwern.net)
424 points by janhenr on Aug 12, 2021 | 462 comments
14. Overthinking (kerkour.com)
195 points by danielsokil on Aug 12, 2021 | 72 comments
15. Fault Injection Attacks Against AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (arxiv.org)
167 points by sevest on Aug 12, 2021 | 61 comments
16. Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches (cnet.com)
225 points by dmitryminkovsky on Aug 12, 2021 | 252 comments
17. Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #6
104 points by dang on Aug 12, 2021 | 114 comments
18. Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship (eff.org)
618 points by taxyovio on Aug 11, 2021 | 303 comments
19. Reddit raises $410M in new funding (nytimes.com)
243 points by infodocket on Aug 12, 2021 | 480 comments
20. Poly Network hacker returns $258M after stealing $600M (forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano)
191 points by paulpauper on Aug 12, 2021 | 296 comments
21. Packaging Con 2021: a conference for package management devs and communities (packaging-con.org)
108 points by droelf on Aug 12, 2021 | 38 comments
22. The Machine Stops (1909) [pdf] (ucdavis.edu)
129 points by animal_spirits on Aug 11, 2021 | 38 comments
23. Physicists Create a Bizarre ‘Wigner Crystal’ Made Purely of Electrons (quantamagazine.org)
132 points by theafh on Aug 12, 2021 | 38 comments
24. “Raiders of the Lost Ark” Story Conference Transcript (1978) (nloewen.com)
115 points by samclemens on Aug 10, 2021 | 55 comments
25. Single cortical neurons as deep artificial neural networks (sciencedirect.com)
164 points by nabla9 on Aug 12, 2021 | 133 comments
26. Thunderbird 91.0 (thunderbird.net)
338 points by commoner on Aug 12, 2021 | 258 comments
27. Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM (intel.com)
183 points by pella on Aug 11, 2021 | 163 comments
28. Nearest neighbor indexes for similarity search (pinecone.io)
125 points by gk1 on Aug 11, 2021 | 23 comments
29. Commodore 64 BASIC and KERNAL on Atari 8-bit hardware (github.com/unbibium)
92 points by TMWNN on Aug 12, 2021 | 38 comments
30. Intro to Deep Learning (sebastianraschka.com)
189 points by tbau50 on Aug 12, 2021 | 19 comments

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