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1. Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition (alda.io)
490 points by p1esk on Aug 16, 2021 | 120 comments
2. Widelands is a free, open-source real-time strategy game (widelands.org)
713 points by doener on Aug 16, 2021 | 177 comments
3. T-Mobile investigating claims of 100M customer data breach (reuters.com)
425 points by hourislate on Aug 15, 2021 | 192 comments
4. Economic costs of war (brown.edu)
666 points by hncurious on Aug 16, 2021 | 573 comments
5. T-Mobile Confirms It Was Hacked (vice.com)
432 points by jbegley on Aug 16, 2021 | 251 comments
6. Email Authenticity 101: DKIM, Dmarc, and SPF (alexblackie.com)
480 points by alexblackie on Aug 16, 2021 | 119 comments
7. LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps (leafletjs.com)
361 points by x14km2d on Aug 16, 2021 | 87 comments
8. Many Americans not aware of being tracked with facial recognition while shopping (techradar.com)
374 points by thunderbong on Aug 16, 2021 | 359 comments
9. A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics (bit-101.com)
365 points by ingve on Aug 16, 2021 | 105 comments
10. Why is it so hard to be rational? (newyorker.com)
354 points by ubuwaits on Aug 16, 2021 | 295 comments
11. Discontinuing FlickType Keyboard for iPhone (twitter.com/flicktype)
503 points by keleftheriou on Aug 16, 2021 | 164 comments
12. Nokia 9000 Communicator was launched 25 years ago (dw.com)
189 points by samizdis on Aug 16, 2021 | 138 comments
13. Classical data structures that can outperform learned indexes (2018) (stanford.edu)
252 points by signa11 on Aug 16, 2021 | 39 comments
14. Object-Oriented Entity-Component-System Design (voxely.net)
141 points by agluszak on Aug 16, 2021 | 112 comments
15. U.S. opens probe into Tesla’s Autopilot over emergency vehicle crashes (reuters.com)
391 points by etimberg on Aug 16, 2021 | 486 comments
16. Why Doesn't Software Show Up in Productivity? (eth.link)
218 points by Wildgoose on Aug 16, 2021 | 207 comments
17. Computer simulation helps test land management techniques to help bumblebees (exeter.ac.uk)
143 points by rbanffy on Aug 16, 2021 | 28 comments
18. Show HN: Burst – start a cloud server, run your code, turn it off (burstable.ai)
165 points by danbmil99 on Aug 15, 2021 | 51 comments
19. Plaid settled $58M lawsuit over alleged consumer data sharing (finledger.com)
256 points by exotree on Aug 16, 2021 | 147 comments
20. To remember everything you learn, surrender to this algorithm (2008) (wired.com)
215 points by sanmak on Aug 16, 2021 | 110 comments
21. Nerds don't respond to marketing; try technical documentation instead (hackernoon.com)
345 points by mooreds on Aug 14, 2021 | 238 comments
22. How to avoid being hit by a laser in a room of mirrors [video] (youtube.com)
262 points by sigil on Aug 16, 2021 | 91 comments
23. Let's write a compiler, part 3: A parser (briancallahan.net)
141 points by ingve on Aug 16, 2021 | 50 comments
24. Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
161 points by MahyadGhassemi on Aug 16, 2021 | 325 comments
25. Pico-1K Jam: Make Something Cool in Pico-8 in 1024 Characters (itch.io)
129 points by polm23 on Aug 16, 2021 | 20 comments
26. TikTok requests access to devices on local network (twitter.com/crobertsbmw)
323 points by hacky_engineer on Aug 16, 2021 | 152 comments
27. Progress Quest (progressquest.com)
92 points by vector_spaces on Aug 15, 2021 | 24 comments
28. What domain name to use for your home network (ctrl.blog)
232 points by miles on Aug 15, 2021 | 168 comments
29. Zx 3.0 (github.com/google)
189 points by medv on Aug 16, 2021 | 163 comments
30. Fernando Pessoa: Office Worker, Occultist, Galaxy of Writers (nytimes.com)
102 points by CrocodileStreet on Aug 15, 2021 | 16 comments

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