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1.PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations (github.com/nuvious)
763 points by xanthine on Aug 22, 2021 | 343 comments
2.Google’s ‘Project Hug’ paid out huge sums to keep game devs in the Play Store (theverge.com)
688 points by davweb on Aug 19, 2021 | 472 comments
3.Google says geofence warrants make up one-quarter of all US demands (techcrunch.com)
387 points by arkadiyt on Aug 22, 2021 | 259 comments
4.How to deliver constructive feedback in difficult situations (2019) (productivityhub.org)
302 points by ff7f00 on Aug 22, 2021 | 84 comments
5.ASML, a $300B Dutch firm, makes the machines that make semiconductors (twitter.com/trungtphan)
575 points by deegles on Aug 22, 2021 | 262 comments
6.A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged on disputed AI evidence (theregister.com)
372 points by Bender on Aug 22, 2021 | 204 comments
7.FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source (fsnot.es)
298 points by codetrotter on Aug 22, 2021 | 157 comments
8.How can we make air conditioners more efficient? [video] (youtube.com)
371 points by zeristor on Aug 22, 2021 | 216 comments
9.A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap (ieee.org)
223 points by PikelEmi on Aug 22, 2021 | 258 comments
10.We built a system like Apple’s to flag CSAM and concluded the tech was dangerous (washingtonpost.com)
425 points by Copernicron on Aug 19, 2021 | 119 comments
11.How to Remember What You Read (fs.blog)
330 points by ajoy on Aug 21, 2021 | 91 comments
12.Bringing the Unix philosophy to the 21st century (2019) (kellybrazil.com)
238 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 22, 2021 | 146 comments
13.Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticated' drone near Tucson (thedrive.com)
275 points by kordlessagain on Aug 21, 2021 | 257 comments
14.One does not simply calculate the absolute value (habr.com)
172 points by mot2ba on Aug 22, 2021 | 104 comments
15.The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental health, healthier economy (telegraph.co.uk)
312 points by mrfusion on Aug 22, 2021 | 421 comments
16.WinFsp – Windows File System Proxy (github.com/billziss-gh)
184 points by mkotowski on Aug 22, 2021 | 53 comments
17.The Pyret Programming Language (pyret.org)
210 points by kristianp on Aug 22, 2021 | 134 comments
18.The Peril of Politicizing Science [pdf] (usc.edu)
186 points by vikrum on Aug 22, 2021 | 141 comments
19.Gitfs: Version Controlled File System (presslabs.com)
189 points by pabs3 on Aug 22, 2021 | 58 comments
20.Japan is holding back as the world rushes toward electric cars (nytimes.com)
216 points by bamboozled on Aug 22, 2021 | 346 comments
21.Working towards a source-based bootstrapping path to a GNU+Linux system (bootstrappable.org)
97 points by podiki on Aug 22, 2021 | 19 comments
22.I was there when the DC-8 went supersonic (airspacemag.com)
131 points by areoform on Aug 22, 2021 | 41 comments
23.Expert help needed to decode rare piece of space history: Lunokhod data tapes (attivissimo.blogspot.com)
148 points by pamoroso on Aug 21, 2021 | 45 comments
24.Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours? (twitter.com/politic_animal)
209 points by footest on Aug 22, 2021 | 128 comments
25.DNS alias mode (2020) (github.com/acmesh-official)
108 points by throw0101a on Aug 21, 2021 | 34 comments
26.The Triple Revolution (wikipedia.org)
75 points by benbreen on Aug 19, 2021 | 47 comments
27.Airliner Number 4 (wikipedia.org)
85 points by birriel on Aug 21, 2021 | 8 comments
28.The Tail End (2015) (waitbutwhy.com)
64 points by gmays on Aug 19, 2021 | 3 comments
29.Data Wrangler (observablehq.com)
72 points by polm23 on Aug 21, 2021 | 8 comments
30.AWS doesn’t know who I am (ben11kehoe.medium.com)
125 points by kiyanwang on Aug 22, 2021 | 116 comments

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