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31.Big Tech are supposed to be the plumbers, not patricians of internet discourse (bombthrower.com)
300 points by StuntPope on Aug 8, 2021 | 240 comments
32.The Apple Psi System [pdf] (apple.com)
168 points by lavp on Aug 7, 2021 | 98 comments
33.When Encryption Was a Crime: The 1990s Battle for Free Speech in Software (reason.com)
165 points by Overton-Window on Aug 7, 2021 | 26 comments
34.What Irony Is Not (2020) (mitpress.mit.edu)
54 points by elliekelly on Aug 8, 2021 | 41 comments
35.Python, OCaml, and Machine Learning (2020) (signalsandthreads.com)
87 points by tosh on Aug 7, 2021 | 15 comments
36.Making Reasonable Use of Computer Resources (vfoley.xyz)
90 points by Hell_World on Aug 7, 2021 | 30 comments
37.Bringing NetBSD to Zig's Continuous Integration (lavatech.top)
118 points by jayp1418 on Aug 8, 2021 | 9 comments
38.SpaceX is buying communications smallsat operator Swarm Technologies (fcc.report)
93 points by caiobegotti on Aug 8, 2021 | 25 comments
39.Put This In Your Pipe (2013) (julialang.org)
62 points by agluszak on Aug 8, 2021 | 1 comment
40.Google “contemplated buying some or all of Epic” to stop “contagion” (rockpapershotgun.com)
223 points by haunter on Aug 8, 2021 | 180 comments
41.MusicXML and Percussion Notation (chriskrycho.com)
84 points by goranmoomin on Aug 8, 2021 | 26 comments
42.FEC Asks Congress to Ban Prechecked Recurring Donation Boxes (nytimes.com)
182 points by geox on Aug 8, 2021 | 53 comments
43.The Local Minima of Suckiness (veekaybee.github.io)
76 points by r4um on Aug 8, 2021 | 28 comments
44.Droidlet, a one-stop shop for modularly building intelligent agents (facebook.com)
52 points by T-A on Aug 7, 2021 | 6 comments
45.Tesseract.js – A Javascript port of the Tesseract OCR engine (projectnaptha.com)
132 points by kiyanwang on Aug 8, 2021 | 37 comments
46.Working with Postgres Types (jonudell.net)
65 points by alainchabat on Aug 7, 2021 | 27 comments
47.Fairer Chess: A Reversal of Two Opening Moves in Chess Creates Balance (arxiv.org)
112 points by sova on Aug 8, 2021 | 76 comments
48.Tokyo’s 7-Elevens and convenience stores (latimes.com)
134 points by thunderbong on Aug 8, 2021 | 116 comments
49.Increase HTTP performance by fitting in the initial TCP slow start window (sirupsen.com)
102 points by mstats on Aug 8, 2021 | 6 comments
50.The PDP-11 Basic Analysis Project (learningpdp11.com)
72 points by elvis70 on Aug 8, 2021 | 17 comments
51.What can you learn from an IP address? (2019) (apnic.net)
75 points by pabs3 on Aug 8, 2021 | 22 comments
52.; Echo “Shell Injection” (matklad.github.io)
100 points by martin-t on Aug 8, 2021 | 42 comments
53.The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo (xsrus.com)
159 points by amin on Aug 8, 2021 | 132 comments
54.Poseidon’s Wrath (aeon.co)
39 points by diodorus on Aug 6, 2021 | 2 comments
55.Unlocking PinkRabbit: Using 90s Email Software in 2021 (jessicastokes.net)
97 points by polm23 on Aug 8, 2021 | 13 comments
56.Scylla's Approach to Improve Performance for CPU-Bound Workloads (2017) (scylladb.com)
54 points by EvgeniyZh on Aug 7, 2021
57.Longitudinal analysis shows durable immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection (cell.com)
195 points by briefcomment on Aug 8, 2021 | 204 comments
58.The U.S. government's long and shameful history of intercepting people's letters (reason.com)
141 points by fortran77 on Aug 8, 2021 | 51 comments
59.Trevor Moore has died (wikipedia.org)
172 points by pcthrowaway on Aug 8, 2021 | 47 comments
60.Figmage: I don't mess with images (2020) (heyraviteja.com)
60 points by catchmeifyoucan on Aug 7, 2021 | 18 comments

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