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1. Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California (signal.org)
1286 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Oct 29, 2021 | 580 comments
2. Financial innovations brought by technology (kalzumeus.com)
298 points by clessg on Oct 29, 2021 | 221 comments
3. FAA approves hundreds more engines to use unleaded avgas (aopa.org)
271 points by throw0101a on Oct 29, 2021 | 172 comments
4. Publish your PWA to the iOS App Store (pwabuilder.com)
259 points by judah on Oct 29, 2021 | 138 comments
5. Scientists recreated classic origin-of-life experiment and made a new discovery (arstechnica.com)
409 points by sohkamyung on Oct 29, 2021 | 202 comments
6. Remote-first work is taking over the rich world – research hints at why (economist.com)
369 points by pseudolus on Oct 29, 2021 | 475 comments
7. 3½ years on my custom emperor mattress – a retrospective (middleendian.com)
235 points by MiddleEndian on Oct 29, 2021 | 152 comments
8. The Internet Archive transforms access to books in a digital world (eff.org)
184 points by dredmorbius on Oct 29, 2021 | 39 comments
9. Meow Hash (2018) (mollyrocket.com)
377 points by DeathArrow on Oct 29, 2021 | 108 comments
10. The untold story of the world’s biggest nuclear bomb (thebulletin.org)
174 points by Amorymeltzer on Oct 29, 2021 | 109 comments
11. Open Steno Project – Freeing stenography (openstenoproject.org)
258 points by pabs3 on Oct 29, 2021 | 68 comments
12. Helium: South Africa strikes new 'gold' (phys.org)
142 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB on Oct 28, 2021 | 113 comments
13. Why do dogs tilt their heads? New study offers clues (science.org)
196 points by sohkamyung on Oct 29, 2021 | 112 comments
14. DuckDB-Wasm: Efficient analytical SQL in the browser (duckdb.org)
213 points by ankoh on Oct 29, 2021 | 58 comments
15. Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm (independent.com)
593 points by danso on Oct 29, 2021 | 674 comments
16. An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (1998) (eecs.berkeley.edu)
115 points by rjeli on Oct 29, 2021 | 76 comments
17. Julian Assange Extradition Appeal: Day 2 (assangedefense.org)
364 points by dane-pgp on Oct 29, 2021 | 264 comments
18. Launch HN: Secoda (YC S21) – Searchable Company Data
97 points by Etai on Oct 29, 2021 | 29 comments
19. Oculus Quest is removing the Facebook account requirement (gamerant.com)
384 points by simonjgreen on Oct 29, 2021 | 235 comments
20. I made my own garum (twitter.com/lostsupper)
233 points by Tomte on Oct 27, 2021 | 109 comments
21. Swift Distributed Actors (swift.org)
168 points by samcat116 on Oct 29, 2021 | 128 comments
22. Retro collectors are uncovering hoards of old data (wired.co.uk)
101 points by LarryPage on Oct 29, 2021 | 59 comments
23. Facebook Unceremoniously Kills Off 'Oculus' Brand (techcrunch.com)
216 points by Factorium on Oct 29, 2021 | 150 comments
24. Reasons Truck Drivers Walk Out the Door [video] (youtube.com)
119 points by CaliforniaKarl on Oct 29, 2021 | 200 comments
25. OpenBSD: How it all started (apnic.net)
219 points by janvdberg on Oct 29, 2021 | 74 comments
26. Browser Fingerprinting Without JavaScript (fingerprintjs.com)
157 points by sni on Oct 29, 2021 | 121 comments
27. What if performance advertising isn't just an analytics scam? (mackgrenfell.com)
86 points by mkmk on Oct 29, 2021 | 39 comments
28. Roblox has been down for over 24 hours (roblox.com)
238 points by intunderflow on Oct 29, 2021 | 117 comments
29. Virtual 3D Fly Brain (virtualflybrain.org)
67 points by latchkey on Oct 27, 2021 | 4 comments
30. First Flight of Kestrel, the FPGA OpenPOWER-Based BMC, and Arctic Tern (talospace.com)
66 points by classichasclass on Oct 29, 2021 | 12 comments

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