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1. Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf] (freebsd.org)
707 points by drewg123 on Sept 19, 2021 | 293 comments
2. Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication (freenetproject.org)
526 points by brian_herman on Sept 19, 2021 | 417 comments
3. Show HN: Fully-searchable Library Genesis on IPFS (libgen.fun)
452 points by sixtyfourbits on Sept 19, 2021 | 100 comments
4. Excision's CRISPR HIV therapy is heading into human testing after FDA clearance (fiercebiotech.com)
338 points by rastafang on Sept 18, 2021 | 98 comments
5. Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube [video] (diode.zone)
442 points by x14km2d on Sept 19, 2021 | 295 comments
6. Show HN: I built four eight-foot-long handwriting robots (twitter.com/aarondfrancis)
408 points by aarondf on Sept 19, 2021 | 164 comments
7. Can You See the Republic of Ireland from England? (anglezarke.net)
282 points by qwertyuiop_ on Sept 18, 2021 | 122 comments
8. Paradise lost: The rise and ruin of Couchsurfing.com (inputmag.com)
313 points by jakobgreenfeld on Sept 19, 2021 | 160 comments
9. Spy tech that followed kids home for remote learning (the74million.org)
329 points by arkadiyt on Sept 19, 2021 | 262 comments
10. Amazon says it’s permanently banned 600 Chinese brands for review fraud (theverge.com)
418 points by WaitWaitWha on Sept 18, 2021 | 297 comments
11. Why we picture bombs as round black balls with a burning wick (2016) (atlasobscura.com)
235 points by leohonexus on Sept 19, 2021 | 185 comments
12. Was Germany’s 19th century industrial expansion due to an absence of copyright? (spiegel.de)
257 points by _Microft on Sept 18, 2021 | 159 comments
13. Visual Git Cheat Sheet (ndpsoftware.com)
191 points by SiggyF on Sept 18, 2021 | 40 comments
14. The Elements of Git (cuddly-octo-palm-tree.com)
139 points by todsacerdoti on Sept 19, 2021 | 39 comments
15. Banks beware, Amazon and Walmart are cracking the code for finance (reuters.com)
153 points by bryanrasmussen on Sept 19, 2021 | 168 comments
16. Games that emphasize emergent narrative (emergentmage.com)
137 points by amichail on Sept 19, 2021 | 44 comments
17. What is property-based testing? (2016) (hypothesis.works)
106 points by rahimnathwani on Sept 19, 2021 | 35 comments
18. Shellac (buildingconservation.com)
61 points by brudgers on Sept 18, 2021 | 56 comments
19. Calculator Forensics (rskey.org)
68 points by xeeeeeeeeeeenu on Sept 17, 2021 | 19 comments
20. Show HN: KySync – A C++ rewrite of Zsync with performance boost (kyall.notion.site)
118 points by kyotov on Sept 19, 2021 | 35 comments
21. Bestline: Light self-contained readline alternative (github.com/jart)
95 points by cassepipe on Sept 16, 2021 | 48 comments
22. Currying in JavaScript (javascript.info)
141 points by corentin88 on Sept 19, 2021 | 158 comments
23. University of Florida gets a 1% cut of Gatorade profits (thehustle.co)
263 points by Anon84 on Sept 19, 2021 | 73 comments
24. Elite Biases Make Policy Biases (overcomingbias.com)
153 points by sfg on Sept 19, 2021 | 148 comments
25. Russia restricts opposition election voting app (netblocks.org)
283 points by biggunz on Sept 19, 2021 | 231 comments
26. An appeal for an objective, open, transparent debate re: the origin of Covid-19 (thelancet.com)
234 points by alwillis on Sept 19, 2021 | 307 comments
27. The curious case of fake NASA geniuses (openthemagazine.com)
140 points by Brajeshwar on Sept 19, 2021 | 87 comments
28. The financial literacy industrial complex (axios.com)
142 points by JumpCrisscross on Sept 19, 2021 | 135 comments
29. The physics anomaly no one talks about: What’s up with those neutrinos? (backreaction.blogspot.com)
168 points by nsoonhui on Sept 19, 2021 | 68 comments
30. Things to do before and after you write code (somehowmanage.com)
117 points by Ozzie_osman on Sept 19, 2021 | 53 comments

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