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1. “Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says (niemanlab.org)
3192 points by spzx on Nov 17, 2021 | 861 comments
2. How to grow sodium chloride crystals at home (crystalverse.com)
1119 points by kdavis on Nov 17, 2021 | 180 comments
3. Apple announces Self Service Repair (apple.com)
1285 points by todsacerdoti on Nov 17, 2021 | 431 comments
4. Microsoft blocks EdgeDeflector to force Windows 11 users into Edge (theverge.com)
885 points by Vinnl on Nov 17, 2021 | 571 comments
5. Scan of the Month: Lego Minifigures (scanofthemonth.com)
505 points by bookofjoe on Nov 17, 2021 | 99 comments
6. I hate password rules (schneier.com)
564 points by CapitalistCartr on Nov 16, 2021 | 435 comments
7. XMPP, a comeback story (takebackourtech.org)
380 points by upofadown on Nov 17, 2021 | 302 comments
8. .plan (plan.cat)
516 points by niedzielski on Nov 17, 2021 | 218 comments
9. To be energy-efficient, brains predict their perceptions (quantamagazine.org)
357 points by sebg on Nov 17, 2021 | 155 comments
10. Stacked changes: how FB and Google engineers stay unblocked and ship faster (graphite.dev)
467 points by tomasreimers on Nov 17, 2021 | 279 comments
11. The OBS project has accused Streamlabs of copying their name and trademark (twitter.com/obsproject)
541 points by vopi on Nov 17, 2021 | 89 comments
12. Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know (astralcodexten.substack.com)
735 points by 4monthsaway on Nov 17, 2021 | 755 comments
13. What really happened at the Millennium Tower? (practical.engineering)
336 points by chmaynard on Nov 16, 2021 | 210 comments
14. Netlify Drop (app.netlify.com)
349 points by Brajeshwar on Nov 17, 2021 | 123 comments
15. Learn RegEx step by step, from zero to advanced (regexlearn.com)
364 points by aykutkardas on Nov 17, 2021 | 108 comments
16. The Burnout Society (apposition.substack.com)
277 points by q-base on Nov 17, 2021 | 167 comments
17. Cloudflare Pages goes full stack (cloudflare.com)
350 points by samwillis on Nov 17, 2021 | 123 comments
18. Why Emacs: Redux (batsov.com)
270 points by winkywooster on Nov 16, 2021 | 206 comments
19. Show HN: Prometeo – a Python-to-C transpiler for high-performance computing (github.com/zanellia)
166 points by zanellia on Nov 17, 2021 | 140 comments
20. Doubling the PinePhone storage speed with a soldering iron (tuxphones.com)
201 points by cunidev on Nov 17, 2021 | 60 comments
21. Three sins of authors in computer science and math (1997) (cmu.edu)
126 points by kcolford on Nov 17, 2021 | 60 comments
22. Rust on MIPS64 Windows NT 4.0 (gamozolabs.github.io)
203 points by ingve on Nov 16, 2021 | 26 comments
23. Forth vs Lisp (c2.com)
120 points by monological on Nov 16, 2021 | 109 comments
24. Sed challenge: join cal -y months into a single column (jol.dev)
110 points by jolmg on Nov 17, 2021 | 66 comments
25. Etsy’s Journey to TypeScript (codeascraft.com)
173 points by elorant on Nov 16, 2021 | 152 comments
26. A Busy Beaver champion derived from scratch (nickdrozd.github.io)
99 points by nickdrozd on Nov 17, 2021 | 33 comments
27. Daddy isn’t coming back (ft.com)
304 points by chesterfield on Nov 17, 2021 | 406 comments
28. Prefix sum on portable compute shaders (raphlinus.github.io)
116 points by raphlinus on Nov 17, 2021 | 15 comments
29. Amazon to stop accepting UK Visa credit cards (bloomberg.com)
294 points by barrkel on Nov 17, 2021 | 519 comments
30. How to Write a Computer Emulator (komkon.org)
135 points by marcodiego on Nov 16, 2021 | 24 comments

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