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1. Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups (krebsonsecurity.com)
599 points by picture on July 19, 2021 | 316 comments
2. Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise? (bmj.com)
857 points by lnyan on July 19, 2021 | 479 comments
3. Apple sued by teen wrongly accused of shoplifting by unreliable facial-rec tech (theregister.com)
689 points by walterbell on July 19, 2021 | 204 comments
4. Assange case: Key witness admits he lied (thewire.in)
875 points by graderjs on July 19, 2021 | 281 comments
5. Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 (2004) [pdf] (imaginary.org)
521 points by sebg on July 19, 2021 | 318 comments
6. Linux 5.0 shown to boot on ESP32 processor (cnx-software.com)
290 points by MrBuddyCasino on July 19, 2021 | 79 comments
7. Deurbanising the Web [pdf] (lab6.com)
496 points by ColinWright on July 19, 2021 | 413 comments
8. Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance (theguardian.com)
800 points by ipster_io on July 19, 2021 | 152 comments
9. “Neuroprosthesis” restores words to man with paralysis (ucsf.edu)
278 points by porsager on July 18, 2021 | 118 comments
10. New Shape Opens ‘Wormhole’ Between Numbers and Geometry (quantamagazine.org)
193 points by theafh on July 19, 2021 | 35 comments
11. Senet (wikipedia.org)
293 points by tosh on July 19, 2021 | 119 comments
12. Bouba/Kiki Effect (wikipedia.org)
238 points by thunderbong on July 19, 2021 | 94 comments
13. Black 3.0 – The blackest black acrylic paint (culturehustle.com)
260 points by woliveirajr on July 19, 2021 | 146 comments
14. Giant tsunami from dino-killing asteroid impact revealed in fossilized ripples (sciencemag.org)
140 points by mathgenius on July 19, 2021 | 75 comments
15. Edward Snowden calls for spyware trade ban amid Pegasus revelations (theguardian.com)
340 points by georgecmu on July 19, 2021 | 82 comments
16. Thread Pools on the JVM (gist.github.com)
217 points by ovis on July 19, 2021 | 117 comments
17. Brython: an implementation of Python 3 running in the browser (github.com/brython-dev)
194 points by redfox2 on July 19, 2021 | 74 comments
18. I had to give a wrong answer to get the job (2017) (dewitters.com)
351 points by Starz0r on July 19, 2021 | 387 comments
19. RAWGraphs: missing link between spreadsheets and data visualization (rawgraphs.io)
146 points by sonograph on July 19, 2021 | 34 comments
20. Launch HN: Hypercontext (YC S21) – Meeting notes, actions, and OKRs in one app
145 points by brennanm on July 19, 2021 | 60 comments
21. Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure (vice.com)
479 points by fieryscribe on July 19, 2021 | 242 comments
22. Tesseract OCR (github.com/tesseract-ocr)
223 points by tosh on July 18, 2021 | 64 comments
23. Show HN: Angle Grinder – A terminal app to slice, dice, and aggregate your logs (github.com/rcoh)
144 points by rusbus on July 19, 2021 | 21 comments
24. Children are spoofing Covid-19 tests with soft drinks (bbc.com)
332 points by 34679 on July 19, 2021 | 239 comments
25. Nebulus: An IPFS-Less IPFS (nebulus.dev)
143 points by skogard on July 19, 2021 | 41 comments
26. What’s it like hauling nuclear weapons across the country? (freightwaves.com)
131 points by Stratoscope on July 19, 2021 | 211 comments
27. MVT – forensic tool to look for infections on smartphones (github.com/mvt-project)
93 points by bjoko on July 18, 2021 | 17 comments
28. U.S. and key allies accuse China of Microsoft Exchange cyberattacks (axios.com)
286 points by jimmy2020 on July 19, 2021 | 247 comments
29. Habits of Expert Software Designers (2019) (mitpress.mit.edu)
176 points by headalgorithm on July 18, 2021 | 43 comments
30. Julia Computing raises $24M Series A (hpcwire.com)
378 points by dklend122 on July 19, 2021 | 238 comments

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