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1. The FDA wants you to be able to buy a hearing aid without a prescription (npr.org)
744 points by cf100clunk on Oct 19, 2021 | 448 comments
2. Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined (ieee.org)
635 points by mpweiher on Oct 19, 2021 | 187 comments
3. Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro (store.google.com)
577 points by mikeevans on Oct 19, 2021 | 817 comments
4. First federal grant for psychedelic treatment research in 50 years (hopkinsmedicine.org)
512 points by infodocket on Oct 18, 2021 | 116 comments
5. Overly analytical guide to escorting (knowingless.com)
826 points by exolymph on Oct 19, 2021 | 440 comments
6. Former Netflix executive convicted of receiving bribes from contractors (justice.gov)
487 points by ugwigr on Oct 19, 2021 | 386 comments
7. Why I Hate Frameworks (2005) (fredrikholmqvist.com)
525 points by zkldi on Oct 19, 2021 | 296 comments
8. Function pipelines: Building functional programming into PostgreSQL (timescale.com)
349 points by oconnor663 on Oct 19, 2021 | 68 comments
9. A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography (cryptobook.us)
340 points by ColinWright on Oct 19, 2021 | 52 comments
10. Three hours to save Integral spacecraft (esa.int)
376 points by jensgk on Oct 19, 2021 | 41 comments
11. Five things we still don’t know about water (nautil.us)
306 points by Anon84 on Oct 19, 2021 | 103 comments
12. Software Freedom Conservancy files GPL lawsuit against Vizio (sfconservancy.org)
347 points by jra_samba on Oct 19, 2021 | 115 comments
13. Drone operator will try to rescue dogs from Spanish volcano (reuters.com)
197 points by ClosedPistachio on Oct 19, 2021 | 103 comments
14. Was Google Earth Stolen? (avibarzeev.medium.com)
400 points by beirut_bootleg on Oct 18, 2021 | 134 comments
15. How the brain navigates cities (news.mit.edu)
101 points by el_duderino on Oct 19, 2021 | 51 comments
16. Raspberry Pi Build HAT – Controls Lego Technic motors and sensors (raspberrypi.com)
243 points by MarcScott on Oct 19, 2021 | 61 comments
17. High schoolers are training to drive 18-wheelers amid shortage of truck drivers (npr.org)
244 points by pseudolus on Oct 19, 2021 | 474 comments
18. A framework for grading your performance on programming interview problems (docs.google.com)
251 points by danielgh7 on Oct 17, 2021 | 232 comments
19. Web Browser Engineering (browser.engineering)
409 points by djoldman on Oct 17, 2021 | 63 comments
20. 32 Bit Real Estate (fly.io)
187 points by craigkerstiens on Oct 19, 2021 | 64 comments
21. People in present-day Austria drank beer and ate blue cheese 2,700 years ago (phys.org)
168 points by Hooke on Oct 17, 2021 | 126 comments
22. Single sign-on: What we learned during our identity alpha (gds.blog.gov.uk)
145 points by open-source-ux on Oct 19, 2021 | 82 comments
23. Long-term NAEP scores for 13-year-olds drop for first time since testing began (the74million.org)
104 points by Bostonian on Oct 19, 2021 | 173 comments
24. How to get back into a hacked Facebook account (washingtonpost.com)
166 points by bookofjoe on Oct 19, 2021 | 117 comments
25. Why soda bottles have gaps in their threads (2000) (madsci.org)
406 points by jfrunyon on Oct 18, 2021 | 127 comments
26. Cue: A new language for data validation (cuelang.org)
203 points by viebel on Oct 19, 2021 | 89 comments
27. The day my script killed 10k phones in South America (pythonforengineers.com)
194 points by nixcraft on Oct 19, 2021 | 163 comments
28. How to Create a SaaS and Compete with the Big Players as a Solo Founder (mikealche.com)
233 points by hnjobaccount on Oct 19, 2021 | 75 comments
29. Version Control for Structure Editing (alarmingdevelopment.org)
126 points by mepian on Oct 19, 2021 | 55 comments
30. A proposal for adding a pipe operator to JavaScript (github.com/tc39)
155 points by tentacleuno on Oct 19, 2021 | 180 comments

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