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1. Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity' (bbc.com)
1465 points by perfunctory on Aug 9, 2021 | 1532 comments
2. Apple’s Mistake (stratechery.com)
1273 points by feross on Aug 9, 2021 | 790 comments
3. New carnivorous plant discovered in Pacific Northwest (npr.org)
480 points by bryan0 on Aug 9, 2021 | 101 comments
4. Wildfire restored a Yosemite watershed (news.berkeley.edu)
333 points by incomplete on Aug 9, 2021 | 160 comments
5. WhatsApp lead and other tech experts fire back at Apple’s Child Safety plan (theverge.com)
489 points by timurtime on Aug 9, 2021 | 360 comments
6. Bring back hydrogen lifting gas (thecgo.org)
253 points by harporoeder on Aug 9, 2021 | 341 comments
7. Why does it take so long to get to Mercury? (esa.int)
235 points by 5faulker on Aug 9, 2021 | 116 comments
8. Crystal arrangement results in more power from ferroelectric solar cells (pv-magazine.com)
264 points by vinnyglennon on Aug 9, 2021 | 80 comments
9. Machine learning won't solve natural language understanding (thegradient.pub)
195 points by andreyk on Aug 9, 2021 | 188 comments
10. Build your own NeXT with a virtual machine (adafruit.com)
214 points by marcodiego on Aug 9, 2021 | 128 comments
11. Stupidity is a specific cognitive failing (psyche.co)
264 points by mcguire on Aug 9, 2021 | 163 comments
12. The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft (mindat.org)
270 points by colinprince on Aug 9, 2021 | 78 comments
13. The World of CSS Transforms (joshwcomeau.com)
294 points by joshwcomeau on Aug 9, 2021 | 70 comments
14. Fundamentals of Incident Management (bitfieldconsulting.com)
171 points by bitfield on Aug 9, 2021 | 59 comments
15. How Watches Work (fratellowatches.com)
254 points by nstricevic on Aug 9, 2021 | 138 comments
16. 2,400-year-old baskets still filled with fruit found in submerged Egyptian city (smithsonianmag.com)
200 points by diodorus on Aug 9, 2021 | 44 comments
17. Messaging and chat control (patrick-breyer.de)
643 points by kristjank on Aug 9, 2021 | 317 comments
18. Launch HN: Lightly (YC S21): Label only the data which improves your ML model
88 points by isusmelj on Aug 9, 2021 | 25 comments
19. Hello Yarn 2, Goodbye node_modules (freddixx.medium.com)
201 points by jonas21 on Aug 9, 2021 | 154 comments
20. Show HN: Free, Accessible AI Art Generator (colab.research.google.com)
169 points by hwayne on Aug 9, 2021 | 31 comments
21. A wind-powered vehicle that can travel twice as fast as the wind itself (businessinsider.com)
210 points by dutchbrit on Aug 9, 2021 | 254 comments
22. The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons (mitpress.mit.edu)
129 points by prismatic on Aug 8, 2021 | 81 comments
23. The macOS Sandbox File Limit (buckleyisms.com)
172 points by goranmoomin on Aug 8, 2021 | 16 comments
24. Localhost (transparencyreport.google.com)
272 points by perihelions on Aug 9, 2021 | 47 comments
25. A Lisp interpreter written in Lisp (2017) (lvguowei.me)
160 points by capableweb on Aug 9, 2021 | 55 comments
26. Anti-Lukashenka hackers seize senior Belarusian officials' personal data (currenttime.tv)
255 points by dmitryminkovsky on Aug 9, 2021 | 125 comments
27. Show HN: Torrentinim – low memory-footprint, API-only torrent search engine (github.com/sergiotapia)
117 points by sergiotapia on Aug 9, 2021 | 31 comments
28. Amazon third-party sellers reportedly hound customers who leave bad reviews (gizmodo.com)
178 points by rexreed on Aug 9, 2021 | 95 comments
29. Facebook shuts out NYU academics’ research on political ads (apnews.com)
177 points by actually_a_dog on Aug 9, 2021 | 34 comments
30. Embarrassed by your Olympic javelin: did cavemen do it better? (2012) (npr.org)
101 points by Brajeshwar on Aug 8, 2021 | 93 comments

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