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1. An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up (rambo.codes)
843 points by spideymans on July 18, 2021 | 446 comments
2. Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with native performance (looking-glass.io)
843 points by tambourine_man on July 18, 2021 | 303 comments
3. Tell HN: Coming soon – “Meet the Batch” threads for parallel Launch HNs
272 points by dang on July 18, 2021 | 91 comments
4. Inserting a billion rows in SQLite under a minute (avi.im)
573 points by todsacerdoti on July 18, 2021 | 146 comments
5. Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship (eff.org)
659 points by DiabloD3 on July 18, 2021 | 544 comments
6. Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists (washingtonpost.com)
643 points by tosh on July 18, 2021 | 167 comments
7. Word gap: When money’s tight, parents talk less to kids (news.berkeley.edu)
286 points by ClarendonDrive on July 18, 2021 | 160 comments
8. WaveFunctionCollapse: Generates bitmaps that are locally similar to the input (github.com/mxgmn)
281 points by lnyan on July 16, 2021 | 39 comments
9. Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon (theguardian.com)
591 points by johnny_reilly on July 18, 2021 | 137 comments
10. iOS 14.6 device hacked with a zero-click iMessage exploit to install Pegasus (twitter.com/billmarczak)
416 points by amrrs on July 18, 2021 | 167 comments
11. Cryptographers unearth vulnerabilities in Telegram's encryption protocol (cyberscoop.com)
378 points by wglb on July 17, 2021 | 226 comments
12. Diffsitter: A tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs (github.com/afnanenayet)
213 points by todsacerdoti on July 18, 2021 | 53 comments
13. ToyDB: Distributed SQL Database in Rust (github.com/erikgrinaker)
275 points by adamnemecek on July 18, 2021 | 48 comments
14. Fullstaq Ruby: Ruby, optimized for production (fullstaqruby.org)
232 points by thunderbong on July 17, 2021 | 86 comments
15. A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet (2017) (staltz.com)
131 points by freediver on July 18, 2021 | 78 comments
16. Chernobyl's 'stalker' subculture (calvertjournal.com)
187 points by galfarragem on July 18, 2021 | 101 comments
17. Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang (2020) (andrewkelley.me)
301 points by AlexeyBrin on July 18, 2021 | 121 comments
18. BANCStar (2000) (archive.org)
175 points by jasonhansel on July 18, 2021 | 66 comments
19. What happens in an IPO? – A Beginner's Guide (Part 2/2) (simplanations.in)
152 points by an_d_rew on July 17, 2021 | 13 comments
20. Don’t Let Police Arm Autonomous or Remote-Controlled Robots and Drones (eff.org)
282 points by DiabloD3 on July 18, 2021 | 140 comments
21. The Perils of M1 Ownership (eclecticlight.co)
350 points by ingve on July 18, 2021 | 263 comments
22. A man in Egypt keeping a 200-year-old tradition of tile-making [video] (youtube.com)
113 points by sakopov on July 17, 2021 | 20 comments
23. NIL (lispworks.com)
154 points by susam on July 18, 2021 | 59 comments
24. How You Wound Up Playing ‘The Oregon Trail’ in Computer Class (2016) (smithsonianmag.com)
147 points by NotSwift on July 18, 2021 | 97 comments
25. The metaphysical presuppositions of formal logic (edwardfeser.blogspot.com)
89 points by danielam on July 17, 2021 | 110 comments
26. Police destroy Bitcoin miners with steamroller in Malaysia (vice.com)
219 points by giuliomagnifico on July 18, 2021 | 193 comments
27. The online data that's being deleted (bbc.com)
76 points by Someone on July 18, 2021 | 68 comments
28. Mighty MK-52: The Spaceworthy Soviet-era Calculator (electronicsdeli.net)
87 points by jrepinc on July 17, 2021 | 24 comments
29. Nim on the Attack: Process Injection Using Nim and the Windows API (huskyhacks.dev)
77 points by sunnyP on July 17, 2021 | 20 comments
30. How NSO's Pegasus Is Used to Spy on Journalists (haaretz.com)
203 points by rcMgD2BwE72F on July 18, 2021 | 24 comments

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