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1. A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design (marginalia.nu)
3441 points by Funes- on Sept 16, 2021 | 717 comments
2. Sir Clive Sinclair has died (theguardian.com)
1746 points by haasted on Sept 16, 2021 | 438 comments
3. The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history (theguardian.com)
650 points by DamnInteresting on Sept 16, 2021 | 310 comments
4. Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer (shitlassian.com)
1426 points by mparnisari on Sept 16, 2021 | 733 comments
5. Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater (cbc.ca)
604 points by awnird on Sept 16, 2021 | 527 comments
6. Home Assistant – open-source home automation (home-assistant.io)
561 points by gjvc on Sept 15, 2021 | 177 comments
7. The Perils of an .xyz Domain (spotvirtual.com)
492 points by ghempton on Sept 16, 2021 | 275 comments
8. iOS on QEMU (github.com/alephsecurity)
358 points by logix on Sept 16, 2021 | 98 comments
9. The Crime of Curiosity (piratewires.com)
376 points by lxm on Sept 15, 2021 | 207 comments
10. Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord (kotaku.com)
996 points by ClawsOnPaws on Sept 16, 2021 | 538 comments
11. Genius Sells to Media Lab for $80M (bloombergquint.com)
265 points by cytosine on Sept 16, 2021 | 232 comments
12. Every engineer should do a stint in consulting (cloudirregular.substack.com)
321 points by forrestbrazeal on Sept 16, 2021 | 172 comments
13. Is America Inc getting less dynamic, less global and more monopolistic? (economist.com)
250 points by pseudolus on Sept 16, 2021 | 334 comments
14. Facebook to target harmful coordination by real accounts (reuters.com)
164 points by hobbesthompson on Sept 16, 2021 | 172 comments
15. Windows 11: Just say no (computerworld.com)
472 points by CrankyBear on Sept 16, 2021 | 528 comments
16. Kape Technologies buys ExpressVPN for $936M (alternativeto.net)
193 points by schleck8 on Sept 16, 2021 | 149 comments
17. Glass – Photo sharing app and community (glass.photo)
162 points by hkc on Sept 16, 2021 | 128 comments
18. U.S. court upholds dismissal of lawsuit against NSA on 'state secrets' grounds (reuters.com)
246 points by commoner on Sept 16, 2021 | 129 comments
19. The Ultimate Commodore 1541 Disk Drive Talk [video] (pagetable.com)
96 points by Audiophilip on Sept 16, 2021 | 16 comments
20. The ownership and future of Mullvad VPN (mullvad.net)
536 points by JoachimS on Sept 16, 2021 | 184 comments
21. Weaponizing Middleboxes for TCP Reflected Amplification (umd.edu)
176 points by dredmorbius on Sept 16, 2021 | 29 comments
22. Biologists Rethink the Logic Behind Cells’ Molecular Signals (quantamagazine.org)
104 points by theafh on Sept 16, 2021 | 41 comments
23. Lawmakers Ask Zuck to Drop 'Instagram for Kids' Since App Made Kids Suicidal (gizmodo.com)
257 points by bryan0 on Sept 16, 2021 | 154 comments
24. Use of eBPF in CPU Scheduler (linuxplumbersconf.org)
147 points by marcodiego on Sept 16, 2021 | 26 comments
25. Cloud Infrastructure as SQL (iasql.com)
155 points by pombo on Sept 16, 2021 | 110 comments
26. Is management pressuring you to deliver unfinished code? (2020) (iism.org)
151 points by jasonbourne1901 on Sept 16, 2021 | 76 comments
27. Backpage founders get mistrial because US overplayed child sex trafficking claim (arstechnica.com)
282 points by LinuxBender on Sept 16, 2021 | 124 comments
28. 'Dieselgate' trial opens in Germany without ex-VW boss (rfi.fr)
170 points by belter on Sept 16, 2021 | 151 comments
29. Ledger of Harms (humanetech.com)
173 points by MrsPeaches on Sept 16, 2021 | 80 comments
30. Useful Spy Books (berthub.eu)
217 points by throwoutway on Sept 16, 2021 | 54 comments

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