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TekSavvy takes pirate site blocking battle to Canada’s Supreme Court (torrentfreak.com)

177 points by curmudgeon22 on Aug 28, 2021 | 54 comments

752.

Facebook shuts out NYU academics’ research on political ads (apnews.com)

177 points by actually_a_dog on Aug 9, 2021 | 34 comments

753.

Swiping left on magnetic stripes (mastercard.com)

176 points by w3ll_w3ll_w3ll on Aug 16, 2021 | 310 comments

754.

Powering the Lunar Base (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

176 points by mercutio2 on Aug 7, 2021 | 242 comments

755.

Going mouseless (felipecortez.net)

176 points by FelipeCortez on Aug 3, 2021 | 177 comments

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Apple urged to drop plans to scan iMessages, images for sex abuse (aljazeera.com)

176 points by AllSeason on Aug 19, 2021 | 122 comments

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How did so many Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup players miss such an obvious bug? (desystemize.substack.com)

176 points by luu on Aug 17, 2021 | 85 comments

758.

Peru is reviving a pre-Incan technology for water (bbc.com)

176 points by midnightcity on Aug 20, 2021 | 69 comments

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Sometimes it is just a bad battery (rachelbythebay.com)

176 points by wchar_t on Aug 20, 2021 | 62 comments

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Why it’s difficult to build teams in high growth organisations (jchyip.medium.com)

176 points by absolute100 on Aug 19, 2021 | 34 comments

761.

The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy (karl-voit.at)

175 points by fipar on Aug 6, 2021 | 265 comments

762.

Big tech companies are at war with employees over remote work (arstechnica.com)

175 points by Engineering-MD on Aug 1, 2021 | 234 comments

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Climate change will alter where many crops are grown (economist.com)

175 points by axiomdata316 on Aug 28, 2021 | 172 comments

764.

OCaml at Bloomberg (twitter.com)

175 points by yawaramin on Aug 23, 2021 | 138 comments

765.

The Principles of Newspeak (1949) (berfrois.com)

175 points by pshaw on Aug 8, 2021 | 134 comments

766.

Apple already scans iCloud Mail for CSAM, but not iCloud Photos (9to5mac.com)

175 points by audhitya on Aug 23, 2021 | 133 comments

767.

Facebook may be forced to sell Giphy one year after buying it (arstechnica.com)

175 points by FridayoLeary on Aug 12, 2021 | 92 comments

768.

Framework Patterns (2019) (blog.startifact.com)

175 points by rbanffy on Aug 7, 2021 | 43 comments

769.

So You Want to Study Philosophy (susanrigetti.com)

174 points by Tomte on Aug 31, 2021 | 162 comments

770.

When did Neil Armstrong set foot on Mars? (google.com)

174 points by belter on Aug 18, 2021 | 127 comments

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Police can get your data – even if you aren’t suspected of a crime (vox.com)

174 points by arkadiyt on Aug 1, 2021 | 103 comments

772.

Mental phenomena don’t map into the brain as expected (quantamagazine.org)

174 points by theafh on Aug 24, 2021 | 95 comments

773.

Journal of Controversial Ideas (journalofcontroversialideas.org)

174 points by paulsb on Aug 31, 2021 | 94 comments

774.

CO2 battery could make wind and solar dispatchable at a lower price (rechargenews.com)

174 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB on Aug 1, 2021 | 87 comments

775.

Show HN: Blur Webcam Background on Linux (github.com)

174 points by dumdumdumdum on Aug 30, 2021 | 48 comments

776.

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021 shortlist images (rmg.co.uk)

174 points by Tomte on Aug 2, 2021 | 42 comments

777.

Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as 'ignition' triggered in a lab (phys.org)

174 points by dnetesn on Aug 18, 2021 | 37 comments

778.

Index 1.6B Keys with Automata and Rust (2015) (blog.burntsushi.net)

174 points by ithkuil on Aug 20, 2021 | 10 comments

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Nirvana sued by the man who appeared on Nevermind’s album cover as a baby (bbc.com)

173 points by sohkamyung on Aug 25, 2021 | 333 comments

780.

Does Oil Come from Dinosaurs? (powells.com)

173 points by azizsaya on Aug 8, 2021 | 150 comments