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31.A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong (twitter.com/postcultrev)
443 points by deegles on Aug 20, 2021 | 419 comments
32.How Big Data Carried Graph Theory into New Dimensions (quantamagazine.org)
102 points by pseudolus on Aug 20, 2021 | 17 comments
33.Princeton Researchers Who Built a CSAM Scanning System Urge Apple to Not Use It (macrumors.com)
314 points by nathan_phoenix on Aug 20, 2021 | 79 comments
34.Your devices and your employer (rachelbythebay.com)
260 points by picture on Aug 20, 2021 | 171 comments
35.Roblox faces criticism for 'exploiting' young game developers (gamasutra.com)
297 points by turbohz on Aug 20, 2021 | 203 comments
36.Fructose in diet expands the surface of the gut and promotes nutrient absorption (nature.com)
239 points by gmays on Aug 19, 2021 | 141 comments
37.Archaeologists Discover 'Lost Golden City of Luxor' (dw.com)
92 points by TrueJane on Aug 20, 2021 | 50 comments
38.Moving beyond “algorithmic bias is a data problem” (cell.com)
69 points by mwexler on Aug 19, 2021 | 203 comments
39.The quest to recreate a lost and ‘terrifying’ medieval mead (atlasobscura.com)
97 points by kwhitefoot on Aug 19, 2021 | 76 comments
40.Launch HN: Ancana (YC S21) – Fractional ownership of vacation homes
83 points by rblack44 on Aug 20, 2021 | 153 comments
41.Animals changed by proximity to humans (bbc.com)
89 points by hiddencache on Aug 20, 2021 | 67 comments
42.Rain falls at the summit of Greenland Ice Sheet for first time on record (washingtonpost.com)
150 points by yboris on Aug 20, 2021 | 65 comments
43.A third of Stitch Fix employees quit after new CEO ends flexible work hours (buzzfeednews.com)
187 points by adamhowell on Aug 20, 2021 | 75 comments
44.Dumb Phone (joindiaspora.com)
157 points by dredmorbius on Aug 20, 2021 | 153 comments
45.Thought-Terminating Cliché (wikipedia.org)
138 points by deegles on Aug 20, 2021 | 138 comments
46.Fun with regular expressions: part I (yurichev.com)
74 points by kulikov009 on Aug 20, 2021 | 33 comments
47.Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot” (electrek.co)
254 points by codechicago277 on Aug 20, 2021 | 396 comments
48.Sometimes it is just a bad battery (rachelbythebay.com)
176 points by wchar_t on Aug 20, 2021 | 62 comments
49.The End of Social Media (miikavonbell.com)
119 points by miikavonbell on Aug 20, 2021 | 112 comments
50. [dupe] Apple's bright idea for CSAM scanning could start persecution on a global basis (theregister.com)
240 points by Bender on Aug 20, 2021 | 193 comments
51.Nitrous Oxide – A forgotten greenhouse gas (bbc.com)
126 points by midnightcity on Aug 20, 2021 | 76 comments
52.Home Prices Are Now Higher Than the Peak of the 2000s Housing Bubble (npr.org)
187 points by lxm on Aug 20, 2021 | 272 comments
53.A Tale of Two Copies (storj.io)
59 points by asicsp on Aug 20, 2021 | 6 comments
54.Experience: I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (2010) (theguardian.com)
132 points by Tomte on Aug 20, 2021 | 100 comments
55.Horton Hears a Whostyle (jacobhall.net)
29 points by uneekname on Aug 20, 2021 | 5 comments
56.The Lesson to Unlearn (2019) (paulgraham.com)
38 points by tosh on Aug 19, 2021 | 22 comments
57.Google is shutting down its Android Auto mobile app in favor of Google Assistant (theverge.com)
104 points by williamsharris on Aug 20, 2021 | 66 comments
58.DevTools Leverage (explog.in)
39 points by kiyanwang on Aug 20, 2021 | 9 comments
59.Point-to-point Wi-Fi bridging between buildings–the cheap and easy way (arstechnica.com)
82 points by Tomte on Aug 20, 2021 | 36 comments
60.The lost tablet and secret documents: Clues pointing to a shadowy Russian army (bbc.co.uk)
102 points by robocat on Aug 20, 2021 | 36 comments

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