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1.

Apple blocked the FlickType Watch keyboard then announced a clone of it (www.inputmag.com)

215 points by kilotaras 2021-09-15 | 55 comments

2.

Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case (www.theverge.com)

196 points by freddier 2021-09-10 | 118 comments

3.

The All-Seeing “I”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy (edwardsnowden.substack.com)

196 points by ttctciyf 2021-08-26 | 75 comments

4.

OnlyFans suspends plan to ban "sexually explicit" content after outcry (www.axios.com)

178 points by jimmy2020 2021-08-25 | 142 comments

5.

Shitlassian – story about how Atlassian fired me because my wife had cancer (shitlassian.com)

164 points by mparnisari 2021-09-16 | 48 comments

6.

Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Documents Reveal an Elite That’s Exempt (www.wsj.com)

157 points by tysone 2021-09-13 | 49 comments

7.

ImageNet contains naturally occurring Apple NeuralHash collisions (blog.roboflow.com)

151 points by yeldarb 2021-08-19 | 73 comments

8.

Facebook Censored Me for Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon (changelog.complete.org)

149 points by joeyh 2021-09-11 | 30 comments

9.

Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features (www.macrumors.com)

135 points by nycdatasci 2021-09-03 | 59 comments

10.

The Future of discord.py (gist.github.com)

131 points by AngelOnFira 2021-08-28 | 35 comments

11.

Norm Macdonald Dead: ‘Saturday Night Live’ Alum and Veteran Comic Was 61 (deadline.com)

131 points by coloneltcb 2021-09-14 | 21 comments

12.

Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco (blog.waymo.com)

130 points by EvgeniyZh 2021-08-24 | 94 comments

13.

System76 Pangolin “Linux-first” laptop with AMD internals now in stock (system76.com)

122 points by sampling 2021-08-31 | 52 comments

14.

Firefox 92 (www.mozilla.org)

121 points by Dan_Red 2021-09-07 | 41 comments

15.

U.S. drone pilot leaks footage reveals accidental killing of children and adults (eminetra.co.uk)

121 points by belter 2021-08-25 | 63 comments

16.

Amazon to Pay Full College Tuition for Its Front-Line Employees (www.aboutamazon.com)

119 points by infodocket 2021-09-09 | 102 comments

17.

Linus Torvalds: “GitHub creates useless garbage merges” (lore.kernel.org)

119 points by wedesoft 2021-09-06 | 53 comments

18.

Police Shared Intelligence on Protesters with Pipeline Company (theintercept.com)

115 points by DocFeind 2021-08-27 | 17 comments

19.

Amazon asked FCC to reject Starlink plan because it can’t compete, SpaceX says (arstechnica.com)

114 points by samizdis 2021-09-01 | 17 comments

20.

The Justice Department Moves to Block the Purdue Pharma Sackler Bankruptcy Deal (www.npr.org)

112 points by randycupertino 2021-09-16 | 26 comments

21.

Young People Are Anxious About Climate Change, Say Governments Are Failing Them (text.npr.org)

108 points by 8bitsrule 2021-09-15 | 150 comments

22.

Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in 24 hours (tutanota.com)

107 points by ghoda 2021-08-31 | 36 comments

23.

Apple's Bizarre Crackdown on Multicast (thomask.sdf.org)

105 points by todsacerdoti 2021-08-24 | 44 comments

24.

I won over $55M in the lottery, but didn’t tell my friends or family (www.marketwatch.com)

102 points by prostoalex 2021-08-20 | 97 comments

25.

LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop (www.theguardian.com)

99 points by perihelions 2021-09-08 | 58 comments

26.

Gen Z members flock to climate careers (www.theguardian.com)

98 points by makerofspoons 2021-09-08 | 107 comments

27.

Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers (www.theguardian.com)

96 points by jdkee 2021-09-10 | 14 comments

28.

PHP is still by far the most used server-side language with 78.9% market share (w3techs.com)

96 points by TicklishTiger 2021-09-13 | 99 comments

29.

Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design (www.apple.com)

95 points by 0xedb 2021-09-14 | 124 comments

30.

Gab.com’s Response to Congress (news.gab.com)

94 points by waynenilsen 2021-09-02 | 52 comments

31.

September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time (911realtime.org)

93 points by smohnot 2021-09-11 | 27 comments

32.

US housing price higher than housing bubble 2008 (fred.stlouisfed.org)

93 points by devops000 2021-09-14 | 118 comments

33.

20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes off at airports? (www.ocregister.com)

93 points by prostoalex 2021-09-08 | 123 comments

34.

Simone Biles condemns U.S. Olympic Committee, FBI for sex-abuse crisis (www.reuters.com)

92 points by croes 2021-09-16 | 27 comments

35.

Adult Obesity Facts (www.cdc.gov)

91 points by aww_dang 2021-08-27 | 111 comments

36.

Work Hard (terrytao.wordpress.com)

91 points by somerandomness 2021-08-26 | 21 comments

37.

Home computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair dies aged 81 (www.theguardian.com)

91 points by haasted 2021-09-16 | 14 comments

38.

Java 17 / JDK 17: General Availability (mail.openjdk.java.net)

89 points by 0xedb 2021-09-14 | 46 comments

39.

California aims to ban recycling symbols on things that aren’t recyclable (www.nytimes.com)

88 points by elliekelly 2021-09-09 | 37 comments

40.

Tor is a great sysadmin tool (www.jamieweb.net)

87 points by azalemeth 2021-08-31 | 12 comments

41.

58% of Hacker News, Reddit and tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics (plausible.io)

87 points by robin_reala 2021-08-31 | 46 comments

42.

Hong Kong: Police Raid Tiananmen Square Museum (www.bbc.co.uk)

86 points by FridayoLeary 2021-09-09 | 23 comments

43.

“The infringer is my alt account” (github.com)

82 points by EMIRELADERO 2021-09-17 | 25 comments

44.

OnlyFans to Block Sexually Explicit Videos Starting in October (twitter.com)

81 points by justinzollars 2021-08-19 | 2 comments

45.

Uber allegedly more than doubles prices when battery is low (twitter.com)

79 points by eatonphil 2021-08-20 | 47 comments

46.

Juniper breach mystery starts to clear with new details on hackers and U.S. role (www.bloomberg.com)

79 points by merrier 2021-09-05 | 10 comments

47.

Why didn’t any Wall Street CEOs go to jail after the financial crisis? (2019) (features.marketplace.org)

78 points by mgh2 2021-08-24 | 34 comments

48.

I Got a 'Mild' Breakthrough Case. Here's What I Wish I'd Known (www.npr.org)

77 points by dsr12 2021-09-12 | 81 comments

49.

Spring tears down math t-shirt listing because it dared to mention 'zeta' (www.theregister.com)

76 points by dredmorbius 2021-09-02 | 26 comments

50.

Man steals 620k photos from iCloud accounts from home without Apple noticing (www.latimes.com)

76 points by radicaldreamer 2021-08-24 | 23 comments

51.

Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighborhoods (nltimes.nl)

75 points by atombender 2021-09-05 | 40 comments

52.

Home Prices Are Now Higher Than the Peak of the 2000s Housing Bubble (www.npr.org)

74 points by prostoalex 2021-08-20 | 80 comments

53.

Missing businesswoman urges ex-husband not to publish book critical of China (www.npr.org)

71 points by ilamont 2021-09-07 | 21 comments

54.

A Big Study About Honesty Turns Out to Be Based on Fake Data (www.buzzfeednews.com)

70 points by danso 2021-08-21 | 12 comments

55.

US police shoot dogs so often that a Justice Department says it's an “epidemic” (qz.com)

70 points by notRobot 2021-08-28 | 26 comments

56.

The SEC has told us it wants to sue us over Lend. We don’t know why (blog.coinbase.com)

69 points by jbegley 2021-09-08 | 43 comments

57.

“The world is on a catastrophic pathway to 2.7C-degrees of heating” (www.france24.com)

68 points by bjourne 2021-09-17 | 28 comments

58.

Youtube-dl is possibly dead (old.reddit.com)

68 points by decrypt 2021-08-24 | 14 comments

59.

As a virologist I’m shocked my work has been hijacked by anti-vaxxers (www.theguardian.com)

67 points by ystad 2021-09-08 | 63 comments

60.

I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I'm sorry (habr.com)

66 points by aracena 2021-09-15 | 49 comments

61.

Headscale: Open-source implementation of the Tailscale control server (github.com)

66 points by harporoeder 2021-09-17 | 4 comments

62.

Steam Top Games: 72% Work on Linux in September 2021 (boilingsteam.com)

66 points by ekianjo 2021-09-11 | 32 comments

63.

Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show (www.wsj.com)

66 points by jmsflknr 2021-09-14 | 18 comments

64.

Apple's bright idea for CSAM scanning could start persecution on a global basis (www.theregister.com)

65 points by LinuxBender 2021-08-20 | 21 comments

65.

I refuse to let Amazon define Rust (twitter.com)

64 points by formalsystem 2021-09-13 | 7 comments

66.

The hard men removing squatters in Spain (www.bbc.com)

64 points by gumby 2021-08-26 | 67 comments

67.

Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation over the American (www.erichgrunewald.com)

64 points by erwald 2021-09-15 | 46 comments

68.

Why wild foxes led you to treasure in Skyrim (twitter.com)

64 points by aresant 2021-08-19 | 13 comments

69.

Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier you can make in 30s (dynomight.net)

62 points by ZainRiz 2021-09-02 | 21 comments

70.

Apple can read your iMessages (even though they’re E2E encrypted) (old.reddit.com)

62 points by decrypt 2021-08-28 | 15 comments

71.

Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater (www.cbc.ca)

61 points by awnird 2021-09-16 | 36 comments

72.

Plane damaged after being hit by York police drone at Buttonville Airport (toronto.ctvnews.ca)

61 points by zdw 2021-08-23 | 20 comments

73.

The Big Escape: How the Ultra-Wealthy Avoid Paying Taxes and How to Fix It [pdf] (www.warren.senate.gov)

61 points by mancy00 2021-09-17 | 81 comments

74.

Mozilla VPN Completes Independent Security Audit by Cure53 (blog.mozilla.org)

60 points by st3fan 2021-09-01 | 18 comments

75.

The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks (www.theguardian.com)

60 points by shivbhatt 2021-08-28 | 15 comments

76.

Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma: systematic review of RCTs (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

58 points by sb057 2021-09-13 | 13 comments

77.

Mortuaries fill, hospitals clog in rural California towns with low vaccination (www.latimes.com)

58 points by belltaco 2021-08-28 | 17 comments

78.

What if I were 1% charged? (2013) (gravityandlevity.wordpress.com)

58 points by lanna 2021-09-09 | 9 comments

79.

NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’ (www.latimes.com)

58 points by spideymans 2021-08-30 | 33 comments

80.

First US Census Bureau Report on Growing Childless Older Adult Population (www.census.gov)

57 points by infodocket 2021-08-31 | 95 comments

81.

Reddit bans anti-vaccine subreddit r/NoNewNormal after site-wide protest (www.theverge.com)

56 points by nickysielicki 2021-09-01 | 23 comments

82.

Genius Checklist (supermemo.guru)

56 points by Tomte 2021-08-21 | 15 comments

83.

OnlyFans to Block Sexually Explicit Videos Starting in October (www.bloomberg.com)

56 points by minimaxir 2021-08-19 | 47 comments

84.

Companies that are avoiding hiring in Colorado (www.coloradoexcluded.com)

56 points by mooreds 2021-09-07 | 28 comments

85.

Apple and Google must allow other payment systems, new Korean law declares (www.theverge.com)

54 points by commoner 2021-08-31 | 4 comments

86.

Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tracking to enforce quarantine (www.geospatialworld.net)

53 points by throwawayfear 2021-09-12 | 51 comments

87.

NIST research reveals new details about a possible fifth force of nature (www.nist.gov)

53 points by geox 2021-09-09 | 7 comments

88.

Colorado county's voting machines banned after security breach (www.npr.org)

52 points by geox 2021-08-29 | 20 comments

89.

ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' from website after activist arrested (www.theregister.com)

52 points by angrymouse 2021-09-07 | 15 comments

90.

WaterBear – Watch hundreds of award-winning documentaries for free (www.waterbear.com)

51 points by mrzool 2021-09-04 | 23 comments

91.

MarkMonitor left 60k domains for the taking (ian.sh)

51 points by agwa 2021-08-29 | 5 comments

92.

htmlq: like jq, but for html (github.com)

51 points by jabo 2021-09-07 | 16 comments

93.

Taking Another Look at Price Action (paracurve.com)

50 points by felixbraun 2021-08-25 | 0 comments

94.

Disclosing E2EE vulnerability in multiple Matrix clients (matrix.org)

50 points by Sami_Lehtinen 2021-09-13 | 7 comments

95.

Facebook apology as AI labels black men 'primates' (www.bbc.com)

50 points by lindenstark 2021-09-07 | 27 comments

96.

Netflix is not a tech company (www.ben-evans.com)

50 points by Brajeshwar 2021-09-07 | 38 comments

97.

Apple can't force devs to use in-app purchasing, ruling in Epic Games case (www.cnbc.com)

50 points by druidsbane 2021-09-10 | 24 comments

98.

Delays Aren't Good Enough–Apple Must Abandon Its Surveillance Plans (www.eff.org)

49 points by miles 2021-09-04 | 0 comments

99.

Alabama man dies after being turned away from 43 hospitals as Covid packs ICUs (www.washingtonpost.com)

49 points by toomuchtodo 2021-09-13 | 44 comments

100.

Minus (minus.social)

49 points by fredley 2021-09-06 | 32 comments

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