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1621.

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

80 points by throwawayfear on Sep 12, 2021 | 194 comments

1622.

TikTok has reached 1B MAUs (newsroom.tiktok.com)

80 points by mfiguiere on Sep 27, 2021 | 136 comments

1623.

A.I. can now write its own computer code – that’s good news for humans (nytimes.com)

80 points by flippyhead on Sep 10, 2021 | 126 comments

1624.

Why most gas stations don’t make money from selling gas (thehustle.co)

80 points by Anon84 on Sep 12, 2021 | 126 comments

1625.

Amazon Is Lobbying the US Government to Make Pot Legal (businessinsider.com)

80 points by elorant on Sep 22, 2021 | 115 comments

1626.

Raspberry Pi as a router using a single network interface (louwrentius.com)

80 points by louwrentius on Sep 29, 2021 | 110 comments

1627.

Predictors and effects of phubbing behaviour in friendships [pdf] (tandfonline.com)

80 points by giuliomagnifico on Sep 4, 2021 | 80 comments

1628.

The moments that could have accidentally ended humanity (bbc.com)

80 points by hiddencache on Sep 5, 2021 | 74 comments

1629.

Why the U.S. once set off a nuclear bomb in space (nationalgeographic.co.uk)

80 points by Hooke on Sep 2, 2021 | 56 comments

1630.

No-bullshit tenets for faster decision-making (rubick.com)

80 points by juanplusjuan on Sep 18, 2021 | 46 comments

1631.

Three Hundred Walks (nedbatchelder.com)

80 points by djhaskin987 on Sep 29, 2021 | 32 comments

1632.

A brief overview of IBM’s new 7 nm Telum mainframe CPU (arstechnica.com)

80 points by Tomte on Sep 3, 2021 | 28 comments

1633.

Show HN: MPLG – Matplotlib GUI, design plots visually and export as Python code (everydayanchovies.github.io)

80 points by dailyanchovy on Sep 26, 2021 | 22 comments

1634.

Miegakure Update September 2021 (marctenbosch.com)

80 points by doppp on Sep 8, 2021 | 21 comments

1635.

Artificial Cells That Mimic Living Cells’ Ability to Capture, Process and Expel (nyu.edu)

80 points by gmays on Sep 9, 2021 | 21 comments

1636.

Anatomy of a Cloud Infrastructure Attack via a Pull Request (goteleport.com)

80 points by twakefield on Sep 18, 2021 | 14 comments

1637.

An Update on Memory Safety in Chrome (security.googleblog.com)

80 points by theafh on Sep 21, 2021 | 7 comments

1638.

How Marvel took over cinema and TV (economist.com)

79 points by hhs on Sep 18, 2021 | 220 comments

1639.

If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare (fhi.ox.ac.uk)

79 points by Borrible on Sep 22, 2021 | 163 comments

1640.

Millions Still Months Behind on Rent After Eviction Moratorium Ends (cbpp.org)

79 points by paulpauper on Sep 25, 2021 | 159 comments

1641.

Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from food production (theguardian.com)

79 points by makerofspoons on Sep 13, 2021 | 111 comments

1642.

The Applecare Hustle (basicappleguy.com)

79 points by DenverCode on Sep 6, 2021 | 105 comments

1643.

Regular exercisers drink more but are less likely to be problem drinkers – study (outsideonline.com)

79 points by nradov on Sep 5, 2021 | 99 comments

1644.

Entrepreneur plans to resurrect woolly mammoths (nhm.ac.uk)

79 points by lloyd678 on Sep 14, 2021 | 93 comments

1645.

Google introduces $50 4G smartphone (globalvillagespace.com)

79 points by teleforce on Sep 5, 2021 | 82 comments

1646.

Faroe Islands: Anger over killing of 1,400 dolphins in one day (bbc.com)

79 points by rkrishnaan on Sep 15, 2021 | 72 comments

1647.

Fukushima studies show wildlife is doing nicely without humans (theregister.com)

79 points by pseudolus on Sep 26, 2021 | 68 comments

1648.

Scientists test medieval gunpowder recipes with 15th-century cannon replica (arstechnica.com)