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1.		Retrieving 1TB of data from a faulty drive with the help of woodworking tools (jgc.org)
		535 points by jgrahamc on Aug 17, 2023 \| 185 comments
2.		How to communicate when trust is low without digging yourself into a deeper hole (charity.wtf)
		629 points by zdw on Aug 17, 2023 \| 281 comments
3.		Job Corps: free, residential training and education for low-income young adults (jobcorps.gov)
		370 points by nateb2022 on Aug 17, 2023 \| 334 comments
4.		Asteroid crater 520km in diameter buried in southeast Australia, scientists say (australiangeographic.com.au)
		327 points by mafro on Aug 17, 2023 \| 192 comments
5.		Turmoil, a framework for developing and testing distributed systems (tokio.rs)
		284 points by zbentley on Aug 17, 2023 \| 28 comments
6.		Bali rice experiment cuts greenhouse gas emissions and increases yields (mongabay.com)
		263 points by PaulHoule on Aug 15, 2023 \| 111 comments
7.		Ancient fires drove large mammals extinct, study suggests (nytimes.com)
		150 points by gumby on Aug 17, 2023 \| 125 comments
8.		Petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Firefox to censor websites (foundation.mozilla.org)
		555 points by Raed667 on Aug 17, 2023 \| 262 comments
9.		Fred Fish (wikipedia.org)
		169 points by atan2 on Aug 16, 2023 \| 44 comments
10.		QR codes appearing in Google street view? (nso.group)
		223 points by notbeuller on Aug 17, 2023 \| 76 comments
11.		How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/Kg (terraformindustries.wordpress.com)
		169 points by bilsbie on Aug 16, 2023 \| 299 comments
12.		RoboAgent: A universal agent with 12 Skills (robopen.github.io)
		145 points by reqo on Aug 17, 2023 \| 19 comments
13.		Intel QuickAssist Technology Zstandard Plugin for Zstandard (intel.com)
		144 points by ot on Aug 16, 2023 \| 67 comments
14.		DIY Espresso (2020) (fourbardesign.com)
		254 points by timvdalen on Aug 17, 2023 \| 208 comments
15.		SUSE to go private (suse.com)
		289 points by mroche on Aug 17, 2023 \| 234 comments
16.		A search for technosignatures around nearby stars (arxiv.org)
		129 points by arbuge on Aug 17, 2023 \| 207 comments
17.		Software engineering lessons from RCAs of greatest disasters (anoopdixith.com)
		185 points by philofsofia on Aug 17, 2023 \| 146 comments
18.		A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2010) (regehr.org)
		111 points by tmalsburg2 on Aug 17, 2023 \| 185 comments
19.		Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?
		439 points by theycallhermax on Aug 17, 2023 \| 520 comments
20.		Dart 3.1 and a retrospective on functional style programming in Dart (medium.com/dartlang)
		146 points by mdhb on Aug 17, 2023 \| 194 comments
21.		Open Challenges in LLM Research (huyenchip.com)
		163 points by muggermuch on Aug 16, 2023 \| 72 comments
22.		Spinoza: Life and Legacy (thecritic.co.uk)
		115 points by pepys on Aug 16, 2023 \| 53 comments
23.		Captain Zilog Crushed: The Story of the Z8000 (thechipletter.substack.com)
		97 points by thedday on Aug 17, 2023 \| 66 comments
24.		I am afraid to inform you that you have built a compiler (2022) (rachit.pl)
		262 points by mutant_glofish on Aug 17, 2023 \| 91 comments
25.		Shazam for singing (toasterthoughts.eu)
		122 points by przadka on Aug 15, 2023 \| 32 comments
26.		AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs (qz.com)
		293 points by geox on Aug 17, 2023 \| 237 comments
27.		1.56M dehumidifiers recalled due to fire and burn hazards (theverge.com)
		316 points by DemiGuru on Aug 17, 2023 \| 165 comments
28.		Unit: A visual programming system [video] (youtube.com)
		104 points by spiralganglion on Aug 17, 2023 \| 38 comments
29.		Mullvad Browser (torproject.org)
		325 points by dotcoma on Aug 17, 2023 \| 165 comments
30.		Show HN: Shadeform – Single Platform and API for Provisioning GPUs (shadeform.ai)
		62 points by edgoode on Aug 17, 2023 \| 24 comments
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