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1.
Goat Rental – Hire Goats (hiregoats.com)
425 points by deanstag on Aug 12, 2022 | 265 comments
2.
Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash (fiod.nl)
446 points by langitbiru on Aug 12, 2022 | 793 comments
3.
Excel is pretty dang cool (buttondown.email/hillelwayne)
376 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 12, 2022 | 253 comments
4.
Study finds link between 'forever chemicals' in cookware and liver cancer (insider.com)
433 points by pseudolus on Aug 12, 2022 | 394 comments
5.
The hacking of Starlink terminals has begun (wired.com)
399 points by jerryjerryjerry on Aug 12, 2022 | 242 comments
6.
Cancer in the Cold (science.org)
247 points by _Microft on Aug 12, 2022 | 99 comments
7.
Logistics, How Did They Do It, Part III: On the Move (acoup.blog)
216 points by Tomte on Aug 12, 2022 | 39 comments
8.
Man overcharged 20 rupees for India train ticket wins 22-year legal battle (theguardian.com)
315 points by nigerian1981 on Aug 12, 2022 | 162 comments
9.
Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Go (benhoyt.com)
292 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 12, 2022 | 75 comments
10.
Hacking the Hedonic Treadmill (experimentalhistory.substack.com)
238 points by highfrequency on Aug 10, 2022 | 143 comments
11.
The Supreme Korean court says that scraping publicly available data is legal (lexology.com)
292 points by PigiVinci83 on Aug 12, 2022 | 53 comments
12.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Makefiles (matt-rickard.com)
256 points by srijan4 on Aug 12, 2022 | 210 comments
13.
Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included (zellij.dev)
219 points by cassepipe on Aug 12, 2022 | 103 comments
14.
Things I learnt doing stand-up comedy (michaelgv.uk)
270 points by NesquikMike on Aug 11, 2022 | 136 comments
15.
Switcher (2004) (folklore.org)
162 points by mmphosis on Aug 10, 2022 | 30 comments
16.
Objective-S: architecture-oriented language based on Smalltalk and Objective-C (objective.st)
132 points by MaysonL on Aug 12, 2022 | 125 comments
17.
Asdf Performance (stratus3d.com)
176 points by a_bored_husky on Aug 12, 2022 | 65 comments
18.
Snakisms (pippinbarr.com)
140 points by nkanaev on Aug 12, 2022 | 31 comments
19.
JiraCLI (github.com/ankitpokhrel)
178 points by EntICOnc on Aug 12, 2022 | 61 comments
20.
Nepal's Kusunda language has no words for "yes" or "no" (bbc.com)
133 points by benbreen on Aug 10, 2022 | 223 comments
21.
Intel 286 secrets: ICE mode and F1 0F 04 (mataroa.blog)
121 points by rep_lodsb on Aug 12, 2022 | 44 comments
22.
MySQL Raytracer (pouet.net)
134 points by bane on Aug 11, 2022 | 24 comments
23.
VLC media player banned in India (indiatoday.in)
307 points by saikatsg on Aug 12, 2022 | 161 comments
24.
Launch HN: Pana (YC S22) – Social Trust Banking with a US Latino Focus
66 points by Piero0909 on Aug 12, 2022 | 82 comments
25.
NSA's Warrantless Wiretaps (2012) (nerdylorrin.net)
121 points by night-rider on Aug 12, 2022 | 108 comments
26.
Custom Processing Unit: Hook, patch, and trace microcode at the software level (github.com/pietroborrello)
75 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 12, 2022 | 18 comments
27.
A meteor or alien tech: Harvard professor plans UFO expedition (nbcboston.com)
236 points by metadat on Aug 12, 2022 | 190 comments
28.
Reverse-engineering insect brains to make robots (eetimes.com)
121 points by JoachimS on Aug 12, 2022 | 34 comments
29.
Google to pay $60M for misleading representations (accc.gov.au)
183 points by lysp on Aug 12, 2022 | 109 comments
30.
Overrun by influencers, historic sites are banning TikTok creators in Nepal (restofworld.org)
203 points by elsewhen on Aug 12, 2022 | 159 comments

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