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1.
Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar (twitter.com/foone)
1514 points by thunderbong on Sept 25, 2022 | 989 comments
2.
Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used (bedelstein.com)
1402 points by runxel on Sept 25, 2022 | 491 comments
3.
58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere (gist.github.com)
723 points by thunderbong on Sept 25, 2022 | 242 comments
4.
3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror (annas-blog.org)
624 points by pilimi_anna on Sept 25, 2022 | 558 comments
5.
Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored in Google Photos (support.google.com)
575 points by duiker101 on Sept 25, 2022 | 282 comments
6.
C++20, How Hard Could It Be (docs.google.com)
330 points by pyler on Sept 25, 2022 | 429 comments
7.
Has the Zodiac killer mystery been solved again? (lamag.com)
259 points by tptacek on Sept 24, 2022 | 128 comments
8.
Pdfgrep – a commandline utility to search text in PDF files (pdfgrep.org)
279 points by kretaceous on Sept 25, 2022 | 55 comments
9.
Analysis of Apple Watch running data (applewatchrunner.substack.com)
317 points by maarten3 on Sept 25, 2022 | 166 comments
10.
This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine (2019) (secretgeek.github.io)
311 points by thunderbong on Sept 25, 2022 | 44 comments
11.
Layoffs at Canadian tech startups (theglobeandmail.com)
194 points by ericzawo on Sept 25, 2022 | 174 comments
12.
Packing a backpack (2014) (deuter.com)
233 points by tosh on Sept 23, 2022 | 60 comments
13.
The MIPS ThinkPad, Kind Of (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
166 points by todsacerdoti on Sept 25, 2022 | 34 comments
14.
Train Travel in the UK: A Foreigner’s Perspective (paliparan.com)
173 points by edent on Sept 25, 2022 | 189 comments
15.
The Curious Design of Skateboard Trucks (bedelstein.com)
140 points by bze12 on Sept 25, 2022 | 64 comments
16.
A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip (arstechnica.com)
190 points by samizdis on Sept 23, 2022 | 74 comments
17.
What to read to become a better writer (economist.com)
180 points by gglanzani on Sept 24, 2022 | 70 comments
18.
What does $0=$2 in awk do? (kau.sh)
131 points by sorcercode on Sept 25, 2022 | 85 comments
19.
GCP, AWS, and Azure ARM-based server performance comparison (apache.org)
160 points by jjzhiyuan on Sept 24, 2022 | 89 comments
20.
Word Writer 6 Commodore 64 Source Code (github.com/jefflomax)
112 points by indigodaddy on Sept 25, 2022 | 20 comments
21.
The Double Entry Counting Method (2016) (beancount.github.io)
127 points by gurjeet on Sept 23, 2022 | 101 comments
22.
Tradition is Smarter (2018) (scholars-stage.org)
124 points by 4gotunameagain on Sept 25, 2022 | 162 comments
23.
Not Mysticizing System Dynamics (twitchard.github.io)
124 points by rolisz on Sept 25, 2022 | 74 comments
24.
Okta Exposes Passwords in Clear Text for Possible Theft (darkreading.com)
164 points by LopRabbit on Sept 24, 2022 | 87 comments
25.
WordPress WASM (github.com/adamziel)
166 points by skilled on Sept 24, 2022 | 65 comments
26.
PS5 Refresh: Oberon Plus (angstronomics.com)
134 points by de6u99er on Sept 25, 2022 | 108 comments
27.
Apple Big Pink #3 (1990) [pdf] (uni-stuttgart.de)
72 points by fizfaz on Sept 23, 2022 | 39 comments
28.
On the strange joys of mainframe OSes that have survived into modern times (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org)
111 points by todsacerdoti on Sept 25, 2022 | 122 comments
29.
I fooled millions into thinking chocolate helps weight loss (2015) (gizmodo.com)
217 points by worez on Sept 25, 2022 | 166 comments
30.
When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?” (conman.org)
157 points by signa11 on Sept 25, 2022 | 212 comments

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