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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 | 186 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 | 239 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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