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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 11 months ago | 186 comments
2.
How to communicate when trust is low without digging yourself into a deeper hole (charity.wtf)
629 points by zdw 11 months ago | 281 comments
3.
Job Corps: free, residential training and education for low-income young adults (jobcorps.gov)
370 points by nateb2022 11 months ago | 334 comments
4.
Asteroid crater 520km in diameter buried in southeast Australia, scientists say (australiangeographic.com.au)
327 points by mafro 11 months ago | 192 comments
5.
Turmoil, a framework for developing and testing distributed systems (tokio.rs)
284 points by zbentley 11 months ago | 28 comments
6.
Bali rice experiment cuts greenhouse gas emissions and increases yields (mongabay.com)
263 points by PaulHoule 11 months ago | 111 comments
7.
Ancient fires drove large mammals extinct, study suggests (nytimes.com)
150 points by gumby 11 months ago | 125 comments
8.
Petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Firefox to censor websites (foundation.mozilla.org)
555 points by Raed667 11 months ago | 262 comments
9.
Fred Fish (wikipedia.org)
169 points by atan2 11 months ago | 44 comments
10.
QR codes appearing in Google street view? (nso.group)
223 points by notbeuller 11 months ago | 76 comments
11.
How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/Kg (terraformindustries.wordpress.com)
169 points by bilsbie 11 months ago | 299 comments
12.
RoboAgent: A universal agent with 12 Skills (robopen.github.io)
145 points by reqo 11 months ago | 19 comments
13.
Intel QuickAssist Technology Zstandard Plugin for Zstandard (intel.com)
144 points by ot 11 months ago | 67 comments
14.
DIY Espresso (2020) (fourbardesign.com)
254 points by timvdalen 11 months ago | 208 comments
15.
SUSE to go private (suse.com)
289 points by mroche 11 months ago | 234 comments
16.
A search for technosignatures around nearby stars (arxiv.org)
129 points by arbuge 11 months ago | 207 comments
17.
Software engineering lessons from RCAs of greatest disasters (anoopdixith.com)
185 points by philofsofia 11 months ago | 146 comments
18.
A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2010) (regehr.org)
111 points by tmalsburg2 11 months ago | 185 comments
19.
Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?
439 points by theycallhermax 11 months ago | 520 comments
20.
Dart 3.1 and a retrospective on functional style programming in Dart (medium.com/dartlang)
146 points by mdhb 11 months ago | 194 comments
21.
Open Challenges in LLM Research (huyenchip.com)
163 points by muggermuch 11 months ago | 72 comments
22.
Spinoza: Life and Legacy (thecritic.co.uk)
115 points by pepys 11 months ago | 53 comments
23.
Captain Zilog Crushed: The Story of the Z8000 (thechipletter.substack.com)
97 points by thedday 11 months ago | 66 comments
24.
I am afraid to inform you that you have built a compiler (2022) (rachit.pl)
262 points by mutant_glofish 11 months ago | 91 comments
25.
Shazam for singing (toasterthoughts.eu)
122 points by przadka 11 months ago | 32 comments
26.
AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs (qz.com)
293 points by geox 11 months ago | 239 comments
27.
1.56M dehumidifiers recalled due to fire and burn hazards (theverge.com)
316 points by DemiGuru 11 months ago | 165 comments
28.
Unit: A visual programming system [video] (youtube.com)
104 points by spiralganglion 11 months ago | 38 comments
29.
Mullvad Browser (torproject.org)
325 points by dotcoma 11 months ago | 165 comments
30.
Show HN: Shadeform – Single Platform and API for Provisioning GPUs (shadeform.ai)
62 points by edgoode 11 months ago | 24 comments

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