Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash — Goat Rental – Hire Goats — and Why thinking hard makes us feel tired

Issue #857 — August 13, 2022

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Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash fiod.nl \| points: 394 \| comments: 660

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Goat Rental – Hire Goats hiregoats.com \| points: 380 \| comments: 238

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Why thinking hard makes us feel tired nature.com \| points: 316 \| comments: 182

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Rob Pike’s simple C regex matcher in Go benhoyt.com \| points: 277 \| comments: 65

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The hacking of Starlink terminals has begun wired.com \| points: 271 \| comments: 186

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Excel is pretty dang cool buttondown.email \| points: 271 \| comments: 190

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Man overcharged 20 rupees for India train ticket wins 22-year legal battle theguardian.com \| points: 270 \| comments: 148

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Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok news.ycombinator.com \| points: 249 \| comments: 435

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Study finds link between ’forever chemicals’ in cookware and liver cancer insider.com \| points: 235 \| comments: 233

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Windows10Debloater: Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware (2021) github.com \| points: 226 \| comments: 247

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The Supreme Korean court says that scraping publicly available data is legal lexology.com \| points: 196 \| comments: 33

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Overrun by influencers, historic sites are banning TikTok creators in Nepal restofworld.org \| points: 184 \| comments: 147

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Google to pay $60M for misleading representations accc.gov.au \| points: 171 \| comments: 97

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JiraCLI github.com \| points: 165 \| comments: 51

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Starlink successfully hacked using $25 modchip threatpost.com \| points: 164 \| comments: 48

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Cancer in the Cold science.org \| points: 162 \| comments: 61

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Open-source tool to enforce privacy/security best-practices on Windows, macOS github.com \| points: 161 \| comments: 68

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My take on how DuckDuckGo can outperform Google daniloedu.medium.com \| points: 159 \| comments: 172

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Makefiles matt-rickard.com \| points: 159 \| comments: 112

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PyPI package ’secretslib’ drops fileless Linux malware to mine Monero blog.sonatype.com \| points: 157 \| comments: 51

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