Hacker News on 22 July 2012

• On Patents
• The Terrifying Background of the Man Who Ran a CIA Assassination Unit
• Don’t Jump to Conclusions About the Killer
• Linux 3.5 Kernel Released
• The Whiskey Rebellion
• Sprite Cow: Generate CSS for sprite sheets
• Expensive lessons in Python performance tuning
• Implementing Fast Interpreters
• The Fay Programming Language
• The Gentleperson's Guide To Forum Spies