Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 2,108 posts.
San Francisco - America's broken patent system needs major reform to protect innovators and the public. Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is announcing a major new boost to its patent work: a half-million dollars in funding from entrepreneur Mark Cuban and game developer Markus "Notch...
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982 People. 14 Outlets. 80% White. 2% Black. 18% Other. After I published my post pointing out the hypocrisy of Big Tech Media in the diversity in tech debate, I got a few grunts of acknowledgement from a couple of the publications covered. Afterwards, these journalists sat on what was
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(NB: this was very hastily written, so I hope the logic flows – I just wanted to get it out…) I think many people thought I was joking when I boldly declared it would be cheaper for me to rent a tw…
Telemetry services and GitLab. (GitLab CE will continue to be free software)
To keep below two degrees, we'll need to dramatically reduce current emissions and simultaneously remove 10-15 gigatons of CO2/yr from the atmosphere by 2050. Read on for what that means, why, and how we might do it.
The long view of economic history says we're in the midst of a huge, unsustainable acceleration. What happens next?
Google search is in the news. Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google search is a monopoly and is behaving in a manner that suppresses search competition with their distribution agreements. The debate on this has started,...
The future of online media
Austrian Supreme Court may refer case to Court of Justice, questioning the basis of Facebook's business model in Europe.
Update: I originally quoted the average price of office space as $36 / square foot / month, where ...
Microsoft doubles-down on its user-choice hostile web browser behavior; blocks competitors from opening links from many Windows apps and web experiences.
(Big issue 7-9-2019)
The Traditional City simply refers to the pattern of development that human civilization has built in for millenia.
AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. Training a model to believe it might be a moral patient, as Anthropic’s constitution does, makes the alignment and containment challenge far harder.
On August 31, 2015, I started a Ph.D. in cryptography at TU Eindhoven, working with Tanja Lange and Dan Bernstein. On December 2, 2016, I…
Yahoo Holdings and Oath filed a complaint against Mozilla on December 1, 2017, claiming that we improperly terminated the agreement between Mozilla and Yah
More and more, I get the feeling that if there’s a rift between the old “Don’t be evil” Google and the new “Let’s do whatever we want” Google, that it’s a rift between Schmidt and Larry/Sergey.
Google Chrome is not the default browser on Android 4.3+. There are now at least eight Chromium-based Android default browsers, and they are all subtly, though not wildly, different.
We are not adding generative AI to our apps. Here's why.
Read Elliot Temple's essay about Taking Children Seriously.
It finally happened!
It's a small but persistent emoji query: one that finds new life whenever there's a new development in the "stonks" discourse: why is the upward line on 📈 Chart Increasing displayed in the seemingly-counterintuitive color red? The answer to this question is actually quite simple, but is an
Don’t decry congestion pricing as inequitable until after you fix, or at least acknowledge, these ten other things that are even more inequitable about the way we pay for transportation.
I want to catch you all up on some stuff but mostly I want to tell the story of Stack Overflow in a not-completely-disorganized way.
