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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,323 posts.
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A patent troll backs off
We scared them off... this time.
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Sudan woke up without Internet
Today, October 25, following political turmoil, Sudan woke up without Internet access.
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Privacy Is a Human Right
Every donation between now and December 31 will be matched, 1:1, by Friends of Tor. Stand up for the human right to privacy and donate to the Tor Project today. Plus… new swag!
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Nim receives $100k in Bitcoin donations
Earlier this year we have had the privilege of receiving 1.868BTC (~117k USD at time of writing) to our long-standing Bitcoin wallet address.
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NYT journalist hacked with Pegasus after reporting on previous hacking attempts
Our forensic analysis of two iPhones belonging to Hubbard found evidence of Pegasus infections in July 2020 and June 2021. Notably, these infections occurred after Hubbard reported in January 2020 that we found that he was targeted in 2018 by the Saudi Arabia-linked Pegasus operator that we call KINGDOM.
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OK Lenovo, we need to talk
I’ve been wanting to publicly comment on Lenovo’s statement on Linux support for a while, as there’s much to say about it, and my failing attempt at finding a suitable replacement for my venerable T510 gave me an excuse to document …
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Gunship “Tech Noir” Breakdown
Gunship's
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.NET Hot Reload Support via CLI
Last week, our blog post and the removal of the Hot Reload capability from the .NET SDK repo led to a lot of feedback from the community. First and foremost, we want to apologize. We made a mistake in executing on our decision and took longer than expected to respond back to the community.
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A Prototype Original iPod
Now, when we look back, we can pretty clearly see that the iPod was the genesis of a totally different kind of Apple — an Apple willing to enter new markets and make the best version of that new thing. Sure, Apple had made other things before ( QuickTake ! PowerCD !) but they never really felt committed to those…
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Trump's new platform and the Affero General Public License of Mastodon
An analysis: Trump's Group has 30 days to remedy the violation, or their rights in the software are permanently terminatedIn 2002, we used phrases like “Web 2.0” and “AJAX” to describe the revolution that was happening in web technology for average consumers. This was just before names like Twitter and Facebook became…
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Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux
Windows 10? Or Windows 11? Well, why not Linux instead? Here are 11+ reasons to switch to the great open source operating system now.
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Police can’t demand you reveal your phone passcode then tell a jury you refused
The Utah Supreme Court is the latest stop in EFF’s roving campaign to establish your Fifth Amendment right to refuse to provide your password to law enforcement. Yesterday, along with the ACLU, we filed an amicus brief in State v. Valdez, arguing that the constitutional privilege against self-...
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PyTorch 1.10
We are excited to announce the release of PyTorch 1.10. This release is composed of over 3,400 commits since 1.9, made by 426 contributors. We want to sincerely thank our...
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FOSDEM 2022 will be online
FOSDEM 2022 will take place on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 February 2022. It will be an online event.
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Building the Brex API
We’re excited to launch the Brex API this week! Now, customers can programmatically read their data, issue cards, invite users, send payments and much more.
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Decreasing service fees on subscriptions to 15%
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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What do people want in a co-founder?
YC launched a co-founder matching platform about 3 months ago. There are now 16,000 co-founder profiles on the platform. Potential co-founders have sent 130,000 matching invites through the platform, and, with a 25% acceptance rate, we’ve seen a total of 33,000 matches.
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FlixMobility Acquires Greyhound to Expand U.S. Intercity Bus Services
Launched in 2013 in Munich, Flix is a global travel-tech champion providing sustainable and affordable travel solutions to more than 500 million travelers since its launch, across more than 40 countries on 5 continents through its brands FlixBus, FlixTrain, Greyhound and Kâmil Koç.
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Eliminating gifted programs won’t make education fair
Recently equity-minded education reformers in New York City have been trying to curtail “gifted and talented programs,” saying they “do not condone a
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We analyzed 425k favicons
The humble favicon was messily birthed with the pernicious IE5 release. Since that fateful day, browsers have slowly expanded favicon technology to encompass many wildly differing and lightly documented use cases. Here in 2021 favicons are found primarily in browser tabs, home screens, and Google search results, but…