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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,148 posts.
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How much traffic do I get from North Korea anyway?
While the president of the United States and the leader of North Korea were/are currently beefing on Twitter about who should destroy the world first, North Korea was also causing me some personal frustration on data quality.
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Hacker News for Hackers
Hacker News is one of the best sources for news in the intersection of technology and business. Hacker News gets nearly 1000 submissions on a busy weekday, and quite a bit less on the weekends:
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Facebook Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Buy Tbh
Facebook is acquiring tbh, another burgeoning social network; regulators erred in allowing the Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions, but there is no better place to start enforcing the law than now.
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Please Stop Writing Secure Messaging Tools (2015)
This is my first Patreon-supported essay, which went out a week early to my $10 and up subscribers. This was written in part in response to issues with the IWMF check-in tool, but it's something I've been concerned about for some time.
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Biggest drop in Facebook organic reach we have seen
Facebook is testing radically different Explore Feed in six countries than in the rest of the world.
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Google terminating YouTube channels and videos (2016)
YouTube partners are struggling to get their videos reinstated after false copyright claims. Where's the Fair Use?
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Please Request Your Personal Data Held by Cambridge Analytica
By now, many people have probably heard about the company Cambridge Analytica . By its own admission, it played a major role in the succes...
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Gaming Robinhood’s Free Stock Promotion – Or, How to Blow $350
Master boring fundamentals. Play infinite games.
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Why Cryonics Makes Sense (2016)
The more I read about cryonics—i.e. freezing yourself after death—the more I realized it's something we should all be talking about.
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Just own the damn robots
The time has come to stop the lawlessness.
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Gender Distribution in North Korean Posters
A brief analysis of gender distribution in visual representations of everyday life in North Korea using facial recognition algorithms and transfer learning applied to convolutional neural networks.
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Peer-to-peer social networking with Rotonde and Beaker
A short introduction to p2p social networking with Rotonde & Beaker Browser.
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RIP the Broccoli Tree
For the past few years, Patrik Svedberg has been taking photos of a beautiful Swedish tree he dubbed The Broccoli Tree. In a short time, the tree gained a healt
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The Depression Thing
the depression thing: a neat story about depression and mental health. By Zach Holman.
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The privilege of risk
Another of those values that has seeped into everyday life from start up culture is the cherished status of risk. You know the inspirational quotes people like to post on Twitter “the biggest risk is not taking a risk”, “those who will not risk, will not win” etc. And I get it, personally and professionally it’s…
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“Peer review” is younger than we think
This is a blog post I've had sitting around in some form for a few years; I wanted to post it today because: 1) It's about peer review, a...
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No Bitcoin-based protocol can handle more than 20M users per month
To solve Bitcoin’s scalability challenge, many so-called layer 2 protocols have been proposed. All of these protocols operate on the same, relatively simple, principle:
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How To Legally Own Another Person
Even the church had its hippies –Coase does not need math –Avoid lawyers during Oktoberfest –The expat life ends one day –People who have…
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San Francisco, now with more dystopia
Personal website of Caroline and Mike Hudack, angel investors and tech industry veterans living in London.
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How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block
Catalonia, with Barcelona as its capital, is currently one of Spain’s seventeen autonomous comunities. It has a long story of pro-independence movements, and has even declared itself independent in the past. Nowadays, the political climate is very heated up. A majority of catalan people want to hold a referendum for…
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