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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 663 posts.
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Denied Entry
- Sorry, you're not allowed entry to the US on your ESTA. The lady who delivered this message to me this early Monday morning, worked behind the check-in counter at the Arlanda airport. I was there, trying to check-in to my two-leg trip to San Francisco to the Mozilla "all hands" meeting of the summer … Continue…
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The internet as existential threat
Some days I wonder if we are completely screwed. So today’s post is a perhaps slightly hysterical outburst.
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Ends, Means, and Antitrust
Google is a monopoly, and almost certainly a bad actor: shopping, though, is a terrible example that shows how regulators can go wrong.
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By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation
When I first arrived at MIT in 2010, I was awed by how much computing infrastructure was readily available. Dorm rooms had 100 megabit inter...
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New TSA Policy May Lead to Increased Scrutiny of Reading Material
The TSA is testing new requirements that passengers remove books and other paper goods from their carry-on baggage when going through airline security. Given the sensitivity of our reading choices, this raises privacy concerns .
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Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA
The Wikimedia Foundation’s mission is to support the communities of readers and contributors who share and consume information on Wikipedia and the other free-knowledge projects. Privacy and anonym…
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Against Murderism
[Content warning: discussion of racism. Comments are turned off due to bad experience with the comments on this kind of material.] I. A set of questions, hopefully confusing: Alice is a white stay-…
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My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won
Hello Spicy Compatriots, I know this is not typical on a business blog, but I want to share what happened to potentially help someone in a similar situation. If you have followed my twitter account since December, you might know that I was robbed by my Uber driver. He intentionally drove off with my backpack…
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Help EFF Track the Progress of AI and Machine Learning
The field of machine learning and artificial intelligence is making rapid progress. Many people are starting to ask what a world with intelligent computers will look like. But what is the ratio of hype to real progress? What kinds of problems have been well solved by current machine learning techniques, which ones are…
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Inside the Largest US Voter Data Leak
UpGuard has discovered an open database containing information on what appear to be approximately 198 million American voters left misconfigured by a GOP analytics firm.
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Four steps we’re taking today to fight online terror
Today, we are pledging to take four additional steps to tackle the problem of violent extremism online.
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Real name policies and ruling the world
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Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people
I was looking on the DuckDuckGo search results for "anonymous bitcoin sms" today, just to see what was out there. My SMS Privacy was the top result, as expected. But the second result was new to me:
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Hard Questions
Today we're starting something new.
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Twitter, but for Math, with Toots
Hooray, it’s yet another social network for you to join! I’m skeptical about new social media, but I’ve been seeing enough posts about mathstodon.xyz that I finally caved and got an account. Mathstodon is the math(s) “instance” of mastodon , a new open-source, decentralized microblogging social network. It’s a lot…
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Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs
This is a bit of a "holy war" among software developers; one that's been the subject of many debates and in-jokes. I use spaces, but I never thought it was particularly important. But today we're releasing the raw data behind the Stack Overflow 2017 Developer Survey , and some analysis suggests this choice matters…
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E-cigarettes ‘Potentially as Harmful as Tobacco Cigarettes’
UConn chemists’ novel device quickly detects carcinogenic chemicals and DNA damage from e-cigarette vapor.
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Eye-witness stories from Chernobyl
On the thirty-first anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, the biggest man-made environmental disaster in written history, over one hundred people from the former Soviet Union shared their …
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Celebrate the web by using another browser than Google’s Chrome
I like Chrome. It’s a great browser. But it’s not so good that it deserves to be the only browser. And that’s the unfortunate opportunity we, people browsing the web, are opening for Google by so o…
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Words growing or shrinking in Hacker News titles: a tidy analysis
In May, some friends and I built Tagger News, a real-time automatic classifier of Hacker News articles based on their text (see here for more about how we built it). This process started me down some interesting paths, particularly analyzing trends in titles. By finding words that became more or less common in Hacker…
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Why Infrastructure Is So Expensive
If we can align the incentives of the players involved, we can build infrastructure that is actually necessary and while doing it quicker and at lower prices than we do now.