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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 913 posts.
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Why Is the NYPD So Powerful?
Holding the NYPD accountable is a project that will outlast Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio
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Apple crushes one-man repair shop in Norway’s Supreme Court
Norwegian small business owner and repairer Henrik Huseby lost his legal battle against $1 trillion company Apple in Norway’s Supreme Court.
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Huawei proposes to replace TCP/IP at ITU
The Internet continues to evolve at a rapid pace. New services, applications, and protocols are being developed and deployed in many areas.
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Can face masks protect against COVID-19?-How well do face masks protect against COVID-19?
Face masks can help slow the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Learn about mask types, which masks to use and how to use them.
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Akira Kurosawa’s Record of a Living Being
One of the first Japanese commercial features to directly address the fear of nuclear holocaust and the implications of the atom bomb, Record of a Living Being, which is better known as I Live in F…
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ACLU sues Minnesota for police violence against the press
We are facing a full-scale assault on the First Amendment freedom of the press.
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Weirdos in the depression
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Leave Facebook
One vote doesn’t seem like much. On its own, it hardly matters at all. But if you think of yourself as part of something bigger — America, let’s say — then that one vote can make a difference. Many…
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IBM Stretch, the NSA, and MLK
The narrative can change, but we must overcome the disinformation and fear that has overtaken the United States.
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Internet Users of All Kinds Should Be Concerned by a New Copyright Office Report
Outside of the beltway, people all over the United States are taking to the streets to demand fundamental change. In the halls of Congress and the White House, however, many people seem to think the biggest thing that needs to be restructured is the Internet. Last week, the president issued an...
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I was emailed after abandoning a registration form. I did not click Submit
We had a baby recently and my wife and I were online shopping for breast pumps. Our health insurance...
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As Qualified Immunity Takes Center Stage, More Delay from SCOTUS
I fear I may have become trapped in a time loop, in which every week I am doomed to write the same blog post about how the Supreme Court has delayed consideration of its qualified immunity docket. Back in April , I noted that the Court had scheduled thirteen different qualified immunity cases for its May 15th…
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Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive
Ask Court to Enjoin and Deter Willful Infringement Today, member companies of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Internet Archive (“IA”) in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The suit asks the Court to enjoin IA’s mass…
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Twitter, Reddit support challenge of visa applicant social media requirement
WASHINGTON – Twitter, Reddit, and Internet Association filed an amicus brief late yesterday in support of a lawsuit filed last year by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, the Brennan Center for Justice, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP on behalf of plaintiffs Doc Society and International…
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I Can't Breathe
I can't breathe.
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Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)
These tiny insects kill more than 1,000,000 people every year
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Vitamin D: the New Covid-19 Chloroquine?
Welcome to this post, in which we’ll be taking a trip through the wild and bumpy ride that has been Vitamin D & sunlight research over the past few decades, and what it might mean for COVID-19. As with my previous post, before any non-specialist attempts to write something on COVID-19, we should wonder: are any actual…
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Translation from VC-Backed PR Jargon to English of Magic Leap CEO Statement
“No one will remember us or anything we’ve done — unless Netflix makes one of those documentaries like the Fyre Festival one.”
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Sizing Up Twitter Users
Twitter users are younger, more likely to identify as Democrats, more highly educated and have higher incomes than U.S. adults overall.
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Rediscovering the Small Web
Most websites today are built like commercial products by professionals and marketers, optimised to draw the largest audience, generate engagement and 'convert'. But there is also a smaller, less-visible web designed by regular people to simply to share their interests and hobbies with the world. A web that is…
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Achieving Accessibility Through Simplicity
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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2020 Developer Survey Results
We're excited to share the results of our 10th annual developer survey! 65,000 developers shared their thoughts on the state of software today.
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Stop Watching the News (2019)
Want someone else to think for you? Watch the news. Want to be distracted? Watch the news. Want something to get mad about? Watch the news. A recent passage in The Daily Stoic discussed the negative impact of hearing bad news – something like a tsunami destroying a village, or a terroris
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I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next
If you follow Gamefromscratch on Twitter, you may have already seen this tweet I put out last night about a blackmail demand that was made against our YouTube channel:First off, I really want to give a gigantic shout out to all of the people that helped get the message out, the tweets, retweets and even [...]
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I won’t buy ebooks anymore
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
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Bahamas Company Registry Leaked
The people are the best thing about a life in science fiction – eclectic, bright, opinionated, talented – people like Elise Mathson: writer, jeweller, and all-round brilliant person (she's up for a Hugo this year).
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A day using money in Cuba
Cuba is a puzzling country, especially when it comes to money. It is the only country in the world with a dual currency system.