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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,050 posts.
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The home computer as a cultural object is physically vanishing (2007)
The home computer presents itself through several interfaces, some in software, some in hardware. While it is mostly assumed that these interfaces’ goals are to expose the computing capabilities of the system to its user, obviously interfaces are at the same time responsible for transporting the image of the machine.
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Goodbye Freenode
For the last month or so, the IRC world has been embroiled in drama over the new ownership of Freenode. For me, it culminated yesterday when I was banned from Freenode.
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Animal testing is exploitative and largely ineffective
Texts on this and that.
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Gemini's "uselessness" is its killer feature
So it’s borderline useless for all but the simplest use cases, and even there it does a very subpar job. I’d like to have an inline image every now and then, or organize things in some multi-column layouts or the like, or a table. 19th century newspapers could do this, and if your technology can’t emulate typography…
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Don't Feed the Thought Leaders
In this article, the author shares their experience as an engineering manager and the challenges they faced when trying to reach alignment and prev...
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The work-from-home future is destroying bosses' brains
DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at. Click to read DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at, by Ed Zitron, a Substack publication.
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Fastmail accounts blocked in Russia, here's what we know
Fastmail is the latest email provider to be blocked by Russia.
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The Mother of All ‘Abandoned’ Airports (2015)
West Berlin's lifeline during the Soviet Blockade, Tempelhof Airport has since become the city’s biggest park. Berliners will fight to keep it that way.
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ProPublica's tax story
What happens when journalists don't have any friends in finance to challenge their thinking?
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The price of lithium-ion batteries has declined by 97% in the last three decades
Batteries have become much cheaper, making energy storage far more affordable.
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“AI promised to revolutionize radiology but so far its failing”
Geoffrey Hinton is a legendary computer scientist . . . Naturally, people paid attention when Hinton declared in 2016, “We should stop training radiologists now, it’s just completely obvious within five years deep learning is going to do better than radiologists.” The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the…
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Hundreds of fishing vessels vanishing along Argentina’s waters
An Oceana analysis found hundreds of foreign fishing vessels, primarily Chinese, pillaging the waters off Argentina.
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Publish and Perish
Coronavirus gain-of-function research comes from playing the "Science Game"
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Valid Signal privacy issues shrugged off while patches quietly rolled out
kelly kaoudis: application security, hacking, software engineering blog
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If Not Overturned, Bad Copyright Decision Will Lead Many to Lose Internet Access
This post was co-written by EFF Legal Intern Lara EllenbergIn going after internet service providers (ISPs) for the actions of just a few of their users, Sony Music, other major record labels, and music publishing companies have found a way to cut people off of the internet based on mere...
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Amazon’s wage increase to $15 an hour also upped pay for non-Amazon workers
We’re proud to create good jobs and spur innovation and economic growth across the country.
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PyCon US 2021 Recordings are Available
The PyCon US 2021 recordings are available on our YouTube channel . Be sure to subscribe to our channel for notifications of new content. T...
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Aaron Swartz, Vindicated
Almost without exception, people who invest in businesses do so without personally inspecting the business, overlooking its processes, seeing its bank statements, meeting its managers and going on the road with its sales-force.
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Van Buren is a victory against overbroad interpretations of the CFAA
The Supreme Court’s Van Buren decision today overturned a dangerous precedent and clarified the notoriously ambiguous meaning of “exceeding authorized access” in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the federal computer crime law that’s been misused to prosecute beneficial and important online...
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Passport
Announcing Passport, the new infrastructure supporting Stratechery.
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PayPal shuts down long-time Tor supporter
Larry Brandt, a long-time supporter of internet freedom, used his nearly 20-year-old PayPal account to put his money where his mouth is. His primary use of the payment system was to fund servers to run Tor nodes, routing internet traffic in order to safeguard privacy and avoid country-level...