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Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear
Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear. Here's why that's dangerous.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,826 posts.
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Google collects metadata from Android phones
[German]It seems that Google has established a surveillance function for Android phones. They are claiming the right, to collect and store meta data from incoming/outgoing phone calls and SMS from…
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A fork on GitHub is no fork
Github may block access to your repos and there is nothing you can do about it A few years ago I made a project with a friend and we collaborated on Github in h
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ESP32 Buyer’s Guide: Different Chips, Firmware, Sensors
The ESP 32 was the most fun side project for me in 2022. For those who don’t know: the ESP32 is a small, cheap and wifi-enabled microchip. Many smart devices that you buy on Amazon have an ESP32 inside. It’s really amazing what you can do with a board that costs less than a good sandwich.
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Getting good results from Claude Code
An updated version of my user-level CLAUDE.md is featured in this post from December 2, 2025. I've been experimenting with LLM programming agents over the past few months. Claude Code has become my favorite. It is not without issues, but it's allowed me to write ~12 programs/projects in
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Auditing GitHub users’ SSH key quality
If you have just/as of late gotten an email about your keys being revoked, this is because of me, and if you have, you should really go through and make sure that no one has done anything terrible to you, since you have opened yourself to people doing very mean things to you for what is most likely a very long time.
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The Coolest Experience I Had as an Apple Store Employee
Compare fast payout casinos on withdrawal speed, crypto and e-wallet options, payout limits, KYC steps and fees. Ten ranked sites explained. 21+. 1-800-GAMBLER.
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Leaked document: EU Presidency calls for massive internet filtering
A Council of the European Union document leaked by Statewatch on 30 August reveals that during the summer months, that Estonia (current EU Presidency) has been pushing the other Member States to strengthen indiscriminate internet surveillance, and to follow in the footsteps of China regarding online censorship…
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Startup advice, briefly
This is a very short summary with lots left out—here is the long version: http://startupclass.samaltman.com You should start with an idea, not a company. When it’s just an idea or project,...
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Emulating AirTags to upload arbitrary data via Apple's FindMy network
Apple AirTags: Arbitrary data can be uploaded from non-internet-connected devices by sending Find My BLE broadcasts to nearby Apple devices. We're releasing an ESP32 firmware that turns the microcontroller into an (upload only) modem, and a macOS application to retrieve, decode and display the uploaded data.
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The Onion releases fartscroll.js
Include "fartscroll.js" in your page. You can include the latest version straight from our CDN:
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Cracking Meta's Messenger Certificate Pinning on macOS
Bypassing certificate pinning in Meta’s Messenger application on macOS.
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Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot
In January of 2019, Mozilla joined the University of Edinburgh, Charles University, University of Sheffield and University of Tartu as part of a project fu
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 was divided, one half awarded to Rainer Weiss, the other half jointly to Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"
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How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (2006)
Commentary on How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more
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OAuth from First Principles
I've wanted to write a blog post for everyone who learns things the same way that I do; by trying to break them. I'll start off with an awfully flawed implementation that authorizes a user with a 3...
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Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device
We're building a frontier lab for on-device AI. Small, specialized models for audio, vision, and text, faster than the cloud and free.
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GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2
And How They Stack Up Against Qwen3
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Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into effective propaganda
Propaganda is most impactful when people don't think it's propaganda, and most decisive when it's censorship you never knew happened. When we imagine that the U.S. military only occasionally and slightly influences U.S. movies, we are extremely badly deceived.
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The American Press Is Destroying Itself
A flurry of newsroom revolts has transformed the American press
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Why Janet? (2023)
I never thought it could happen to me. I mean, parentheses? In this day and age? But for the past couple years, my go-to programming language for fun side projects has been a little Lisp dialect called Janet. (print "hey janet") I like Janet so much that I wrote an entire book about it, and put it on The Internet for…
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North Carolina tells retired engineer he can't talk about engineering
WILMINGTON, N.C.—Wayne Nutt is an engineer. He graduated with a degree in engineering and worked most of his career in North Carolina without ever needing […]
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Firefox 52 released
We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
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25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build
init7 recently announced that with their FTTH fiber offering Fiber7, they will now sell and connect you with 25 Gbit/s (Fiber7-X2) or 10 Gbit/s (Fiber7-X) fiber optics, if you want more than 1 Gbit/s. While this offer will only become available at my location late this year (or possibly later due to the supply chain…