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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 13,069 posts.
Society, Policy & Culture
Any year
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If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 11
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Democracy and the open internet die in daylight
O bviously there have been many editorial changes at the formerly venerable Washington Post, a tawdry saga which I don’t intend to recap here.
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Canada Announces Divorce from America
And rightly so.
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How Long Can Life Wait?
Just because you haven’t moved from the sofa doesn’t mean you’re dead.
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Microfinance Is Mostly a Scam (2015)
I might be well behind others on this subject, but I’m trying to catch up. I just finished a book entitled Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic: how microfinance lost its way and betrayed th…
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Google Cloud files complaint due to Microsoft's anti-competitive licensing
Google Cloud has filed a complaint with the European Commission regarding Microsoft’s anti-competitive licensing practices, which restrict customer choice, stifle innovation, and harm European businesses.
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Talking to God
Why bother? Because you want to change the world!
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The Destruction of the Web
Search engine spam was invented the moment search engines started to be good enough to send significant volumes of traffic to websites based on keyword searches.
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A statement on online course content and accessibility
UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education Cathy Koshland issued a statement today in response to federal findings on the accessibility of online course content and lectures.
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The Mueller Report, Searchable and Accessible on the Archive
Last week, the American public finally got its hands on the Mueller report–more than 400 pages, much of the text redacted, detailing the special counsel’s much anticipated findings. Within minutes of that release, many copies of that file were uploaded to the Internet Archive. On Amazon, other outfits were charging…
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No-fly list trial: Court awards fees on government attorneys’ bad faith
Fourteen years to the day after she discovered she was on the no-fly list when she was arrested at SFO, and five years after her legal victory in the first trial of a challenge to a government no-fly order (a Pyrrhic victory as she has still been denied a visa to return to the US), Dr. Rahinah Ibrahim won a third…
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RIAA paid its lawyers more than $16,000,000 in 2008 to recover only $391,000
Big hat tip to my friend Jon Newton at p2pnet.net for uncovering these documents. The RIAA's "business plan" is even worse than I'd guess...
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Of abusive behavior in programming communities
It is traditional for each release of perl to be announced with a form letter beginning with a quote, or epigraph, chosen by the release engineer. For Perl 5.16.0, I chose the penultimate stanza from W.H. Auden’s September 1, 1939.
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The Trouble with Politicians Sharing Passwords
Yesterday I had a bunch of people point me at a tweet from a politician in the UK named Nadine Dorries [https://twitter.com/NadineDorries]. As it turns out, some folks were rather alarmed about her position on sharing what we would normally consider to be a secret. In this
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The rich aren't your role models
We are told that wealth is a measure of contribution. The richer a person becomes, the more they must have given to society. This is one of the founding myths of capitalism. It is repeated so often…
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My Experience With the Great Firewall of China
When I recently visited China for the first time,as an InfoSec professional I was very curious to finally be able to poke at theGreatFirewall of China with m...
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Meet a Shenzhen Maker: Mr. Chen
Meet a Shenzhen Maker: Mr. Chen | Automate ALL the things!
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Tor trip report to an FBI conference
In October I attended an FBI conference, as part of my work to try to keep Tor on good relations...
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Is Ego-Depletion a Replicable Effect?
Abstract It has been a common practice in social psychology to publish only significant results. As a result, success rates in the published literature do not provide empirical evidence for the existence of a phenomenon. A recent meta-analysis suggested that ego-depletion is a much weaker effect than the published…
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Stanford study shows success of different programming styles in CS class
The Graduate School of Education and the Computer Science Department engaged in a joint research project to advance new approaches to teaching.
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Android Developers Blog: It’s not “rooting”, it’s openness
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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