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Earth to Mozilla: Come back home
In her blog post explaining the Brendan Eich resignation, Mitchell Baker, Chair of the Mozilla Foundation, writes, “We know why people are hurt and angry, and they are right: it’s because we …
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 13,072 posts.
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Strong Towns Has Filed a Lawsuit Against the Minnesota Board of Engineering
The Minnesota board that regulates engineering licenses is abusing their power in order to stifle the free speech of Charles Marohn and retaliate against the Strong Towns movement for their advocacy on transportation, infrastructure, and engineering reform. Strong Towns has filed suit in federal cou
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We are going to kill "unalive"
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Seriously?
Business of Software has long stood as a unique conference for me: while nearly every tech conference I attend focuses on the technological side of delivering a solution, Business of Software focuses on actually delivering the goods . How do you reach people? How do you know you’ve reached people? How, if you’ve…
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Mastodon WTF timeline (2017)
In the last few days I've been fortunate to witness an interesting chapter in the Internet's history, and I'm trying to compile a timeline of what has happened while the memories are still reasonably fresh. This is incomplete and a work in progress; I'll be updating it, and n...
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Dark patterns: Buying a Bahncard at Deutsche Bahn
How do two well liked companies, deutsche Bahn and adobe, advertise their subscriptions? Badly. Deutsche Bahn, the fully state-owned railway company, is a we
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Apple software update “bug” enables Apple Intelligence
Some people who had previously disabled Apple Intelligence in macOS 15.3 and iOS 18.3 saw it re-enabled after updating to macOS 15.3.1 and iOS 18.3.1 today. In fact I personally have two different Apple silicon Macs running macOS Sequoia, and after I updated both Macs to 15.3.1, Apple Intelligence was re-enabled on my…
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GPT might be an information virus (2023)
Obligatory: the views and opinions expressed in this post are my own and do not represent the views and opinions of my employer. In light of all the hype going around about ChatGPT, I wanted to offer my “hot take” on what the next 2-5 years
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FICO and the Credit Bureau Cartel
Mortgage lenders face destruction as a cartel of Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax work with FICO to drive them out of business. Regulator and anti-monopolist Rohit Chopra is pushing back.
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Don't Talk to the Cops
Don't talk to the cops about any significant crime ...ESPECIALLY if you're innocent. Here's why.
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The online sports gambling experiment
Related: Book Review: On the Edge: The Gamblers
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That’s how it works when you’re a woman on the internet
Aubrey Hirsch on harassment and existing as a woman online
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I'm Betting on Elon
I sit with an executive, learn how they actually work, and build the software they need that doesn’t exist yet.
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Why some DVLA digital services don't work at night
Every few months or so, somebody asks on social media why a particular DVLA digital service is turned off over night. Rather than answering it every time, I’ve decided to write this post, so I can point people at it in future. It’s a great case study to show why making government services digitally native can be quite…
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What we lost the last time code got cheap
The outsourcing era showed that making code cheaper moves the real cost from production to comprehension. AI-generated code makes that problem more acute. ...
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Bullshit Job Notes
Scott talks about a bit of medical theater, in which companies demand doctors notes to allow people to bring in their own chairs to work; he is often the person in best position to provide that not…
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Facebook Requires Social Fixer Browser Extension to Remove Features
Social Fixer for Facebook is a FREE browser extension that fixes annoyances, adds features, and enhances existing functionality to make Facebook more fun and efficient
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A material way to make Mars habitable
Silica aerogel could warm the Martian surface similar to the way greenhouse gasses keep Earth warm
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Nobody Cares About Security
Nobody cares about security. There. I said it. I said the thing everyone feels, some people think, but very few have the temerity to say out loud. But before you call me...
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Tax Evasion at the Top of the Income Distribution: Theory and Evidence
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Hacker News is more interested in Bitcoin when there's a bubble forming
You might have got the impression that there are a lot of Bitcoin-related posts on Hacker News lately. With SegWit set to activate in the next few weeks, and Bitcoin Cash likely to fork off on the 1st of August, I took a look at Hacker News' relationship with Bitcoin over the past years.
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Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance
Researcher Matthew Nock pioneered the technique of using smartphone technology to survey high-risk adults and adolescents in real time. In a new study, Nock and his team report using the technology to predict 75 percent of suicide attempts in the week before they occurred.
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Firefox Money: Investigating the Finances of Mozilla
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AI was great until it was not
A cautionary tale.
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The blockchain is a threat to the distributed future of the Internet
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