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How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler
In the last three months, tech giants have censored political speech and journalism to manipulate U.S. politics, while liberals, with virtual unanimity, have cheered.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,790 posts.
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AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint
Recently I ran into a strange problem with my Bluetooth headphones. They support multipoint Bluetooth audio, so they can be connected to my ...
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Draggable objects
Many of my interactive pages have a draggable object . I want the reader to move the object around, and I want the diagram to respond in some way. Here I’ll document the code I use to make this work with both mouse and touch input, using browser features that are widely supported since 2020. Here’s a common case I…
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That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus
It's just normal crime
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996
There is cost to your lifestyle.
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Keep Our Servers Running
“Universal access to all human knowledge is within our grasp. Our job is to put the best our world has to offer within the reach of our children.” —Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive Digital Librarian Every time you search the Wayback Machine or explore a collection at the Internet Archive, you are accessing a global…
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Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’
A new antitrust case shows that Prime inflates prices across the board, using the false promise of 'free shipping' that is anything but free.
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Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)
Uncover fast-growing tech companies, track venture funds, and access verified founder contacts on one modern platform.
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Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
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QOI: Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time
Introducing QOI — the Quite OK Image Format . It losslessly compresses RGB and RGBA images to a similar size of PNG, while offering a 20x-50x speedup in compression and 3x-4x speedup in decompression. All single-threaded, no SIMD. It's also stupidly simple .
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MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
40 years later and the art people painstaking made in MacPaint on their little Macs still amazes me.
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An odd discovery on Spotify
New releases; good catastrophes; an alluring and unnerving encounter.
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TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement
I'm trying to combine WebKit and Node.js into a new kind of terminal, with an emphasis on rich display and web/network orientation.
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Trevor Perrin requests removal of NSA from IETF Crypto Review
Search IETF mail list archives
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GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
GUI applications should be fully driven by the keyboard using shortcuts
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Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips
Did you ever dream about creating your own chip? I mean, a physical chip. One which you can hold in your hand, and which does exactly what you've designed it to do?
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WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete
At Open Whisper Systems, our goal is to make private communication simple. A year ago, we announced a partnership with WhatsApp and committed to integrating the Signal Protocol into their product, moving towards full end-to-end encryption for all of their users by default. Over the past year, we...
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NSO Group's iPhone Zero-Days used against a UAE Human Rights Defender
Ahmed Mansoor was targeted by NSO Group, an Israel-based “cyber war” company that sells Pegasus, a government-exclusive “lawful intercept” spyware product.
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EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
The highest court in the EU just reaffirmed that nuclear energy meets the scientific and environmental standards to be included in sustainable finance, and Greenpeace still refuses to budge.
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The largest Git repo
It’s been 3 months since I first wrote about our efforts to scale Git to extremely large projects and teams with an effort we called “Git Virtual File System”. As a reminder, GVFS, together with a set of enhancements to Git, enables Git to scale to VERY large repos by virtualizing both the .git folder […]
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Blender 5.0
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors
Apple today announced M1 Pro and M1 Max, the next breakthrough chips for the Mac.
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Developers’ side projects
If you’re a developer working for software company, does that company own what you do in your spare time?
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Mr TIFF
For as long as I have published my books, one of my overarching goals was to give credit to those who actually invented the hardware and software that we use. I have spent 10,000+ hours to create an accurate record of their work but I'm not complaining. The
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Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam
$30 billion company want's you to pay $5 for using your own camera as a webcam
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An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
I made a messaging app for my family and my family only.