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The small web is beautiful
A vision for the "small web", small software, and small architectures.
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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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Ilya Starinov – The godfather of modern insurgent IED warfare
I’ve been researching for this post for quite a while and of necessity it’s going to be my longest post. Ilya Starinov is arguably the most important person in the history of IEDs and in…
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U of California policy extends free access to all articles by UC employees
Today the University of California expands the reach of its research publications by issuing a Presidential Open Access Policy, allowing future scholarly articles authored by all UC employees to be freely shared with readers worldwide. Building on UC’s previously-adopted Academic Senate open access (OA) policies, this…
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Segment Open Fellowship
Twilio is always looking for ways to assist and contribute to open source. See our current open source projects and learn how you can get involved.
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Statement concerning the arrest of Dmitry Bogatov
[09 Dec 2017] Updated Debian 8: 8.10 released [09 Dec 2017] Updated Debian 9: 9.3 released [07 Oct 2017] Updated Debian 9: 9.2 released [12 Aug 2017] DebConf17 closes in Montreal and DebConf18 dates announced [22 Jul 2017] Updated Debian 9: 9.1 released [22 Jul 2017] Updated Debian 8: 8.9 released [18 Jun 2017] Debian…
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Stop killing games and the industry response
Recently, there's been a European Citizens' Initiative called "Stop Destroying Videogames" which by now has hit the milestone of 1'000'000 signatures. You're still encouraged to sign it if you care about its goals and are a EU citizen, since not all of those are likely to be valid signatures, but overall this is a…
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It’s OK to block ads (2015)
Over the past couple of months, the practice of ad blocking has received heightened ethical scrutiny. (1,2,3,4) If you’re unfamiliar with the term, “ad blocking” refers to software—usually web browser plug-ins, but increasingly mobile apps—that stop most ads from appearing when you use websites or apps that would…
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Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition
COMMUNICATION WORKERS UNION 24/06/2026 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wikipedia workers in Britain are setting a “global first” by becoming the first body of workers at the online encyclopaedia to seek union recognition. British-based employees at the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) wrote a letter to mana
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On being brought up by libertarian economists
The central fact about child rearing by my parents was the equal intellectual status of everyone in the family.
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Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it
A new report offers solutions to the problems that hound social media, from the spread of misinformation to the lack of competition.
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The threat of technological unemployment
There is a widely reported threat to our economy: robots are going to replace human workers. It is nothing new... In 1930, Keynes, the famous economist introduced the term "technological unemployment"... We are being afflicted with a new disease of which some readers may not yet have heard the name, but of which they…
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Yes, it's OK to be mad about crime in San Francisco
Let's not make excuses for Chaos City.
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An open source lawyer’s view on the copilot class action lawsuit
Seems like the other shoe finally dropped and a formal complaint has been filed with the Northern District of California regarding Copilot and Codex. The complaint is fascinating because the one th…
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It matters how you raise your kids
To parents besieged by expert advice, a new scientific idea offers relief: it’s no big deal how you raise your children....
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Stephen Hawking confirms: The problem is Capitalism, not robots
To call what we have now as Capitalism, is just wrong. What we have bears little resemblance to even what I saw as a child in the US, let alone anything like what Adam Smith talks about. What we have is at best crony capitalism, and more likely straight corruption top to bottom, with a fake veneer of something called…
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Why Lobste.rs Is Better Than Hacker News
Lobste.rs is WAY better than Hacker News (in my opinion). Here's why...
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Last Phase of the Desktop Wars?
The two most intriguing developments in the recent evolution of the Microsoft Windows operating system are Windows System for Linux (WSL) and the porting of their Microsoft Edge browser to Ubuntu.
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Strange domain names that developers bought
Not every domain is serious business. Here's a few of the fun ones that we at Stack Overflow owned, as well as those owned by our community.
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How to Steal a Billion
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Chicago Faces 135% Incr in Carjackings So Legislator Seeks to Ban GTA
My home city of Chicago continues to reel from soaring crime rates. Among the categories of increasing crime is a 135% spike in carjackings. One would think that the legislators would be focused o…
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The Great Steepening
Record supply to the market along with rising inflation expectations suggest that the yield curve will steepen materially.
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You are what you love
Discussing the importance of working alongside your emotions and not against them
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Why Haters Hate: Kierkegaard Explains the Psychology of Trolling in 1847
“Showing that they don’t care about me, or caring that I should know they don’t care about me, still denotes dependence.”
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"I'm Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry"
That’s something Ben Thompson said a recent episode of Dithering . He was referring to how he felt while trying to help his mom get control of her digital…