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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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Society, Policy & Culture
The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 4,917 posts.
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Toyotas and Terrorists: "Why are ISIS's trucks better than ours?" (2023)
One of the hottest commodities in the military, or even for civilian contractors, is having a vehicle down range when you are deployed in the Middle East. Anyone who is someone has their own Ford
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The future of GNOME
Having just returned from GUADEC and now having the desktop as my job focus I been thinking about where we are going and what to do next. Benjamin managed to get quite a bit of press for his abysmally negative post, but I think his mis-stated the situation quite badly. As Dave Mason said during...
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New Texas Abortion Law Likely to Unleash a Torrent of Lawsuits Against Education
In addition to the drastic restrictions it places on a woman’s reproductive and medical care rights, the new Texas abortion law, SB8, will have devastating effects on online speech. The law creates a cadre of bounty hunters who can use the courts to punish and silence anyone whose online advocacy,...
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Is Social Media Worthless?
The Voice of the Customer (VoC) helps businesses understand who they are selling to and what they expect. Use the following tips and best practices to better understand what the Voice of the Customer is and how you can implement a successful VoC program.
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How to stop advertisers from tracking your teen across the internet
When children turn 13, they age out of the data protections provided by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Then, they become targets for data collection from data brokers that collect their information from social media apps, shopping history, location tracking services, and more.
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Germany is pressuring Neocities to censor a disclosure of their censorship
The German government is pressuring Neocities to censor a disclosure of their censorship list.
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Flock Now Using AI to Report to Police If Our Movement Patterns Are "Suspicious"
Company crosses a dangerous line by beginning to offer AI suspicion-generation functions
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Adobe Summit Cancelled
Learn about digital trends, gain inspiration and bring the latest intelligence into your business. Explore more now.
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Thanks, HN Here are the vocab survey results from all your participation
Test your English vocabulary size and measure how many words you know with Preply's free test (ex. Testyourvocab.com). For children, adults and EFL/ESL learners.
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Surveillance Evangelist Arrested in California
FBI agents arrested a Mexican tycoon named Jose Susumo Azano Matsura at his Coronado, Calif. home on Wednesday as part of a political bribery investigation based on captured emails, seized banking records, and covertly recorded conversations. The unfolding scandal is soaked in irony: Azano is a...
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Ben “bushing” Byer has passed away
We are deeply saddened by the news that our member, colleague, and friend Ben “bushing” Byer has passed away.
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Library Holdings from Tokyo Univ. Now Available Through the Internet Archive
Written by Professor Tom Gally, University of Tokyo, and Katie Barrett, Internet Archive & JET Program AlumTranslations by Tomoki Sakakibara, University of Tokyo (日本語はページ下部にあります。 Scroll down for Japanese version.) As our global society grows ever more connected, it can be easy to assume that all of human history is…
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Peter Eckersley, co-creator of Let’s Encrypt, dies at just 43
The Sophos Blog
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Joint Statement on the GNU Project
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
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A Vicious Cycle: The Dangerous Dehumanisation of Cyclists
A new study suggests the "dehumanisation" of cyclists could be contributing to acts of aggression towards them on the road.
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New York’s bill banning One-Person Train Operation
Bill Banning One-Person Trains Would Lock NY Transit in the Past
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Never talk to the police
Always talk to a criminal defense attorney before you tell the police anything or consent to a search without a warrant. When I was a prosecutor, the first think I would ask when given a case was, "did he say anything?"
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Why do poor school kids have to clean up rich commuters’ pollution?
Item: In the past two years, Portland Public Schools has spent nearly $12.5 million of its scarce funds to clean up the air at Harriet Tubman Middle School. This money will buy an expensive state-of-the-art air filtration system that will make the air inside the school safe for students to breathe. Scientists from…
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Denying Problems When We Don’t Like the Solutions
There may be a scientific answer for why conservatives and liberals disagree so vehemently over the existence of issues like climate change and specific types of crime.A new study from Duke University finds that people will evaluate scientific evidence based on whether they view its policy implications as politically…