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The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 715 posts.
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Your Most Improbable Life
Your life’s goal should be to become the most improbable person you can be.
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The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism
I am the Computer Troubleshooter. I offer computer repair, data recovery and information technology services to the public of Santa Rosa, California and it's surrounding areas.
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I guess I kinda get why people hate AI
I’m sitting on a lānai in a hotel in Waikiki beach, writing this article, and wondering if the job I am starting nine days from now will be my last.This is a...
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$2.5T has been wiped from US stocks
The Nasdaq wiped out roughly $2.5 trillion in market cap on Thursday, officially pushing the index into correction territory.
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I'm betting on ATProto
Social media was supposed to connect us, but most of it has turned into ads, division, and loneliness. I'm betting on ATProto as a way to fix that, and not just for developers. Whether you're a scientist, journalist, or just someone who…
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Why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is
a tale about a young transgender intern
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You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
FDR has always been one of my favorite presidents, second maybe to Lincoln. Both were men the establishment assumed were one of them until, to their horror, they governed like they weren't. Both could trash the opposition in one breath and take the moral high ground in the next.
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Job application asked for my SAT scores
Yesterday I was looking at YC jobs to see if there were any interesting small startups hiring in my area (while I otherwise love my current fully-remote job,...
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You have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass
I had a dream last night I went to work at Amazon. Joining the Bezos neofeudal empire. This post is directed at anyone with talent who works at a tech company ushering in this future.
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American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were
Compared to their parents, Millennial fathers have roughly tripled the amount of time they spend with kids. The new American dad is more present and more exhausted—but also, more satisfied with life.
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Parking lots as economic drains
They are draining the economic potential of our cities. We need to make them financially unsustainable.
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We are all living inside of an obscure sci-fi film from 1970
Somehow a film made 56 years ago named Colossus The Forbin Project predicted the world of today
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It took four years until 2011’s iOS 5 gave everyone an emoji keyboard
A blog about software craft and quality
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Why the most valuable things you know are things you cannot say
The Dimensionality Problem
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The Soul of a Pedicab Driver
The Soul of a Pedicab Driver, by Carl Etnier.
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No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner
I’ve mentioned before my interest in the history and development of nuclear weapons . Currently, I’m reading The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War…
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Less human AI agents, please
Nial – Knowledge work and artificial intelligence.
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Fake Fans
into the digital marketing agency that creates your music taste
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Notes on San Marino
I spent three days in San Marino, a landlocked microstate completely surrounded by Italy. The people of San Marino are called the “Sammarinese.”
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I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot
How I stumbled across a fake booter site run by international police, and how they panicked when I started digging
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The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory
This is a walkthrough of how Fedora turns source code and packages into the artifacts you download and install. It follows the a package from a packager’s git push to a composed release: ISOs, cloud images, container images, and OSTree deployments.
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The Escalation of War in Ethiopia
The coming proxy wars will be devastating for civilians and do little to improve governance and human welfare in Ethiopia and the wider Horn
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The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure
How early-stage clinical trials became unnecessarily expensive and inefficient—and how we can fix them, inspired by a recent story about a dog treated for cancer.
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Canada Announces Divorce from America
And rightly so.
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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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How Long Can Life Wait?
Just because you haven’t moved from the sofa doesn’t mean you’re dead.
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