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Society, Policy & Culture

The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 453 posts.

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Twitter and Facebook Both Quietly Kill RSS

Last year I shared how Twitter was moving more and more towards a closed, less-standards oriented model of sharing content as they upgraded their design to bring more people to the Twitter.com website. At that time, they removed the prominent RSS icons and made it only possible to access an RSS feed for an individual…

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Google: Patently Absurd

How is Google’s argument here different than simply demanding that Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, *et al* should simply sit back and let Google do whatever it wants with Android, regardless of the patents they hold?