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Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable
Before the 1970s, most children affected by leukemia would quickly die from it. Now, most children in rich countries are cured.
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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 992 posts.
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Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people
About half the public identify the cost of groceries as a major source of financial stress. Nearly 1 in 5 of them have used so-called Buy Now Play Later services to buy their groceries.
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The Steam Deck is software-freedom friendly
in an era where tech giants increasingly control our digital experiences, the Steam Deck stands as a beacon of user freedom
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Feed the bots
A week ago , I set up a dynamically generated nonsense maze to catch LLM scrapers. Now, requests to it make up 99.9% of my server's traffic, but my total request volume did not increase. The bots didn't come to my site because of the trap.
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FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester: "Your name was brought up."
“Your name was brought up.”
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The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed
Last week the Department of War finally killed the last vestiges of Robert McNamara’s 1962 Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS). The DoW has pivoted from optimizing cost and performa…
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I'm done with social media – Or: why I have a blog now
Or: why I have a blog now.
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Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's
Loved reading through GReg TeChnoLogY Anthony Bourdain’s Lost Li.st’s and seeing the list of los...
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How cops can get your private online data
Can the cops get your online data? In short, yes. There are a variety of US federal and state laws which give law enforcement powers to obtain information that you provided to online services. But, there are steps you as a user and/or as a service provider can take to improve online privacy.Law...
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Apple's "notarisation" – blocking software freedom of developers and users
The EU’s Digital Markets Act is supposed to shake up the power of tech giants by giving developers and users more choice. Apple’s “notarisation” of mobile ...
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I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer
Not only did I give internet strangers unrestricted access to send me completely anonymous physical messages, but I also self-hosted the entire site on a Raspberry Pi
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Criticisms of “The Body Keeps the Score”
The popular book from the "world's most famous living psychiatrist" is riddled with blatant misrepresentations
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They made computers behave like annoying salesmen
They made computers behave like annoying salesmen | exotext
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Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site
A personal account of building HeheStreams, facing the consequences, and going to prison as a startup founder who had a piracy website.
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Our efforts, in part, define us
What happens when something we enjoy doing that took effort becomes effortless? And what happens if that original effort was a foundation on which we saw value…
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We do not have sufficient links to the UK for Online Safety Act to be applicable
We can argue that we are out-of-scope for the UK’s Online Safety Act.
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High-income job losses are cooling housing demand
Which local economies sustain housing? We analyze Charlotte's job boom vs. Austin/Denver slowdowns. High-wage contractions impact for-sale demand.
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Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing
I really like Ted Chiang’s writing.
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The origin of the cargo cult metaphor
The cargo cult metaphor is commonly used by programmers. This metaphor was popularized by Richard Feynman's "cargo cult science" talk with a...
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American Prairie unlocks another 70k acres in Montana
Conservation group opens gated road and tears down "no trespassing" signs with purchase from Texas billionaire brothers.
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The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence
The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence.
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Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad?
A Bed Assembly Drama
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Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables
Before we go any further, one thing that I want to make clear is that the word assume is going to be doing some heavy lifting throughout this post. This was a rabbit hole that I recently went down …