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Why the Luddites Matter
Chant no more your old rhymes about bold Robin Hood, His feats I but little admire I will sing the achievements of General Ludd Now the Hero of Nottinghamshire – General Ludd’s Triumph, [1] C…
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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 13,064 posts.
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T-Mobile’s Binge On Optimization is Just Throttling, Applies Indiscriminately
Back in November, T-Mobile announced a new service for its mobile customers called Binge On, in which video streams from certain websites don’t count against customers’ data caps.[fn]To be fair, T-Mobile’s plans don’t have traditional data caps—they just slow down to “2G” speeds once customers...
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A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
I’m unsure how popular GameNOW magazine was, but over the course of two years, they pulled off one of the weirdest running gags I’ve seen in a game magazine, just to have fun at the expense of an irate reader who didn’t like Final Fantasy VIII .
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How Singapore's government-run dating service works
Here are the 30+ questions in the matchmaking tool that Singapore is deploying on government workers.
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Discord fined €800k for failing to comply with several obligations of the GDPR
This page is no longer available. Order to comply or sanctions issued by the CNIL may be made public. In this case, a time limit shall be specified in the decision. Once this time period has expired, the organisations that have been given formal notice or sanctioned are no longer identified in the public decision. For…
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AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it
Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye from Berkeley Haas School of Business report initial findings in the HBR from their April to December 2025 study of 200 employees at a …
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The ethics of modern web ad-blocking
More than fifteen years ago, in response to decreasing ad rates and banner blindness , web advertisers and publishers adopted pop-up ads .
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IRS audits poorest families at five times the rate for everyone else
Beck will use the $25,000 grant to examine the Justice Department’s shutdown of civil rights investigations into local law enforcement and carceral facilities during the second Trump Administration, building the first comprehensive public accounting of the Civil Rights Division’s retreat.
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Escaping surveillance capitalism, at scale
Self-hosting and paid subscriptions promise an escape from surveillance capitalism. What guarantees do they really offer, and at what cost?
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Does Australia's access and assistance law impact 1Password?
Australia recently passed a law that correctly has people asking about the security and privacy of tools like 1Password.
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Gmail AI gets more intrusive
Gmail doesn't just offer to write your emails for you, they actually do it, and it's up to you to delete the text it wrote. Hard to make a screen shot to demo without revealing personal i…
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The most talented person in the world
Jodie is a cross-functional 3D designer and blogger. She has special interests in open source 3D printing for R&D and has spent a lot of time at different projects across the globe to learn more about 3D printing. Most of what she has learned is from hands-on experience.
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Some new snippets from the Snowden documents
A weblog about Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and top level telecommunications equipment
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Tog's Paradox
Tog’s Paradox (also known as The Complexity Paradox or Tog’s ComplexityParadox) is an observation that products aiming to simplify a task for users tend toinspire new, more complex tasks. It’s one ...
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Wartime Is a Bad Time to Mess with the Internet
Like most people, we at EFF are horrified by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Also like most people, we are not experts on military strategy or international diplomacy. But we do have some expertise with the internet and civil liberties, which is why we are deeply concerned that governments around the...
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EFF Patent Project Gets Half-Million-Dollar Boost from Mark Cuban and 'Notch'
San Francisco - America's broken patent system needs major reform to protect innovators and the public. Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is announcing a major new boost to its patent work: a half-million dollars in funding from entrepreneur Mark Cuban and game developer Markus "Notch...
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Now That's What I Call Social Proof
Watch streaming video, find interesting podcasts, and discover classic music and new songs from independent artists.
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Explaining Sex Rate Changes
According to the Post, polls say 28% of US men age 18-30 report not having sex in the last year, almost 3 times as many as a decade ago.
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We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it
Large language models (LLMs) like the GPT family learn the statistical structure of language by optimising their ability to predict missing words in sentences (as in ‘The cat sat on the [BLANK]’). Despite the impressive technical ju-jitsu of transformer models and the billions of parameters they learn, it’s still a…
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The Dollar Is Dead
When belief dies, fiat dies with it.
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Getting arrested in Japan
This is what happens when you get arrested in Japan and where you're sent off to will leave you speechless.
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Why does science news suck so much?
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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