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I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
I don't want your streaming music service, I just want the music I've collected and care about available to stream.
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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 952 posts.
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Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg
Besök Ostindiefararen Götheborg i Göteborg och upptäck världens största oceanfärdiga träskepp. Boka biljetter och utforska historien bakom detta unika fartyg.
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The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)
I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s…
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The unequal treatment of demographic groups by ChatGPT/OpenAI content moderation
Should AI systems treat different demographic groups unequally?
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Google Groups has been left to die
Where should the formal methods community move?
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Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing
U.S. adults who routinely say hello to their neighbors have higher wellbeing than those who greet fewer or no neighbors.
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Significant breakthrough in search for Parkinson's biomarker
We are charting the path to a future free from Parkinson’s. Your support will get us there.
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BBC gives up on Threads, sticks with Mastodon
So numerous brands are giving up on Threads by Instagram, allegedly due to lack of engagement (ironically, most of them are still using...
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Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do (2021)
Let’s get one thing out of the way: it’s not normal to stuff $100,000 in cash into a suitcase and then check said suitcase on to a domestic flight.
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I face investigation for terrorism
My phone is not being returned to me by police as, astonishingly, I am now formally under investigation for terrorism. Whether this relates to support for Palestine or for Wikileaks has currently not been made clear. What follows is, unspun and unvarnished, my account of my interview under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism…
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Journalists should be skeptical of all sources including scientists
A group of prominent scientists spread misinformation about COVID's origins. Mainstream journalists missed the story.
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CSAR: European Parliament rejects mass scanning of private messages
This marks a positive development for human rights in one of the most controversial draft European Union (EU) laws in recent memory.
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My rude-ass car
I need to vent about the impolite piece of yet-to-become e-waste on wheels that is my rude-ass car . You've heard versions of this story before, nothing is particularly novel in the shock department, enshittification is everywhere, etcetera... but I need the catharsis.
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The contagious visual blandness of Netflix
And how to treat it
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How mobile apps illegally share personal data
Some mobile apps share your personal data immediately after they're opened. This isn't compliant with EU privacy laws
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Statement on EU-US Cooperation on Turning Public Opinion Against Encryption
The members of the Global Encryption Coalition’s Steering Committee issued a statement on the EU-US collaboration against encryption.
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When your classmates threaten you with felony charges
A few weeks ago, I was part of a talk at DEF CON 31 called The Hackers, The Lawyers, and the Defense Fund. I was asked to share my experience receiving a legal…
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The teen mental illness epidemic began around 2012
This is not just “Kids these days”
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The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy
Why I've gotten more and more pessimistic about my relationship with Twitter.
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Encrypting private data and private communications is now an ethical duty
We have come to a point where end-to-end encrypting all your private data and private communications
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Play deprivation is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis
Allowing more unsupervised free play is among the most powerful and least expensive ways to bring down rates of mental illness
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The money spent on lotteries doesn’t go to the park
The $6-10 lottery application fee that Recreation.gov charges doesn’t go to the park, but into Recreation.gov’s pockets. In 2022, for 6 out of these 9 lotteries, Recreation.gov makes made more money than the park.
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Why don’t more people live close to friends?
A few theories why
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We ran a phone check at a Y Combinator event in SF
*the full story is now on the official clearspace blog
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Archive your Reddit data before it's too late
I've written a tool for creating a searchable archive of all your Reddit data.
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Don't believe ChatGPT – we do not offer a "phone lookup" service
TL;DR ChatGPT claims we offer an API to turn a mobile phone number into the location of the phone. We do not.
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Belgium legalises ethical hacking
On 15 February 2023, Belgium saw the entering into force of a new ‘whistleblower’ law, which legalised ‘ethical hacking’ even for cases where the hacked entity did not consent to it. In order to benefit from such decriminalisation, the law poses a number of conditions for ethical hacking, that have to be fulfilled in…
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