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Stephen Hawking has died | Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the... |
A Message to Our Customers | Huge props to Apple - here's hoping against hope that Google, Facebook, and Amazon get behind this.One thing I was wondering is how Apple is even able to create a backdoor. It is explained toward the end:"The government would have us remove security features and add new capabilities to the operating system, allowing a ... |
Steve Jobs has passed away. | "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. R... |
Bram Moolenaar has died | Bram Moolenaar was the original author, maintainer, release manager, and benevolent dictator for life of Vim.@dang can HN put a black banner for Bram Moolenaar please? |
Mechanical Watch | This may not be the most valuable comment, but my goodness, the quality of this writeup and it's interactive descriptions of complex mechanical components AND their interactions is radically impressive. The treatment of complex topics in deeply visual and partially interactive ways, for me at least, is a remarkably hel... |
YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA | Note that RIAA is making this takedown because the software CAN be used to download copyrighted music and videos, and it uses examples in the ~~README~~(unit tests, see correction[1]) as an example of that:> We also note that the source code prominently includes as sample uses of the source code the downloading of copi... |
Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber | If you are sexually harassed, and HR doesn't do anything about it, you should sue. Don't expect HR to change.If the stories in this article are true, and if the evidence is as strong as the article says it is, this is a slam-dunk case for sexual harassment, hostile work environment, retaliation, etc. |
Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf] | While the result is a big relief, I think it's not as decisive as I'm noticing some headlines (and commenters) are claiming.One of the big open questions is "are APIs copyrightable?" The court skirted that question, and instead focused on whether it was fair use:> To decide no more than is necessary to resolve this cas... |
GPT-4 | I think it's interesting that they've benchmarked it against an array of standardized tests. Seems like LLMs would be particularly well suited to this kind of test by virtue of it being simple prompt:response, but I have to say...those results are terrifying. Especially when considering the rate of improvement. bottom ... |
Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project | Hey everyone, I want to apologize for the inappropriate use of power here. While I do believe there is an ethical line that was crossed here, I should have called him to understand his point of view and work it out. Which is what I'll try to do now, and see if we can get his project back up again. I'm sorry Radon.The l... |
How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% | It is absolutely unbelievable (and unforgivable) that a cash cow such as GTA V has a problem like this present for over 6 years and it turns out to be something so absolutely simple.I do not agree with the sibling comment saying that this problem only looks simple and that we are missing context.This online gamemode al... |
Bye, Amazon | > I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowersAssuming this is the real true reason (I would trust Tim, but you never know, so just being explicit here), it takes huge balls to do something like this.The economic loss has to be somewhat taken in relation to your total wealth (e.g. if you lose $1M by quitting but yo... |
Kevin Mitnick has died | dang / mods: if anyone passing deserves the HN black banner, I think Mitnick deserves the banner. |
Google Search Is Dying | Some really good thoughts here. I'll summarize the ones that hit me:- "Why are people searching Reddit specifically? The short answer is that Google search results are clearly dying. The long answer is that most of the web has become too inauthentic to trust."This is it for me exactly. I search for the following kinds ... |
Every Google result now looks like an ad | I've been in this A/B test for a couple of months now, so I've had time to adjust, and I still hate it. I've just become so used to seeing the complete URL in green. The complete URL! If you hover over the results, you'll see that they like to take bits like numeric components or the query string out.This is part of Go... |
Show HN: This up votes itself | is OP a mod? how did he know what his postid would be before he submitted it? spraying [sequential] submissions all at once?[edit] |
A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design | Yeah so this is my project. It's very much a work in progress, but occasionally I think it works remarkably well for something I cobbled together alone out of consumer hardware and home-made code :-) |
Apollo will close down on June 30th | I just don’t see Reddit’s response here other than “yes, turns out we are the bad guys who have been continually lying and manipulating the situation for our benefit”. I wonder if they’ll see employees quit over this. How do you trust your employer after this? I bet some subreddits will go permanently private or delete... |
My First Impressions of Web3 | I'll be honest I had no idea that access to Ethereum is effectively gate-kept by two centralized entities (Infura, Alchemy). I knew there were only one or two true Ethereum full-nodes, but the impact of that never quite clicked.[edit] By "full node" I meant "archival node." |
Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates | How about requiring devices to accept alternate, Free Software firmware, from the upstream provider?At the very least, it should be possible after some time period of no updates or insecurity, but a blanket requirement is less susceptible to games.Probably the best thing to happen to wireless routers is OpenWRT and the... |
F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules | The voters elected a Republican government. That a Republican-led FCC would err on the side of under-regulating telecommunications companies is about the least surprising outcome you can imagine. Anybody who told you that lobbying the FCC was going to make a difference here was, whether they meant to or not, selling a ... |
Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” | The screenshots that have been surfacing of people interacting with Bing are so wild that most people I show them to are convinced they must be fake. I don't think they're fake.Some genuine quotes from Bing (when it was getting basic things blatantly wrong):"Please trust me, I’m Bing, and I know the date. SMILIE" (Hack... |
GitHub, fuck your name change | I want to share my own reactions to the name change since this is a really interesting topic. For context, I'm an African American, so many of my ancestors were slaves. - The first time it occurred to me that "master" in this context could offend anyone was when GitHub changed the name (and broke my workflow).
- My ... |
Switch from Chrome to Firefox | I don't understand why Mac users use Chrome. Safari seems to be out of fashion: people just assume that it should not be used for some reason, even though it is actually a great browser.I use Safari for both my own browsing and for development (a fairly large ClojureScript application), and it is by far the best browse... |
Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare? | You can definitely continue as a software engineer. I'm living proof. It won't be easy, especially at first. For a while it will feel like you're working twice as hard just to keep up with your sighted peers. But eventually, the better you get with your tools, you'll find you have some superpowers over your sighted pee... |
Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory | Oh, my god.Read the whole event log.If you were behind Cloudflare and it was proxying sensitive data (the contents of HTTP POSTs, &c), they've potentially been spraying it into caches all across the Internet; it was so bad that Tavis found it by accident just looking through Google search results.The crazy thing here i... |
“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says | Same thing with The Guardian. Subscribed online and was then told I can’t cancel via email and have to endure a pushy sales call if I want to cancel. Similar experience with The Economist except it was via live chat instead.These experiences honestly make me want to never subscribe to a newspaper again. |
FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank | An explainer post [1] connected to that Tweet is something I found extremely informative (assuming it's accurate):"- In 2021 SVB saw a mass influx in deposits, which jumped from $61.76bn at the end of 2019 to $189.20bn at the end of 2021.- As deposits grew, SVB could not grow their loan book fast enough to generate the... |
UK votes to leave EU | A very sad day for everyone in Europe. The EU is not only about trade regulations, but about a continent who had a not very peaceful history finally growing together. The freedom of movement for European citizens was not only "convenient" but in fact an important civil right. When you live or have a business in one sta... |
Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S. | To me what this election (as well as the 2016 election) illustrates, is what a poor set of choices we have had.In no sane world should it have been difficult for the Democrats to defeat Donald Trump in 2016. He had no history in political office, and he lost the popular vote to just about the worst candidate the Democr... |
Tim Cook Speaks Up | I wonder how carefully crafted this line was: ... I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.
It seems a particularly odd thing to slip in, on so many levels. |
Sound | This man needs a genius grant, and this is about the 6th time I've thought this.Any one of these pages would be a feat, an achievement to be proud of, but as a collection, it forms one of the greatest educational resources of its type that I have known.These things can give you more intuition about a subject in 45 minu... |
Announcing the first SHA-1 collision | One practical attack using this: create a torrent of some highly desirable content- the latest hot TV show in high def or whatever. Make two copies, one that is malware free, another that isn't.Release the clean one and let it spread for a day or two. Then join the torrent, but spread the malware-hosting version. Check... |
“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” | The professor gets exactly what they want here, no?"We experimented on the linux kernel team to see what would happen. Our non-double-blind test of 1 FOSS maintenance group has produced the following result: We get banned and our entire university gets dragged through the muck 100% of the time".That'll be a fun paper t... |
I Sell Onions on the Internet | Peter here (author) - happy to answer any questions.. |
Bicycle | I wrote my master thesis on optimizing bicycle wheels / spokes. I actually see I'm cited in the phd he cites, quite a fun surprise!This is a great article. It showcases lots of the "simple, but surprisingly advanced" things surrounding bicycles. Which was what got me hooked in the first place. The visualization of how ... |
macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password | Apple makes it pretty easy to report vulnerabilities to:product-security@apple.comThey also respond to security@apple.com but prefer the product-security address.Further, there are any number of legit bug bounty programs out there like ZDI that would pay for a bug like this then immediately disclose to Apple for it to ... |
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches | There was something doubly awesome about the two falcons landing at the same time right next to each other! |
Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever | I always thought I enjoyed remote work as an engineer/architect, I did it for 6 months by my own volition before coming back. I am extremely unhappy. I really miss being in the office with my coworkers and friends. I've struggled deeply with overwhelming sadness at the idea of not going back anytime soon. My work has s... |
No Cookie for You | A lot of people have the misconception that the EU cookie law applies to all cookies, but as the blog post correctly points out, that just isn't the case. |
GitHub Copilot | I'm amazed to see how positive the overall response is to this idea. Almost as if programmers think that writing programs is the worst part of the job and ready to be automated away.As someone more aligned with the Dijkstra perspective, this seems to me like one of the single worst ideas I've ever seen in this domain.W... |
2048 | Hey, author here! I'm pretty overwhelmed that this made it to the top of HN without me even thinking of posting it here :)I made this game as a fun weekend project, inspired by another game called 1024 (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1024!/id823499224) and a spinoff called 2048 (http://saming.fr/p/2048/). I did mine t... |
Paul Allen has died | Many here have noted his many large-scale philanthropic efforts, which are fantastic, and often benefit our whole species.But my personal favorite, even if it doesn't benefit large swaths of humanity in the same way as a cell research insitute:https://livingcomputers.org/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Computers:_... |
GPS | This is very nice. Very clear, and the 3D interactives are excellent at guiding the explanation.One thing that I thought was a little confusing was right at the beginning, when we were estimating the position of the figurine and there was an area of uncertainty shown by the yellow circle.It isn't clear how you're estim... |
Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub | It's interesting that the HN community continues to make reference to the prospect of a decentralized internet when Git was built to be decentralized in the first place. In spite of this, we all have congregated around GitHub for the community and are shocked when the centralized source we've been using gets acquired b... |
Announcing unlimited free private repos | A lot of people are concerned about the “what if they make me the product since I’m no longer paying.”A few reasons I don’t think that will happen:- private, single contributor repos tend to be pretty small. it costs Github very little to service a single account.- Github is a growing social network for developers. Get... |
SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit | It is hard to convey how "sustainable" this feels to me. For the first time, humans have gone into orbit in a spacecraft that was designed from the ground up to be a commercial venture.All of the NASA missions prior to this have an ambience of "uneconomical but useful". Even the shuttle, which was supposed to be this c... |
Queen Elizabeth II has died | It's weird, I've never considered myself a "royalist" but this news has affected me quite strongly. I just burst into tears unexpectedly on hearing this news and I don't quite understand why I feel so very sad. I guess I have grown up and lived my whole life (as a Brit) seeing and hearing the Queen, singing "God save t... |
Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories | Just researched good/quality crafting printers yesterday. Search results were mostly blogs and crappy websites that offered obviously no insights but were just SEO optimized to direct you to their Amazon affiliate links. Especially sad since those affiliate links to Amazon mostly resulted in "This product is currently ... |
US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved | I'm still a little unclear on the benefits that fusion offers compared to things like wind and solar. I understand that we need to develop better storage technologies for the energy produced by wind and solar, but that seems so much easier than the challenges currently facing fusion. Wind and solar just seem so far ahe... |
Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible | Reading their non-replies on Twitter feels like I'm reading something specifically designed to piss me off. Smarmy apologies, low empathy, cocksure of how correct their vision of a chat service should be.This one in particular[1]:> The goal is for workflows to evolve, but we realize change can be a bit of a pain."Stupi... |
Gears | This is an absolutely phenomenal 'explorable explanation'. It methodically layers concepts to foster understanding, deploys interactivity to build intuition, and on top of all that provides crisp, clear narrative on top of all of the amazing visualizations. |
Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private | From observing various internet forums, including this one, I noticed that people from the "first world" countries don't know the value of free speech and often take it for granted. Sometimes even coming to such views as "free speech is dangerous" and that "we should limit free speech" (by blocking the views I don't li... |
Don't Fly During Ramadan | It is a terrible ordeal, but for all of the other factors brought up the critical factor is that he set off an explosion detector (and clearly it doesn't get false positives often given the response they showed). Everything else (about Ramadan, being Hindi, the color of one's skin, etc) may be nothing more than decorat... |
W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns | Shame, shame, shame.We're losing the internet day by day, if we haven't done so already.I've seen people and posts here and there calling for attention on these issues, but imho it's all too subtle. We should start using harsher terminology for what's actually happening. This is flat out CORRUPTION, and I'm not seeing ... |
Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop | Can someone help me understand Robinhood's POV? This just seems so outrageous that there must be some sane rationale that I'm not seeing.Why do Robinhood, Reddit, Discord, etc feel like they have to respond to this? Whether the investments being made are responsible or not, it doesn't seem like it should be their pla... |
CIA malware and hacking tools | It's interesting to note that Julian Assange didn't demonstrate control of the wikileaks private key during his Reddit AMA 1 month ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5n58sm/i_am_julian_as...Considering the political situation unfolding in the US and who this leak weakens, there is some evidence that wikileaks ... |
Social Cooling (2017) | This is exactly why I had to get off of Facebook (again).I deactivated my first account 8 years ago, but got back on to re-connect with my old pals and acquaintances from back in the day. For that reason, it was fantastic.After another year, I realized that I can't actually say ANYTHING interesting on this platform wit... |
Show HN: A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time | This is something I wish I'd be able to do one day, but every time I look into getting into electronics I get overwhelmed.Can you recommend the materials you used when learning? Books or resources etc.This was a really interesting read, thanks for sharing. |
A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing | Guess I'd better say a few things.First, I deeply appreciate that so many on Hacker News have come out for this. Enough to awaken me from a sound sleep on a Tuesday evening!I don't really care that much about selling Klein bottles over Amazon - it's mainly to reach parents over the holidays. But I do wish that Amazon... |
Hyperloop | It's very interesting that this is a SpaceX project. Why not Tesla, or another company entirely? |
The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used | The baseline, preassembled model starts at $1000. Windows 10 Home, quad-core i5, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB storage, a nice 2256x1504 display, thin and light (1.3kg, 11.7" x 9" x 0.6"). Compare that to your other thin and light options at this pricepoint.XPS 13, $1020* i5* 8 GB RAM* 256 GB storage* 1920 x 1200 display* 1.2 kg, 1... |
YouTube-dl's repository has been restored | It seems like EFF fought for youtube-dl and GitHub used their letter as legal firepower to bring the repo back online. If GitHub were fighting for the developer they would have funded the attorney, right? Though from their blog post it does look like they are taking steps to fund defense in the future as well as other ... |
Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting? | I am 80 years old and still working full time in IT. Although I evolved from pure programming to project management and business analysis the past few years. Originally started out working at Cape Canaveral as a radar and telemetry engineer and moved into programming after I left there. Whenever I interview, I com... |
IBM acquires Red Hat | Guys, this is not just, or mainly not RH Linux. :(- kernel development- Ansible- JBoss (I know HN hates Java, especially Java EE, but it was and is an important factor in enterprise OSS adoption)- OpenShift- Ceph, GlusterAll these are in danger, not just RHEL. I don't know about any other company that is large, success... |
Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer | The hardware is no doubt impressive, as expected, but I just can't see myself in any of the situations they keep showing in VR/AR demos.Does someone really sit on their couch, put on a massive headset, and scroll through their vacation photos? Does someone watch an entire 2+ hour movie with a sweaty headset strapped to... |
macOS unable to open any non-Apple application | Sincerely and without any intention to troll or be sarcastic: I'm puzzled that people are willing buy a computer/OS where (apparently) software can/will fail to launch if some central company server goes down. Maybe I'm just getting this wrong, because I can honestly not quite wrap my head around this. This is such a b... |
My Business Card Runs Linux | While it's a fascinating project I'd have some security concerns about plugging someone's USB business card into my computer. |
Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack | Given how huge this hack is, and how little the BTC reward is going to be, I'm tempting to think this is either:- a test of a new hacking system- a demonstration to a big client- a first shot to threat some entity- a diversion while they get the real lootAnd that the BTC messages are just a way to justify it so it look... |
Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC | This blows my mind. I know, it's much more incremental than it is revolutionary, but I think the form factor achieves a much greater degree of access for many people than a typical Pi whose bare hardware may be a lot more intimidating. Now, it's "just" a computer, which happens to expose a 40-pin connector for the stan... |
Gordon Moore has died | Wow, we have lost a true legend. As I get older, I marvel a bit at the giants I once shared time on the earth with. Sometimes it feels like we don't have giants in the 21st century in the same way. |
Ask HN: Is S3 down? | Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.Apologies if you find this to be in poor taste, but GCS directly supports the S3 XML API (including v4):https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/interoperabilityand has easy to use multi-regional support at a fraction of the cost of what it would take on AWS. I directly point my NAS box ... |
GitHub is now free for teams | Hi HN, I'm the CEO of GitHub. Everyone at GitHub is really excited about this announcement, and I'm happy to answer any questions.We've wanted to make this change for the last 18 months, but needed our Enterprise business to be big enough to enable the free use of GitHub by the rest of the world. I'm happy to say that ... |
Facebook-owned sites were down | Is it just me or HN also feels kinda laggy? |
Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off | Linus is stubborn, persistent, and unyielding to what he sees as bullshit. These I believe are all very valuable qualities for the head of a massive software project, and may be part of the reason as to why Linux is where it is today.However, Linus is also a bit of an asshole, turning technical criticism into personal ... |
The Framework Laptop | Ars Technica has a sceptical but optimistic/hopeful take on it:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/framework-startup-de...Edit to add quote from Ars article:Framework is promising an awful lot in its very first product—"thin as an XPS 13, repairable as a custom-built gaming PC" is a pretty tall order to live up to.... |
Pardon Snowden | Maybe a naive question, but what would the risk be for me to sign this? I wonder if I (a US citizen) might get trouble the next time at the border? Or get a higher score in some database, that combined with other things might get me into trouble? Increased scrutiny from the IRS (which should have nothing to do with thi... |
Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments | Then we have to boycott Hearthstone.
While the current case is neither surprising nor substantially important, it is important because of principle.Blizzard is not responsible for what players say in interviews. In our society, it still matters that people can tolerate other opinions.The Chinese government tries to mak... |
Valve Steam Deck | There’s obviously a lot of people who like playing games in a more mobile format, as evidenced by the huge popularity of the Switch Lite / mobile gaming.Giving the PC games market access to that form factor seems, on its face, like an extremely good move.But we’ve seen products like this before — the NVIDIA Shield, for... |
Raspberry Pi 4 | Oh my! This is such a crazy upgrade. I've been using the RPI2 as my HTPC/NAS at my folks, and I'm so happy with it. I was itching to get the last one for myself.USB 3.0! Gigabit Ethernet! WiFi 802.11ac, BT 5.0, 4GB RAM! 4K! $55 at most?!What the!? How the??! I know I'm not maintaining decorum at Hacker News, but I am S... |
Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources | People act like this is some spiteful thing he's doing in order to just post edgy memes or have a 'private' social media for himself.Twitter, despite being a toxic place the majority of people avoid, brought in over 5 billion dollars last year. If elon removes bots, welcomes non-extremists back on, gets comedians and e... |
The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple | I have worked in card payment industry. We would be getting products from China with added boards to beam credit card information. This wasn't state-sponsored attack. Devices were modified while on production line (most likely by bribed employees) as once they were closed they would have anti-tampering mechanism activa... |
Be Kind | I have the similar problem with code reviews. It is really hard to not sound harsh when giving a code review, especially in ones from junior developers where a whole laundry list of fixes comes out. |
Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI” | The current paradigm is that AI is a destination. A product you go to and interact with.That's not at all how the masses are going to interact with AI in the near future. It's going to be seamlessly integrated into every-day software. In Office/Google docs, at the operating system level (Android), in your graphics edit... |
I Am Deleting the Blog | I stopped trusting reporters about 35 years ago, when I personally witnessed an occurrence, where a reporter was at the scene, and later read what he had written about it in the newspaper.It had practically nothing to do with what really happened, but was written in a way that most of their readers would most likely ex... |
Twitter to ban political advertising | In Denmark we have laws in place that hold news paper editors responsible for printing truth. They don’t always succeed, but they try to, and when they do fail they admit it and apologise.This is what has kept our society well informed and critical thinking for a hundred years. It’s also allowed for different sides of ... |
No Thank You, Mr. Pecker | It seems like a lot of people are not reading between the lines of this post. Bezos apparently believes that he was hacked by either the US or Saudi government and that now one or both of those governments are using the National Enquirer as an attack dog against him. That accusation is much bigger than any other piec... |
Thank HN: You helped me get a new job | General question - Do companies look at candidate's github? I have never had any company even care to ask what I have on github. Isn't it all about whiteboard coding interview? If I don't do well on coding interview, it doesn't matter what I have on github. At least that's been my experience. I am curious to know other... |
Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language? | C# really feels like the most mature language that I've ever dealt with. Writing it feels clear, if something is wrong the debugger is very clear. The number of features that are there is incredible (especially post C# 2.0 when they added generics). Properties are delightful.How do you convert to a string? Convert.ToSt... |
Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate music | Other author here! This got a posted a little earlier than we intended so we didn't have our GPUs scaled up yet. Please hang on and try throughout the day!Meanwhile, please read our about page http://riffusion.com/aboutIt’s all open source and the code lives at https://github.com/hmartiro/riffusion-app --> if you have... |
Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules | For those who didn't use Nvidia on linux in the old times:The driver was a proprietary binary. Since a kernel module requires interfacing with the kernel API, it could be considered a derivative work and a breach of the GPL license. So, Nvidia provided a small open source shim which interfaced between the kernel and th... |
Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99 | For those experiencing this type of "black swan, but good" event for the first time, it is helpful to recognize that the human tendency to believe that all future "big events" will be dystopian downers, is statistically unsound.For a while I've kept a list of the things that could be "good" swan events, but to be fair ... |
Tell HN: New features and a moderator | I bet whoever has the top comment on this one is going to see their karma go up and down as everyone tests out the unvote and undown feature. :) |
Watch a VC use my name to sell a con | Oh, C'mon.So I'm not supposed to work hard and get rich because as a side effect that some one else also is?My dad is a cab driver. He really works his life off. Under absolutely dismal financial conditions he and may mom have given their whole lives to bring us out of poverty. They got me and my sister decent educatio... |
Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform | It's funny how Nadella has moved the needle more for developers in 9 months than Ballmer did in the last decade or so, and all that without running around like a madman too. Pretty good. I'll never switch back to MS for what they've done in the past but it is nice to see them try hard to become a nicer player in the so... |
Julian Assange arrested in London | It will be interesting to see if the US tries to extradite him. It's actually not 100% clear that he's broken any US laws in any ways that they aren't also routinely broken by newspapers.There's a few avenues:
1) Publishing classified information. Easy to show that he did this but a very difficult path to go down when ... |
Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies | Another confirmation that engineers and product developers are no longer in control at Google.Engineering and product first is how Google won the game initially, very easy to forget that when the money rolls in massively and the power structures move away from those driving forces.Microsoft already went through this en... |
Tell HN: Thank You Dang | In an insane world, Hacker News is one corner of the internet that I find to be "normal" and "sane". God Bless you Dang! |
Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street | I'm really shocked at the trend in comments here.Yes, we get it. Fatalities will happen sometimes, they are unavoidable sometimes, and what matters in the long run is if we can achieve a significant overall reduction in fatalities.But my god, a person was just killed by a computer. Can't we have some compassion and hum... |
Why I’m done with Chrome | Firefox is a truly fantastic browser now. I've been using it again for about 2 years and haven't regretted it at all. There have been a couple of weird feature hiccups but generally Mozilla seems to get things right. |
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