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news.ycombinator.com 26d ago

Ask HN: Who remembers Fry's Electronics – the "church" of IT people?

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oilprice.com 1mo ago

U.S. Military Helping Move 7M Bpd Out of Persian Gulf, Wright Says

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techcrunch.com 1mo ago

Pentagon Says Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and Unitree Support China's Military

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news.ycombinator.com 2mo ago

"An (important) message from Infomaniak's founder"

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www.uab.edu 3mo ago

Study shows Alzhheimer's disease tau protein spreads through connected neurons

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www.latimes.com 3mo ago

Supreme Court makes it harder to sue for copyright infringement

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www.nber.org 4mo ago

AI, Human Cognition and Knowledge Collapse

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v-dem.net 4mo ago

"Democracy Report 2026" – V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg [pdf]

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news.ycombinator.com 4mo ago

Ask HN: How do you block/hide comments with links to grokipedia, on HN?

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www.computerworld.com 4mo ago

Australia's WiseTech to cut 2k jobs as AI renders manual coding obsolete

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techxplore.com 5mo ago

From flattery to debate: Training AI to mirror human reasoning

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news.ycombinator.com 5mo ago

Ask HN: Non-profit, volunteers run org needs CRM. Is Odoo Community a good sol.?

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synergies.substack.com 5mo ago

You are probably getting brain damage from all those Covid infections

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archive.org 6mo ago

2011: Six technologies that will stick around, and six that will dissapear

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news.ycombinator.com 6mo ago

Ask HN: Is Google photos secure enough to share albums?

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news.ycombinator.com 7mo ago

Ask HN: Why isn't the Android app Harmonic able to save directly HN favorites?

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lottoanalyzer.fr 7mo ago

Lotto Analyzer (beta test with Loto France)

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gwern.net 7mo ago

Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought (2024) [pdf]

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abrotherabroad.com 7mo ago

Digital Nomads and Expats visa info

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mastodon.nl 8mo ago

Bernardo Kastrup on the anticipation for Google's Gemini 3 release

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www.planetcritical.com 10mo ago

Collapse for the 99% – Luke Kemp What happens when Goliaths fall

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esstnews.com 11mo ago

Vitalik Buterin Questions Prediction Markets' Hedging Appeal

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universemagazine.com 11mo ago

Three axes of time: A new theory reshapes the geometry of the Universe

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today.rtl.lu 1y ago

New Zealand approves medicinal use of 'magic mushrooms'

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www.reuters.com 1y ago

FTC probes Media Matters over Musk's X boycott claims, document shows

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: Reddit account banned almost one year ago – unable to create and use new

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: Is it safe to file for taxes in the US, at this time?

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archive.org 1y ago

CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025

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www.404media.co 1y ago

GitHub Is Showing the Trump Administration Scrubbing Gov Web Pages in Real Time

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: Is magnolia1234's extension safe, if now hosted on gitflic?

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Been toying with the idea for a long time, but I'm concerned about US financial institution apps and multiple countries specific apps (local transport, finance, medical and governmental), whose apks do no exist, as well as (crucial for me, as a heavy international traveler) google voice. For a lot such I now need to use a combo of Google playstore, for US account tied apps, and Aurora for non US apps.

Honeypot Design 1 month ago

Reminded me of the first honeynet I set up, during my second college degree (late 90s), in a lab where access to the internet was via individual machines direct connected public IPs (no firewalls at the time, just routers). I wasn't sure how many machines I could have available in the lab, unused, for each to run a honeypot of sorts (at the time I was interested in Usenet "spam"), so I took over the DHCP scope of the lab LAN, and hoped I could catch and use machines, as they were going for renewal, upon reboots / shutdown-power-up, especially as I did this on a Friday (you know the rule of Friday changes ;)). Got a call in the middle of the night, from a friend who had some work to do, letting me know that no machine in the lab was usable, and if I knew anything about. I obviously denied any knowledge, as I wanted my results from a 2.5 days run. Can't describe the joy of my professor, Monday morning, when the entire lab had to be "cleaned up", machine by machine, with each drive filled with spam over the weekend... O, tempora!

BTW - Lance Spitzner was one of my favorites at SANS, where I got a few certs in the (very) early 2000s.

In my 35+ years in IT, the "hero attitude" was the one in the top three I most hated traits in a person working with or for me. And talking about traits, I considered crucial to always have in my teams a "saboteur" engineer - the one who thoght, found, come up with all the way we could break a design, service, infra components, app, etc., when all the others were designing or operating for perfect or normal conditions.

To me untying laces, so I can take my shoes off ASAP, its far more important than the reliability of the knot. I just need to pull an end, and free my feet, without things tangled by mistake.

Ferrari Luce 2 months ago

A car you'll never be able to get four people in, in the same time, using all four doors. Oh, well, if it's Ferrari...

Magnifica Humanitas 2 months ago

Thank you for this. Is your python script in any way English language bound, or could it still be applied to other languages (e.g. the French version, with all of its diacritics), of course with the appropriate (sub/full)titles, path, etc. necessary minor modifications considered?

Magnifica Humanitas 2 months ago

As an atheist I have an obligation to finish reading it all (still going through, and taking notes, probably having to revisit), but I am not sure how many (christian) believers will feel the same.

Bought something online and didn't receive your product? With PIX you're SOL, with Visa/Mastercard you get a chargeback.

This is no longer the case outside US. Last time I had the account of one of the few credit cards I'm using (on the Visa or Mastercard networks), for transactions I should have been clearly reimbursed / credited, as it used to be the case, actually awarded in my favor, was four years ago. Recent transactions, with proven vendor at fault, ended up with my loss. All over Europe (Im traveling a lot). So no tears shed for Visa or Mastercard losing the EU turf.

A Tiny E Reader 2 months ago

Looks interesting - thank you. I will have to give it a try, as I have a few paperwhites in airplane mode since around 2021 (to avoid updates that may one day break calibre sideloading)

A Tiny E Reader 2 months ago

I dream of an e-reader which could have the qualities of a true e-ink technology (ability to read under any light conditions, especially sunny one), while allowing usage of dictionaries like the android Livio offline apps (English, French, etc. )

I quit FB shorty after they opened it outside *.edu domains, which was about the time AOL started giving usenet and gopher access to the public at large. It looks like I am missing some stuff /s

You can tell this is yet another US centric post. Once having moved to France, almost five years ago, I've been and continue being pleasantly overwhelmed by the quality and quantity to choose from, of printed journals, magazines and books. Once a week, on Wednesdays, when the closest mediatheque is open the entire day, I go in and dive into reading everything I can, for hours and hours, with a small break for lunch, most of the time until they close.