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How can we mentor the next gen of code craftsmen/women if we disengage and unplug the phone?

Yes. As a maintainer whom actually cares about feedback and usability, I care that features developed apply to the real world and aren't imagined in an utopian vacuum by own possib…

This is arrogant and misguided. There are a minority of very capable people whom need to be able to report security issues and want to contribute valuable additions easily. I for o…

So were many the hundreds of thousands of sailors whom have died at sea. The ocean doesn't care about experience or arrogance when a storm comes up and drowns this guy, or the grea…

This almost assures some quite terrible conclusions in the long-term: When it becomes technologically possible to interface electronics into our brains, corporations will have almo…

It's a feedback effect of consumer choice with corporate oligopolization and monocultural cost-optimization. Popular, easy and cheap wins most of the time, even if it hides deferre…

This reminds me of that "hackproof" box BBC reviewed that was a Raspberry Pi that couldn't update itself. Also, having run an email startup in London, patching and anti-spam at alm…

I hope this dies in its current form because: 0. It's self-promoting a panacea "fix" as a product at the wrong level of abstraction. 1. Protocols and standards exist for interopera…

How many people even know what the flag of Seychelles looks like, where is this country and what is it's infamous distinction without cheating by looking it up?

I use a cheap, no-brand 7x 18650 cell USB battery with a seemingly gimmicky solar panel that actually works from Amazon. It both charges and discharges slowly, but it works good en…

This article is interesting because most people on Earth are resource-constrained. Also, many first-world people still don't have sufficient digital literacy to be aware when/if th…

VMware Fusion userland & kexts to see how they intercept IOKit USB connections.

Plus, de Vos.

Having great grandparents from Nantucket who's 7 family members died at sea while working as crab fishermen, it's seems reasonable this is a publicity stunt or he has absolutely no…

In fact, 8 oz of hot water (say from a coffee shop or not quite boiled on a camping μstove) added to a larger cup, covered, will rehydrate pasta without external heat just fine (~1…

Maybe there needs to be a separate political HN site with the same login so people whom want to engage can do so and others can opt-out? Say: https://political.news.ycombinator.com…

I completely disagree. If you look at a recent video of Tesla self-driving real-world "debug" mode with identification/classification bounding boxes, that and Musk's bet on the sim…

monkeysphere for personal ssh private keys stored in gpg chef and hashicorp vault Another neat thing to deploy into dns is sshfp records so there's almost never ssh fingerprint ver…

There's minimal, necessary limits to free speech after it happens : shutting down child pornographers, violent extremists, 0day exploits and other sites that are obviously, imminen…

Instead of growing vertically up, cities ought to consider down because it doesn't ruin existing property owners' view and the community's beauty of not turning into a concrete, br…

By comparison, actual pro scanning: matterport grabs textures and verticies simultaneously, originally using a Kinect. https://matterport.com Here's an DIY instuctable (untested) w…

In VICE HBO Season 5 Ep 7 "Plastic Oceans," Jeanette Garcia, a PhD polymer science researcher at IBM's Almaden Bernal facility in San Jose, discussed chemical recycling of plastic.…

WhatsApp got 2 million concurrent (mostly idle) connections per box on FreeBSD using modified Erlang. Video: https://vimeo.com/44312354 Slides (PDF): http://www.erlang-factory.com/…