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Google "System Design Github.com". There are some amazing guides there. GCP names their products pretty clearly (looking at you AWS) so mapping them to Google Cloud products should…

Who on here was saying front company for intelligence agency? I imagine if that is the case this is already being picked up by any number of threat intelligence solutions like Shad…

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So Granicus posts online streaming video of every gov agency in the country basically. They have their own custom hardware to do this too that sites inside of gov datacenters it se…

Mass Organ Harvesting and Mass Killing in Xinjiang. If you are familiar with ICS security / systems, you can literally see the incinerators with dashboards of “humans per hour” and…

There is an email in the summary of the commenter profile.

I get your comment for sure, but it is not true when you say those on Hacker News would downvote a comment for being off-topic when it is for a somewhat concerning moral issue. Man…

Yeah not surprising. Used to work for the Texas Gov Storage IT. Those guys left the single file server for all of Secretary of State (department that manages elections) up on the i…

For reference, they’re saying it’s worse than anything that occurred during the Cold War in terms of informants lost/killed, including more than lost via Aldrich Ames (he was event…

I won an essay contest in college that NASA set up regarding the future of supersonic and hypersonic aviation. Even back then, supersonic, let alone hypersonic, aviation was such a…

>“One of my ambitions is to help our users put more food on the table,” says Jimmy Chen, the founder of Propel. This app has some short-term benefits, but it’s hard to see long-ter…

So Kentucky has done some bad things with healthcare, but in this case, it’s a test on health habits and financial literacy to encourage people to study for them. Was thinking more…

I very much agree with your ethical justification. I used to struggle with this too, but then I realized just how much corporations steal from America. It wasn’t always like this o…

This is actually the plot of a movie from the 90’s based on a popular play: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_of_the_Golds_(fil...

> French cinema icon claims recent focus on outing sexual predators is stymieing sexual freedom No one ever had sexual freedom. It was just sexual freedom for the 1% who could affo…

Glad to see Oracle working more with Javascript. For years that was a strong claim of MongoDB, but recently Oracle has done better (although so have many other vendors).

You make a good point. Sometimes trying to prepare for a crisis that might never come is the worst strategy. Supposedly, this is what makes democracies stronger than authoritarian …

Man, remember when in the 90’s real estate values were soon to collapse because everyone would be working remote, and Class A office space was going to be useless? Funnily enough, …

Mark Twain on the main aim of the men of the Gilded Age: “To get rich. In what way? Dishonestly if they can, honestly if they must.

Copyright 2009 The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century https://www.amazon.com/dp/0767923057/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_e-6u...

If you want a really retro experience, look up terms on youtube like “high school video yearbook 1997”. My class didn’t do one of these, but apparently lots did. Shows you all the …

I like RescueTime, although I think it’s good to use for a few months, get a baseline, and then move on. More to the point, and taking out my axe to grind, all of this focus on pro…

They should have filed an 8-k form, the typical SEC disclosure form for any materially significant event that cannot wait until a quarterly statement. https://www.sec.gov/fast-answ…

Someone at work just showed me today what a “Bash Bunny” is. I feel like everyone on Hacker News has probably known about these things for 5+ years but still scary... https://bashb…