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I love these incredibly simple and elegant classic technologies. GPS is one of the best. It seems like it would be incredibly complicated and mysterious, but it's actually quite st…

Worth noting that many people who run from the police also have fake or stolen plates.

I think you have identified the crux of my objection to this piece. The OP is mostly talking about cases where a truth about someone is so much more widely known than other truths …

I'm not sure where the threshold is for spending. I have an account that was spending over $500K/yr on Facebook ads and we were blocked by AI with no recourse for over 6 months bef…

I came here to say the same thing. I've read about 20 of them in the past few days and they're absolutely captivating. The TWA 800 post got me started and is a must-read: https://a…

This is great! But also, in case you missed it, click back to the homepage. There are a bunch of other equally great diversions.

A bunch of US zip codes are for PO Boxes only, so this seems to stand a strong chance of working, at least in those places.

So tired of people on HN disparaging Warren G Harding. Seriously, though: several of the Trump campaign's architects (Paul Manafort, Roger Stone) got their start in the Nixon admin…

You say inefficient. I say mysterious. Who's to say the server always returns the same thing? The only way to find out is to scroll infinitely as the domain name suggests. Beware, …

r/whatisthisthing might be your friend here

NYTimes digital revenue is mostly subscriptions. Other publishers with lesser brand names are much more beholden to Google.

This (ironically). I often start enforcing a "no pronouns" rule for myself and others when conversations and concepts get more complicated. It (the rule) is awkward at first but ma…

Counterpoint: a friend in Brooklyn was mugged for only around $10 but almost immediately after ran into street police on patrol. They jumped in the car with him and summoned other …

Fair point. If you prohibit everyone, including walled gardens, from targeting based on user behavior or user data, that seems like a plausible solution. It's a purely regulatory s…

Tracking definitely works, at least in my experience. That's why Google and Facebook have completely taken over the entire digital ad ecosystem. They just have much better data, an…

One potentially negative unintended consequence: closed systems like Facebook become even more powerful than they already are. Their revenues will dwarf (even more than they do now…

I like the Hemingway app, but it is very much designed to make you write like Hemingway (ie short, clear sentences _only_). Obviously most great writing is not in this style. The H…

If I put text into this tool and generate an original and unique image, who owns that image? If it's OpenAI, do they license it?

There's a somewhat pervasive idea that advertising and brand recognition are coercive tools that will ultimately die out, replaced by better objective information about products. I…

We in the US spent something like $7000/citizen on stimulus so far though, so $30/test gets you a lot of tests if it mitigates the economic effects of the virus.

Previous discussion (5 years ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10754194

I doubt it. These lawsuits would be few and far between and Google still derives a ton of value from its free accounts in the aggregate. They might just get better at terminating t…

I would love love love if this gave me a way to run Photoshop or other Win/Mac only apps from my Linux laptop. Let us request Ubuntu! (Although millstone's comment makes me wary to…

There are tons of examples of this. Basically any company with a real competitive advantage is very expensive to unseat once established. Try to unseat Amazon, Google, Facebook, or…