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With the building interest in adopting post quantum cryptography and using quantum safe methods over the Internet, I was seeking a way to know if my web browser session was protect…

Looking at the source, it appears to have been generated by https://github.com/nbedos/termtosvg

Nice to be reminded of this piece. However, it sparked a thought when he mentioned micropayments as a market that was guaranteed to doom start-ups that were trying to launch produc…

startups would struggle to compete against those who were able to afford paying for a fast lane--or an exclusive fast lane. Even the slightest discrimination or paid prioritization…

I am increasingly of the view that we need publications for a lay audience that focus on debate between experts. While an opinion piece can seem reasonable on its own, it may be fu…

SMS is specified by industry standards. Just do a search on http://www.3gpp.org/specifications for "SMS".

There seems to be an assumption in the original argument that not every company will be able to get access to sponsored data, e.g. > Well since Spotify, Beats, and Apple have paid …

Is there any easy way to do native iOS application development with Objective-C if you don't run OSX?

From the title, I had expected an article on start-up communities that were themselves spread across many countries around the globe. However, it turned out to be about city-centri…

Perhaps Glass should be compared with the Sony Walkman (which may be a bit before the time of some of those on HN). When Sony introduced the Walkman, they also invented portable he…

This doesn't appear to be the case in question. Based on my reading of the article, it seems that the network link between Free and YouTube is becoming congested at peak times. Fre…

This just gave me a big blast of nostalgia. Great work! Does it also support colour?

If all electronic devices were dangerous, airlines would be asking passengers to remove the batteries from their wristwatches for the duration of the flight.

And RSS readers don't naturally hook into the underlying comment systems on the content they present, so if you want to read/write comments, you need to click through anyway. It's …

This is what Apple already allows with the App Store. Except if your app smells like Adobe.

Was this meant to be a joke? When you rewrote the argument as "I'm going to just rewrite your argument", you ignored the same principle that you were proposing. Apologies, if indee…

They also refer to this on their website at http://www.zebraimaging.com/html/lighting___display.html

One thing that seems to have been missed is that the Craigslist design is part of their business model - it results in pages that are very small and keeps their bandwidth costs dow…