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The gaming applications sound a lot like Gaikai, who Sony acquired for $380m back in 2012. Here's a pretty cool video demonstration of its on tablets and TVs use prior to acquisiti…

I wish he was right about the education part

Sure we may be graduating more STEM students, but I really hate when studies like this assume all students of a given field are equally talented. I'd say my university had a good C…

Our site has been sporadically up and down for the past few hours. Glad I know the culprit finally. Hope this gets resolved soon

Since drug war/prison system/militarized police keeps popping up on HN, I'd highly recommend anyone very interested in learning more about how this came to be to watch the document…

Snapchat was really asking for this to happen, with exposing usernames publicly at snapchat.com/ and showing subsequent top friends. What was the rationale of doing that vs keeping…

I really don't understand this outrage about the NSA (allegedly I know, but let's be serious) hacking Chinese targets. That's their job. The Chinese, through hacking, have obtained…

Some friends of mine made a webapp at PennApps to visualize your Snapchat social graph by scraping the public profiles: http://snapgraph.me/ Even if Snapchat isn't making a big net…

Is there any significant trend of people leaving academia for the tech world? I spent 4 years grinding away on cancer drug development. Between the billions of dollars it takes to …

I really hope that dev kits for the next gen consoles don't continue to be so expensive. If I own the console, I should be able to develop on it. I don't think Sony and Microsoft a…