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I wonder if he's ever stolen from a powerful drug dealer, who could afford to send someone to Russia to get revenge - not necessarily show up at the hacker's door, but to rent some…

For extra clever points, make it a person who already does protect their privacy by e.g. encrypting everything on local storage, doesn't like the cloud, and not being all over soci…

God damn debating with you people is useless sometimes. My second paragraph is meant to show a possible other explanation why the Chinese didn't want foreigners snooping around the…

Yeah, holding strong to the logic that's like a mom concluding of her kindergartner "You're being evasive, this means definitely that you're hiding something" is ridiculous. If the…

But Serbia's system seems flawed, the EU system has all the data encoded in the QR-code, including name, the date the test was performed, the sort of test (PCR or antigen), and the…

He's turning to the Donald Trump of the tennis world. No matter how cunty his behavior is, he'll have his supporters (god bless nationalism, one of the more obnoxious forms of trib…

> the participants who have mountains of capital will use it to price out competitors and new upstarts. Lufthansa's interest is piqued. They already price out competitors, they've …

I guess it'll be a "Facebook censorship API". Beyonce wants an image to disappear? If it's not on FB, IG, WhatsApp, Pinterest, it's pretty good. Prince Andrew doesn't want a pic of…

Seems like just a summary of the mentioned blog post, the author probably saw the same HN post we did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29861678

Seems like the fastcompany article linked from the bottom of that press release has a bit more detail: https://www.fastcompany.com/90678612/this-tech-unicorn-just-... One thing I w…

Well, there were stories of unburned bodies found floating in the rivers, there are many who couldn't afford the cremation. There's the official rule (registration needed) and the …

Now I want to make a pizza with pineapple sauce in it...

I heard a former US Army guy saying in a podcast, even at home he's always dressed to be ready to walk out the door at any second, because it's a habit he developed in the Army. Wh…

The article doesn't seem to answer the question it has on its headline.. instead it just goes through banal details of the hardware and software.

> Cars are popular for a lot of reasons. And so is jetting off somewhere for holidays.. realistically we need to cut down so much to survive, but so far everyone is working on "it'…

Probably because some hacker started using it, according to the Jargon File[1] someone in the MIT AI Lab popularized it. [1] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Y/yak-shaving.html

The Rivian can be charged by towing it, at least that was the case in their prototype car shown off in Long Way Up (Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman's Apple TV show where they (an…

And if we continue burning fossil fuels it might never be cold enough for snowstorms any more, problem solved! /S Who the fuck is this guy writing that stupid ass article... How ab…

Ah Germany, the country who's outer image is so much better than the reality... The Merkel government was just a unprincipled opportunistic one, although I do credit her for having…

Looks like a developer having an epic temper tantrum: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29839786 If I can throw my second impression, what a little shit. But maybe I'm too much …

I went to OP's account, he replied inside the thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/rxtl22/w... TL; DR: photos were from a loaner phone that was never wiped t…

OP replied in the comments why he deleted it: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/rxtl22/w... TL;DR: he's an idiot. A bit longer: OP went to a shop to get his phone…

For a short while in the 90's there was a software called uTok, it acted as a HTTP proxy for your browsers and modified the HTML of websites to add the users' comments. Yeah this w…

If I were designing the tech, and people used it to forward videos and images to thousands of people, I wouldn't want to have thousands of copies of the file on my server, all lock…

My comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29838746 My first suspicion would be, "Define new". OP and you could be working on 2 different definitions of that word.