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The "free press" doesn't have a "get out of jail free" card of being able to claim that they are just a "platform" and be able to dodge all responsibility for what they print like …

> (To be fair, knowing ffmpeg exists doesn't mean I'd be able to easily write a video player with it without a lot of research. For that reason I find this tutorial is still quite …

I don't know how long it is "supposed" to take, but you can compile a Linux kernel (27.8M lines of code, though a good chunk of it probably isn't going to be compiled anyway becaus…

You don't have to be a lawyer to understand that subtraction and multiplication are two completely different operations.

The "web" is built around "human readable" technologies. Even actual implementation details that the user doesn't care about - like the application layer protocol (HTTP) and the so…

Software certification matters in certain industries. In automotive and airspace, you will find that being certified opens a bunch of doors for you. From a company's perspective, t…

The decline of Firefox is largely due to Mozilla's incompetence. If you look at their own statistics [1], you will notice that (worldwide) usage started declining after the introdu…

> the market has finally caught up to the fact that Tesla is years ahead of their competitors. Incorrect. The stock value is being pushed up by: 1. Unexpected quarterly profits in …

> Thanks for the warning, are there any good tools that integrate with pull request checks that can be self hosted? Recently at work we've done an analysis of a of CI/CD tools. Man…

sigh That random file you downloaded off the internet was built under a specific set of assumptions - assumptions that only hold true if you are running the specific OS version the…

What's wrong with apt is that you can't get what YOU want: you can only get whatever the Debian people decided makes sense for one specific version of the OS - which usually means …

What, nobody mentioned Microsoft Bob yet? :) That thing was terrible, but I'm kinda sad that a Microsoft Bob-like window manager (or whatever you want to call it) never panned out.…

This seems like a really poorly thought out proposal. From the draft's [1] intro, which provides motivation for the proposal: > When security vulnerabilities are discovered by inde…

You are missing the point. The point is that with DDG, you have a uniform syntax for searching multiple services that doesn't require any special cooperation from your browser or t…

Electronic voting machines run proprietary code which, AFAIK, was never publicly audited (AFAIK, the manufacturers have resisted auditing efforts bitterly). How can you trust that …

Ok, I'm confused. As of my posting, the HN submission title is: > Dow plunges 750 points after China devalues its currency The article title: > Dow plunges 800 points after China d…

> I don't understand it either [...] Esc is even on the same side as the keyboard Put your hands on the keyboard home row (where they belong). Try to reach esc without taking them …

Use the middle square method: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-square_method It can be trivially calculated with pencil and a paper and will be random enough. You just need to …

To put it into perspective: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/titan/overvi... According to this (at the time of reading) a one way trip at the speed of light is ~75 m…

According to this: https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/#trademarks Hacker News is trademarked.

This article misses the mark completely by assuming that Microsoft still needs Windows to stay afloat. This hasn't been true for years. They have realized that it doesn't matter wh…

> EU citizens have turned into pests overnight. More than USA citizens with dubious DMCA takedown requests?

> Across a span of a year, all of this volatility cancels each other out. Bitcoin price was around $19k in December 2017. The price tumbled all the way down to around 7k in Februar…

Yes, packaging Python applications for distribution is yet another nightmare situation. Back in the day, we used one of the various "freeze" applications (cxfreeze, bbfreeze, proba…

It is not cheating, since no rules were broken. That said, that power and water isn't free. The city must be paying through the nose for all that power and water. It has been a whi…