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Yes, tutorials should be expected to teach people about security if it is within their scope. But the problem with the tutorials from the article is that the authors seem to be gen…

Some time ago I found this video series on YouTube about how to build a PHP application from scratch. Ten hours worth of XSS, CSRF, SQL injection, badly coded authentication, you n…

How do you know when you paid enough money for roads and bridges? I mean they don't give you an invoice.

I find it hard to believe that there is such a thing as a long lasting natural monopoly. The only monopolies that seem to last are the ones that are rooted in state coercion. Besid…

Wow, the voice of reason in the first comment? Am I really on HN? Of course, you are 100% correct. There is nothing stopping one of the big players from offering a more "repairable…

As far as there exist unjust laws that prevent people from repairing their devices, by all means, get rid of them (IP laws especially). But by all means, do not add more regulation…

There are many factors that contribute to appreciation and depreciation. Decay is just one of them. There could be other appreciating factors that outweigh the depreciating ones. A…

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What is the bug? I don't see it.

In an IP world you can license it. Otherwise you can crowd fund for new versions, ask for donations, offer support, etc.

Should farmers have the right to force manufacturers to provide parts, schematics, tools and software?

Well, in the tech space this is very easy to explain: They survive by selling new devices. People will eventually buy new laptops to get access to faster hardware.

I like the idea, but I will 100% not buy it for these reasons (most important first): 1. Bad keyboard layout: Small arrow keys, lack of dedicated home/end and page up/down. 2. Scre…

A couple of frameworks use a radix tree for routing, e.g. ASP .NET Core. Sadly, routing isn't even part of the TE benchmarks. There are some applications out there with 500+ routes…

Better yet, post to your own blog and have it get automatically added to dev.to.

Try to find a used Dell Latitude 7370. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-Latitude-13-7370-Ultraboo...

People are paying for negative externalities of burning fossil fuel by paying taxes on gas.

Probably as enforceable as having "looking at me is prohibited" written on your shirt while walking down the street.

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A while ago I listened to a podcast [1] where the guest Stephan Kinsella argued that the state justifies taxing and regulating corporations by granting them special rights like lim…

So basically the author does not like it when someone competes with them (who does?) and runs to the government to get a monopoly on the product. Spending money and effort on suing…

I created a stylesheet to remove the censorship for the viewer. https://userstyles.org/styles/190934/hacker-news-top-comment...

> I don't understand why anyone is up in arms about this. Because copyright is controversial.

You should read into Austrian economics and in particular the studies of Ludwig von Mises because it builds on fundamental "tangible" truths. Search for the term praxeology

Thanks to strong unions and labor laws Sweden is the worker's paradise and everybody has a great job. If Amazon wants to entice people to work for them then they must make a better…