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Sci-hub stopped updating a few years ago due to an ongoing lawsuit in India: https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/205911/why-did-...

There is still a DOM hack to allow installation by re-enabling the "Add to Chrome" button on the linked page. See "Download and install uBlock Origin in Chrome" on this page: https…

Daft is an unfortunate choice of name.

Beware of talk about benefits without mention of drawbacks. Connecting grids could significantly increase the fragility of the system resulting in higher risk of large-scale power …

If you want to run an up-to-date version of Docker, look into https://github.com/telnetdoogie/synology-docker/ . It is a script that will back up the existing docker binaries and r…

> This is bizarre but maybe I see the reason why. If it's to restrain foreign ownership of rental properties. The reason is that the government wants its tax money. Since the cash …

I think this Globe and Mail article about the recently publicized case to be better read: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/article-montreal... ( https://archive.is/fPNZT…

The reasoning provided by YC is in the subsequent tweet: "It's pretty rare for YC to fund solo founders, because startups take many years to get big and it's very hard to stay moti…

And the author of the post is named Cliff L. Biffle, which is one of the best names I have ever heard.

Excellent tips. As a corollary to #1, strive to make your own driving predictable to other drivers, e.g., turn signal on before changing lanes or braking to make a turn.

While it's appealing to believe Pinker, his treatment of statistics and probability of war has been debunked. For a mathematical analysis of the history of war see Cirillo and Tale…

I always thought the intention was to get the same deal as Australia: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-56163550 . It's not a surprise that Canada's media industry wanted …

I have designed PCIe compatible transceivers and this will be the last comment I make about it because correcting hardware nonsense on HN is only of transient interest to me. Every…

> Their point about diff pairs being more resistant to noise is correct, but it’s not the primary reason for using diff pairs. The article is correct. This comment is wrong. > Diff…

> The problem is that engineers like to work in silos and they do not communicate well with other engineers. This is organizational problem that should be solved so that meetings a…

I got obsessed with this paper recently, to the point where I have read most of the "Unknown Air Force Document" that Thompson references with giving him the idea of Trojan horse. …

I was just trying out the API and noticed the same thing. I found the API key near the bottom on my https://my.nextdns.io/account page.

More information available at https://artsandculture.google.com/story/SQWxuZfE5ki3mQ . I am curious if any art-inclined people on HN can comment on how close they believe the resul…