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All these major sites should shut down for a day...or even a few hours. The loss of production from a site like Google being down would be outrageous. Why should corporations (whic…

Cant see this being used practically. Even at $25k a unit, you are still limited by hardware restrictions. Battery tech is still limited. Nurseries are not all built the same. A nu…

Good thing for them they can hide their algorithms behind the DMCA as proprietary work.

Easy way is to just boot a live CD in a sandbox (virtualbox, vmware)..if your really concerned about security check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amnesic_Incognito_Live_Syst…

As far as Easter Eggs go, also: https://www.google.com/search?pws=0&q=recursion

As much as I want E-cat to be true, it's almost like the creator(s) are following a well thought out plan. Parts of it might include "copy perpetual motion machine" and "remove obv…

So I read the FAQ and guidelines. As far as I can tell the things you mentioned are not specified. "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more …

http://www.eisp.org/ has way more information on the topic than the linked blog. I don't think it's off topic, I just think it's a poor article which has no real substance (hence t…

This still a tech news aggregator? This is something that should be on reddit, not hacker news...?

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Installation_Gui...

Bitcoin is essentially a giant pyramid scam. The early adopters have cashed out long ago. As mining gets more and more difficult, less people will cling to the liquid currency. Why…

A facial recognition app to sound a siren when Tony Bologna is near.

PCR machine?