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This is going to be a tough sell to your marketing dept I think.

The site guidelines are here https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Jokes aren't explicitly against the guidelines either, but I think the site likes to emphasize high qu…

The slider of funding rounds is a neat idea but it's kind of hard to read in chronological order without mentally keeping track of which items appeared each time I slid it forward.…

I've had a few instances of firefox on Mac and Linux starting to spin up the fans, and show high CPU usage, and I've had trouble pinning down which tab was causing it. Is about:per…

By fling, do you mean the two-finger horizontal scroll to move back and forward through history? If so, I miss it too.

The same claim is made about this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8

It's not nothing, but it's interesting to note that the amount they spent is dwarfed by the amounts currently being spent by top democrats (and Trump's re-election campaign), sever…

This report might be interesting as well. https://disinformationreport.blob.core.windows.net/disinform... The two biggest caveats about it in my mind are that 1) all the data was p…

Doesn't it depend on how close the election was to begin with? If it's very close, you may not need to move the needle very far to change the outcome.

Digging into this a bit more and reading between the lines of the nytimes article, it sounds to me like EternalBlue was indeed used as part of the attack chain, for lateral movemen…

That's what everyone (including myself) said after Equifax but just this week their credit rating was downgraded by Moody's: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/moodys-dow…

Are your init scripts available for viewing anywhere?

Not defending Uber, but I don't think this article adds much to the discussion. I was hoping the feudal serfdom metaphor was going to be fleshed out more.

Isn't there a bit of selection bias if you work in infosec and all the companies you see are either in danger or recovering from a breach? In the all examples you mention, was it s…

Does this allow a salesman from company A to access customer info from company B (where A and B are both customers of salesforce) or is it just intra-organization? Still bad if the…

Thanks. I wonder whether the original comment about "doom music" is also a reference to the film? I had never heard of it.

I don't understand why the general tone of this article is "Did you know disordered healthy eating is possible" but the review of literature found that most of the studies are of p…

It would be great to see a concise, relatively non-technical introduction to what is AMP and why is it bad for the open web that I could send to friends and family.

Not trying to be snarky but MacOS. That being said, on Linux I think Elementary OS is at least trying to create a coherent visual design language. Maybe there are others?

This is the first thing I noticed too. The text is too close to the leftmost border and feels very claustrophobic.

I didn't think Blue Origin had even put something in orbit yet. How feasible is this?

Apple got a ton of flak for adopting USB-C way before anyone else, which is the opposite of proprietary. I also don't see how "being cracked by the FBI" makes one evil, in fact I t…

Read the NYTimes and ignore all the political stuff. They do a ton of reporting on every other subject.

I can think of one reason to lie; to lessen the emotional pain of "neurotypicals" looking down on them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_mechanisms

Unless they fall out of your ears, which has happened to me when jogging a few times.