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I just switched to a Fairphone 5 with e/OS, which is a de-googled Android (it uses microG), and am pleasantly surprised how well everything works. My banking apps work, contacts an…

This is hacker news. Hackers generally do not like authoritarianism. If that surprises you, I recommend reading the hacker howto. "Hackers are naturally anti-authoritarian. Anyone …

I think it is helpful to differentiate between mindfulness and concentration.* I would associate flow more with concentration. And if there is no mindfulness together with the conc…

I share your wish, but I think that a big part of this is actually only understandable through experience. Just like you cannot really describe an unknown taste to someone, or desc…

I love htop. For me the design philosophy worked quite well. I learned so much about my system just by using it and trying to understand all of its output. And I am still learning …

So what you are saying is today's chatbots are useless? I agree in most cases, from my limited experience. But a chatbot which actually answers my questions would be great. I hope …

As much as we like to pretend to only look at the arguments itself, I think part of the reason is because Travis is a pretty well known hacker. If I or you had published it, it pro…

I'd recommending digging through his website: http://bach.ai/ Depending on what interests you, maybe also look at the abstracts of his research papers? http://bach.ai/publications/…

Are you referring to a movie? Which one? Or something like this? https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.06148

I don't understand either how this got to the top of hn. I recently spent a weekend on the peninsula of Nordstrand and didn't even realize this was there... and it's nothing specia…

My comment wasn't meant to compare it to anything else. Their nice words just don't convince me on a technical level and I'm surprised that so many people here appear to fully trus…

> nothing can beat the sense of security with privacy Apple carries with itself now. That is exactly it. Apple is not good at privacy, they are good at giving you the sense of it. …

Assuming one can trust git and GitHub (and CAs), is there a technical reason why you would consider distributing code via GitHub as unsafe?

Currently I am building a mobile GPS beacon which a drone can follow. The goal is to create a small follow-me box without the need for a smartphone.

Yes, sorry if that was not clear. Just made me question every "4K" mentioned in the article.

"Gears of War 4 looks amazing in 4K" Why would you put a 1.920px × 1.080px screenshot next to that? 4K = 4096 × 2160 Pixel

AFAIK, the most important law of medicine is "First, do no harm." The rest is basically the details. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primum_non_nocere