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My one consolation is that this might eventually drive away more users. Facebook is ripe for a market disruption.

The US is falling irreparably behind. I suspect I won't see a recovery in my lifetime anymore.

My guess is most readers of Hacker News are going to be very aware of all myriad of ways that they are being tracked on their devices. That being said, this is a pretty good "satir…

One of the "yea no kidding" outcomes of science, that is still neat to have quantified in some way.

That's great news, hopefully it doesn't get reversed again in a few days. What an absolute clown show of a government. If we can claw our way out of this fascism there needs to be …

NFTs really are the beanie babies for tech bros.

Zuck and his ilk are ghouls.

One thing we've done at our company is limit the interviews to a max of 3 times. 1. Initial (phone or in-person). 2. In-person longer interview with some "can you solve problems" q…

Isn't everything being commodified...

Europe would be wise to start investing heavily in its own communications tech.

Duolingo is at best a fancy substitute for flashcards. It really fails at language acquisition, but might help a little in word memory.

exiv2 is a fantastic command line tool to do this. Lightening fast.

Every one of those pennies was essentially stolen from the American people.

These are good insights for small-SaaS. I especially like not using intrusive analytics - they are simply unnecessary and unhelpful. With a small SaaS business you will hear from y…

Boycotting large American corps is the right thing to do here. I would say though, support your local businesses as much as possible, and while that likely will buoy some seedy som…

And what if they don't? Without hard consequences issued by the judge - consequences that actually take place, this will be another big step toward fascism. The guard rails are fai…

Showing no response towards these tariffs will not be rewarded. It's going to be interpreted as a sign of weakness. Australia is making a bad bet here.

> [A] generation of rising players is infusing jazz with absurdist online irreverence. But are they playing jazz at all? Adam Neely has some things worth listening to when it comes…

The Democrats absolutely need to shake off their milquetoast leadership and get some people in willing to fight the good fight.

It seems like the negative effects are already manifesting, while the positive ones lag far behind.

Aside from any other reasons this is happening, I personally like a slower release schedule for major releases. I don't think speed running updates which often enough breaks compat…

We've known for a while that many if not most scientific journals are not great at peer reviews. A lot of junk gets through. Adding AI might be a good first step to catch major err…

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

This isn't jaded, this is a realistic conclusion to draw based on everything we have witnessed and are experiencing. This is almost certainly happening.