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It seems that HN now automatically applies a -1 to my posts. Add this to the cowardly slowban and I'm done with this site: The users have gotten stupider, the administrators are ha…

While this seems to be a battle of anecdotes, everyone I know who owns a smartphone uses it as their primary non-work email device, Facebook device, browsing device, LinkedIn devic…

If they're taking over Paypal accounts or stealing credit card numbers, it can be as simple as buying a lot of capacity at the various VPN provider. We know from the attack on Tor …

Maybe HNers are bored, or shallow There are certain times of the day when thin content makes a strong showing on HN. Normally that isn't Friday @ 9am, though, so a little surprisin…

Indeed, the post you replied to is not based in actual reality. The entire foundation of the adblock industry was an aggressive attention-war plied by the ad business, where soon w…

Resource conservation is one of the primary justifications that people cite for why they block ads: many ads have high level of animation, auto-play videos, and so on, that it lags…

I'm starting to realize that quite a few on HN actually have no idea what happened during this period (too young?), and at this point they're just going by what they read on Reddit…

This thread hilariously earned me a glorious slowban. Hacker News literally descends into yet another conspiracy site. However why don't you contrast your comment with mine. Are yo…

Evading? How in the... I'm sorry, acting emotionally offended by reality (and hurling spurious and misplaced claims like "kinder garden excuses") is the domain of the rank imbecile…

You should read up on it more. Firstly, what the British government did or didn't do is not really relevant to conversations about the US government. Secondly, even if the UK gover…

This isn't some lowbrow conspiracy site, and I don't expect the participants to have the sort of superficial, facile understanding of world events that you've so evidently demonstr…

The common narrative is that the US contrived the whole thing to justify an attack. This is how that unfortunate situation gets used to explain all sorts of nefarious conspiracies.…

I tried in the Halton area (West of Toronto) and had about 40 things from a single individual in Hamilton who continually posted far right conspiracy type things. I suppose this is…

I'm surprised there haven't been kickstarters for little robotic bug killers yet. The processors and sensors are getting powerful enough, and within the right power band, that the …

Yet they behave like Microsoft, or IBM, or HP. And those are unquestionably technology businesses.

http://www.businessinsider.com/bank-it-spending-2012-12 The banking system functions largely on the choice, application and integration of technology, and banking is more of a tech…

I mean, Obama has straight up said that he plans to attack NK. He said absolutely no such thing, and it is rather incredible if people think this. The US has warned that they will …

But you don't have to see proof, and it is no one's burden to convince you. The US is not trying to prosecute North Korea in court. This isn't an amendments issue. And despite the …

Not only does this pdf contain zero information, there is no reason for it to be in PDF format. I have to imagine that the few people who voted it up thus far did so while avoiding…

They can say that it shows the threat that the US has from other countries on a hacking front There have been attacks on the US government IT infrastructure. Stolen designs and fil…

As peeters said, most organizations rely upon the historical volume of emails to operate effectively. This isn't a simple solution. Add that a narrative around this story is that t…