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>Where I live we vote by mail by filling in little bubbles with a pen. >It is very economical and hard to compromise at a scale that has any effect. Vote-by-mail creates unnecessar…

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Yes the visual clarity of staring into a reflection of my own shirt, and any light within 10m. There is no worse eye strain that looking at anything that isn't supposed to be on th…

I've been saying glossy screens are pure cancer for 20 years and every time I was dismissed as a Luddite that should get with the times. Now they can sell you "nano texture" at a p…

Rest in peace, Sky King.

That's great. Ask and ye shall receive. What's most surprising is churches notoriously have really sketchy electrical. There had to be some renovation in that regard, right?

It's more about when Google assumed full control of the cloud, the browser, the OS, and everything in between they self-appointed themselves as the unelected standards board of the…

You must be mistaken. This site stopped being Startup News just like Facebook became the 'metaverse' overnight.

Google does whatever is convenient and makes them money. Altruism was never part of the equation.

Google thrives on being the Internet's biggest bully. It turns out when nerds get a billion dollars they like being bullies too.

"To demonstrate how crappy most front door locks are, to boost our company's social media cred we will be leaving drills and a dish of bump keys at the entrance of the neighborhood…

An article about "infrastructure" that opens up with a dramatic description of a datacenter stuffed into an old church, I would expect more than just generic clipart you'd see in t…

I wasn't expecting to read a podcast when clicking.

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Disappointed with the lack of pictures.

This is the type of cool shit I come to HN for. Thanks for posting this. Unfortunately, it may be lost amongst the noise, and what I see being massively upvoted instead: • Some sch…

Because like most political threads, it will largely consist of people with a crayon-and-coloring-book understanding of geopolitics posting low-effort snipes and trading insults wh…

>Your tone also implies that large, complex systems, even if designed well, don't normally require a lot of maintenance from many people. That's correct. In the case of Twitter, it…

Is there a substantive connection? Like all the doom and gloom after the Twitter layoffs predicting the site would implode and go permanently offline "within a month" which...never…

My money is on expired certificate. If so, successful test.

I see multiple posts here speculating on cyberattack—as opposed to "we pushed a bad configuration update which messed everything up irreparably"—you know, like it has been every ot…