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11 votes
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Project Code Rush - The beginnings of Netscape/Mozilla
6 votes -
Facebook suspends US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
7 votes -
Google said to deliberately make YouTube slower on Microsoft Edge, Firefox
35 votes -
Amazon's face recognition falsely matched twenty-eight members of Congress with mugshots
15 votes -
Juul & its House of Smoke & Horrors
2 votes -
Tildoes with Android, what are your essential apps?
Here's a couple of mine: Flamingo for Twitter Pocket Casts JuiceSSH RealVNC Viewer DigiCal EDIT: I forgot my most important one, Sesame Shortcuts
28 votes -
The world economy runs on GPS. It needs a backup plan
16 votes -
Asus ROG phone impressions
6 votes -
Police facial recognition system faces legal challenge
3 votes -
Facebook's quarterly earnings show user growth hit record lows in Q2
19 votes -
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme may be a premium 15.6 inch thin and light laptop
2 votes -
Big tech warns of "Japan's millennium bug" ahead of Akihito's abdication
5 votes -
On the engineer's responsibility in protecting privacy (Paul Baran, RAND, 1968)
10 votes -
Departing Facebook security officer's memo: "We need to be willing to pick sides"
6 votes -
Is Hacker News suppressing leftist articles? Or just a conspiracy of poor point scoring?
There was a story posted to Hacker News, The Return of the Super-Elite from Jacobin magazine. It was on the front page for a little bit of time. I refreshed and it was on the 2nd page. 5 hours...
There was a story posted to Hacker News, The Return of the Super-Elite from Jacobin magazine. It was on the front page for a little bit of time. I refreshed and it was on the 2nd page.
5 hours later and it's down to #113, page 4. It has 88 points. The second youngest submission on page 4 is 16 hours old. On page 3, the youngest item is 6 hours old, and has only 7 points. So this article is newer, has a respectable amount of points but within 5 hours has been relegated to page 4, whereas an item that has fewer points and is 1 hour older is sitting on page 3.
edit: the rank keeps dropping, when I first wrote this post it was at #111, then #112, and when I submitted it was at #113, I just refreshed and it's at #114. Other submissions near the range of points and hours are ranking on page 1. On page 5 all items are from 1, 2 or 3 days ago.
I've noticed that any pro-unionization talk seems to disappear much more quickly than other stories.
So let's get our tinfoil hats on and ask is Hacker News suppressing leftist articles or suppressing articles of a certain type altogether?
Or maybe it's just a conspiracy of a bad algorithm for determining where submissions rank?
26 votes -
Has anyone here backed the Librem 5?
For those unaware the Librem 5 is an upcoming Linux smartphone developped by Purism that seems to be doing everything right. Frankly I think this might be humanity's last chance to have a Libre...
For those unaware the Librem 5 is an upcoming Linux smartphone developped by Purism that seems to be doing everything right. Frankly I think this might be humanity's last chance to have a Libre mobile option before the Google/Apple duopoly gets too far ahead.
I really, really want to back the thing but after going through the exchange rate, duties and customs I think it works out to nearly 900CAD which I just can't afford right now, though I might end up pulling the trigger anyway. Call it 400$ for a phone and 400$ to support a worthy cause, eh?
12 votes -
Leaked videos appear to depict Appleās internal iPhone and Mac repair processes
10 votes -
How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse
3 votes -
How to block ads like a pro
34 votes -
GOP to Silicon Valley: Promote the far right or else
3 votes -
We're underestimating the mind-warping potential of fake video
21 votes -
Internal documents show how Amazon scrambled to fix Prime Day glitches
8 votes -
The tragedy of the data commons
3 votes -
In order to cultivate an environment where the truth wins out in the end, you have to be biased against falsehoods
8 votes -
The machine fired me
30 votes -
Truth, disrupted
8 votes -
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admits platform not a place for 'nuanced discussion' as top New York Times reporter quits after abuse
28 votes -
The Elon Musk impersonators of the internet - For cryptocurrency scammers, imitation is the sincerest form of fraud
7 votes -
Undercover Facebook moderator was instructed not to remove fringe groups or hate speech
19 votes -
The SIM Hijackers
8 votes -
Looking inside a used voting machine from the 2016 election
12 votes -
A look at a brilliant 1945 paper on the future of computing
1 vote -
Reddit reinvents the chat room with subreddit chat
31 votes -
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter partner for ambitious new data project
7 votes -
Tech companies are structured like wealthy socialist states
5 votes -
Remove the search engine setting. Hard-code the search engine to Google
8 votes -
Why Google won't break a sweat about EU ruling
3 votes -
Are there any other HAMs around here?
Where do you usually work from? What is your setup? And also, what has been your most memorable HAM experience so far?
13 votes -
Internal documents show Facebook's own marketing strategy was influenced by what it learned from its valued customer, the Trump campaign
8 votes -
Our phones and gadgets are now endangering the planet
12 votes -
Digital Laundry: How credit card thieves use free-to-play apps to launder their ill-gotten gains
6 votes -
The rise of digital dictatorships - Prof. Yuval Noah Harari
5 votes -
Public Telegram, private strife | The precarious future of messaging apps
3 votes -
The next generation of VR headsets will connect over a single USB-C cable
9 votes -
On the future computer era modification of the American character and the role of the engineer, or, a little caution in the haste to number (1968)
7 votes -
Project Code Rush - The beginnings of Netscape/Mozilla
6 votes -
NVIDIA, Oculus, Valve, AMD, and Microsoft form VirtualLink Consortium and introduce an open industry standard for connecting next-generation VR headsets
8 votes -
Github is currently experiencing service outages
14 votes -
Chrome uses ten to thirteen percent more RAM due to Google's 'Site Isolation' protection for Spectre CPU flaws
14 votes