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8 votes
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A withering verdict: MPs report on Zuckerberg, Russia and Cambridge Analytica
14 votes -
India looking to compel e-commerce, social media firms to store data locally
5 votes -
Just an observation, Google Search is ready for replacement.
We're obviously being denied the benefits of so called advances in algorithmic search, as evidenced by the poor showing of Google Itself in unusual searches. For example, if you search images for...
We're obviously being denied the benefits of so called advances in algorithmic search, as evidenced by the poor showing of Google Itself in unusual searches. For example, if you search images for "runners wearing green hats -shamrock -st. -patrick" Guess how many runners wearing green hats you get?
So search is hard? I think it's more likely that Google and everyone else is more interested in selling you a hat than helping you find a picture of a runner in a green hat.
16 votes -
Any good alternatives to imgur?
It's gotten pretty bad and bloated lately. What's a good no-nonsense image host? Preferably with a command line upload option.
21 votes -
Refresh: A Browser Concept
6 votes -
How Facebook is undermining democracy - Prof. Siva Vaidhyanathan
5 votes -
Slack is acquiring (and discontinuing) HipChat and Stride from Atlassian
28 votes -
A spectre is haunting Unicode
18 votes -
A web app to test connected gamepads and controllers in your browser [OC]
5 votes -
It’s Rubens vs. Facebook in fight over artistic nudity
5 votes -
Ten years left to redesign lithium-ion batteries
9 votes -
US Congress demands Jeff Bezos explain Amazon’s face recognition software
15 votes -
'The discourse is unhinged': how the media gets AI alarmingly wrong
6 votes -
New York moves to kick Charter Spectrum cable out of the state
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Project Code Rush - The beginnings of Netscape/Mozilla
6 votes -
Facebook suspends US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
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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
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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 Apple’s internal iPhone and Mac repair processes
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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
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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