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10 votes
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Wikipedia is now (in terms of hours of work), the largest collaborative human endeavour ever undertaken.
37 votes -
Galaxy Note 9 hands-on review: A $999 water-cooled, AI camera beast
7 votes -
Should tech companies everywhere take a militant stand re: piracy?
The ethics of piracy have been discussed, with some coming down on the side that it's indefensible, and others coming down on the side that artists make their money via ticket...
The ethics of piracy have been discussed, with some coming down on the side that it's indefensible, and others coming down on the side that artists make their money via ticket sales/merch/donations, that sharing of culture should be a right, that the price of music is too expensive, etc.
I happen to mostly be in that latter group, but as we all know, the various industries in whose interest it is to keep old business models going wield incredible influence and will slaughter us with lawsuits. In the age of the internet, with information being instantly transmittable from pole to pole, is it time we collectively stood up and laugh at these ridiculous demands they have? How much clout can you really have? They can't arrest everyone. AFAIK, this is what Pirate Bay does. They just don't tolerate the intimidation.
26 votes -
The VU Meter and How It Got That Way
3 votes -
Tutanota's new app is finally coming to F-Droid
12 votes -
Which password manager do you use and recommend?
I currently use Lastpass, and while I'm overall happy with what I have right now, some issues (like slow firefox support, android functionality that only works arbitrarily) makes me want to look...
I currently use Lastpass, and while I'm overall happy with what I have right now, some issues (like slow firefox support, android functionality that only works arbitrarily) makes me want to look at other solutions.
I have heard about other popuar managers like Keepass and Bitwarden, but haven't made the plunge yet. So I thought I could kickstart a discussion on this topic.
Which password manager do you use or have you used? Why do you recommend it (or not)?
28 votes -
Can society scale? If you want to understand how group dynamics work online, look no further than Numtot.
8 votes -
The internet trolls have won. Sorry, there’s not much you can do
21 votes -
Microsoft threatened to terminate Gab's cloud hosting if it didn't remove two posts by a neo-Nazi
24 votes -
Linux 4.19 is shaping up to be interesting
6 votes -
DeepMind's AI takes an IQ test
5 votes -
Ask HN: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a programmer?
17 votes -
Can a computer write a sonnet as well as Shakespeare? The best version of the algorithm fooled people nearly fifty percent of the time
3 votes -
Cybersecurity experts from Homeland Security, the National Intelligence director's office, and private industry discussed how they're working to counter the most urgent threats
3 votes -
Twitter says Infowars hasn't 'violated our rules.' It looks like that's not the case
13 votes -
Back streets of the Internet
2 votes -
Engineers say 'no thanks' to Silicon Valley recruiters, citing ethical concerns
29 votes -
Hacker Finds Hidden 'God Mode' on Old x86 CPUs
23 votes -
How the shared family computer protected us from our worst selves
11 votes -
Quantifying the impact of the Twitter fake accounts purge - a technical analysis
6 votes -
Why you need a network-wide ad-blocker
17 votes -
The Most Powerful Publishers in the World Don’t Give a Damn
21 votes -
Jeffrey Katzenberg raises $1 billion for short-form video venture
4 votes -
Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative TooL
8 votes -
Captive audience: How companies make millions charging prisoners to send an email
20 votes -
Censorship 2.0: Shadowy forces controlling online conversations
9 votes -
DAS Keyboard banned a guy on forums for providing open source alternatives for their keyboards
@sebirdman: So I got banned from the @daskeyboard forums for telling people there's an open source alternative to the windows only software they provide. I'll never buy one of these keyboards again.
17 votes -
Podcasting is not walled (yet)
6 votes -
‘It’s our time to serve the Motherland’ How Russia’s war in Georgia sparked Moscow’s modern-day recruitment of criminal hackers
6 votes -
Magic Leap One Creator Edition preview: A flawed glimpse of mixed reality's amazing potential
4 votes -
The ultra-pure, super-secret sand that makes your phone possible
6 votes -
Who will know your passwords after you die?
38 votes -
Amazon plans to move completely off Oracle software by early 2020
20 votes -
Scientists put a nuclear waste container through a demanding trip to see if the fuel would break
7 votes -
Uber but for snitching
14 votes -
Leaked white paper proposes Congressional regulation of social media
14 votes -
Tim Cook’s email to employees about Apple’s $1trillion milestone
13 votes -
Experts criticize West Virginia’s plan for smartphone voting
13 votes -
El Paquete, Cuba's answer to digital content distribution
7 votes -
I miss my iPod Classic more than anything
8 votes -
A generation grows up in China without Facebook, Google, or Twitter
7 votes -
YouTube deletes Alex Jones' channel for violating its community guidelines
46 votes -
Facebook in talks with banks to add your financial information to Messenger
18 votes -
FCC admits it was never actually hacked
21 votes -
Microsoft will keep classic Skype alive ‘for some time’ after user backlash
7 votes -
Facebook deletes InfoWars pages
20 votes -
New wi-fi crack attack allows outsiders to snag user creds
11 votes -
How does Mastodon work?
14 votes -
What are your opinions on cryptocurrency?
What about the technical aspects do you support and what are your reservations? Bitcoin vs. altcoins? Do you anticipate widespread adoption or fizzling out to occur in the next few decades?
20 votes