It's not a crime if we do it with an app(pluralistic.net)
745 points by keepit | 448 comments
A Pluralistic blog post by Cory Doctorow arguing that companies use apps to do things that would be illegal if done directly; the page rendered blank.
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Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion(mort.coffee)
562 points by todsacerdoti | 435 comments
Blog post measuring cursor input latency under Wayland versus X11 on Linux using a 240 FPS phone camera to produce hard numbers.
The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster(zdnet.com)
503 points by belter | 485 comments
ZDNET opinion piece by Ed Bott criticizing Microsoft's rebranding of Microsoft 365 to include Copilot and the accompanying price increase.
The protester's guide to smartphone security(privacyguides.org)
421 points by nameequalsmain | 197 comments
Privacy Guides article advising protesters how to secure their smartphones, covering screen locks, biometrics, notifications, updates, and surveillance protection.
Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is America's largest recorded since the 1950s(cjonline.com)
380 points by toastedwedge | 295 comments
Topeka Capital-Journal news article reporting that a tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas is the largest recorded in the United States since the 1950s.
Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep (2018)(estherschindler.medium.com)
366 points by mooreds | 149 comments
A Medium essay by Esther Schindler on lessons from an old family photos project about taking family photos people will want to keep.
The South Vietnamese pilot who landed a Cessna on a carrier to save his family (2019)(historynet.com)
351 points by stmw | 170 comments
HistoryNet article about South Vietnamese Maj. Buang Ly, who landed a Cessna on the USS Midway with his family during the fall of Saigon in 1975.
YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups(ycgraveyard.iamwillwang.com)
349 points by memalign | 205 comments
A directory site listing 821 inactive Y Combinator startups across 39 batches and 50 industries, with batch and industry labels.
Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent(jasonthorsness.com)
334 points by jasonthorsness | 133 comments
A blog demo page where clicking a button has DeepSeek R1 analyze and comment on the visitor's user agent, browser capabilities, and IP location headers.
What's OAuth2, anyway?(romaglushko.com)
298 points by roma_glushko | 75 comments
Composable SQL(borretti.me)
247 points by earnestinger | 120 comments
Malimite – iOS and macOS Decompiler(github.com)
213 points by tW4r | 30 comments
The Simplicity of Prolog(bitsandtheorems.com)
169 points by thunderbong | 94 comments
Paxo: A DIY Phone(paxo.fr)
112 points by conaclos | 27 comments
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I don't like Docker or Podman(blog.liw.fi)
75 points by 0x2a | 50 comments
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100 years of Bell Labs [pdf](novitoll.com)
70 points by cloked | 5 comments
Two Bites of Data Science in K(blog.zdsmith.com)
63 points by crux | 10 comments
The Graphics Codex(graphicscodex.com)
53 points by board | 14 comments
Permission to Practise Medicine(blogs.bl.uk)
48 points by pepys | 19 comments