Elastic Binary Trees (2011)(wtarreau.blogspot.com)

22 points by tosh 1 year ago | 8 comments

AI Angst(tbray.org)

122 points by AndrewDucker 1 year ago | 113 comments

The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting(kevinboone.me)

692 points by ingve 11 months ago | 392 comments

Kevin Boone's personal blog essay on how browser fingerprinting undermines web privacy beyond third-party cookies and de-Googling efforts.

Do we need copyright? (2012)(lemire.me)

139 points by ibobev 3 years ago | 141 comments

Random digits is not enough to uniquely identify all human beings(lemire.me)

39 points by adunk 3 years ago | 51 comments

On privacy and control(toidiu.com)

171 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago | 94 comments

An American Privacy Emergency(scottaaronson.blog)

358 points by flowercalled 3 months ago | 106 comments

Guest post by Cynthia Dwork and others on Scott Aaronson's blog arguing that banning noise infusion at the US Census Bureau creates a privacy emergency.

America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back(molsonhart.com)

521 points by putzdown 1 year ago | 697 comments

Blog post by Molson Hart arguing that the April 2025 US tariffs underestimate how hard it is to bring manufacturing back to America.

A lot of population numbers are fake(davidoks.blog)

362 points by bookofjoe 9 months ago | 295 comments

A blog post by David Oks arguing that many national population figures are unreliable or fabricated, questioning how well we know the world's population.

Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit(djnn.sh)

1070 points by vxvxvx 11 months ago | 300 comments

Blog post criticizing Anthropic's report on disrupting an AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign; the captured page shows a Cloudflare block screen.

The US government is buying troves of data about Americans(wired.com)

417 points by benwerd 3 years ago | 198 comments

Wired article on a declassified ODNI report revealing that US federal agencies are buying large amounts of commercially available data about Americans.

Injunction issued in case about social media pressure from US Government(arstechnica.com)

360 points by cm_silva 3 years ago | 625 comments

Ars Technica article on a federal judge's preliminary injunction finding the White House pressured social networks to suppress speech, in a suit by Missouri and Louisiana.