flashman

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• Conspiracy theorists are harassing and attacking UK telecoms engineers

  by flashman on 6/3/2020, 1:43 PM with 1 comments

• In OS X 10.15, all Excel documents show text upside down and backwards

  by flashman on 4/27/2020, 11:34 PM with 4 comments

• What to do if the Space Shuttle payload bay doors won't shut properly

  by flashman on 11/21/2019, 12:37 AM with 1 comments

• Twitter Emoji Race

  by flashman on 11/15/2019, 11:59 PM with 0 comments

• by flashman on 9/27/2018, 5:42 AM with comments

• What cracking open a Sonos One tells us about the Sonos IPO

  by flashman on 7/8/2018, 7:09 AM with 182 comments

• 18th century-style painting in pure CSS

  by flashman on 5/1/2018, 12:58 PM with 1 comments

• Single opt-in becoming the default setting for all MailChimp signup forms

  by flashman on 10/25/2017, 2:35 AM with 0 comments

• The longest ground-to-ground photo ever taken (443km)

  by flashman on 7/26/2017, 11:26 PM with 0 comments

• Being a founder is a shit job

  by flashman on 7/25/2017, 5:00 AM with 0 comments

• Computational Propaganda: Manufacturing Consensus Online [pdf]

  by flashman on 6/21/2017, 1:32 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: When was the last time you got a non-work related email from a human?

  by flashman on 5/26/2017, 5:30 AM with 0 comments

• View Counting at Reddit

  by flashman on 5/25/2017, 11:49 PM with 0 comments

• Streaming startup Guvera shuts down after $185m in funding and blocked IPO

  by flashman on 5/15/2017, 6:21 AM with 0 comments

• Dallas Siren Attack

  by flashman on 4/18/2017, 1:26 AM with 0 comments

• The UBI Bait and Switch

  by flashman on 1/17/2017, 10:53 PM with 0 comments

• Distributed brute forcing of Visa credit card CVV and expiry date

  by flashman on 12/6/2016, 9:51 AM with comments

• Organ transplants: the gifts that keep on living (2015)

  by flashman on 11/24/2016, 12:09 AM with 0 comments

• Facial recognition fooled into thinking Bill Murray is Tom Hanks

  by flashman on 10/28/2016, 1:04 AM with 0 comments

• Apple's MacBook Pro to be overhauled after four years, features touchscreen keys

  by flashman on 8/10/2016, 11:36 PM with comments

• ParaText: CSV parsing at 2.5 GB per second

  by flashman on 6/7/2016, 11:17 PM with 42 comments

• New Tinder feature outs its users to their Facebook friends

  by flashman on 4/28/2016, 4:57 AM with 2 comments

• Warning: Chrome extension 'User-Agent Switcher for Google Chrome' is suspicious

  by flashman on 3/29/2016, 3:31 AM with 3 comments

• Why polling results should be taken with a grain of salt

  by flashman on 3/14/2016, 11:02 PM with 0 comments

• Detecting Match-Fixing Patterns in Tennis

  by flashman on 1/17/2016, 10:52 PM with 0 comments

• The German Tank Problem (2010)

  by flashman on 11/6/2015, 4:48 AM with 52 comments

• Ask HN: Machine learning options for binary image classification

  by flashman on 9/23/2015, 3:00 AM with 1 comments

• Beyond Trending Topics: identifying important conversations in communities

  by flashman on 9/1/2015, 11:57 PM with 0 comments