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• ACM Transitions to Full Open Access

  by pcvarmint on 7/29/2025, 5:17 PM with 59 comments

• Synopsys Completes Acquisition of Ansys

  by pcvarmint on 7/17/2025, 10:11 PM with 0 comments

• EFF Helps Defeat Meritless Lawsuit Against Journalist Jack Poulson

  by pcvarmint on 2/6/2025, 5:10 AM with 0 comments

• Kim Dotcom Recovering from "Serious Stroke"

  by pcvarmint on 11/25/2024, 2:19 PM with 1 comments

• Brazil fines $8,900/day for accessing X with VPN

  by pcvarmint on 8/31/2024, 8:04 PM with 2 comments

• Hacked Ballot Proves Texas Elections in Crisis

  by pcvarmint on 5/23/2024, 10:06 AM with 0 comments

• Sunsetting Section 230 Will Hurt Internet Users, Not Big Tech

  by pcvarmint on 5/20/2024, 11:42 PM with 17 comments

• by pcvarmint on 1/10/2024, 4:25 AM with comments

• Rumble Chris Pavlovski's statement on Brazilian censorship

  by pcvarmint on 12/23/2023, 6:26 PM with 0 comments

• To Hell and Back: Romero and Carmack Celebrate Doom's 30th Anniversary

  by pcvarmint on 12/10/2023, 7:50 AM with 0 comments

• Was China behind Sam Altman's ousting?

  by pcvarmint on 11/26/2023, 11:05 AM with 1 comments

• Patrick Stewart (Jean-Luc Picard) Barred from Entering Russia

  by pcvarmint on 5/20/2023, 3:42 AM with 2 comments

• RISC averse: Intel, AMD and ARM may have to up ante to deal with Open hardware

  by pcvarmint on 5/15/2023, 8:24 PM with 0 comments

• “Vintage” iPhone 4 catches on fire while charging in Ohio family’s kitchen

  by pcvarmint on 1/18/2023, 3:44 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Why do so many people believe that 550/2 = 225?

  by pcvarmint on 1/5/2023, 6:12 PM with 2 comments

• Micron announces 10% staff reduction, suspends bonuses

  by pcvarmint on 12/22/2022, 12:07 AM with 0 comments

• Tusk Browser aims to combat censorship of conservatives

  by pcvarmint on 5/11/2022, 8:54 PM with 3 comments

• All US cell operators hit with 'largest cyber attack in history'

  by pcvarmint on 6/16/2020, 1:27 AM with comments

• Fake news story about hand sanitizer exploding in cars

  by pcvarmint on 5/22/2020, 7:10 PM with 1 comments

• Daniel Pearl's parents challenge freeing of his convicted killers

  by pcvarmint on 5/3/2020, 6:24 AM with 0 comments

• Everything You Should Know About Viruses and Why Soap Works So Well Against Them

  by pcvarmint on 3/9/2020, 2:38 PM with 0 comments

• Some car dealers advising buyers to default on car loans and buy another one

  by pcvarmint on 3/9/2020, 12:35 AM with 0 comments

• Fry’s Electronics to close another California store

  by pcvarmint on 2/27/2020, 2:38 AM with 0 comments

• Vault 7 Leaker's Whistleblower Defense Strategy

  by pcvarmint on 2/3/2020, 5:04 PM with 0 comments

• Ex-CIA Software Engineer Goes on Trial for Vault 7 Leak

  by pcvarmint on 2/3/2020, 4:58 PM with 122 comments

• Is Fry’s Electronics in trouble?

  by pcvarmint on 1/3/2020, 1:01 PM with 372 comments

• Abandoned Palo Alto Fry's Building Hits Snag

  by pcvarmint on 12/4/2019, 6:22 AM with 0 comments

• Fry’s Electronics says it’s not going out of business

  by pcvarmint on 11/15/2019, 11:11 PM with 7 comments

• Why Fry’s Electronics hasn’t been restocking goods in multiple stores

  by pcvarmint on 9/11/2019, 12:47 AM with 0 comments

• US appeals court says Trump cannot block Twitter followers

  by pcvarmint on 7/9/2019, 3:00 PM with 1 comments

• Police: Secaucus High School Freshmen Hacked School’s WiFi, Made Life Difficult

  by pcvarmint on 4/3/2019, 2:30 PM with 0 comments

• Alan Bean, Apollo Astronaut Who Walked on the Moon, Has Died at 86

  by pcvarmint on 5/26/2018, 6:37 PM with 0 comments

• When You Should (and Shouldn’t) Accept Interview ‘Homework’

  by pcvarmint on 5/16/2018, 3:57 AM with 1 comments

• 'Gaydar' Shows How Creepy Algorithms Can Get

  by pcvarmint on 9/25/2017, 7:57 PM with 0 comments

• Family PI: There is evidence Seth Rich had contact with WikiLeaks prior to death

  by pcvarmint on 5/16/2017, 3:07 AM with 0 comments

• Life after Bertha

  by pcvarmint on 4/4/2017, 8:33 PM with 0 comments

• Russian bank says mysterious Trump computer connections may've been hacker hoax

  by pcvarmint on 3/16/2017, 7:54 PM with 0 comments

• Do Apes Deserve ‘Personhood’ Rights?

  by pcvarmint on 3/11/2017, 11:50 PM with 0 comments

• 'Global epidemic of blindness' on the horizon, experts warn, from LED screens

  by pcvarmint on 1/25/2017, 6:15 AM with comments

• Magnet Ban Cleared

  by pcvarmint on 11/28/2016, 3:26 PM with 218 comments

• Loki – The Smart WiFi Meat Thermometer

  by pcvarmint on 10/20/2016, 4:59 AM with 1 comments

• The 1,024 Ways Clinton or Trump Can Win the Election

  by pcvarmint on 9/30/2016, 4:55 AM with 0 comments

• Angie's List agrees to pay $1.4M settlement

  by pcvarmint on 8/26/2016, 1:23 PM with 0 comments

• John McLaughlin, the McLaughlin Group Host Since 1982, Dead at 89

  by pcvarmint on 8/16/2016, 8:36 PM with comments

• There are just SIX plots in every film, book and TV show ever made

  by pcvarmint on 7/12/2016, 6:42 AM with 0 comments

• Seagate Expands Job Cuts to 6,500 as PC-Component Market Suffers

  by pcvarmint on 7/12/2016, 2:21 AM with 0 comments

• He Was a Hacker for the NSA and He Was Willing to Talk. I Was Willing to Listen

  by pcvarmint on 6/30/2016, 1:48 AM with 0 comments

• Pulitzer prize-winning security expert denied White House clearance

  by pcvarmint on 1/31/2016, 5:45 PM with 0 comments

• Allergic to ALL food: Utah teenager fears eating could kill him

  by pcvarmint on 10/27/2015, 7:10 PM with 1 comments

• The Cubitat Shrinks an Entire House into One Compact Cube

  by pcvarmint on 1/27/2015, 9:13 PM with 0 comments

• Sony FBI Inquiry Has Moved to Los Angeles, Involves Hacker from LulzSec Group

  by pcvarmint on 12/30/2014, 5:35 PM with 0 comments

• Microsoft patents DAG scheduled parallel linear algebra

  by pcvarmint on 11/11/2014, 8:05 AM with 0 comments

• Cryptome Global Archives Kickstarter Canceled

  by pcvarmint on 7/24/2014, 1:00 AM with 0 comments

• From the Big Bang to the Internet – to the Singularity?

  by pcvarmint on 7/22/2014, 4:15 AM with 0 comments

• Cryptome.org Extorting Kickstarter Donations Through 403 Site Error?

  by pcvarmint on 6/10/2014, 7:19 PM with 1 comments

• The TSA is Looking For Bitcoin

  by pcvarmint on 2/27/2014, 7:46 PM with 0 comments

• WA State Bill Proposes Criminalizing Help to NSA, Turning Off Resources

  by pcvarmint on 1/15/2014, 11:34 PM with 1 comments

• Hacker News down, unwisely returning HTTP 200 for outage message

  by pcvarmint on 1/7/2014, 3:19 AM with 113 comments

• FNSAIPS: Make Your Data Vanish If Viewed By The NSA

  by pcvarmint on 10/18/2013, 8:47 PM with 0 comments

• Alaska National Weather Service office begs “please pay us” in secret message

  by pcvarmint on 10/5/2013, 12:12 AM with -1 comments

• The Perils of Hacking Math

  by pcvarmint on 10/2/2013, 5:19 PM with 0 comments

• Snowden disavows father's legal team, says media is being misled

  by pcvarmint on 8/16/2013, 6:40 PM with -1 comments

• Snowden Gets Job Offer From VK

  by pcvarmint on 8/1/2013, 8:28 PM with -1 comments

• Documents Show Undersea Cable Firms Provide Surveillance Access to US

  by pcvarmint on 7/18/2013, 8:38 PM with 0 comments

• DoE proposes to mandate consumer product energy standards on servers

  by pcvarmint on 7/12/2013, 7:51 PM with 0 comments

• Analysis: Experts advise Snowden: fly commercial

  by pcvarmint on 7/12/2013, 12:06 PM with 0 comments

• US Congressman rises to hail solution to the Boltzmann equation

  by pcvarmint on 6/13/2013, 4:03 AM with 0 comments

• Why We Get the Police State We Deserve & What We Can Do to Fix That

  by pcvarmint on 6/12/2013, 1:39 AM with 0 comments

• America’s New Normal: Mass Surveillance, Secret Courts & Death to Whistleblowers

  by pcvarmint on 6/10/2013, 3:37 PM with 0 comments

• Did Neil Armstrong's accent affect his "one small step" quote?

  by pcvarmint on 6/3/2013, 10:55 PM with 0 comments

• PayPal terminated my account because I use a VPN

  by pcvarmint on 4/8/2013, 11:59 PM with 76 comments

• SNOPA Password Privacy Bill Reintroduced in House

  by pcvarmint on 2/7/2013, 2:58 AM with 0 comments

• Why the Facebook and Apple Empires are Bound to Fall

  by pcvarmint on 1/27/2013, 8:42 AM with 0 comments

• Atari files Chapter 11 bankruptcy

  by pcvarmint on 1/21/2013, 11:52 PM with 1 comments

• Facebook suspends account, sends substance abuse warning to 9/11 truther

  by pcvarmint on 9/11/2012, 7:45 PM with 5 comments

• Intel accidentally releases Poulson Itanium specs

  by pcvarmint on 7/18/2012, 6:37 PM with 0 comments

• Ron Paul starts new crusade of Internet freedom based on private property rights

  by pcvarmint on 7/5/2012, 9:34 PM with -1 comments

• Lemont, IL tornado siren hacked, police say

  by pcvarmint on 7/4/2012, 10:52 PM with 0 comments

• Myths About Scalable Parallel Programming Languages, Part 1

  by pcvarmint on 4/30/2012, 7:12 PM with 0 comments

• From Hackers to Slackers: CFAA used to attack online freedom

  by pcvarmint on 4/18/2012, 10:54 PM with 0 comments

• U.S. Presidential candidates face patent lawsuit for using Facebook

  by pcvarmint on 2/28/2012, 9:31 PM with 0 comments

• Write in C (in memory of DMR)

  by pcvarmint on 10/13/2011, 7:27 PM with 0 comments

• What Everyone Is Too Polite to Say About Steve Jobs

  by pcvarmint on 10/10/2011, 9:22 PM with -1 comments