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• Google sued by Chegg over AI Overviews hurting traffic and revenue

  by whyleyc on 2/24/2025, 11:58 PM with 2 comments

• Man trapped inside driverless Waymo car as it spins in circles

  by whyleyc on 1/7/2025, 11:45 PM with 87 comments

• British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch among missing after yacht sinks off Sicily

  by whyleyc on 8/19/2024, 2:17 PM with 0 comments

• Critical incident over London hospitals' cyber-attack

  by whyleyc on 6/4/2024, 4:26 PM with 0 comments

• Woman found with £2B in Bitcoin convicted of money laundering

  by whyleyc on 3/20/2024, 8:50 PM with 4 comments

• Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex–and Maybe You Should Too

  by whyleyc on 11/11/2022, 12:03 PM with 0 comments

• Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex–and Maybe You Should Too

  by whyleyc on 11/10/2022, 10:13 PM with 4 comments

• Hans Niemann sues accusers Magnus Carlsen and Chess.com for libel

  by whyleyc on 10/20/2022, 11:26 PM with 2 comments

• I Watched the Coinbase Documentary So You Don’t Have To

  by whyleyc on 10/11/2022, 2:32 PM with 0 comments

• by whyleyc on 6/13/2022, 12:42 PM with comments

• by whyleyc on 3/22/2022, 3:52 PM with comments

• Gov.uk site broke Google realtime analytics during lockdown announcement

  by whyleyc on 1/4/2021, 9:30 PM with 75 comments

• Protests and Power – Maciej Cegłowski's rejected NY Times Essay

  by whyleyc on 10/6/2020, 8:47 PM with 0 comments

• IBM's Global Cloud is down

  by whyleyc on 6/9/2020, 10:23 PM with comments

• Apple Glass leak – Launching 2020/2021 for $499 with Lidar

  by whyleyc on 5/19/2020, 4:38 PM with 0 comments

• An Interview with Richard Brodie – Creator of Microsoft Word

  by whyleyc on 3/24/2020, 2:15 PM with 1 comments

• Eight free web tools you didn’t know you needed

  by whyleyc on 3/10/2020, 9:11 PM with 0 comments

• The Internet Archive and Jason Scott are saving our weird Internet history

  by whyleyc on 1/27/2020, 8:56 PM with 34 comments

• Marcus Hutchins, malware researcher and creator, sentenced to supervised release

  by whyleyc on 7/26/2019, 5:51 PM with 0 comments

• Celebrating 30 Years of Microsoft Word

  by whyleyc on 6/5/2019, 3:19 PM with 0 comments

• Malware researcher Marcus Hutchins, known as ’MalwareTech’, pleads guilty

  by whyleyc on 4/19/2019, 9:17 PM with 86 comments

• The rise and fall of Flash – a history

  by whyleyc on 4/17/2019, 1:30 PM with 0 comments

• The Fascinating History of Autocorrect (2014)

  by whyleyc on 3/8/2019, 10:53 AM with 13 comments

• Hawaii missile alert standdown delayed by forgotten log-in

  by whyleyc on 1/23/2018, 12:05 PM with 33 comments

• 'Lonely gifs' by Motocross Saito celebrate solitude in Japan

  by whyleyc on 12/13/2017, 11:41 AM with 0 comments

• Married to someone with anxiety (2016)

  by whyleyc on 10/10/2017, 1:18 PM with 19 comments

• Delicious earnt $7k (total) from premium accounts

  by whyleyc on 6/3/2017, 9:42 PM with 1 comments

• Major routing issues on the Internet

  by whyleyc on 5/2/2017, 3:02 PM with 27 comments

• Boosted Board v2 – no longer water resistant

  by whyleyc on 1/12/2017, 9:07 PM with 3 comments

• Empty DDoS Threats: Meet the Armada Collective

  by whyleyc on 10/12/2016, 2:18 PM with 1 comments

• by whyleyc on 9/21/2016, 1:46 PM with comments

• Life before the web – Running a Startup in the 1980's

  by whyleyc on 7/13/2016, 2:37 PM with 2 comments

• How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M

  by whyleyc on 6/10/2016, 2:10 PM with 151 comments

• Another Day, Another Hack: 117M LinkedIn Emails and Passwords

  by whyleyc on 5/18/2016, 2:27 PM with 0 comments

• 123-reg deletes sites in massive clean-up script blunder, customers let rip

  by whyleyc on 4/19/2016, 9:55 AM with 3 comments

• IBM to Start Blocking All Traffic from Iran, Cuba, Sudan, Syria from 1 Feb 2016

  by whyleyc on 1/21/2016, 1:01 PM with 1 comments

• The Man and the Island: Wandering Through Jonathan Blow’s the Witness

  by whyleyc on 9/18/2015, 12:00 PM with 0 comments

• If I just proved that P = NP, how do I start taking over the world?

  by whyleyc on 7/22/2015, 1:04 PM with 0 comments

• The real scars of Korean gaming

  by whyleyc on 6/6/2015, 9:29 PM with 1 comments

• Google apologises over racist Google Maps White House search results

  by whyleyc on 5/20/2015, 12:14 PM with 0 comments

• Life inside a secret Chinese Bitcoin mine

  by whyleyc on 2/7/2015, 8:46 PM with 0 comments

• Why Fred Wilson is wrong – files aren’t dead

  by whyleyc on 1/2/2015, 1:16 PM with 56 comments

• Embrace: The medical-grade wearable you've been waiting for

  by whyleyc on 11/27/2014, 12:11 PM with 0 comments

• Internet data plan back on political agenda

  by whyleyc on 11/23/2014, 7:43 AM with 24 comments

• Windows Schannel exploit - A technical deep dive

  by whyleyc on 11/12/2014, 1:25 PM with 0 comments

• Microsoft releases patch for CVE-2014-4114 (Windows OLE packager vulnerability)

  by whyleyc on 10/14/2014, 7:46 PM with 1 comments

• The Fascinating History of Autocorrect (2014)

  by whyleyc on 8/26/2014, 1:07 PM with 0 comments

• Google's prototype self-driving car will have a steering wheel after all

  by whyleyc on 8/26/2014, 1:05 PM with 0 comments

• Minecraft – 36 times larger on PS4 and Xbox One

  by whyleyc on 5/28/2014, 9:56 AM with 0 comments

• Putin: "Snowden still in Moscow airport"

  by whyleyc on 6/25/2013, 3:13 PM with 0 comments

• Robert Scoble and Jaron Lanier on wearable technology [video]

  by whyleyc on 6/4/2013, 1:54 PM with 36 comments

• Google rolled out Penguin 2.0 - 2.3% of queries affected

  by whyleyc on 5/24/2013, 12:55 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: How best to cook a steak?

  by whyleyc on 3/15/2013, 7:46 PM with 20 comments

• Stripe launches beta in the UK

  by whyleyc on 3/1/2013, 12:21 PM with 104 comments

• Live stream of Web Summit London

  by whyleyc on 3/1/2013, 10:54 AM with 1 comments

• Designer News discussing Hacker News' discussion of Designer News

  by whyleyc on 1/21/2013, 5:54 PM with 3 comments

• Is this the worst website ever made?

  by whyleyc on 12/15/2012, 10:09 PM with 24 comments

• Rewind HN - See historical HN frontpages

  by whyleyc on 11/1/2012, 3:15 PM with 0 comments

• Find out who voted for ACTA

  by whyleyc on 7/5/2012, 2:25 PM with 3 comments

• Paralysed patients use thoughts to control robotic arm

  by whyleyc on 5/16/2012, 5:17 PM with 0 comments

• Tim Berners-Lee urges UK government to stop snooping bill

  by whyleyc on 4/18/2012, 11:45 AM with 0 comments

• Big Amazon AWS announcement coming tomorrow?

  by whyleyc on 1/17/2012, 11:05 AM with 1 comments

• Recording Labels Sue YouTube Downloader Website

  by whyleyc on 8/28/2011, 11:31 AM with 0 comments

• HP to buy Autonomy for $11 billion

  by whyleyc on 8/19/2011, 6:33 AM with 42 comments

• Founder stories - Doubleclick

  by whyleyc on 8/18/2011, 3:13 PM with 0 comments

• Making movies out of Lego

  by whyleyc on 8/18/2011, 3:10 PM with 0 comments

• OpenDNS now serving 30 million customers

  by whyleyc on 8/18/2011, 2:56 PM with 1 comments

• BBC websites (news, radio, iPlayer) all down

  by whyleyc on 3/29/2011, 10:27 PM with -1 comments

• Tell HN: PayPal is borked for most merchants

  by whyleyc on 3/18/2011, 1:42 PM with 15 comments

• BBC interview with creator of Elite

  by whyleyc on 3/16/2011, 12:18 PM with 29 comments

• Ask HN: How do you secure yourself on public WiFi?

  by whyleyc on 10/25/2010, 1:55 PM with 71 comments

• Zuckerburg got served - but why ?

  by whyleyc on 7/10/2010, 6:55 PM with -1 comments

• Bhopal - What Congress should really be investigating

  by whyleyc on 6/17/2010, 9:08 PM with 0 comments

• Michael Arrington interviews Carol Bartz

  by whyleyc on 5/24/2010, 4:48 PM with 13 comments

• Tell HN: How to get the new Twitter client for iPhone

  by whyleyc on 5/19/2010, 4:28 PM with 0 comments

• Pakistan blocks Facebook in row over Muhammad drawings

  by whyleyc on 5/19/2010, 2:23 PM with 0 comments

• The havoc the XML purists wrought

  by whyleyc on 5/19/2010, 12:20 PM with 33 comments

• Real life "Neo" discovered ... in Latvia

  by whyleyc on 5/13/2010, 3:40 PM with 0 comments

• Adobe attacks Apple - "You're undermining the next chapter of the web"

  by whyleyc on 5/13/2010, 3:31 PM with 27 comments

• Guy uses Google Adwords to land his dream job

  by whyleyc on 5/13/2010, 2:27 PM with 0 comments

• RIAA wins court battle against LimeWire P2P service

  by whyleyc on 5/13/2010, 2:23 PM with 1 comments

• Larry Ellison On Sun Ex-CEO: Blogging Was Silly Diversion

  by whyleyc on 5/13/2010, 12:51 PM with 32 comments

• HTC calls for halt of iPad, iPhone and iPod sales in US

  by whyleyc on 5/13/2010, 10:36 AM with 0 comments

• Sony to stop making floppy disks

  by whyleyc on 4/26/2010, 2:52 PM with 1 comments

• HN frontpage 3 years ago

  by whyleyc on 4/26/2010, 1:26 PM with 53 comments

• Working at Fog Creek - a promotional video

  by whyleyc on 3/3/2010, 5:52 PM with 1 comments

• The Internet of things

  by whyleyc on 3/1/2010, 2:02 PM with 0 comments

• Google boss says 'nobody was harmed' by Buzz debacle

  by whyleyc on 2/18/2010, 12:58 PM with 21 comments

• MySQL founder protests against Oracle takeover

  by whyleyc on 12/15/2009, 12:10 PM with 1 comments

• 14 years of Windows startup screens in pictures

  by whyleyc on 10/21/2009, 7:56 AM with 1 comments

• AskPG: Where'd my downvote arrow go ?

  by whyleyc on 10/6/2009, 10:15 AM with 3 comments

• Starter's guide to VC funding in Europe

  by whyleyc on 8/24/2009, 4:03 PM with 2 comments

• Hacker builds clock powered by decaying prawns

  by whyleyc on 7/30/2009, 4:46 PM with 0 comments

• We are all makers and hackers

  by whyleyc on 3/25/2009, 1:02 PM with 0 comments

• FT.com sues company for sharing single subscription account

  by whyleyc on 2/3/2009, 4:22 PM with 29 comments

• Outrageous success - genius or hard work ? Malcolm Gladwell analyses.

  by whyleyc on 11/15/2008, 3:53 PM with 7 comments

• Hacking the London Underground

  by whyleyc on 10/6/2008, 4:02 PM with 0 comments

• UK "hacker" to be extradited for biggest military hack ever

  by whyleyc on 7/30/2008, 2:22 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What hardware do you use to run your load balancer ?

  by whyleyc on 6/1/2008, 1:06 AM with 2 comments

• Ask HN: What load balancing software do you use ?

  by whyleyc on 5/3/2008, 4:54 PM with 37 comments

• Ask YC: What DNS provider do you use ?

  by whyleyc on 3/3/2008, 4:16 PM with 22 comments

• Just don't die - Advice from Last.fm

  by whyleyc on 9/12/2007, 9:06 AM with 7 comments