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UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus
UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus
Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement
TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing
Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms
Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms
The best engineering interview question I've ever gotten
The money I saved as a child would buy one picogram of gold today
Unreal vs. Unity Opinion
“YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG
What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world?
How to write more clearly, think more clearly, and learn complex material [pdf]
How to write more clearly, think more clearly, and learn complex material [pdf]
The Uber Bubble
The Uber Bubble
Ask HN: Internet magically gets faster when opening speedtest?
I want to start by saying this is anecdotal, and I feel paranoid for even thinking it. But often my internet will feel very slow, so I'll open speedtest to check if something's wrong. When I do, all of my stalled tabs suddenly spring into action and finish loading.<p>The tinfoil hat wearer inside of me speculates that my internet provider is overloaded and throttling my bandwidth, but immediately prioritizes me when it senses that I'm trying to check if I'm getting what I pay for.<p>Has anyone else noticed this pattern? Is there a way I can test this more scientifically?
Ask HN: Internet magically gets faster when opening speedtest?
I want to start by saying this is anecdotal, and I feel paranoid for even thinking it. But often my internet will feel very slow, so I'll open speedtest to check if something's wrong. When I do, all of my stalled tabs suddenly spring into action and finish loading.<p>The tinfoil hat wearer inside of me speculates that my internet provider is overloaded and throttling my bandwidth, but immediately prioritizes me when it senses that I'm trying to check if I'm getting what I pay for.<p>Has anyone else noticed this pattern? Is there a way I can test this more scientifically?
The 'Batman Effect': How having an alter ego empowers you (2020)
The 'Batman Effect': How having an alter ego empowers you (2020)
Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself