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I work in government. All opinions are my own.

Note: My username was literally something cool I thought of in 2015 while bored in a cubicle farm. Fascinating concept, but please consider it just a username.

  1. What Happens to a School Shooter's Sister? (newyorker.com)
    3 points 0
  2. When the Homeowners Association Comes for Your Home (bloomberg.com)
    45 points 112
  3. Ask HN: Is Have I Been Pwned? A Security Risk?

    I saw the lastest Genesis news and visited Have I been Pwned to check. Getting curious, I started putting in the email addresses of friends. It was interesting to see what my friends were signed up to, and some of the…

    4 points 3
  4. Ask HN: Are you the smartest person in the room?

    Do you ever feel like you're the smartest person in the room at work? A colleague complained to me about the caliber of our other colleagues stating "I'm always the smartest person in the room.." I did not tell him that…

    1 points 6
  5. The Hammond Typewriter (hammondtypewriter.com)
    1 points 0
  6. The IRS Makes a Strange House Call on Matt Taibbi (wsj.com)
    6 points 2
  7. Watch the Watchers: LAPD officer database (watchthewatchers.net)
    191 points 101
  8. 18-Year-Old College Journalist Could Bring Down Stanford University’s President (buzzfeednews.com)
    6 points 1
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  10. Paul Clifford: The origin of "It was a dark and stormy night.." (en.wikipedia.org)
    9 points 0
  11. The Repository of Industrial Security Incidents (risidata.com)
    1 points 0
  12. The Artist Residency Program in the Twin Towers (2002) (ifar.org)
    2 points 0
  13. Tesla Will Have to Buy Aptera (torquenews.com)
    1 points 3
  14. The "specialness spiral" leads us to not use some ordinary objects (2021) (cnn.com)
    24 points 50
  15. The Second Life of Gordon Clark, a Surfing Pioneer (2017) (bendmagazine.com)
    3 points 0
  16. The Grapes of Wrath’s Foreshadowing of the Cold War (2018) (sites.psu.edu)
    168 points 253
  17. Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236 (admiralcloudberg.medium.com)
    234 points 145
  18. Names that decreased in popularity from 2020 to 2021 (ssa.gov)
    67 points 61
  19. Carlos Ghosn’s Escape Planner Describes His Prison Time in Japan as ‘Torture’ (wsj.com)
    3 points 2
  20. Stanford doctor among those ‘blacklisted’ on Twitter (newsnationnow.com)
    8 points 0
  21. Lilith Fair (en.wikipedia.org)
    2 points 0
  22. Up And Then Down: The lives of elevators. (2014) (newyorker.com)
    1 points 0
  23. Thirty-Six Thousand Feet Under the Sea (2020) (newyorker.com)
    1 points 0
  24. What it's like to fail (2013) (priceonomics.com)
    1 points 1
  25. Vintage Tech Humor: Unknown Technology Definitions

    While archiving an ancient USENET group, I came across this bit of crass humor from 2003. SEX /seks/ [Sun Users' Group & elsewhere] 1. Software EXchange. A technique invented by the blue-green algae hundreds of millions…

    2 points 0