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  1. Ask HN: Why is the sender chat box always on the right?

    When did this UX convention develop and why? I think this is also true across languages like Arabic and Hebrew whose script runs right-to-left.

    5 points 9
  2. Ask HN: Useful tips, tricks, and mindset changes navigating frothy organizations

    Reasonably senior level IC (Principal / Senior Staff) for several years at a big company (think FAANG). Recently there have been several priority shifts percolating from top down in a very frothy and heterogenous…

    1 points 0
  3. Ask HN: Good articles or books to understand the current zeitgeist?

    My classical liberal outlook (with maybe a propensity to support higher quality regulations) has been seriously rocked over the past few years culminating of course in the elections last year and the outlooks of…

    11 points 16
  4. Ask HN: What are Larry Page and Sergey Brin working on these days?

    And beyond Larry and Sergey, there seem to be a lot of founders who are basically retired? What do they do all day? How do they transition from what were probably incredibly busy and choreographed days?

    38 points 12
  5. Facebook is conducting quiet layoffs (businessinsider.com)
    8 points 0
  6. Google is making it easier for AI developers to keep users’ data private (theverge.com)
    2 points 0
  7. Comcast Has About 76 Lobbyists Working Washington On The Merger. This is Why. (time.com)
    7 points 0
  8. France Accuses US of Using Flame Malware to Hack President's Network (threatpost.com)
    1 points 0
  9. CRIME Attack Uses Compression Ratio of TLS Requests as Side Channel (threatpost.com)
    2 points 0
  10. Aldous Huxley's letter to Orwell on "1984." (lettersofnote.com)
    17 points 3
  11. MITx, MIT's online education initiative launches its prototype course. (mitx.mit.edu)
    4 points 0
  12. A Senseless Conversation (sci-fi short on the Turing Test) (sites.google.com)
    2 points 0
  13. Fields medal winner Tim Gowers on online review systems (gowers.wordpress.com)
    3 points 0
  14. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences (1960) (dartmouth.edu)
    8 points 0
  15. The Right to Read by Richard Stallman. (gnu.org)
    8 points 0
  16. Authentication by "Cognitive Footprint". (schneier.com)
    2 points 0
  17. Visualizing how a population grows to 7 billion. (npr.org)
    51 points 14
  18. Researchers lock down Android to keep data from walking out the door (arstechnica.com)
    2 points 0
  19. Copyright czar cozied up to Big Content, e-mails show (arstechnica.com)
    6 points 0
  20. Burglar tips off police about a bigger crime. (schneier.com)
    2 points 0
  21. Beautiful 3D visualization of population density using WebGL (data-arts.appspot.com)
    5 points 1
  22. Research shows that starlings recognize context-free grammars. (nature.com)
    3 points 0
  23. US, Aus, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and S. Korea sign ACTA (arstechnica.com)
    124 points 37
  24. Isaac Asimov on Security Theatre. (schneier.com)
    176 points 48
  25. An example of security theatre in a 1956 Asimov short story. (decrepitoldfool.com)
    2 points 0