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billme

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May 14, 2020 (6y ago)
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  1. Ask HN: Dark Patterns on HN

    Maybe I am biased, but increasingly feel HN is subject to number of dark patterns related to potentially meritless rep-mining, voting, flags, etc. What are examples if any that users are seeing and how might they be…

    4 points 6
  2. A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018) (github.com)
    673 points 278
  3. Black Americans 2.5X More Likely Than Whites to Be Killed by Police (statista.com)
    2 points 0
  4. Ask HN: HN user ghosted 5 years, why?

    Just randomly ran across a user that appears to have not realized their account was ghosted by mods 5 years ago; as in they have appear to have been commenting for 5 years not realizing that their account was ghosted.…

    7 points 9
  5. Signal’s IRS Form 990 (2018) [pdf] (pp-990.s3.amazonaws.com)
    2 points 5
  6. What Is The Insurrection Act? (npr.org)
    89 points 73
  7. What is the Insurrection Act that Trump is threatening to invoke? (npr.org)
    9 points 1
  8. How to Become a Hacker (ESR) (catb.org)
    1 points 0
  9. Supreme Court says state may enforce some restrictions on religious gatherings [pdf] (supremecourt.gov)
    108 points 266
  10. How the Supreme Court Lets Cops Get Away with Murder (nytimes.com)
    16 points 2
  11. How to De-Risk a Startup (2016) (codingvc.com)
    8 points 0
  12. How the ‘Plandemic’ Movie and Its Falsehoods Spread Widely Online (nytimes.com)
    4 points 0
  13. Ask HN: What Is “Good” & “Bad” HN

    First, like many, truly value HN, respect the mods, community, YC, etc. Asking “what is good & bad HN?” - because I am guessing like many, I read dang’s comments, once in awhile glance through his recent comments, but I…

    15 points 7
  14. Censorship by Google (wikipedia.org)
    59 points 18
  15. China’s data reveal a puzzling link between Covid-19 cases and political events (economist.com)
    2 points 0
  16. Ask HN: Flag Reasonings

    This post was flagged, why? —————————— TITLE: “New law protects US Federal officials from Patriot Act surveillance” URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23190748 Text: “(G) if the target of the electronic…

    1 points 0
  17. New law protects US Federal officials from Patriot Act surveillance

    “(G) if the target of the electronic surveillance is an elected Federal official or a candidate in a Federal election, that the Attorney General has approved in writing of the investigation;“

    1 points 0
  18. How to Ask for Technical Help? (2017) (arxiv.org)
    2 points 0
  19. Ask HN: Should the Patriot Act Exist

    Patriot Act bill recently expired, then was temporarily extended a few months. Why there no significant effort to not allow new bill to be passed? Why should these laws exist?

    3 points 0
  20. Who Killed Michael Hastings? (2013) (nymag.com)
    1 points 0