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  1. Ask HN: Notification Overload

    I'm looking for tools or methods to better curate the deluge and cacophony of notifications, emails, texts and phone calls I imagine we are all getting inundated with everyday with increasing entropy and volume. The…

    43 points 59
  2. Windows Icons (digitalcitizen.life)
    3 points 1
  3. Course Skill and Book Recommendations

    Hi HN, As a mechanical engineer between jobs with a lot of interest in computer science, and a little less than halfway through my career I find myself needing new skills to stay competitive. Some thoughts I’ve had are:…

    1 points 0
  4. Ergonomic Mobile Device Input

    Anyone working on this? My thumb hurts. I love the controller that Ender uses in the movie Enders Game.

    1 points 1
  5. Ask HN: Guidance on Web Scraping and Data Analysis

    Hi HN, I have two projects in mind, both require web scraping (to build a dataset) and data analysis (random forest). Down the line I would like to automate everything, but for now my goal is to create a process…

    2 points 0
  6. ProctorU Violates Ill. Privacy Law, Class Action Alleges – 3/15/21 (classaction.org)
    2 points 0
  7. Navalny Supporters Being Targeted (thetimes.co.uk)
    4 points 0
  8. Identity Theft

    Hello, I'm feeling worried because I think I let my full name, phone number and email address get into the wrong hands. How much damage can someone do with a personal email, phone number and full name? I just got chills…

    1 points 1
  9. Kobalos Malware (insidehpc.com)
    3 points 0
  10. Ask HN: Why do 6 websites point to this root server?

    This is probably over my head, but I noticed that 6 websites point to a Verisign root server instance site in New York, including a hair boutique. Seems odd. https://www.robtex.com/ip-lookup/192.58.128.30…

    1 points 0
  11. Question about Corona Virus Mutations

    If the virus mutates into something more deadly, would it be better to get an earlier version of the virus so that antibodies might protect against deadlier version?

    1 points 2
  12. Higher Lethality Outside of China

    Numbers from https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/02/the-latest-coronavirus-cases/ As of March 4th. 6:22 pm eastern standard In China: Deaths: 2,981 recoveries : 49,856 Death/recovery : 5.98% Outside of China... Deaths:…

    2 points 10
  13. Spoofed Number SMS Spam

    I give up. For the past two years now I've been getting 5 to 15 spam texts a month always from spoofed numbers. Often times including a hyperlink. I get phone calls too. About twice as many. Also from spoofed numbers. I…

    4 points 3
  14. Dave Ramsey and mark Cuban discuss student loan bubble (youtu.be)
    1 points 0
  15. Question SMS Phishing Preloading Links

    I get these insanely annoying texts from spoofed numbers multiple times a day. They always include a link which I normally don't click. What could they be getting if my iPhone preloads the link even though I never click…

    1 points 0
  16. MS Botnet

    Has microsoft created the largest botnet to date through its windows 10 deployment? I am talking about the forced updates. With forced updates, they effectively have read write access to any system running windows 10.…

    5 points 0