rahuldottech

In libgen, you can search for stuff and find books/docs that match the query, but unfortunately that appears to not be possible on sci-hub, which is inconvenient.

That said, both are incredible resources for academics, researchers, students or even folks just wanting to read up on a subject in more depth than Wikipedia has.

I don't know, what I will say is: most (tech) folks would (rightly, in my opinion) trust Facebook/WhatsApp more than they would Tencent.

A mute person can write. Or sign. A corporate entity doesn't communicate in any way. Because... It obviously cannot.

> iOS built-in adult content filter blocks all searches with the keyword "Asian,” assuming it's porn-related. Which means a 12 y/o Chinese-American girl might Google "Asian hairstyles" and find out that her culture is blocked as "adult content."

> Searches like "teen mental health resources" are also blocked, because "teen" is on the blacklist. Which is so dumb for a feature that's probably being used BY TEENS!

Wow. One of the biggest tech companies in the world, people.

It's used to pay respect to a recently deceased tech person. In this case, Larry Tesler: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22361282

In the past, we've had it for Steve Jobs and Aaron Swartz, among others.

All good :)

Yes.

> Yikes, please don't do or encourage using these in public - there are many accessibility devices (hearing aids, cochlear implants, etc.) which depend on MEMS microphones to function.

> You could inadvertently make the world much worse for people who already have a difficult time of things. Imagine carting a cellular and WiFi and bluetooth jammer around outside of a Faraday cage - it's insanely irresponsible and inconsiderate.

From the top comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22339548

All NASA images and videos are in the public domain, but the same is not true for any technologies that they develop.

My bad, didn't realize that it's been out for a while.

I wish all websites were as lightweight and fast as HN.

I sorta want to use New Reddit (because I like having smaller windows for multitasking and responsiveness makes that much more convenient) but boy is it painfully slow even on a 100+ mbps connection

Links formatted as code sorta defeat the point, right?

Just checked, I'm on latest regular FF, non-nightly. I don't recall seeing it in the past couple days so maaaaybe it's resolved now? I'll keep an eye out for it in case I see it again.

I've been experiencing this too! On only one of my machines. I did a complete Windows reinstall but the problem persisted.

It doesn't happen too often, but iirc I saw a text glitch sometime in the past few days. Moving my mouse over the glitched area or a small scroll solves it for me too.