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> "... there was high confidence (99 percent) the expected [US] death toll would be between 66,055 and 70,304."

Beyond the cell tower info from networks that's already available, what use would this be, given that location resolution is uselessly broad? Also, how might an "app" be installed on ba…

I've read a few news articles covering this, but found the BBC version shallow. The arstechnica version posted earlier [1] had more rigour. Also, it has been updated since it was posted. [1] htt…

Adjacent to this, there was a lively discussion about a Tom's Hardware article on SMR just under a week ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22967559 …

I upvoted your comment earlier, taking your statement at face value and not requesting pics :-) You might like to read the author's follow-up article: https://spectrum.ieee.org/e…

There's a follow-up piece on Spectrum by the same author. It looks like an attempt to big-up the area and its locals, in case the previous piece seemed like an attack on life there. https:/…

News article [1] from today about this, contains quotes from the person concerned. For instance, humans are "stuck in an age-old paradigm rut in which only wet computers – ie: brains – count. Wha…

The headline might be accidentally understating this, with its reference to "skin". The piece actually discusses a number of conditions, possibly triggered by or related to covid-19; for exa…

To answer the question posed by the headline, and without having read the article or given any serious thought to doing so, I'm going to suggest social distancing, maybe? [Sorry, the isolation is…

> Planet of the Humans is an example of the way the ends of the political spectrum can sometimes wrap around and meet, because many of these same arguments are more commonly found on websites lik…

> "We were aware of glacier detachments that had happened in Tibet, Russia, and Argentina, but started out thinking we were investigating a regular landslide ... Then we noticed that the entir…

> Within the /.git/ repo were the keys to GDPR.eu's WordPress kingdom: a full and unabridged copy of wp-config.php. In a WordPress installation, wp-config.php is the critical file c…

> It did not take long, however, for players to spot that they could defraud the game’s bank by depositing large sums in saving accounts and then “time travelling” into the future by tweaking the c…

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Here are a few, from three days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22978814

It's still live at this link (at the time of posting): https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dr-erickson-covid-19... …

> No two of the 177 tanks contain exactly the same concoction, but they all pose a significant public risk. The site borders the Columbia River, which nourishes the region’s potato crops and vineya…