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Why the hell it is on front page of all IT news sites?
by ucho 11y ago
Why the hell it is on front page of all IT news sites?
- swsieber 11y agoBecause a) it's a hot topic b)it's an example of fallacious logic and bad conclusions
- DanBC 11y agoThere's a bunch of information hidden away in University libraries. These things get rediscovered every now and again. Isn't it exciting, interesting, that there's a bunch of knowledge to be gained from stuff we already have? Isn't "finding out about this stuff" relevant to hackers? A bunch of Victorian authors were recently de-anonimised when we found notes by Charles Dickens. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/charles-dickens-notes-solve-the-mystery-of-unidentified-victorian-authors-10384128.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/charles-dicke... Here's an HN discussion about the possibility of dinosaur feathers being discovered in amber https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10145685 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10145685 And here's how Al Jazeera reported the discovery of this Quran http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/07/world-oldest-quran-manuscripts-uk-150722110034399.html http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/07/world-oldest-quran-man...