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Ask HN: April Fools Day
Since we cannot expect much real news today, I would love to see what posts you have found that really piqued your interest. I would particularly be interested in seeing longer form articles that I could spend some time reading.
Here are a couple of my favorite reads to get this started:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/how-digital-detectives-deciphered-stuxnet/
http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/
- jcr 14y agoThe following paper/article is about 45 pages, and I expect it to be good (not tinfoil hat stuff) due to the source. Since some of the academic paper paywall sites are already asking ten bucks for it, I was happy to find a legit copy online for free. Harvard Law Review The Dangers of Surveillance, by Neil M. Richards https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5472230 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5472230 Edit: Some more fun reading. Swarm - A Cellular Programming Language (columbia.edu) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5472485 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5472485
- bhousel 14y agohttp://longform.org http://longform.org always has interesting stuff to read. They recently reposted Renata Adler's "A Court of No Appeal" from 2000. I thought it was a really interesting denouncement of the current practice of journalism (particularly directed at the New York Times). http://harpers.org/archive/2000/08/a-court-of-no-appeal/?single=1 http://harpers.org/archive/2000/08/a-court-of-no-appeal/?sin...