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amazdon Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

This extension right here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

amazdon Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules

def seems related

amazdon Companies That Use Haskell in Production

relevant: https://brython.info/ Brython is designed to replace Javascript as the scripting language for the Web. As such, it is a Python 3 implementation

amazdon Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear

what? where do you think those people on facebook and twitter linked to for their news?

amazdon A Closer Look at the Lapsus$ Data Extortion Group

Damn..

> “[He] slowly began making money to further expand his exploit collection,” reads his Doxbin entry. “After a few years his net worth accumulated to well over 300BTC (close to $14 mil).”

> KrebsOnSecurity is not publishing WhiteDoxbin’s alleged real name because he is a minor (currently aged 17)

amazdon Two-minute battery changes push India’s delivery riders to switch to e-scooters

Why hasn't Tesla gotten into this sort of battery swap tech for their own cars yet?

amazdon RT America ceases productions and lays off most of its staff

This is interesting, I'm no supporter of Russian media or Russia in general but RT is the media outlet that just came out with this very interesting newly released documentary about the current conflict from the Russian perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Z02bMtOK8

The closure of these production companies as satisfying as it feels from a western perspective, will mean less access to other (potentially legitimate) point of views.

amazdon Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds

Here's a video of the couple, with the dude getting a hair cut from the rapper gf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDY1bC9eL-A

amazdon Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL

Incredible... an amazing visualization. I like how you have the mine craft world in there :D

amazdon Approx. 24 hours ago, Tether printed 1B $USDT out of thin air

they are still going right now: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/3CpcVodog9VKvWCXZhrJP...

this is after about transfer of various wallets... lets see if it keeps going. Seems like someone is trying to tumble their $740 million btc...

amazdon Ballerina: An open-source programming language for the cloud

haha yeah this was pretty funny (and dumb), as in, how is this showing me any of the language's capabilities?

amazdon Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image

This seems like a great addition to my side project (amazd.com)

amazdon Kippt Pro: Advanced Search, Folders and Imports

or check out amazd. Example:

http://amazd.com/ahmad

amazdon Show HN: Pinterest for text

Have you tried http://amazd.com ? I design the extension to cut down the functionality to the bare minimum as I had the same kinds of concerns with other services/products.

amazdon Show HN: Pinterest for text

Amazing how many other similar services are out there. I built http://amazd.com last year which is almost an exact replica of this service and offers much more. It uses browser extensions for a more seamless integration (FF, Chrome, safari and IE). It also lets you import books highlights. Plus you can sign up without facebook. Check out my profile for a taste: http://amazd.com/ahmad

amazdon The future beyond bookmarking - Welcome to new Kippt

I built amazd.com just for that (plus it has a bunch of other features). I was tired of all these visual eye-candy bookmark collection apps. I wanted something nice and simple, textual, and serious (as in no mems, etc). You can check out my profile for a sample: http://amazd.com/ahmad