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A mystery photographer made images of 1960s San Francisco

bcn — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:38:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/article/mystery-photos-san-francisco-filmmaker-1960s-20032349.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42715887

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bcn in "French prosecutors say Telegram CEO freed from custody, will appear in court"

bcn — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 19:22:46 +0000

Politico claims to have (exclusively) seen a French administrative document that narrows the focus to a single case where Telegram did not respond to legal request for user information. Copied from the article, here are a few key points:

> The arrest warrants were issued after the messaging platform gave "no answer" to an earlier judicial request to identify a Telegram user, according to the document, which was shared with POLITICO by a person directly involved in the case.

> Warrants for Pavel and his brother Nikolai, the platform’s co-founder, were issued on March 25 over charges including “complicity in possessing, distributing, offering or making available pornographic images of minors, in an organized group.”

> The warrants were issued after an undercover investigation into Telegram led by the cybercrime branch of the Paris prosecutor's office, during which a suspect discussed luring underaged girls into sending "self-produced child pornography," and then threatening to release it on social media.

> The suspect also told the investigators he had raped a young child, according to the document. Telegram did not respond to the French authorities’ request to identify the suspect.

> There’s no suggestion either of the Durov brothers were directly involved in any of the illegal activities identified by the investigation.

-https://www.politico.eu/article/exclusive-telegram-ceo-broth...

New comment by bcn in "Demand for seed-oil-free foods is growing"

bcn — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 18:49:38 +0000

The claim that oils rich in linoleic acid (e.g. seed oils) increase inflammation was looked at in, "a systematic review of randomized controlled trials that permitted the assessment of dietary LA (linoleic acid) on biologic markers of chronic inflammation among healthy noninfant populations was conducted to examine this concern."...

"We conclude that virtually no evidence is available from randomized, controlled intervention studies among healthy, noninfant human beings to show that addition of LA to the diet increases the concentration of inflammatory markers"

see: Effect of dietary linoleic acid on markers of inflammation in healthy persons: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22889633/

Mystery oxygen source discovered on the sea floor – bewildering scientists

bcn — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 21:40:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02393-7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41051245

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Silicon Valley aired 10 years ago this month. How I would write the '24 reboot

bcn — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 18:06:25 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/ChrisJBakke/status/1780986835612860653

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40078994

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Data Abstraction and Object-Oriented Programming Explains [video]

bcn — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 17:19:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCjEYSiVB04

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39769493

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Design and Evaluation of an Agency-Based Parrot-to-Parrot Video-Calling System

bcn — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 18:08:04 +0000

Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3581166

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35657716

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

A giant sea cow once roamed California's coast

bcn — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 03:44:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/sea-cow-california-17622330.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33826499

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

IBM Project Debater

bcn — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 05:57:11 +0000

Article URL: http://www.research.ibm.com/artificial-intelligence/project-debater/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17362488

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bcn in "Why Timber Towers Are on the Rise in France"

bcn — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 05:18:41 +0000

Here are a few renderings of the "Arboretum" project that was mentioned in the article- http://www.laisneroussel.com/fr/projects/55

EM-Comm: Touch-Based Communication via Modulated Electromagnetic Emissions

bcn — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 18:21:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.disneyresearch.com/publication/em-comm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15259410

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

How He Used Facebook to Win

bcn — Fri, 19 May 2017 19:44:50 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/06/08/how-trump-used-facebook-to-win/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14378802

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A Proof of Stake Design Philosophy

bcn — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 00:32:15 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/a-proof-of-stake-design-philosophy-506585978d51

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13305682

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Direct brain control of robotic systems promises improvements in health care

bcn — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 21:17:37 +0000

Article URL: http://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/eaag3296.full

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13118420

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Bridging the Bio-Electronic Divide

bcn — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:46:47 +0000

Article URL: http://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2015-01-19

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10946410

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New Logo for Google Done In-House

bcn — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 16:27:16 +0000

Article URL: http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_logo_for_google_done_in_house.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10171429

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

U.S. government, police working on counter-drone system – sources

bcn — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 19:47:55 +0000

Article URL: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/20/us-usa-drones-security-idUSKCN0QP0BB20150820

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10094184

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Vertical Video on the Small Screen? Not a Crime?

bcn — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 20:01:28 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/13/technology/personaltech/vertical-video-on-the-small-screen-not-a-crime.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10050257

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Amazon has a plan for thousands of drones to fill the sky

bcn — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 19:25:08 +0000

Article URL: http://www.vox.com/2015/8/3/9090829/amazon-drone-plan

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9999113

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by bcn in "Encryption “would not have helped” at OPM, says DHS official"

bcn — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 06:41:13 +0000

A consultant who did some work with a company contracted by OPM to manage personnel records for a number of agencies told Ars that he found the Unix systems administrator for the project "was in Argentina and his co-worker was physically located in the [People's Republic of China]. Both had direct access to every row of data in every database: they were root. Another team that worked with these databases had at its head two team members with PRC passports. I know that because I challenged them personally and revoked their privileges. From my perspective, OPM compromised this information more than three years ago and my take on the current breach is 'so what's new?'"