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Sneaky spam in conversational replies to blog posts

I'm grateful that my blog posts attract lots of engaged, funny, and challenging comments. But any popular post also attracts spammers. I use Antispam Bee to automatically eradicate a couple of hundred crappy comments per day. Nevertheless, some get through. Here's a particularly pernicious one - it appeared as three comments ostensibly in reply to each other. At first glance these look like …

Six Characters

What the PNR locator on your boarding pass actually contains, and why the fare calculation line on your e-ticket is written in a currency that does not exist.

How the Lobsters front page works

Lobsters is a computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion. The code is open source, so I had a look at how the front page algorithm works. This is it: $$\textbf{hotness} = -1 \times (\text{base} + \text{order} \times \text{sign} + \text{age})$$ $$\text{hotness} \downarrow \implies \text{rank}

We Rarely Lose Technology

There are few forgotten inventions, and none that we might truly care about 🍈

Na 8 jaar verschijnt een geheimzinnig nieuwe thiller van Da Vinci Code-schrijver

Boekhandelaren zijn er zeker van: de nieuwste thriller van Dan Brown, die 9 september in achttien landen verschijnt op een afgesproken tijdstip, wordt een 'megaseller'. De lancering is een enorm project, omdat alles rond het nieuwe boek in mysterie is gehuld. "Vertalers deden hun werk op een geheime locatie."

2,178 Occult Books Now Digitized & Put Online, Thanks to the Ritman Library and Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown

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