Hackernews posts about EFF

EFF is a non-profit digital rights organization that advocates for civil liberties and privacy in the online world through legal action, education, and policy reform.

1. Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective (worksinprogress.co)
   425 points by surprisetalk 15 days ago | 644 comments
2. Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets (www.merkley.senate.gov)
   353 points by stopbulying 5 days ago | 133 comments
3. Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format (gwern.net)
   308 points by theblazehen 25 days ago | 96 comments
4. A standard protocol to handle and discard low-effort, AI-Generated pull requests (406.fail)
   305 points by Muhammad523 7 days ago | 115 comments
5. IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup (www.theregister.com)
   271 points by freitasm 21 days ago | 168 comments
6. In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5% (bsky.app)
   209 points by doener 14 days ago | 137 comments
7. Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks (www.science.org)
   205 points by suddenlybananas 19 days ago | 70 comments
8. Robust and efficient quantum-safe HTTPS (security.googleblog.com)
   119 points by tptacek 13 days ago | 25 comments
9. Exercise has 'similar effect' to therapy, study on depression shows (medicalxpress.com)
   104 points by PaulHoule 20 days ago | 102 comments
10. Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010) (singlemindedmovieblog.blogspot.com)
    100 points by exvi 21 days ago | 16 comments
11. US funding for global internet freedom 'effectively gutted' (www.theguardian.com)
    90 points by xyzal 21 days ago | 60 comments
12. Loon: A functional lang with invisible types, safe ownership, and alg. effects (loonlang.com)
    89 points by surprisetalk 20 days ago | 64 comments
13. The political effects of X's feed algorithm (werd.io)
    82 points by benwerd 22 days ago | 100 comments
14. Fun with Algebraic Effects – From Toy Examples to Hardcaml Simulations (blog.janestreet.com)
    82 points by weinzierl 30 days ago | 3 comments
15. Inner-Platform Effect (en.wikipedia.org)
    51 points by tosh 25 days ago | 19 comments
16. LEDs Enter the Nanoscale, But efficiency hurdles challenge the smallest LEDs yet (spectrum.ieee.org)
    37 points by oldnetguy 28 days ago | 15 comments
17. Show HN: Effective Git (github.com)
    37 points by nola-a 11 days ago | 9 comments
18. Rare, dangerous side effects of some Covid-19 vaccines explained (www.science.org)
    34 points by epistasis 29 days ago | 34 comments
19. The Latest Republican Efforts to Make It Harder to Vote in the Midterms (www.newyorker.com)
    28 points by mitchbob 2 days ago | 5 comments
20. Daniel Ellsberg: The Effect of Top Secret Clearance (wonkmonksnotes.wordpress.com)
    23 points by jdkee 2 days ago | 1 comments
21. Breccia: Single-file, append-only, blob storage with efficient random access (github.com)
    23 points by StingyJelly 22 days ago | 1 comments
22. Russia is aiding Iran's war effort by providing Intel on US Military targets (www.cnn.com)
    22 points by petethomas 6 days ago | 12 comments
23. GLP-1 Second-Order Effects
    22 points by 7777777phil 17 days ago | 9 comments
24. Nature: The political effects of X's feed algorithm (www.nature.com)
    22 points by bhouston 22 days ago | 3 comments
25. Tell HN: The proposed KIDS Act (HR 7757) effectively mandates biometric browsing
    20 points by fokdelafons 6 days ago | discuss
26. EFF, Ubuntu and other distros discuss how to respond to age-verification laws (linux.slashdot.org)
    19 points by MilnerRoute 2 days ago | 1 comments
27. Ask HN: How to measure how much data one can effectively process or understand?
    18 points by mbuda 20 days ago | 8 comments
28. California's Venture Capital Diversity Reporting Requirements Take Effect (www.wsgr.com)
    17 points by testfoobar 2 days ago | 6 comments
29. Laser writing in glass for dense, fast and efficient archival data storage (www.nature.com)
    17 points by saganus 22 days ago | 4 comments
30. EFF to Court: Don't Make Embedding Illegal (www.eff.org)
    16 points by hn_acker 9 days ago | 2 comments