Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderI would like to see them cover Bluetooth and 802.11-based tracking. Most people I've talked to are unaware that their wifi device periodically sends out probe requests containing its unique MAC address (some more frequently than others, in my testing), which can be used to correlate your location and build a profile. It's not even difficult, I set up a Raspberry Pi to do it and graphed the arrival and departure times of individual workers in my office. There are…
It’s saddening but not surprising how much of this technology was developed for killing people abroad, and is now being used against US citizens. Deploying Predator drones that can detect a face at 25kft from Afghanistan on US soil, without any meaningful regulation or political debate, is pretty terrifying.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 294
- Total comments
- 50
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-08-06 | EFF Guide to Street Level SurveillanceFirst breakout · Best thread | aestetix | 166 | 26 |
| 2018-02-23 | A Guide to Law Enforcement Spying TechnologyLatest 20+ point return | lobo_tuerto | 119 | 24 |
| 2019-10-24 | Street level surveillance: a guide to law enforcement spying technology | anigbrowl | 9 | 0 |