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Reddit is running paid for articles by Shell who pretend to be central to solving the climate crisis, whilst gaslighting us with their greenwashing Knightrider eco-marathon. How much does Reddit earn for silencing the discussion by disabling comments and is it worth it?

by QuestionGuy November 23, 2021, 12:02 pm

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API to Parse Articles to JSON with Sentimental Analysis

by ProgrammerDude November 7, 2021, 6:09 am

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I’ve made a feed of podcasts, articles and videos from the best thinkers in Computer Science. But I’m missing a ton of people. Help me discover them?

by ProgrammerDude October 16, 2021, 4:13 pm

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TIL Benjamin Franklin was a popular author at 16 under the name Silence Dogood. The articles are written in the persona of a middle-aged woman and Franklin received several marriage proposals in the process. Franklin would slide these articles under the door of his brother’s newspaper print shop.

by whatilearned October 15, 2021, 6:21 pm

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Growing trend of listening to articles that can benefit your blog

by ProgrammerDude September 29, 2021, 2:56 pm

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[Node Bot] Generate Google Presentations from Wikipedia Articles

by ProgrammerDude August 24, 2021, 11:22 pm

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TIL Cebuano is the 2nd largest Wiki site, and only has 500,000 fewer articles than English. Cebuano is second most widely spoken language in the Philippines

by whatilearned August 18, 2021, 12:09 pm

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TIL: In 1785 part of now-Tennessee seceded from then-North Carolina and petitioned to become the 14th state – the State of Franklin. It was two votes shy, as the Articles of Confederation required 2/3rds approval. It would have passed under the Constitution (eff. 1789) which only requires a majority

by whatilearned August 2, 2021, 8:56 pm

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TIL the Statue of Liberty almost wasn’t built in New York because the governor wouldn’t use city funds to build its pedestal, but Joseph Pulitzer’s newspaper articles inspired 160,000 people to donate. Though a majority of donations were less than $1, they raised over $100,000 in just five months.

by whatilearned June 14, 2021, 8:59 pm

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TIL Vlado Taneski was Macedonian journalist who was also a serial killer. He reported on his own crimes and was caught because he wrote articles on the murders with information that had not yet been released and only the killer would’ve known.

by whatilearned June 2, 2021, 4:31 pm

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TIL about The Uncensored Library, a project by Reporters Without Borders. Inside the library are articles by journalists who have been killed, jailed or exiled by governments. These articles can be viewed in the countries of those governments, bypassing these countries’ censorship

by whatilearned April 20, 2021, 8:54 pm

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Would You Like a Lizard With That Salad? Researchers analyzed online news between 2003 and 2018 and found 40 articles about U.S. consumers discovering live, dead or severed parts of animals in their produce.

by DailyHealthNews April 12, 2021, 11:13 am

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