Why “Data” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Who would have thought that putting a heap of extra hosts on the internet (in the form of massive new data centres), running a heap of extra clients (in the form of agents), run…
by publlus_enigma · Sep 13, 2026
> ...the mere possibility of them getting broken is no rational reason to abandon rules altogether. Of course I agree with that. The problem is the enforceability / detecta…
by hex4def6 · Sep 13, 2026
BioCompute is chasing a world where a dollar can buy you a million TB of storage
by darius88 · Sep 13, 2026 · 1 points
On 5g, I’ll say this. I’m on a Verizon MVNO with a fairly recent iPhone Pro model in a major metro area. I frequently have to disable 5g and switch data to LTE to get any actual…
by anon7000 · Sep 13, 2026
I’ve been working on a similar setup using the M5Stack NanoC6 and AtomS3 Lite, and put together a parts list and wiring guide on my site: https://serin-labs.com/p…
by akifbayram · Sep 13, 2026
Data races and the limits of ThreadSanitizer in C and Go
by matt_d · Sep 13, 2026 · 2 points
Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "data" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "data" over time.
Data is a collection of discrete or continuous values that conveys information, describing the quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted formally. A datum, data value or data point is an individual value in a collection of data. Data is usually organized into structures such as tables that provide additional context and meaning, and may itself be used as data in larger structures. Data may be used as variables in a computational process. Data may represent abstract ideas or concrete measurements. Data is commonly used in scientific research, economics, and virtually every other form of human organizational activity. Examples of data sets include price indices, unemployment rates, literacy rates, and census data. In this context, data represents the raw facts and figures from which useful information can be extracted. Read more on Wikipedia