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Hacker News

hnrss.org14 items
• Virginia bans sale of geolocation data▲ 658

Virginia bans sale of geolocation data

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• An American Privacy Emergency▲ 255

An American Privacy Emergency

Scott’s foreword: Cynthia Dwork is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, and a pioneer in the fields of differential privacy and algorithmic fairness. On my recent…

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• The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet an▲ 219

The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't

The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn

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• crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C▲ 209

crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C

Entirety of `rustc`, translated to C. . Contribute to FractalFir/crustc development by creating an account on GitHub.

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• Right to Local Intelligence▲ 119

Right to Local Intelligence

Protect your right to run local AI. Sign in ten seconds, call your state office in two minutes.

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• CarPlay Is Additive▲ 164

CarPlay Is Additive

I don

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• EFF letter to FTC on X consent order [pdf]▲ 130

EFF letter to FTC on X consent order [pdf]

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• 14× faster embeddings: how we rebuilt the ONNX path in Manti▲ 11

14× faster embeddings: how we rebuilt the ONNX path in Manticore

Released in Manticore Search 27.1.5, the new ONNX Runtime backend makes auto-embeddings ~14× faster on average than the previous SentenceTransformers/Candle path on the same hardware, same…

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• Every AI Visibility Tool Is Lying to You▲ 9

Every AI Visibility Tool Is Lying to You

A software engineer's critique of AI visibility dashboards that sell precise rankings without showing distribution, variance, methodology, or raw evidence.

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HN — Best of the Week

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• Mathstodon▲ 436

Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory

So. For the past few days I've been deep in a fun and very rewarding, but also extremely scary debugging saga. To cut a long git-bisecting story short: Since Linux 6.9 (May 2024), the tool that locks the laptop's drive on suspend had been silently failing. Like many of my friends, I use full-disk encryption (LUKS) to protect my data if my laptop is lost, seized or stolen. Highly recommended to everyone; in combination with tested and automated backups, it contributes greatly to peace of mind. (Under Windows, the canonical software to do that is VeraCrypt.) Except that, for more than two years, the encryption key…

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• Mathstodon▲ 337

The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain

I think many people misunderstand the purpose of code review. The purpose of code review is not for the reviewer to find bugs, and certainly not for them to ensure that the code is…

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• F-Droid▲ 1595

Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection

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• Hunton▲ 649

Virginia bans sale of geolocation data

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• Clash Report▲ 626

Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies

The Spanish government has blacklisted U.S. data analytics giant Palantir Technologies from public and private state-controlled companies due to growing concerns over the potential misuse…

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• GitHub▲ 568

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform

ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser - Chocobozzz/PeerTube

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• Pradyuprasad▲ 458

How to ask for help from people who don't know you

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• The Big Newsletter▲ 452

The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing

The Stringer Bell rule is obsolete, as Trump and state attorneys general let the egg producers off the hook for a brazen conspiracy. Still, egg prices did drop as a result of the…

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• Podman▲ 445

Podman v6.0.0

We’re thrilled to announce that Podman v6.0.0 is now available! This major release brings a host of significant improvements and new features designed to enhance your container…

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