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The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-12-08 03:00:00

When it was first released by Adobe in 1993, the PDF was truly transformative technology. The Portable Document Format was a multipurpose container that replicated the appearance and functionality of physical documents. That sounds unimportant, but as adoption spread with Adobe’s introduction of free Acrobat software for reading PDFs a year later, anyone, from the government to your doctor’s office, could rely on digital documentation that felt familiar to the paper versions. “It wasn't like a

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Adobe’s AI Acrobat file hub is designed for more than PDFs

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-12-08 03:00:00

is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Adobe is introducing a new Acrobat platform that combines the PDF app with its Adobe Express content creation service and AI assistants that can automate specific productivity tasks. Acrobat Studio allows users to upload up to 100 documents and consolida

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This could be my new PDF scanner app once Microsoft Lens is taken away

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-11 03:09:53

Andy Walker / Android Authority If Microsoft Lens were a coin, I’d likely find it lurking between the couch cushions. It’s one of those apps that I forgot was installed on my device, but I was always glad to see it whenever I needed to scan receipts, invoices, menus, random documents, or business cards, extract their text, and convert the result into my preferred file type. Unfortunately, we can’t have nice things. So, as it was one of Redmond’s most functional and reliable Android apps, Lens

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Solving the Nostr web clients attack vector

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-08 16:36:57

Aug 9 2025 Solving the Nostr web clients attack vector One problem Nostr still has to deal with is the fact that web clients are "owned" by someone, because they rely so much on the domain name they're served from. Everything is fine with, say, https://coracle.social/, until npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn decides to shut it down or maybe he is threatened to include some malicious code in there, most Coracle users are going to fall for that and Nostr will feel

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A brazen attack on air safety is underway — here’s what’s at stake

theverge.com Darryl Campbell 2025-12-10 17:00:00

At the end of July, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) convened a three-day public hearing to investigate January’s mid-air collision over Washington, DC that killed 67 people. After the hearing, two conclusions were inescapable. First, the disaster should have been prevented by existing safety rules. And second, the government regulators responsible for air safety have become hesitant to enforce those rules, especially when it means standing up to industry demands for more flights

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Show HN: I built a free alternative to Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 23:34:46

EmbedPDF Open‑Source JavaScript PDF Viewer EmbedPDF is a framework‑agnostic, MIT‑licensed PDF viewer that drops into any JavaScript project. Whether you build with React, Vue, Svelte, Preact, or vanilla JS, EmbedPDF delivers a smooth, modern reading experience and a clean developer API. 📚 Documentation Full docs, installation guides, API reference, and examples: 👉 https://www.embedpdf.com 🚀 Live Demo Try it now — load your own PDF or use the sample: 👉 https://app.embedpdf.com ✨ Features

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'War of the Worlds' Isn’t Just Bad. It’s Also Shameless Tech Propaganda

wired.com Alana Yzola 2025-12-18 11:00:46

“Here we go” is both the first line of the 2025 Amazon Prime movie War of the Worlds and exactly what I said when I chose to watch it after the shitstorm of reviews that warned me not to. Directed by Rich Lee and shot exclusively through online calls and surveillance feed POVs, War of the Worlds centers around domestic terror analyst William Radford, played by Ice Cube, who is on a mission to save his family and the country from alien cyborgs who are deadset on eating our data. Literally. At f

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Cloudflare Is Not a CDN

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 11:31:43

I love Cloudflare. I’ve always been a fan of their service and their generous free plan, which they’ve never backtracked from. They still offer unlimited bandwidth with very few limitations. Users have stories about serving terabytes of data per day without Cloudflare knocking on their door to upgrade. We, too, use Cloudflare under the hood, which enables us to offer unlimited bandwidth for our users as well. This might make people wonder: Why pay for a CDN when Cloudflare is free? When I star

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OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second

news.ycombinator.com Zsolt Ero 2025-12-24 09:31:30

I was about to post about how nice the last 10 months of OpenFreeMap have been. The architecture has really proven itself to be great, Cloudflare has agreed to sponsor the bandwidth, Hetzner servers are super stable as always, serving tiles from Btrfs proved to be a great choice, nginx is amazing, and life is good. Then, out of the blue, I'm getting reports that some tiles are not loading, which normally means tile generation bugs, but not this time. I look into the nginx logs and see this: 20

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Wild Pigs in California Are Turning Neon Blue on the Inside, Officials Warn

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-24 08:00:26

Unexpected exposure to rodenticide is turning California’s wild pigs blue, state authorities say. “I’m not talking about a little blue,” Dan Burton, owner of a wildlife control company in Salinas, California, told The Los Angeles Times. “I’m talking about neon blue, blueberry blue.” Burton was one of the first trappers to discover that local wild pigs had turned blue on the inside. A subsequent investigation by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) found that the pigs had consu

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Debugging a mysterious HTTP streaming issue

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 00:37:24

The Problem We recently encountered a frustrating issue with HTTP response streaming at Mintlify. Our system uses the AI SDK with the Node stream API to forward streams, and suddenly things stopped working properly. The symptoms were confusing: streaming worked perfectly with cURL and Postman, but failed completely with node-fetch and browser fetch. ‍ Initial Investigation Our first hypothesis centered around stream compatibility issues. We suspected the problem might be related to how the AI

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The War for the Web Has Begun

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-12-25 16:54:30

A high-stakes war has just broken out over the future of the internet. In one corner is Cloudflare, a giant of web infrastructure that acts as a gatekeeper for a huge portion of online traffic. In the other is Perplexity, a darling of the AI world, a search engine threatening to upend Google’s dominance. The accusation is explosive: Cloudflare claims Perplexity is a bad actor, a rogue bot that ignores the internet’s oldest rules to secretly scrape data from websites that have explicitly told it

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Digital Foundry, the most trusted name in game console analysis, is going independent

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-12-29 06:00:00

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Over the past decade and a half, Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry has become the most knowledgeable and trustworthy place to find out just how powerful a new video game console might be, where the hottest new games run the best, and why they sometimes don’t! Even Sony and Microsoft often favor DF for exclusive access to technical details. But a

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From tickets to brochures: Google Messages just stepped up with PDF support over RCS

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-30 00:03:09

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google has enabled PDF file sharing via rich cards in RCS Business Messaging through Google Messages. This addition enhances business-to-user communication by allowing flight tickets, passes, and documents to be sent through RCS, eliminating the need for email or other apps. However, the potential for an increase in spam remains a concern. PDF support has launched initially in India with a 100MiB attachment limit. Instant messaging apps took texting

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Perplexity says Cloudflare's accusations of 'stealth' AI scraping are based on embarrassing errors

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2026-01-02 21:37:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Cloudflare claims Perplexity ignores websites' wishes in its content hunt. Other AI companies, such as OpenAI, don't wipe content, Cloudflare says Cloudflare now offers services to block aggressive AI crawlers. Perplexity is denying Cloudflare's claims. Cloudflare, a leading content delivery network (CDN) company, has accused the AI startup Perplexity of evading websites' "no crawl" directives by stealthily deploying web crawlers to scrape

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Some people are defending Perplexity after Cloudflare ‘named and shamed’ it

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2026-01-03 11:33:03

When Cloudflare accused AI search engine Perplexity of stealthily scraping websites on Monday, while ignoring a site’s specific methods to block it, this wasn’t a clear-cut case of an AI web crawler gone wild. Many people came to Perplexity’s defense. They argued that Perplexity accessing sites in defiance of the website owner’s wishes, while controversial, is acceptable. And this is a controversy that will certainly grow as AI agents flood the internet: Should an agent accessing a website on b

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Perplexity is sneaking onto websites to scrape blocked content, says Cloudflare

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2026-01-03 16:42:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Cloudflare claimed Perplexity ignores websites' wishes in its content hunt. Cloudflare said other AI companies, such as OpenAI, don't wipe content. Cloudflare now offers services to block aggressive AI crawlers. Cloudflare, a leading content delivery network (CDN) company, has accused the AI startup Perplexity of evading websites' "no crawl" directives by stealthily deploying web crawlers to scrape content from sites that have explicitly bl

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Perplexity is allegedly scraping websites it's not supposed to, again

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-05 06:11:10

Web crawlers deployed by Perplexity to scrape websites are allegedly skirting restrictions, according to a new report from Cloudflare. Specifically, the report claims that the company's bots appear to be "stealth crawling" sites by disguising their identity to get around robots.txt files and firewalls. Robots.txt is a simple file websites host that lets web crawlers know if they can scrape a websites' content or not. Perplexity's official web crawling bots are "PerplexityBot" and "Perplexity-Us

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AI site Perplexity uses “stealth tactics” to flout no-crawl edicts, Cloudflare says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-05 16:16:26

AI search engine Perplexity is using stealth bots and other tactics to evade websites’ no-crawl directives, an allegation that if true violates Internet norms that have been in place for more than three decades, network security and optimization service Cloudflare said Monday. In a blog post, Cloudflare researchers said the company received complaints from customers who had disallowed Perplexity scraping bots by implementing settings in their sites’ robots.txt files and through Web application

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Cloudflare says Perplexity’s AI bots are ‘stealth crawling’ blocked sites

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-01-06 02:51:25

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The AI search startup Perplexity is allegedly skirting restrictions meant to stop its AI web crawlers from accessing certain websites, according to a report from Cloudflare. In the report, Cloudflare claims that when Perplexity encounters a block, the startup wi

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Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2026-01-06 11:41:39

AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. On Monday, Cloudflare published research saying it observed the AI startup ignore blocks and hide its crawling and scraping activities. The network infrastructure giant accused Perplexity of obscuring its identity when trying to scrape web pages “in an attempt to circumvent the website’s preferences,” Cloudfl

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Scientists shine a laser through a human head

news.ycombinator.com Velvet Wu 2026-01-06 15:07:18

For the most part, anyone who wants to see what’s going on inside someone else’s brain has to make a tradeoff when it comes to which tools to use. The electroencephalograph (EEG) is cheap and portable, but can’t read much past the outer layers of the brain, while the alternative, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), is expensive and the size of a room, but can go deeper. Now, a research group in Glasgow has come up with a mechanism that could one day provide the depth of fMRI using equi

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Scientists Shine a Laser Through a Human Head

news.ycombinator.com Velvet Wu 2026-01-06 21:07:18

For the most part, anyone who wants to see what’s going on inside someone else’s brain has to make a tradeoff when it comes to which tools to use. The electroencephalograph (EEG) is cheap and portable, but can’t read much past the outer layers of the brain, while the alternative, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), is expensive and the size of a room, but can go deeper. Now, a research group in Glasgow has come up with a mechanism that could one day provide the depth of fMRI using equi

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Perfecting anti-aliasing on signed distance functions

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 11:55:47

← index Doing anti-aliasing on SDF is not as straightforward as it seems. Most of the time, we see people use a smoothstep with hardcoded constants, sometimes with screen space information, sometimes cryptic or convoluted formulas. Even if SDFs have the perfect mathematical properties needed for a clean anti-aliasing, the whole issue has a scope larger than it appears at first glance. And even when trivial solutions exist, it's not always clear why they are a good fit. Let's study that together

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So you want to parse a PDF?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 03:24:29

Suppose you have an appetite for tilting at windmills. Let's say you love pain. Well then why not write a PDF parser today? The ideal world: how the specification should work Conceptually parsing a PDF is fairly simple: First, locate the version header comment at the start of the file Next you need to locate the pointer to the cross-reference Then you can find all object offsets Finally you locate and build the trailer dictionary which points to the catalog dicitionary Introduction to PDF

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Hackers actively exploit critical RCE in WordPress Alone theme

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-14 02:40:44

Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical unauthenticated arbitrary file upload vulnerability in the WordPress theme 'Alone,' to achieve remote code execution and perform a full site takeover. Wordfence is reporting the malicious activity, saying it has blocked over 120,000 exploitation attempts targeting its customers. The WordPress security firm also reports that the attacks started several days before public disclosure of the flaw, indicating that threat actors are monitoring changel

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TikTok gamifies mindfulness with 'well-being missions'

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-15 12:00:14

Or, hear me out: Put down your phone and breathe. TikTok’s latest answer to its addictiveness is gamified mindfulness tools. The app’s new Well-being Missions let you earn badges for completing challenges related to balanced digital habits. To be clear, mindfulness and dopamine-seeking mini-games are a contradictory pair. But hey, at least it’s healthier than doomscrolling. The first batch of TikTok’s "short, engaging missions" focuses on the platform’s existing digital well-being tools. (The

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Indie App Spotlight: ‘Pics2PDF’ turns your best photos into a quick document, and more

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2026-01-20 15:30:00

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact. As the name suggests, Pics2PDF lets you select a bunch of photos from your photos library, and convert it into a PDF. This can be great if you want to quickly print out photos from your photos library in one swift process, or if you’re otherwise trying to share multiple photos at once in a more formal ma

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A Python tool to parse PDF statements from Poste Italiane

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-22 20:18:47

Poste Italiane Documents Parser agli sventurati che hanno un conto postale A Python tool to parse PDF documents from Poste Italiane and convert them into structured JSON or CSV data. It automatically identifies the document type and validates financial data to ensure integrity. Key Features Automatic Document Detection : Identifies the document type (e.g., BancoPosta statement, Postepay report) from the PDF content. : Identifies the document type (e.g., BancoPosta statement, Postepay report

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(Python) Poste Italiane document parser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-23 02:18:47

Poste Italiane Documents Parser agli sventurati che hanno un conto postale A Python tool to parse PDF documents from Poste Italiane and convert them into structured JSON or CSV data. It automatically identifies the document type and validates financial data to ensure integrity. Key Features Automatic Document Detection : Identifies the document type (e.g., BancoPosta statement, Postepay report) from the PDF content. : Identifies the document type (e.g., BancoPosta statement, Postepay report

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