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Imgur's community was in revolt

news.ycombinator.com About The Author 2025-10-20 16:33:54

The front page of Imgur, a popular image hosting and social media site, is full of pictures of John Oliver raising his middle finger and telling MediaLab AI, the site’s parent company, “fuck you.” Imgurians, as the site’s users call themselves, telling their business daddy to go to hell is the end result of a years-long degradation of the website. The Imgur story is one a classic case of enshitification , Imgur began life in 2009 when Ohio University student Alan Schaaf got tired of how hard it

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AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending content hunger

news.ycombinator.com Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols 2025-10-21 05:24:44

Opinion With AI's rise, AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language Model (LLM) mills. How much traffic do they account for? According to Cloudflare, a major content delivery network (CDN) force, 30% of global web traffic now comes from bots. Leading the way and growing fast? AI bots. Cloud services company Fastly agrees. It reports that 80% of all AI bot traffic comes from AI data fetcher bots. So, you ask, "What's th

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Static sites enable a good time travel experience

news.ycombinator.com Juha-Matti Santala 2025-10-21 04:25:44

Varun wrote about gamifying blogging and personal website maintenance which reminded me of the time when I awarded myself some badges for blogging. I mentioned this to Varun who asked if I had any screenshots of what it looked like on my website. My initial answer was “no”, then I looked at Wayback Machine but there were not pictures of the badges. Then, a bit later it hit me. I don’t need any archived screenshots: my website is built with Eleventy and it's static so I can check out a git comm

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The Kissing Bug Disease Has Permanently Moved Into the U.S.

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-21 05:20:41

A dangerous, sometimes deadly, infection spread by kissing bugs is regularly spreading within America. In a recent paper, researchers are claiming that Chagas disease is endemic to parts of the southern U.S. and is probably here to stay. Scientists in Florida, Texas, and California made the case in a paper published last month in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. Citing evidence from infected humans, animals, and kissing bugs, they argue that Chagas has established a persistent presence

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Imgur's Community Is in Full Revolt Against Its Owner

news.ycombinator.com About The Author 2025-10-21 12:33:54

The front page of Imgur, a popular image hosting and social media site, is full of pictures of John Oliver raising his middle finger and telling MediaLab AI, the site’s parent company, “fuck you.” Imgurians, as the site’s users call themselves, telling their business daddy to go to hell is the end result of a years-long degradation of the website. The Imgur story is one a classic case of enshitification , Imgur began life in 2009 when Ohio University student Alan Schaaf got tired of how hard it

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Zfsbackrest: Pgbackrest style encrypted backups for ZFS filesystems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-23 20:35:52

zfsbackrest ⚠️ Experimental: Do not use it as your only way for backups. This is something I wrote over a weekend. There's a lot of things that need work here. pgbackrest style encrypted backups for ZFS filesystems. Getting Started Installing You need age installed to generate encryption keys. Encryption is NOT optional. $ go install github.com/gargakshit/zfsbackrest/cmd/zfsbackrest@latest Configuring Create /etc/zfsbackrest.toml . debug = true # warning, may log sensitive data [ repos

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What Is Complexity in Chess?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 11:45:33

Pacto Visual May 2020 an interesting proposal was suggested. I provided some constructive criticism on research paper A Metric of Chess Complexity by FM David Peng, as well as constructive criticism on the codebase used to validate this experiment. For many months I have refrained from further comment, and although code has not progressed, two things have: 1. Public interest in "complexity" as determined by ACPL (yuck). 2. Lichess has a blogging platform where I can properly address deficien

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When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

news.ycombinator.com John Fraraccio 2025-10-24 06:15:19

Click to enlarge A while ago I treated you to a dissertation entitled “Does The Sun Set On The British Empire?”, and concluded that it doesn’t. The UK’s widely scattered overseas territories, sparse though they are, mean that the sun is still always shining, somewhere in the world, over British territory. The most important territories in maintaining this late-empire sunlight are the Pitcairn Islands, in the Pacific, and the British Indian Ocean Territory, in the Indian Ocean. To illustrate th

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UK age check law seems to be hurting sites that comply, helping those that don’t

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-24 09:05:15

In Brief The United Kingdom recently started enforcing the Online Safety Act’s age-check rules, and The Washington Post reports that it’s already having a significant effect on web traffic. U.K. law now requires pornography websites to verify their users’ ages through means such as face scans and driver’s licenses; it also requires that online platforms prevent children from being exposed to adult content (which is why sites like Bluesky and Reddit have begun checking some users’ ages). To st

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What to read this weekend: Two thrilling horror novels in one

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-24 05:15:44

Once again (or twice, really, because this book is two novels in one), Stephen Graham Jones delivers on some really gripping, fun horror that spins some classic tropes into something unexpected. This double feature contains The Babysitter Lives and Killer on the Road, the first being a story about a night of babysitting gone horribly, supernaturally wrong on the eve of Halloween, and the latter a road trip from hell situation in which a hitchhiker-targeting serial killer sets his sights on a run

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Scientists Discover New Parasitic Wasps Invading the U.S.

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-25 05:30:52

There are all sorts of cruel parasites out there, and more are being uncovered all the time. Scientists have recently found several invasive species of parasitic wasps that have now landed in the U.S. Researchers at Binghamton University and the University of Iowa made the discovery. For the first time ever, they detected the presence of two closely related parasitic wasp species previously only found in Europe. Don’t be too personally afraid, though: these wasps only infest other wasps. A was

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Affiliates Flock to ‘Soulless’ Scam Gambling Machine

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2025-10-27 12:21:32

Last month, KrebsOnSecurity tracked the sudden emergence of hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and eventually abscond with any cryptocurrency funds deposited by players. We’ve since learned that these scam gambling sites have proliferated thanks to a new Russian affiliate program called “Gambler Panel” that bills itself as a “soulless project that is made for profit.” The scam begins with deceptive ads posted on social media that claim th

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Colleges see significant drop in international students as fall semester begins

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 11:31:23

NPR > Education Classes began this week for students at the University at Buffalo, a public research university in western New York, but there were about 750 fewer international students on campus than expected. The new students who did make it gathered for a welcome from the school's dean of students. "We know you have had to overcome hurdles to be here – especially this summer, with visas," Tomás Aguirre told the assembled students, representing more than 100 countries. "And I just wanted yo

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Lesser known mobile adtech domains where data is sent

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 21:30:23

AppGoblin has now run over 40k apps in an emulator, tracking millions of API calls thousands of advertising domains. Unfortunately, some of them are dark, meaning they have no landing page of any kind, and I’m unclear who controls these domains. news-cdn.site marketingcloudapis.com kickoffo.site onegg.site lazybumblebee.com qa-analytics.com acobt.tech yastatic.net Let’s see if we can figure them out! qa-analytics.com This one is a mystery. Seems like it’s related to Germany since it’s always

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This Is the Group That's Been Swatting US Universities

wired.com David Gilbert 2025-10-29 20:09:30

A self-proclaimed leader of an online group linked to the violent extremist network The Com tells WIRED he is responsible for the flurry of hoax active-shooter alerts at universities across the US in recent days as students return to school. Known online as Gores, the person says he coleads a group called Purgatory, which is offering its followers a menu of services, including hoax threats against schools—known as swatting—for just $20, while faked threats against hospitals, businesses, and air

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Eddy Cue wanted Apple to acquire two big companies, but Tim Cook said no

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-10-30 09:49:34

A report from The Information yesterday offered a variety of interesting details about Apple’s potential acquisition targets in the artificial intelligence category. One thing I found particularly fascinating in the story was the tidbit that Eddy Cue, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Services, has regularly pushed for Apple to make big acquisitions, only to be shot down by Apple CEO Tim Cook. Apple, Tesla, and Netflix The report describes Eddy Cue as “one of the biggest advocates inside Apple

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First absolute superconducting switch developed in a magnetic device

news.ycombinator.com University Of Jyväskylä 2025-10-28 12:04:54

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Researchers recently realized the first de Gennes' superconducting switch where superconductivity is completely suppressed. Credit: University of Jyväskylä The University of Jyväskylä, Finland, has been involved as part of an international collaboration that has identified a way to completely suppress superconductiv

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Nx compromised: malware uses Claude code CLI to explore the filesystem

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 21:18:47

At least 1.4k people are learning today that they have a new repository prefixed by s1ngularity-repository in their GitHub account. This repository was created by a malicious post-install command discovered in the popular nx build kit. That malware steals wallets and API keys (`.npmrc`, env variables, etc.) and pushes them in that repository in the results.b64 file. Interestingly, the malware checks for the presence of Claude Code CLI or Gemini CLI on the system to offload much of the fingerprin

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What It's Like to Work at a Body Farm

wired.com Jess Thomson 2025-10-31 06:00:00

Somewhere out in the countryside, hidden behind a copse of trees, are fields full of dead human bodies. These corpses have been strategically laid out in rows, naked as the day they were born, and left to the mercy of the elements until all that’s left of them are bones. It sounds like a scene out of a horror film, but these places are real. They’re called taphonomic research facilities, or sometimes “body farms”—sites where forensic scientists study how the human body decomposes. (Don’t worry,

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Apple still debating Mistral and Perplexity M&A amid looming Google Search shakeup

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-01 16:44:18

Rumors of Apple considering a Perplexity acquisition refuse to cease. Meanwhile, another AI firm continues to be part of the conversation. Both are mentioned in a new report that paints a picture of Eddy Cue as pro-acquisition despite pushback from other Apple executives. A new report from The Information details the latest on Apple’s AI acquisition ambitions. The Information reports that Apple is telling bankers that “it’s carrying on with its strategy of focusing on smaller deals in AI,” desp

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Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously

news.ycombinator.com Chris K. W. 2025-11-02 00:34:26

If you’ve fallen far enough down the Wordle rabbit hole you may have heard of Quordle, a version of Wordle where you solve four words at once. If you’re looking for more of a challenge, Britannica has you covered with Octordle, where you solve eight words at once. And of course any Wordler worth their salt should be able to handle sixteen words, like in Sedecordle. And no, it doesn’t stop there: Sexaginta-quattuordle isn’t real, it can’t hurt yo– One logical extreme of this trend would be to

Topics: position secret strategy wordle words

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Iterative DFS with stack-based graph traversal (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Farlow 2025-11-01 09:09:08

Depth-first search (DFS) on a graph (binary tree or otherwise) is most often implemented recursively, but there are occasions where it may be desirable to consider an iterative approach instead. Such as when we may be worried about overflowing the call stack. In such cases it makes sense to rely on implementing DFS with our own stack instead of relying on our program's implicit call stack. But doing so can lead to some problems if we are not careful. Specifically, as noted in another blog post,

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Show HN: JavaScript-free (X)HTML Includes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 17:47:30

This is a simple example of using browsers' built in XSL support to build a website with common theming across all pages without any server-side code, static website generators, or Javascript. See the demo site How it works When you browse to index.xml (or any of the other XML files), the browser loads the template file given at the top of the XML. This template file describes how to render the various custom tags in the XML as HTML.

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Ozempic Maker Novo Nordisk Freezes Hiring Amid Ongoing Struggles

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-09 09:58:43

No one stays on top forever. It’s a lesson that Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk may be painfully learning about. The Danish pharmaceutical company has enacted a hiring freeze—the latest sign of a sinking financial outlook for the once-titan of the obesity treatment world. Reuters reported on the hiring freeze Wednesday. The company has faced numerous setbacks in recent months, including billions shaved off its stock market value and continued competition from cheaper, compounded versions of its bloc

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AI website builder Lovable increasingly abused for malicious activity

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-10 18:11:05

Cybercriminals are increasingly abusing the AI-powered Lovable website creation and hosting platform to generate phishing pages, malware-dropping portals, and various fraudulent websites. The malicious sites created through the platform impersonate large and recognizable brands, and feature traffic filtering systems like CAPTCHA to keep bots out. While Lovable has taken steps to better protect its platform from abuse, as AI-powered site generators increase in number, the barrier to entering cy

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Scientists Can’t Figure Out Why Just Walking In Nature Appears to Quickly Heal Your Brain Rot

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-10 23:16:21

Image by Getty / Futurism Mental Health "Go outside" or "touch grass" are common rejoinders deployed in online arguments these days. And, at least for those of us whose brains have probably melted from spending too much time on an app where said arguments take place, it turns out it's pretty sound advice. As the New York Times reports, there's a growing body of evidence suggesting that simply spending time in nature can instantly boost your algorithm-addled brain's attention span. It's part of

Topics: attention nature nyt theory university

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The Pixel 10 Pro has the display upgrade your poor eyes have been begging for

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-10 23:04:10

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR The Pixel 10 Pro series introduces a new “sensitive eyes” setting that doubles its display PWM rate to 480Hz. The option is limited to the Pro models, with partial support on the Pro Fold, and none on the base Pixel 10. This is Google’s first significant step toward helping flicker-sensitive users, but it could go further. OLED screens are great for deep blacks and rich colors, but they also have a hidden flicker problem. It’s caused by PWM dimming, w

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Arkansas Hosts the Planet’s Only Public Diamond Mine

wired.com Benj Edwards 2025-11-12 09:29:05

In southwest Arkansas, the state government runs what might be the world’s most unusual diamond mine. For the price of a movie ticket, anyone can dig for diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park—and keep whatever they find. The 37-acre search field near Murfreesboro sits atop an ancient volcanic pipe that erupted roughly 100 million years ago. That eruption brought diamonds that formed deep within the Earth’s mantle to the surface, where they now wait in the soil for anyone with a garden trowe

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GiveCampus (YC S15) Hiring Rails engineers passionate about education

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-12 18:00:09

Position Closed Sorry, this position is no longer accepting candidates.

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Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 05:03:03

I have recently installed this extension on FF: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/port-authorit... and yesterday I visited this website: https://ceac.state.gov/genniv/ and I got a notification that the website tried to do a port-scan of my private network. Is this a common thing? I have just recently installed the extension, so I am not sure if there are a lot of other websites who do it. Since looking into it, I noticed that uBlock Origin already has the default list "Block Outsi

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Latest Tech News

Imgur's community was in revolt

AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending content hunger

Static sites enable a good time travel experience

The Kissing Bug Disease Has Permanently Moved Into the U.S.

Imgur's Community Is in Full Revolt Against Its Owner

Zfsbackrest: Pgbackrest style encrypted backups for ZFS filesystems

What Is Complexity in Chess?

When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

UK age check law seems to be hurting sites that comply, helping those that don’t

What to read this weekend: Two thrilling horror novels in one

Scientists Discover New Parasitic Wasps Invading the U.S.

Affiliates Flock to ‘Soulless’ Scam Gambling Machine

Colleges see significant drop in international students as fall semester begins

Lesser known mobile adtech domains where data is sent

This Is the Group That's Been Swatting US Universities

Eddy Cue wanted Apple to acquire two big companies, but Tim Cook said no

First absolute superconducting switch developed in a magnetic device

Nx compromised: malware uses Claude code CLI to explore the filesystem

What It's Like to Work at a Body Farm

Apple still debating Mistral and Perplexity M&A amid looming Google Search shakeup

Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously

Iterative DFS with stack-based graph traversal (2024)

Show HN: JavaScript-free (X)HTML Includes

Ozempic Maker Novo Nordisk Freezes Hiring Amid Ongoing Struggles

AI website builder Lovable increasingly abused for malicious activity

Scientists Can’t Figure Out Why Just Walking In Nature Appears to Quickly Heal Your Brain Rot

The Pixel 10 Pro has the display upgrade your poor eyes have been begging for

Arkansas Hosts the Planet’s Only Public Diamond Mine

GiveCampus (YC S15) Hiring Rails engineers passionate about education

Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?

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