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We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism

news.ycombinator.com Jack Meserve 2025-11-13 06:25:53

The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters by Christine Webb • Avery • 2025 • 336 pages • $32 Suppose that you are walking at night, and you see someone on your side of the street coming toward you, about to pass you. Is his face angry, or is he just thinking seriously about something? Your answer to that question may well depend on the faces that you are used to seeing. If you tend to encounter a lot of very angry faces, your threshold for considering a face “angry”

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Starting game development in JavaScript with no experience

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 00:25:03

It’s been a while since I started making web games in JavaScript. In this post, I’d like to share tips that would be helpful for beginners wanting to do the same. Learn JavaScript Outside of Game Development Alongside HTML and CSS This might sound obvious, but I really recommend learning to program before learning game dev. For JavaScript, that means learning the fundamentals of the language and how it integrates with HTML and CSS. Considering that JavaScript is primarily used on the web to m

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Webtoon Wants Video and Licensed Comics to Capture a New Generation of Readers

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-11-16 23:30:04

Webtoon is adding a new short-form video feature on its digital comics platform to continue to build out its multifaceted storytelling offerings. Many of Webtoon’s heavy hitters will get companion video episodes to supplement ways to experience its vast library. The English-language version of the app will kick off this feature with voice-acting narration, motion, and a score to highlight visual storytelling in a new way. Fourteen Webtoon originals will now include five-minute video episodes in

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Robots.txt Is a Suicide Note (2011)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 09:20:56

ROBOTS.TXT IS A SUICIDE NOTE ROBOTS.TXT is a stupid, silly idea in the modern era. Archive Team entirely ignores it and with precisely one exception, everyone else should too. If you do not know what ROBOTS.TXT is and you run a site... excellent. If you do know what it is and you have one, delete it. Regardless, Archive Team will ignore it and we'll delete your complaints, just like you should be deleting ROBOTS.TXT. For the unfamiliar, ROBOTS.TXT is a machine-readable textfile that sits on w

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Substack writers can now direct US readers to (often cheaper) web-based subscriptions on iOS

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-17 09:16:50

Newsletter subscription platform Substack will begin taking advantage of an option on the U.S. App Store that allows users to make purchases outside of Apple’s in-app purchasing system. This functionality is permitted by a change to the App Store’s rules in May, as a result of Epic Games’ antitrust lawsuit against the tech giant. Since then, a number of top apps have moved to offer in-app purchase links that point to their own websites, including Spotify, Patreon, and the Amazon Kindle app, amo

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UK sentences “serial hacker” of 3,000 sites to 20 months in prison

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-17 14:36:46

A 26-year old in the UK who claimed to have hacked thousands of websites was sentenced to 20 months in prison after pleading guilty earlier this year. Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky of Rotherham, UK, was arrested in 2022 based on information received from U.S. law enforcement and charged for stealing log in details of millions of Facebook users, and hacking websites belonging to the government in Yemen, an Israeli news outlet, and organizations in the U.S. and Canada. Al-Mashriky pleaded guilty to the

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How web scraping actually works - and why AI changes everything

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-11-17 14:00:18

Getty/panithan pholpanichrassamee ZDNET's key takeaways Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler blocks. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. In the world of industrial web scraping, there are a few major players. Oh, you did not know there was a world of industrial

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Website is served from nine Neovim buffers on my old ThinkPad

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 08:03:22

This Website is Served from Nine Neovim Buffers on My Old ThinkPad TL;DR: I wrote a Neovim plugin in Lua that serves HTTP requests from open buffers. It has no external dependencies, it has first-class support for serving content in Djot, and it is faster than Nginx so it won’t be a performance bottleneck behind a reverse proxy. What’s not to like? There is that famous story from the 1990s about the man who was a Lisper but could not afford any of the commercial Lisps, so he deployed message r

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iOS 26: Four new Safari features you may have missed

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-11-18 02:28:22

9to5Mac is brought to you by Incogni: Protect your personal info from prying eyes. With Incogni, you can scrub your deeply sensitive information from data brokers across the web, including people search sites. Incogni limits your phone number, address, email, SSN, and more from circulating. Fight back against unwanted data brokers with a 30-day money back guarantee. With iOS 26, Safari is getting a number of changes, headlined by the new Liquid Glass design. Here are four lesser-known changes c

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Researcher to release exploit for full auth bypass on FortiWeb

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-17 14:24:32

A security researcher has released a partial proof of concept exploit for a vulnerability in the FortiWeb web application firewall that allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication. The flaw was reported responsibly to Fortinet and is now tracked as CVE-2025-52970. Fortinet released a fix on August 12. Security researcher Aviv Y named the vulnerability FortMajeure and describes it as a "silent failure that wasn’t meant to happen." Technically, it is an out-of-bounds read in FortiWeb’s coo

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Solving the Nostr web clients attack vector

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-15 22:36:57

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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The beauty of a text only webpage

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 22:05:02

The beauty of a text only webpage 2025-08-15 There's something I love about opening a text-only webpage. They're a refuge from the GDPR cookie banners, the trashy ads, the email opt-ins, and the god-forsaken auto-play video. A text-only webpage is clean. It's readable. It's fast and it's simple. The page is just made of text, so it's infinitely reproducible. You can paste the whole thing into an email to a friend. You can put it in ChatGPT to ask questions. Hell—you can post the whole thi

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Should we remove XSLT from the web platform?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 00:37:13

What is the issue with the HTML Standard? XSLT v1.0, which all browsers adhere to, was standardized in 1999. In the meantime, XSLT has evolved to v2.0 and v3.0, adding features, and growing apart from the old version frozen into browsers. This lack of advancement, coupled with the rise of JavaScript libraries and frameworks that offer more flexible and powerful DOM manipulation, has led to a significant decline in the use of client-side XSLT. Its role within the web browser has been largely sup

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Show HN: Understanding the Spatial Web Browser Engine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 22:43:43

Understanding the Spatial Web Browser Engine 1. What Is a Spatial Web Browser? A Spatial Web Browser is a user agent that loads, interprets, and presents Web content (HTML, CSS, JS, WebGL/WebGPU, WebXR, media) directly inside a 3D coordinate space instead of flattening everything onto a 2D rectangular viewport. Every DOM element (text nodes, images, canvas, form controls, SVG, etc.) can be: Positioned, rotated, and scaled in world / XR reference spaces Layered with true depth ordering (n

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ForgeFed: ActivityPub-based forge federation protocol

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 16:19:13

ForgeFed is a federation protocol for software forges and code collaboration tools for the software development lifecycle and ecosystem. This includes repository hosting websites, issue trackers, code review applications, and more. ForgeFed provides a common substrate for people to create interoperable code collaboration websites and applications. Federation means that these websites can interact, allowing the humans using them to interact too, despite being registered on different websites. Fo

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This website is for humans

news.ycombinator.com Sophie Koonin 2025-11-25 06:19:53

8 August 2025 Walking past a bus stop yesterday I saw an advert for Google’s AI search. The person in the ad had pointed their phone’s camera at a bowl of ramen, and the AI result explained how to reproduce it at home. How does it know? Because it’s trained on all the ramen recipes that multiple recipe authors spent hours, weeks, years perfecting. Generative AI is a blender chewing up other people’s hard work, outputting a sad mush that kind of resembles what you’re looking for, but without an

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Website Is for Humans

news.ycombinator.com Sophie Koonin 2025-11-25 12:19:53

8 August 2025 Walking past a bus stop yesterday I saw an advert for Google’s AI search. The person in the ad had pointed their phone’s camera at a bowl of ramen, and the AI result explained how to reproduce it at home. How does it know? Because it’s trained on all the ramen recipes that multiple recipe authors spent hours, weeks, years perfecting. Generative AI is a blender chewing up other people’s hard work, outputting a sad mush that kind of resembles what you’re looking for, but without an

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Gemini on Android may soon support the full range of Canvas creation options (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-26 12:00:02

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Earlier this year, Google Gemini introduced Canvas for working with documents. Canvas on the web allows you to create things like apps, Audio Overviews, and infographics straight from your docs. Now it looks like Google’s working to bring the same option to the Gemini mobile app. On-device AI models like Gemini Nano are very impressive for what they’re able to do within some serious hardware constraints, but when it comes to AI solutions capable of s

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QNX: The Incredible 1.44M Demo

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-23 10:55:54

Save Page Now Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. Please enter a valid web address

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This collaborative doodling website is like Google Maps plus MS Paint

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-12-01 08:14:40

A new website that lets you paint over a world map with other users in real-time has taken the digital illustration community by storm. Wplace is a collaborative pixel art platform that serves as a spiritual successor to Reddit’s r/Place April Fools’ Day experiments, placing time restrictions on drawing tools that motivate users to team up to complete large or complex paintings. While r/Place provided its users with a blank white pixel grid, Wplace is layered over an interactive canvas of a wor

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Why Is Web Performance Undervalued?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 11:11:01

Why is Web Performance Undervalued? Web performance is one of those things so fundamental to businesses that you would expect them to absolutely nail it. If consumers care about performance, which seems to be true, then in an efficient, competitive market you would expect businesses to be under immense pressure to optimize it. And yet, poor web performance is ubiquitous. Huge companies across the board are shipping websites and web apps so sluggish that it is killing the web. The economic upsid

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Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Gray Market for Video Game Cheats

wired.com Matt Burgess 2025-12-02 03:00:00

Software that can see opponents through walls. Aimbots that can lock onto other players automatically. Tools that can boost characters’ stats to the max. The world of online game cheats is expansive—with some cheat websites advertising hacks for dozens of PC games—and it’s being driven by an underground economy that’s allegedly raking in millions every year. Over the last two years, a group of computer scientists has been analyzing and mapping the online cheat marketplace, observing what behavi

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ESP32 Bus Pirate 0.5 – A hardware hacking tool that speaks every protocol

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 10:56:16

ESP32 Bus Pirate ESP32 Bus Pirate is an open-source firmware that turns your device into a multi-protocol hacker's tool, inspired by the legendary Bus Pirate. It supports sniffing, sending, scripting, and interacting with various digital protocols (I2C, UART, 1-Wire, SPI, etc.) via a serial terminal or web-based CLI. Features Interactive command-line interface (CLI) via USB Serial or WiFi Web . Modes for: HiZ (default) I2C (scan, glitch, slave mode, dump) SPI (flash, sdcard, slave mode) UAR

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ESP32 Bus Pirate 0.5 – A Hardware Hacking Tool That Speaks Every Protocol

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 16:56:16

ESP32 Bus Pirate ESP32 Bus Pirate is an open-source firmware that turns your device into a multi-protocol hacker's tool, inspired by the legendary Bus Pirate. It supports sniffing, sending, scripting, and interacting with various digital protocols (I2C, UART, 1-Wire, SPI, etc.) via a serial terminal or web-based CLI. Features Interactive command-line interface (CLI) via USB Serial or WiFi Web . Modes for: HiZ (default) I2C (scan, glitch, slave mode, dump) SPI (flash, sdcard, slave mode) UAR

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Accessibility and the Agentic Web

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 18:44:01

Accessibility and the agentic web Posted on Friday, 8 August 2025 by Léonie Watson in Strategy, User experience Imagine being in a department store that sells clothes from multiple brands and having a personal shopping assistant to help you select the clothes you want to buy. As a blind person, that's about the only way it's possible to go clothes shopping, independently at least, but few stores offer such a service, so you resort to shopping online. Except that retail websites are rarely acce

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The War for the Web Has Begun

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-12-02 22:54:30

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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AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 11:57:06

Unless someone wrote an article about that exact thing, a plain full-text search engine cannot answer a question like this: What animal is featured on a flag of a country where the first small British colony was established in the same year that Sweden's King Gustav IV Adolf declared war on France? But ChatGPT got the correct answer in a few seconds. Flag of Dominica features the Sisserou parrot, which is only found in Dominica. Great Britain established a small colony on the island in 1805.

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Scientists Appear to Have Spotted an Unknown Planet in Nearest Star System to Earth

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-05 08:31:19

It's not easy to uncover exoplanets, largely lightless objects that either lurk in the dark void of space or are blown out by the light of a nearby star. But astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope believe they've found a new one — and it's just four light years away. Using the James Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument, the team found strong clues of a mysterious gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system, the nearest star system to Earth. Tantalizingly, the suspected world appears to be o

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Library of Congress explains how parts of US Constitution vanished from its website

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-12-06 22:55:35

The Library of Congress has given a fuller explanation as to why large sections of the U.S. Constitution suddenly vanished from its official website. As TechCrunch previously reported, parts of Section 8, as well as the entirety of Section 9 and Section 10, were deleted from Article 1 of the Constitution on the U.S. government’s official website over the past month. The changes to the sections, which pertained to the Congressional powers, the rights of individual states, and the rights to due p

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AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks

news.ycombinator.com Liz Reid 2025-12-06 23:32:42

AI is driving the most significant upgrade of the Google Search experience ever. With AI Overviews and more recently AI Mode, people are able to ask questions they could never ask before. And the response has been tremendous: Our data shows people are happier with the experience and are searching more than ever as they discover what Search can do now. At the same time, we’ve recently heard some questions about what this means for traffic to websites from Google. So we wanted to share some insig

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Latest Tech News

We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism

Starting game development in JavaScript with no experience

Webtoon Wants Video and Licensed Comics to Capture a New Generation of Readers

Robots.txt Is a Suicide Note (2011)

Substack writers can now direct US readers to (often cheaper) web-based subscriptions on iOS

UK sentences “serial hacker” of 3,000 sites to 20 months in prison

How web scraping actually works - and why AI changes everything

Website is served from nine Neovim buffers on my old ThinkPad

iOS 26: Four new Safari features you may have missed

Researcher to release exploit for full auth bypass on FortiWeb

Solving the Nostr web clients attack vector

The beauty of a text only webpage

Should we remove XSLT from the web platform?

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ForgeFed: ActivityPub-based forge federation protocol

This website is for humans

Website Is for Humans

Gemini on Android may soon support the full range of Canvas creation options (APK teardown)

QNX: The Incredible 1.44M Demo

This collaborative doodling website is like Google Maps plus MS Paint

Why Is Web Performance Undervalued?

Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Gray Market for Video Game Cheats

ESP32 Bus Pirate 0.5 – A hardware hacking tool that speaks every protocol

ESP32 Bus Pirate 0.5 – A Hardware Hacking Tool That Speaks Every Protocol

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Scientists Appear to Have Spotted an Unknown Planet in Nearest Star System to Earth

Library of Congress explains how parts of US Constitution vanished from its website

AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks

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