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Publishing Pepys

news.ycombinator.com Kate Loveman 2026-02-16 00:21:06

Two hundred years ago this month, Samuel Pepys’s diary was published to great acclaim. Readers of the first edition in 1825 relished Pepys’s ‘honest’ observations and ‘private anecdotes’. While writing his journal in the 1660s, Pepys had worked hard to keep it secret. He knew he was placing his livelihood at risk by recording seditious criticisms of his superiors, along with details of his own bribe-taking and sexually explicit accounts of his ‘amours’. There was much that, when writing, he did

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Show HN: We're two coffee nerds who built an AI app to track beans and recipes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-19 15:38:47

AI Coffee Tracker built for the future Track your Coffee Beans & Recipes with just a snap  Download on the App Store 📸 Snap your bean bags, build your own coffee shelf. From messy drawers to a digital archive of flavor. Your browser does not support the video tag. One click, one recipe Turn any YouTube, blog, or Reddit post into a step-by-step brew guide—instantly. Save every bean that matters A photo or URL is all you need. Save every recipe with step-by-step guide From YouTube, a

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Drug cartel hacked FBI official’s phone to track and kill informants, report says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-19 16:57:49

The Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico hacked the phone of an FBI official investigating kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán as part of a surveillance campaign “to intimidate and/or kill potential sources or cooperating witnesses,” according to a recently published report by the Justice Department. The report, which cited an “individual connected to the cartel,” said a hacker hired by its top brass “offered a menu of services related to exploiting mobile phones and other electronic devices.” The hired

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Germany asks Google, Apple to remove DeepSeek AI from app stores

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-20 03:03:31

The Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection has formally requested Google and Apple to remove the DeepSeek AI application from the application stores due to GDPR violations. The commissioner, Meike Kamp, alleges that DeepSeek’s owner, Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence, based in Beijing, unlawfully collects data from German users and transfers them for processing in servers in China. As per the GDPR and Article 46 (1) specifically, any personal data collected from individuals in the Eur

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Here's How to See Your Most-Played Songs of All Time on Apple Music

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-20 02:01:00

Apple Music is celebrating its 10-year anniversary with a few nostalgic gifts for longtime listeners. On Monday, the music service launched a new Replay: All-Time feature that shows you your most-streamed songs, albums and artists. The new personalized section expands on Apple's annual Replay summaries by tapping into your full listening history since you first subscribed. For me, that was over a year ago when I bought a pair of Beats Studio Pro and received 3 months of Apple Music for free. An

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US lawmakers allege that OnePlus phones transmit data to Chinese servers without user consent

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-20 08:52:05

A pair of US lawmakers have called on the US Department of Commerce to investigate OnePlus over allegations that the company's devices transmit data to Chinese servers without user consent, according to a report by Reuters . This is a bipartisan effort, with Republican Representative John Moolenaar (MI) and Democratic Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL) spearheading the calls for an investigation. There's no actual data to go along with these allegations, but the lawmakers claim to have see

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Mexican drug cartel hacker spied on FBI official’s phone to track and kill informants, report says

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2026-02-20 12:14:16

In 2018, a hacker hired by the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel run by the infamous kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán spied on the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City with the goal of identifying “people of interest” for the cartel to target and kill, according to a new U.S. government watchdog report. On Friday, the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General revealed the incident as part of a published report auditing the FBI’s efforts to counter surveillance with the goal of protecting “its e

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Apple Music marks 10 years of streaming with a new all-time Replay list

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2026-02-20 17:25:43

Apple Music is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its streaming service by giving users a throwback to their favorite hits over the last decade. “Replay All Time” — a special version of Apple Music’s annual Replay experience — is being launched for subscribers that allows them to view and listen to their most played songs since joining the platform. The personalized Replay All Time playlist will be available from the Apple Music Home tab. If you joined the service back when it first launche

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US lawmakers call for federal probe into OnePlus

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-21 18:00:28

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Two US lawmakers have asked the Commerce Department to investigate OnePlus phones for potential security risks. Their concern is based on an analysis shared by an unnamed firm suggesting that OnePlus may be collecting and sending sensitive user data to servers in China without user consent. US lawmakers have reportedly requested the Commerce Department to investigate whether OnePlus phones sold in the country pose security risks. The request reportedly co

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Finally, I found a cheap smartwatch that provides extensive health data (and it's on sale)

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2026-02-21 20:15:11

ZDNET's key takeaways The Amazfit BIP 5 is typically sold on Amazon for $89. It's a solid budget smartwatch that integrates with the Zepp app, providing a breadth of health and fitness data. It's not the most precise health tracker on the market, and its competitive price is most evident in its physical design. $79.99 at Amazon On Amazon, the Amazfit BIP 5 in Pastel Pink and Soft Black is on sale for $75 ahead of July 4th. In a crowded marketplace of expensive smartwatches, Amazfit's BIP 5 i

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Building untrusted container images safely at scale

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-17 14:22:05

Many SaaS platforms need to run customer code securely and fast. Rather than building container infrastructure from scratch, you can use Depot's API to handle the heavy lifting. Here's how to build Go tooling that creates isolated projects, manages builds, and tracks metrics for your customer workloads. A lot of our customers run into the same problem: they need to run code on behalf of their customers. Whether you're hosting user-generated Python scripts, processing custom containers, or runni

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Nvidia insiders dump more than $1 billion in stock, according to report

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2026-02-21 10:07:32

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the NVIDIA GTC Paris keynote, part of the 9th edition of the VivaTech technology startup and innovation fair, held at the Dôme de Paris in the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 11, 2025. Insiders at artificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia have dumped more than $1 billion in stock over the last year, according to a report from the Financial Times. About $500 million worth of sales occurred over the last month as the market

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Error handling in Rust

news.ycombinator.com Felix Knorr 2026-02-21 12:28:25

On Error Handling in Rust The current standard for error handling, when writing a crate, is to define one error enum per module, or one for the whole crate that covers all error cases that the module or crate can possibly produce, and each public function that returns a Result will use said error enum. This means, that a function will return an error enum, containing error variants that the function cannot even produce. If you match on this error enum, you will have to manually distinguish whi

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We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-21 14:08:53

how we accidentally solved robotics by watching 1 million hours of YouTube 29 Jun, 2025 the existential crisis we all share imagine this: you've just spent $640 billion training the chonkiest language model known to humanity (lol) and decide to call it "Behemoth". it can annoy you on whatsapp, try to solve calculus, and argue with you about anything with a sophistication of a philosophy PhD. but ask it to grab a coffee mug from your kitchen counter? ngmi turns out scaling LLMs forever still

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Reproducible Builds

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-21 10:08:25

Process in computer science Logo of the Software Freedom Conservancy's Reproducible Builds project Reproducible builds, also known as deterministic compilation, is a process of compiling software which ensures the resulting binary code can be reproduced. Source code compiled using deterministic compilation will always output the same binary.[1][2][3] Reproducible builds can act as part of a chain of trust;[1] the source code can be signed, and deterministic compilation can prove that the bina

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This Is How Much Interest You'll Earn by Depositing $10,000 Into a CD Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-21 03:00:00

However much you have to deposit, a CD can help you grow your money reliably. Mensent Photography/Getty Images If you have some cash you can set aside for a while, a certificate of deposit can be a great way to grow it. Since your rate is locked in when you open a CD, your earnings will never change, even if rates drop after that. And with the Federal Reserve expected to cut interest rates as soon as July, now's the time to secure a great APY. Top CDs currently offer up to 4.50% APY -- more th

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Denmark’s Plan to Fight Deepfakes: Give Citizens Copyright to Their Own Likeness

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2026-02-21 09:56:55

Here’s a weird potential future: When you’re born, you are issued a birth certificate, a social security card, and a copyright. That possibility is emerging in Denmark, where officials are considering changes to the nation’s copyright laws to provide citizens with a right to their own likeness as a means of combating AI-generated deepfakes, according to The Guardian. The proposal, advanced by the Danish Ministry of Culture and expected for a parliamentary vote this fall, would grant Danish citi

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RFK Jr. Announces All Americans Need Health Tracking Devices: Here Are the Pros and Cons

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-21 03:00:00

Many Americans already track health statistics like heart rate and sleep cycles on app-connected accessories. Now the federal government wants to jump in. On June 24, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced "one of the largest HHS campaigns in history" to encourage the use of wearables to track health conditions, a trend CNET has recently covered. Kennedy is referring to the many different bands, watches and even clothes that use technology to track human vital signs. CNET's reviewers

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I tested the 4 most popular health trackers for a year - here's my buying advice now

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2026-02-21 05:00:15

The Oura Ring is, in my opinion, the sleep and health tracker to rule them all. Not only does it track your sleep, stress, activity, and more, it also creates helpful data illustrations that encourages healthy habits, whether that's a consistent bedtime routine, daily activity, or reduced alcohol consumption. Many users, myself included, have reported changing their drinking habits after seeing their heart rate's response to a few beers late at night on Oura's graphs. Earning high sleep scores

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Can AI save teachers from a crushing workload? There's new evidence it might

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2026-02-21 10:00:15

Deagreez/Getty A Gallup poll published Wednesday found that 30% of teachers are using AI weekly -- and that it's saving them "six weeks a year." According to data from the 2024 to 2025 school year, 60% of K-12 teachers reported using some kind of AI tool in their work, most commonly to create worksheets or activities, personalize material to students' needs, and prep lessons. The study did not specify which AI tools teachers were using, referring to "chatbots, adaptive learning systems, or oth

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Germany asks Apple and Google to pull DeepSeek AI app over data privacy concerns

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-02-21 17:15:58

Germany just became the latest country to move against DeepSeek over mounting data privacy concerns. Here’s why this keeps happening. As you probably guessed, it’s a China thing When DeepSeek took the world by storm earlier this year, it wasn’t long before it found itself in the crosshairs of governments in the West. First, because users quickly learned that its models were heavily moderated, skirting answering questions that could cast China and its government in a bad light. Second, and mo

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Show HN: Shouldiuse.dev – Software dependency health checker

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-21 20:42:21

New Remote MCP Server Empower LLMs to score a dependency before using them

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The Obsessive Fans Playing God on ‘Love Island’—and Living for the Crash-Outs

wired.com Jason Parham 2026-02-21 22:00:00

Carson Campbell didn’t feel any remorse for his vote, and was even relishing in the chaos it might cause one of Love Island USA’s most contentious cast members of the season. “I love mess and I love reality TV,” the 24-year-old student and content creator says. “I love something with an end goal, when people are working toward a purpose.” As a Love Island USA superfan who live-tweets and recaps every episode on TikTok, Campbell feels personally invested in how the reality dating show unfolds. M

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Google’s carbon emissions just went up again

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-02-22 08:08:04

Google’s carbon emissions jumped yet again as the company continues to push ahead in AI. The company’s 2025 sustainability report emphasizes that its “ambition-based emissions” grew 11 percent last year to reach 11.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide pollution, marking a 51 percent increase compared to 2019. That puts Google farther away from its goal of slashing planet-heating pollution in half by 2030 compared to a 2019 baseline. But what it calls “ambition-based” emissions excludes certa

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Sleeping With AI: Everything You Should Know About the New Eight Sleep Pod 5

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-22 11:14:00

In this sweltering summer, nothing is worse than waking up glued to your sheets by the buckets of sweat you shed overnight. And when last night's ceiling fan has turned from a cooling breeze into the winds of Niflheim, being able to warm up without leaving your Pod is more than a luxury, it's perfection. Eight Sleep's recently-launched Pod 5 system does that and more with AI and a new cooling/heating blanket to complete its dual-sided mattress cover and adjustable base. CNET’s sleep team has lo

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Donald Trump is reportedly preparing a sweep of pro-AI executive orders

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-22 17:18:56

We know what you’re thinking: there just isn’t enough AI around right now. Luckily for you, Donald Trump emphatically agrees. According to a new report from Reuters, his administration is assembling a number of executive actions that would significantly increase the energy supply used for expanding artificial intelligence. The US and China are currently battling it out to lead the way in the rapidly growing sector, but American companies will need more infrastructure to make the advances Trump w

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'Squid Game' Is Back! Here's How to Watch Season 3 on Netflix

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-22 14:00:03

The third and final season of Squid Game is here. Get ready, the final games are about to begin. The second season of Netflix's global hit series ended on a cliffhanger, leaving the fates of Gi-hun/Player 456 (Lee Jung-jae) and the rest of the players in question. How will Gi-hun get his revenge against the Front Man (Lee Byung-hun)? Will Jun-ho find the island in time to bring the ones behind these death gauntlets to justice? It's possible, but writer-director Hwang Dong-hyuk has created a wor

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The Effect of Noise on Sleep

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-23 12:03:10

Jun 26, 2025 The effect of noise on sleep Brandon Ballinger How detrimental is noise for your sleep? Andrej Karpathy raised this exact question in a tweet. The answer to Karpathy’s question is, well, empirical, with a rough experiment suggested by Paul Graham: Consumer devices like Apple Watch measure many sleep metrics, including sleep stages, heart rate variability, and heart rate. The Apple Watch’s microphone also measures noise in fine-grained frequency, which can be filtered down to times

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German data protection official wants Apple, Google to remove DeepSeek from the country’s app stores

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2026-02-23 17:07:03

In Brief A German data protection official has reported Chinese AI app DeepSeek to Apple and Google, saying the app transfers users’ information to China illegally. Meike Kamp, Berlin’s Commissioner for data protection and freedom of information, told the companies that DeepSeek did not provide “convincing evidence” that users’ data was protected as required by EU laws. “Chinese authorities have far-reaching access rights to personal data within the sphere of influence of Chinese companies,”

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Germany tells Apple, Google to block DeepSeek as the Chinese AI app faces rising pressure in Europe

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2026-02-24 04:09:21

In this photo illustration, the DeepSeek logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen and in the background, the flag of the European Union. One of Germany's data protection watchdogs on Friday said DeepSeek's app illegally sends user data to China and asked Google and Apple to consider blocking the artificial intelligence service. Berlin's data protection commissioner Meike Kamp said in a statement that DeepSeek's transfer of German user data to China is "unlawful." There is not a readily a

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Latest Tech News

Publishing Pepys

Show HN: We're two coffee nerds who built an AI app to track beans and recipes

Drug cartel hacked FBI official’s phone to track and kill informants, report says

Germany asks Google, Apple to remove DeepSeek AI from app stores

Here's How to See Your Most-Played Songs of All Time on Apple Music

US lawmakers allege that OnePlus phones transmit data to Chinese servers without user consent

Mexican drug cartel hacker spied on FBI official’s phone to track and kill informants, report says

Apple Music marks 10 years of streaming with a new all-time Replay list

US lawmakers call for federal probe into OnePlus

Finally, I found a cheap smartwatch that provides extensive health data (and it's on sale)

Building untrusted container images safely at scale

Nvidia insiders dump more than $1 billion in stock, according to report

Error handling in Rust

We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube

Reproducible Builds

This Is How Much Interest You'll Earn by Depositing $10,000 Into a CD Now

Denmark’s Plan to Fight Deepfakes: Give Citizens Copyright to Their Own Likeness

RFK Jr. Announces All Americans Need Health Tracking Devices: Here Are the Pros and Cons

I tested the 4 most popular health trackers for a year - here's my buying advice now

Can AI save teachers from a crushing workload? There's new evidence it might

Germany asks Apple and Google to pull DeepSeek AI app over data privacy concerns

Show HN: Shouldiuse.dev – Software dependency health checker

The Obsessive Fans Playing God on ‘Love Island’—and Living for the Crash-Outs

Google’s carbon emissions just went up again

Sleeping With AI: Everything You Should Know About the New Eight Sleep Pod 5

Donald Trump is reportedly preparing a sweep of pro-AI executive orders

'Squid Game' Is Back! Here's How to Watch Season 3 on Netflix

The Effect of Noise on Sleep

German data protection official wants Apple, Google to remove DeepSeek from the country’s app stores

Germany tells Apple, Google to block DeepSeek as the Chinese AI app faces rising pressure in Europe

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