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Study: Social media probably can't be fixed

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-27 06:26:28

Ars Technica: I was frankly surprised at the ineffectiveness of the various intervention strategies you tested. But it does seem to explain the Bluesky conundrum. Bluesky has no algorithm, for example, yet the same dynamics still seem to emerge. I think Bluesky's founders genuinely want to avoid those dysfunctional issues, but they might not succeed, based on this paper. Why are such interventions so ineffective? Petter Törnberg: We've been discussing whether these things are due to the platfor

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Here’s how Google Find Hub satellite location sharing is going to work (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-27 11:26:52

TL;DR Google announced back in May that the newly renamed Find Hub would be adding support for satellite-based location sharing. That’s still not here yet, but a recent app update reveals text strings that hint at how things will work. Users will be able to share their location once every 15 minutes, with a daily limit on maximum shares. Satellite support is changing the rules of the game when it comes to mobile connectivity, and we are still right now only in the early days of its evolution.

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How Well Do Coding Agents Use Your Library?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-27 11:23:56

How StackBench Works StackBench simulates how coding agents actually use your library documentation. We extract real use cases, then test if agents can implement them successfully.

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‘This Was Trauma by Simulation’: ChatGPT Users File Disturbing Mental Health Complaints

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-11-27 11:35:05

With about 700 million weekly users, ChatGPT is the most popular AI chatbot in the world, according to OpenAI. CEO Sam Altman likens the latest model, GPT-5, to having a PhD expert around to answer any question you can throw at it. But recent reports suggest ChatGPT is exacerbating mental illnesses in some people. And documents obtained by Gizmodo give us an inside look at what Americans are complaining about when they use ChatGPT, including difficulties with mental illnesses. Gizmodo filed a F

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Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-27 11:32:58

Ars Technica: I was frankly surprised at the ineffectiveness of the various intervention strategies you tested. But it does seem to explain the Bluesky conundrum. Bluesky has no algorithm, for example, yet the same dynamics still seem to emerge. I think Bluesky's founders genuinely want to avoid those dysfunctional issues, but they might not succeed, based on this paper. Why are such interventions so ineffective? Petter Törnberg: We've been discussing whether these things are due to the platfor

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UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new facial recognition vans

news.ycombinator.com Connor Jones 2025-11-27 14:59:16

A fresh expansion of UK crimefighters' access to live facial recognition (LFR) technology is being described by officials as "an excellent opportunity for policing." Privacy campaigners diagree. The Home Office said today that more police forces across England will gain LFR capabilities thanks to ten new "cutting edge" vans being wheeled out, adding to those already in use by London's Metropolitan Police and forces in South Wales. Seven forces will gain access to LFR vans as part of the latest

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Gemini’s ‘bouncy’ makeover starts rolling out, and it’s kinda fun to watch

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-28 04:10:00

AssembleDebug / Android Authority TL;DR Google is rolling out an updated overlay for the Gemini AI assistant with a more rounded design. The new interface features an animated circular entrance that expands into a pill-shaped form, complementing the rounded design to give the overlay a fun appearance. We previously spotted these changes, and they are now appearing for some users. Google has been making great progress with Gemini, to the point that it stands on par with its competitors. Its d

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QNX: The Incredible 1.44M Demo

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 04:55:54

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1948: Catholic Church publishes final edition of “Index Librorum Prohibitorum”

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-28 04:26:53

A: Città del Vaticano, Vatican City In 1948 The Catholic Church published the 32nd and final edition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the first of which had appeared in 1559. The edition was printed on inexpensive paper by the Typis Polyglotis Vaticanis, in Vatican City, and issued in drab printed boards. Its 24 preliminary pages contained a preface in Italian and another in Latin, strongly suggesting that the book was intended mainly for priests, all of whom would have read Latin at this ti

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Government expands police use of facial recognition vans

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-28 06:40:11

Government expands police use of facial recognition vans 3 hours ago Share Save Share Save Home Office More live facial recognition (LFR) vans will be rolled out across seven police forces in England to locate suspects for crimes including sexual offences, violent assaults and homicides, the Home Office has announced. The forces will get access to 10 new vans equipped with cameras which scan the faces of people walking past and check them against a list of wanted people. The government says t

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A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-23 12:07:48

A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering Here's the situation: it's 1984, and you're assigned to write the spellchecker for a new MS-DOS word processor. Some users, but not many, will have 640K of memory in their PCs. You need to support systems with as little as 256K. That's a quarter megabyte to contain the word processor, the document being edited, and the memory needed by the operating system. Oh, and the spellchecker. For reference, on my MacBook, the standard dictio

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 13, #324

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-28 06:40:00

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition was really tough for me. Sometimes I wish the New York Times would switch from a Connections: Sports Edition puzzle to a Connections: Movie Edition, or Connections: Music Edition. My sports knowledge is maybe weaker than I thought. Read on for hints and the

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Match Group will pay $14 million to settle claims of deceptive business practices

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-28 16:45:06

The Federal Trade Commission announced that Match Group will pay $14 million to settle a complaint about deceptive practices. The settlement fee will be used to provide redress to injured customers of Match Group's dating services, which include Match.com, Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, and PlentyOfFish. The agency sued Match Group in 2019 on a series of allegations. According to the complaint, the dating service company had used misleading ads to encourage subscriptions and then made it difficult for

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A gentle introduction to anchor positioning

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-28 16:18:55

Anchor positioning allows you to place an element on the page based on where another element is. It makes it easier to create responsive menus and tooltips with less code using only CSS. Here’s how it works. Let’s say you have an avatar in your nav, like this: When you click the avatar, you want a menu to appear right below it. The clicking interaction can be handled with just CSS using the Popover API. But once you click, where does your menu show up? Figuring this out typically requires som

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 13, #794

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-29 02:00:07

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. I loved the blue group in today's NYT Connections puzzle. And if you're a music lover who's always found band names interesting, you might, too. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after

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AirPods May Finally Beam Live Translations Right Into Your Ears

gizmodo.com Raymond Wong 2025-11-29 11:28:01

A buttload of new iPhone 17 glass slabs and Apple Watches aren’t the only new products Apple is expected to debut at its annual fall launch next month. The latest iOS 26 developer beta 6 that just dropped yesterday has references for a real-time translation feature that will almost certainly be announced for AirPods. Basically, instead of pulling open the Google Translate or Apple Translate app on your phone, you could simply talk to a person normally, and the AirPods in your ears will be able t

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Match to pay $14M to the FTC due to false advertising and other deceptive practices

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-11-29 11:56:28

Back in 2019, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued the dating app giant Match Group, accusing it of deceiving Match.com users into purchasing subscriptions through misleading means. Now, after six years, the company— which operates popular dating apps Match, Tinder, OkCupid, Hinge, and Plenty of Fish—has agreed to a $14 million settlement, as announced by the FTC on Tuesday. The FTC stated that the $14 million will be used to provide “redress to injured consumers.” According to the la

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Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 18:48:24

Once the basics were done, the real game of Tetris began: First up, just like the conferencing capabilities, we segmented the work modes into 4 distinct groups. It was clear that the space was simply not large enough to support dedicated areas, so we took the equipment and requirements list, and started playing with shelf numbers and their height and made sure that each item is in its best possible ergonomic position. The by far largest amount of devices by volume and space were the musical in

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Can modern LLMs count the number of b's in "blueberry"?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 21:12:02

Last week, OpenAI announced and released GPT-5, and the common consensus both inside the AI community and outside is that the new LLM did not live up to the hype. Bluesky — whose community is skeptical at-best of generative AI in all its forms — began putting the model through its paces: Michael Paulauski asked GPT-5 through the ChatGPT app interface “how many b’s are there in blueberry?”. A simple question that a human child could answer correctly, but ChatGPT states that there are three b’s in

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Apple's rumored live translation feature for AirPods could be coming with iOS 26

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-30 02:27:15

Apple's AirPods could be getting a live translation feature in the near future as part of iOS 26, according to a report by 9to5Mac . A new beta version of the operating system dropped today and users have spotted a system asset that strongly points to the earbuds getting a language translation tool. The asset appears to depict a gesture that's triggered by pressing both earbud stems at once. The image shows a pair of AirPods surrounded by words in various languages, like English, French, German

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Anthropic offers its Claude AI model to the federal government for $1

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-30 02:42:17

Anthropic has announced it will offer its Claude AI model to all three branches of the US government for $1, following OpenAI offering an almost identical deal last week. These deals both follow the General Services Administration adding OpenAI, Gemini and Anthropic to a list of approved AI vendors for the federal government. Similar to the OpenAI deal, Anthropic will offer access to its commercial-tier service Claude for Enterprise for a period of one year at a cost of just $1. The offer will

Topics: administration ai anthropic federal government

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A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 18:07:48

A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering Here's the situation: it's 1984, and you're assigned to write the spellchecker for a new MS-DOS word processor. Some users, but not many, will have 640K of memory in their PCs. You need to support systems with as little as 256K. That's a quarter megabyte to contain the word processor, the document being edited, and the memory needed by the operating system. Oh, and the spellchecker. For reference, on my MacBook, the standard dictio

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Pebblebee’s AirTag alternative can now share your real-time location in an emergency

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-11-30 02:00:00

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. In July, Pebblebee announced a new safety feature for its Clip location tracker. Called Alert, it turns the Apple AirTag alternative into a panic alarm. Rapidly pressing the Clip’s button activates a flashing light and loud 97-decibel siren while also trigger

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Google will now let you pick your top sources for search results

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-11-30 02:00:00

Google is rolling out a new feature called “Preferred Sources” in the U.S. and India, which allows users to select their preferred choice of news sites and blogs to be shown in the Top Stories section of Google’s search results. Enabling this feature means you will see more content from the sites you like, the company says. When users search for a particular topic, they will see a “star” icon next to the Top Stories section. They can tap on that icon and start adding sources by searching for th

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275M patient records breached—How to meet HIPAA password manager requirements

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-30 11:57:05

In 2024, the healthcare sector experienced over 700 data breach incidents, which is higher than any other industry, including finance. These breaches exposed more than 275 million patient records, with password-related vulnerabilities serving as the primary attack vector in most of the cases. While threat actors use various penetration methods, compromised credentials remain the most consistent and damaging entry point. These statistics reflect a fundamental threat to patient and organizationa

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Manpower discloses data breach affecting nearly 145,000 people

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-30 16:19:30

Manpower, one of the world's largest staffing companies, is notifying nearly 145,000 individuals that their information was stolen by attackers who breached the company's systems in December 2024. Together with Experis and Talent Solutions, the company is part of ManpowerGroup, a multinational corporation with over 600,000 workers in more than 2,700 offices and serving over 100,000 clients worldwide. Last year, ManpowerGroup reported revenues of $17.9 billion and a total gross profit of $3.1 bi

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The Rise of the US Military’s Clandestine Foreign War Apparatus

wired.com Seth Harp 2025-12-01 03:00:00

The 2020s are shaping up to be one of the most violent decades in modern history, with American-sponsored proxy conflicts and shadow wars smoldering all over the world, from Ukraine to Yemen to Gaza. The United States enables and prolongs these wars not by sending troops to fight in them, but by trafficking arms to the belligerents, providing intelligence to its favored proxies, and using covert operations, especially assassinations, to shape geopolitical conditions. At the forefront of these cl

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All known 49-year-old Apple-1 computer

news.ycombinator.com Achim Baqué 2025-11-26 21:32:57

If nothing happens, click Loading...If nothing happens, click here Notes = location, = batch, numbers/stamps/labels, = verification status, = picture and video count, = available history, = auctions. 'More or less verified': To the best of our knowledge and belief, evidence is almost given or obvious. Many times the current owner is unknown, pictures might be old, etc.! Unlisted Apple-1: The Apple-1 Registry is in contact with some owners who wish to have no information published. We respe

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Don't fall for AI-powered disinformation attacks online - here's how to stay sharp

zdnet.com Dan Patterson 2025-12-01 04:29:38

JuSun/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways AI-powered narrative attacks, or misinformation campaigns, are on the rise. These can create real business, brand, personal, and financial harm. Here are expert tips on how to spot and protect yourself against them. Last month, an old friend forwarded me a video that made my stomach drop. In it, what appeared to be violent protesters streaming down the streets of a major city, holding signs accusing the government and business officials of "censoring

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Chris Simpkins, creator of Hack font, has died

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 04:51:53

To use the Mastodon web application, please enable JavaScript. Alternatively, try one of the native apps for Mastodon for your platform.

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Study: Social media probably can't be fixed

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Match Group will pay $14 million to settle claims of deceptive business practices

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Match to pay $14M to the FTC due to false advertising and other deceptive practices

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Can modern LLMs count the number of b's in "blueberry"?

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Chris Simpkins, creator of Hack font, has died

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