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news.ycombinator.com Seth Richardson 2025-11-24 14:03:24

You click a link in your chat app, your browser with a hundred tabs comes to the front and opens that page. How hard can it be? Well, you probably know by now that Wayland, unlike X, doesn’t let one application force its idiot wishes on everyone else. In order for an application to bring its window to the front, it needs to make use of the XDG Activation protocol. A KWrite window that failed to activate and instead is weeping bitterly for attention in the task bar In essence, an application ca

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I don't read your email threads

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 08:15:11

I Don't Read Your Email Threads 08 Aug, 2025 Email threads have got to be one of the worst possible forms of communication. You've been here before. A perfectly respectable morning is passing by. You're working through your items at a chipper pace maybe humming a song you heard on Spotify that morning. Then, the dreaded email thread comes through. Innocently, you click into the top email. The only text is "[Your Name] see below." I hate this and I bet you do too. Suddenly, you're transporte

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Age Verification Is Sweeping Gaming. Is It Ready for the Age of AI Fakes?

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-11-28 15:30:00

In July, Siyan, a UK-based Discord user, logged on one morning and found himself unable to access some of his text chats marked NSFW. The channel, a popup informed him, was now age-restricted. The United Kingdom had enacted its far reaching child safety laws, which includes an age requirement system to verify users are over 18. Discord’s updates required users to verify their age, either by government ID or a face scan. Siyan (who requested to only be referred to by his screen name for privacy

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Instagram's map feature spurs user backlash over geolocation privacy concerns

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-11-29 06:12:04

The launch of an Instagram feature that details users' geolocation data illicited backlash from social media users on Thursday. Meta debuted the Instagram Map tool on Wednesday, pitching the feature as way to "stay up-to-date with friends" by letting users share their "last active location." The tool is akin to Snapchat's Snap Map feature that lets people see where their friends are posting from. Although Meta said in a blog post that the feature's "location sharing is off unless you opt in,"

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How to use Instagram Map and set your location-sharing preferences

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-11-30 02:05:42

This week, Instagram introduced a new Snap Map-like feature called Instagram Map that lets U.S. users share their most recent active location with others and discover location-based content. If you decide to turn on your location on Instagram Map, your location only updates when you open the app or have it running in the background, meaning it doesn’t provide continuous, real-time location updates. This is different from Snap Map, which lets users choose whether their location is updated only w

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Zero-day flaws in authentication, identity, authorization in HashiCorp Vault

news.ycombinator.com Written By 2025-11-29 16:01:42

Introduction: when the trust model can’t be trusted Secrets vaults are the backbone of digital infrastructure. They store the credentials, tokens, and certificates that govern access to systems, services, APIs, and data. They’re not just a part of the trust model, they are the trust model. In other words, if your vault is compromised, your infrastructure is already lost. Driven by the understanding that vaults are high-value targets for attackers, our research team at Cyata set out to conduct

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Adam Mosseri says 'people are confused' about how the Instagram map works

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-30 11:47:40

Yesterday, Meta introduced a new map feature that's almost identical to Snapchat's Snap Map. The feature has quickly sparked a backlash, though, and not just because it's yet another example of Instagram ripping off a Snapchat feature. While the map requires users to opt-in to share their location, many users were surprised and alarmed to see that their Instagram map was already populated with the locations of some accounts when it launched. That's because the map automatically pulls in locatio

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Instagram lets you see your friends' locations now, and vice versa - here's how

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-11-30 20:44:00

Instagram / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's takeaways Instagram is unveiling several new features. Its new Snapchat-style map lets you see where your friends are. There's also a new way to see content your friends are interacting with. Meta has unveiled a number of changes to Instagram, all aimed at helping you better connect with your friends and their favorite content. A new location-sharing map is on the way, along with new ways to find content. A Snapchat-style friend map Maybe t

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Instagram adds a new friends map feature that sure looks a lot like the Snap Map

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-01 02:29:40

Instagram just announced an update with some long-requested features. The most notable is the introduction of a location-sharing tool for friends, though the long-awaited reposting tool is nothing ot sneeze at, either. Once opted into, the map shares a user's last active location with chosen contacts. The location sharing feature is turned off until selected and there are numerous customization controls. For instance, Instagram users can choose to share location data with all friends, Close Fri

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Cracking the Vault: How we found zero-day flaws in HashiCorp Vault

news.ycombinator.com Written By 2025-12-02 04:01:42

Introduction: when the trust model can’t be trusted Secrets vaults are the backbone of digital infrastructure. They store the credentials, tokens, and certificates that govern access to systems, services, APIs, and data. They’re not just a part of the trust model, they are the trust model. In other words, if your vault is compromised, your infrastructure is already lost. Driven by the understanding that vaults are high-value targets for attackers, our research team at Cyata set out to conduct

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OpenAI’s new GPT-5 models announced early by GitHub

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-12-02 04:29:37

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. GitHub has accidentally announced OpenAI’s new range of GPT-5 models. A now-deleted GitHub blog post reveals that GPT-5, which will be available in four different versions, offers “major improvements in reasoning, code quality, and user experience.” Reddit posters noticed a new GitHub blog

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Is Economics education fit for the 21st Century?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 02:16:30

The first quarter of the 21st century has seen seismic shifts in the politics, society, and economy of the United Kingdom. As economics thinkers and graduates, Rethinking Economics is concerned that economics education remains out of step with these shifts. What is taught in university classrooms informs how society perceives and will tackle these challenges, from engaging in climate science to the reality of Britain’s colonial past. This report assesses the extent to which university education

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Instagram Adds New Features, Including Reposts and Maps

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-02 23:59:00

Instagram has launched new features aimed at further connecting users with their online contacts, the company announced Wednesday. One involves sharing public feed posts and reels, another shares locations with others on an Instagram map, and a new Friends tab shows what content your contacts have liked or commented on. For reposts, you'll be able to share public reels and feed posts from other users. The original poster will be credited and those reshares will appear in the sharer's profile in

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Instagram's new location sharing feature sure looks a lot like the Snap Map

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-03 05:08:11

Instagram just announced an update with some long-requested features. The most notable is the introduction of a location-sharing tool for friends. Once opted into, the map shares a user's last active location with chosen contacts. The location sharing feature is turned off until selected and there are numerous customization controls. For instance, Instagram users can choose to share location data with all friends, Close Friends, selected accounts or nobody at all. This data can be restricted wh

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Instagram adds two familiar social media features to its app

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-03 08:49:56

Meta is updating Instagram today with some familiar social network features from other services. For example, the photo- and video-sharing service is basically getting its own version of the classic retweet. Separately, Instagram continues to take inspiration from Snapchat with its own social map feature. Instagram is two months shy of turning 15, and as a sign of maturity, we’re getting the first official repost button: With reposts, you can repost public reels and feed posts, making it easie

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Instagram takes on Snapchat with new ‘Instagram Map’

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-04 02:00:00

Instagram is rolling out Instagram Map, a new feature that lets users share their most recent active location with others and discover location-based content. The Meta-owned social network is also launching reposts, and making its “Friends” tab in Reels available globally. With its new map feature, Instagram is copying yet another popular feature from Snapchat, after cloning the app’s core Stories functionality back in 2016. Instagram is coming for Snap Map’s crown, a feature that recently surp

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The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy

news.ycombinator.com Brian Merchant 2025-12-05 15:19:25

Greetings all — Busy week in BITM land. Got home from some travel only to take off to SF to speak on a panel about AI and work for a CalMatters conference with state lawmakers and labor leaders, and made it back to LA in time for the 404 live event night, where I had the pleasure of bumping into a bunch of BITM readers. I met ambitious students examining the history of tech and labor in the entertainment industry, veteran tech policy campaigners, and some young critical journos. You all are the

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The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)

news.ycombinator.com Brian Merchant 2025-12-05 21:19:25

Greetings all — Busy week in BITM land. Got home from some travel only to take off to SF to speak on a panel about AI and work for a CalMatters conference with state lawmakers and labor leaders, and made it back to LA in time for the 404 live event night, where I had the pleasure of bumping into a bunch of BITM readers. I met ambitious students examining the history of tech and labor in the entertainment industry, veteran tech policy campaigners, and some young critical journos. You all are the

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Objects should shut up

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 16:33:49

I have a small car, and it has a dual-tank: gas and LPG, which is a great way to reduce my car-related budget, as LPG is way cheaper. Unfortunately, when the tank is starting to get depleted, the car will emit strident and loud beeps to notify me about it. And every single time time, it startles me like Hell, which isn't something I appreciate very much, especially when I'm steering a 1 ton metal box to overtake a trailer at 130km/h on the highway. To make things even double-plus-good, a full-sc

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Breaking the Visual Barrier: AI Sonification for an Inclusive Data-Driven World

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-12-08 15:46:06

Bridging the Visual Gap with Sound in 2025 As AI innovations reshape technology landscapes in 2025, accessibility for visually impaired users is gaining unprecedented momentum. Currently, an estimated 285 million people globally experience some degree of visual impairment, limiting their ability to fully engage with visually driven data environments. AI-enhanced sonification—the transformation of data into intuitive audible signals driven by cutting-edge artificial intelligence—has emerged as a

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The best GPS trackers for kids recommended by parents in 2025

zdnet.com Allison Murray 2025-12-09 11:47:00

Why we like it: The Apple AirTag is an affordable and accurate solution to keep track of your child's location. It works with the Find My app and seamlessly integrates with the Apple ecosystem. Apple's AirTags are about the size of a quarter, and there are countless accessories you can use to attach the small tracker to a jacket, backpack, or even slip it into your child's pocket. The device uses an easily replaceable CR2032 battery lasts that lasts around a year. The AirTag offers a solid per

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New Plague Linux malware stealthily maintains SSH access

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-09 16:42:06

A newly discovered Linux malware, which has evaded detection for over a year, allows attackers to gain persistent SSH access and bypass authentication on compromised systems. Nextron Systems security researchers, who identified the malware and dubbed it "Plague," describe it as a malicious Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) that uses layered obfuscation techniques and environment tampering to avoid detection by traditional security tools. This malware features anti-debugging capabilities to

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How to make almost anything (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-09 20:28:29

My name is D. Sculley. I lead several teams at Google in Cambridge doing research in various aspects of machine learning. I'm involved in this course because many of our current projects involve the use of machine learning for design or fabrication problems of one form or another, including in the biology space and the chemistry space. I'm interested in learning more about other forms of fabrication and seeing if there are interesting cross-domain opportunities to think about. Here is my Google

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How To Make (almost) Anything (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-10 02:28:29

My name is D. Sculley. I lead several teams at Google in Cambridge doing research in various aspects of machine learning. I'm involved in this course because many of our current projects involve the use of machine learning for design or fabrication problems of one form or another, including in the biology space and the chemistry space. I'm interested in learning more about other forms of fabrication and seeing if there are interesting cross-domain opportunities to think about. Here is my Google

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The Rickover Corpus: A digital archive of Admiral Rickover's speeches and memos

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-10 02:59:57

“Any comparison of the Soviet and U.S. Navy must be viewed from the context that we are a maritime power dependent upon being able to maintain sea lanes of communication necessary to conduct military operations overseas and to support our allies. The mission of our navy is a far more difficult one than that of the Soviets of denying us free use of the seas. We have given up any chance of matching the Soviet Navy in number of ships. Therefore the quality of our ships must be superior. It is axiom

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Show HN: TraceRoot – Open-source agentic debugging for distributed services

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 04:58:51

TraceRoot is an open-source debugging platform that helps engineers fix production issues 10x faster by combining structured traces, logs, and source code context with AI-powered analysis. Contributing | TraceRoot.AI | Community | SDK | Documentation Join us (Discord) in pushing the boundaries of debugging with AI agents. Please 🌟 Star TraceRoot on GitHub and be instantly notified of new releases. TraceRoot Framework Design Principles 🤖 Intelligence The framework enables multi-agent systems

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Terence Tao's NSF grants suspended

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 10:39:09

JavaScript Required This is a heavily interactive web application, and JavaScript is required. Simple HTML interfaces are possible, but that is not what this is. Learn more about Bluesky at bsky.social and atproto.com.

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How Hyper Built a 1m-Accurate Indoor GPS

news.ycombinator.com Andrew Hart 2025-12-09 12:01:17

To @AndrewHartAR: “Our app is shit and we know it’s shit”. My life changed forever when a senior exec from one of the world’s largest retailers messaged me on Twitter. This was back in 2017. My outdoor AR navigation demos had just gone viral, and my new open-source project for Apple had elevated me to be the top trending iOS developer on GitHub. Every developer meet-up I went to, everyone now seemed to know who I was. I was on top of the world. I agreed to meet the exec for coffee in London, a

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Age Verification Doesn't Need to Be a Privacy Footgun

news.ycombinator.com View Archive 2025-12-12 18:19:54

“Won’t someone think of the poor children?” they say, clutching their pearls as they enact another stupid law that will harm the privacy of every adult on Earth and create Prior Restraint that inhibits the freedom of speech in liberal democracies. If you’re totally ignorant of how things work, the proposal of “verifying you’re an adult” before you access adult content sounds, superficially, like a reasonable thing to do. But it’s a patently stupid idea at every level. Age Verification Makes Th

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Proton launches free and open-source Authenticator app to take on Google and Microsoft

techspot.com Kishalaya Kundu 2025-12-14 02:20:00

What just happened? Swiss technology company Proton has expanded its privacy-focused software lineup with the launch of Proton Authenticator, a free and open-source two-factor authentication app. Best known for its encrypted webmail service, Proton also offers a VPN, password manager, cloud storage, and an online document editor. Proton Authenticator is positioned as a privacy-focused alternative to authentication apps from Google, Microsoft, Authy, and Duo. It replaces legacy SMS-based verific

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Latest Tech News

Window Activation

I don't read your email threads

Age Verification Is Sweeping Gaming. Is It Ready for the Age of AI Fakes?

Instagram's map feature spurs user backlash over geolocation privacy concerns

How to use Instagram Map and set your location-sharing preferences

Zero-day flaws in authentication, identity, authorization in HashiCorp Vault

Adam Mosseri says 'people are confused' about how the Instagram map works

Instagram lets you see your friends' locations now, and vice versa - here's how

Instagram adds a new friends map feature that sure looks a lot like the Snap Map

Cracking the Vault: How we found zero-day flaws in HashiCorp Vault

OpenAI’s new GPT-5 models announced early by GitHub

Is Economics education fit for the 21st Century?

Instagram Adds New Features, Including Reposts and Maps

Instagram's new location sharing feature sure looks a lot like the Snap Map

Instagram adds two familiar social media features to its app

Instagram takes on Snapchat with new ‘Instagram Map’

The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy

The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)

Objects should shut up

Breaking the Visual Barrier: AI Sonification for an Inclusive Data-Driven World

The best GPS trackers for kids recommended by parents in 2025

New Plague Linux malware stealthily maintains SSH access

How to make almost anything (2019)

How To Make (almost) Anything (2019)

The Rickover Corpus: A digital archive of Admiral Rickover's speeches and memos

Show HN: TraceRoot – Open-source agentic debugging for distributed services

Terence Tao's NSF grants suspended

How Hyper Built a 1m-Accurate Indoor GPS

Age Verification Doesn't Need to Be a Privacy Footgun

Proton launches free and open-source Authenticator app to take on Google and Microsoft

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