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news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-19 02:17:35

What to look out for when shopping online Hidden costs Hidden costs are extra costs you only find out about towards the end of your purchase, or which are made less obvious. They include pre-selected extras you may not want and add-ons presented so you feel you have to buy them. Some hidden costs are even sneakier, such as a pre-selected free trial period for a service that renews automatically if you don’t cancel before it ends - charging your card for an ongoing membership. Trick questions

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NSW Fair Trading – Dark Patterns

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-20 08:17:35

What to look out for when shopping online Hidden costs Hidden costs are extra costs you only find out about towards the end of your purchase, or which are made less obvious. They include pre-selected extras you may not want and add-ons presented so you feel you have to buy them. Some hidden costs are even sneakier, such as a pre-selected free trial period for a service that renews automatically if you don’t cancel before it ends - charging your card for an ongoing membership. Trick questions

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The hype is the product

news.ycombinator.com Michał 2026-01-22 02:50:48

Large publicly traded tech companies seem to no longer consider their customers – that is, people and organizations who actually buy their products or pay for access to their services – their core focus. The focus has instead turned towards the stock price. Their real clients, the entities they really care about, are the stockholders. Reasons are many, perhaps one of them being that people making decisions tend to own stock options or have bonuses tied to stock performance of the companies they

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The Hype is the Product

news.ycombinator.com Michał 2026-01-22 14:50:48

Large publicly traded tech companies seem to no longer consider their customers – that is, people and organizations who actually buy their products or pay for access to their services – their core focus. The focus has instead turned towards the stock price. Their real clients, the entities they really care about, are the stockholders. Reasons are many, perhaps one of them being that people making decisions tend to own stock options or have bonuses tied to stock performance of the companies they

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Hackers plant 4G Raspberry Pi on bank network in failed ATM heist

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-23 00:47:52

The UNC2891 hacking group, also known as LightBasin, used a 4G-equipped Raspberry Pi hidden in a bank's network to bypass security defenses in a newly discovered attack. The single-board computer was physically connected to the ATM network switch, creating an invisible channel into the bank's internal network, allowing the attackers to move laterally and deploy backdoors. According to Group-IB, which discovered the intrusion while investigating suspicious activity on the network, the goal of t

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A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-24 22:24:23

A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat 2023-08-31 For the last month, I’ve been using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat between me and my wife Sandra, at least. Sandra and I switched from using Matrix to using XMPP a while back. Matrix was pretty good for messaging, although quite a few encryption-related issues, but it - or my installation of it, possibly - was unreliable for audio and video. Sometimes it would work, sometimes it would not. Moving to XMPP - usi

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With iOS 26, Safari will counter one of the web’s most invasive tracking methods

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-25 10:07:41

Introduced for Private Browsing sessions in Safari 17.0, Advanced Fingerprinting Protection was also optionally available for regular non-private sessions. With iOS 26, it will be enabled by default. Here’s what that means. Starting with iOS 26 (as well as iPad 26, and macOS 26), Apple is flipping the switch on Advanced Fingerprinting Protection for all browsing sessions, not just Private Browsing. From Apple’s iOS 26 press release: “Browsing in Safari gets even more private with advanced fing

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A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-25 10:24:23

A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat 2023-08-31 For the last month, I’ve been using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat between me and my wife Sandra, at least. Sandra and I switched from using Matrix to using XMPP a while back. Matrix was pretty good for messaging, although quite a few encryption-related issues, but it - or my installation of it, possibly - was unreliable for audio and video. Sometimes it would work, sometimes it would not. Moving to XMPP - usi

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DOJ Has a Copy of the Epstein Jail Video With the ‘Missing Minute’: Report

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-01-25 10:00:24

When the U.S. Department of Justice released a nearly 11-hour video in early July that purported to show the last time Jeffrey Epstein was seen alive, people couldn’t help but notice that there was a full minute missing. Attorney General Pam Bondi insisted there was a simple explanation: That’s just how the jail’s antiquated camera systems work. But a new report claims Bondi isn’t telling the truth. The report from CBS News cites a “government source familiar with the investigation” who told th

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EE to launch phone plans which restrict internet for teens

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-27 02:11:08

EE to launch phone plans which restrict internet for teens 51 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon & Zoe Kleinman Technology reporter and editor Share Save Getty Images EE is introducing new phone plans next month which it says will restrict the internet for teens - so long as they don't use wi-fi. Its new Sim-only mobile plans will filter the web at different levels depending on the age of the child using it, with three separate tiers of protections. The plans will also have other features suc

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Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-27 00:34:15

What is Pony?¶ Pony is an open-source, object-oriented, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language. If you are looking to jump in and get started with Pony right now, you can try it in your browser using the Pony Playground. Keep reading if you are interested in what makes Pony different and why you should consider using it. If you are interested in the early history of Pony and how it came into existence, you’re in luck: “An Early History of Pony”.

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My First Look at T-Mobile's Unique Starlink T-Satellite Service Made Me Head Far From Home

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-27 06:18:00

Is T-Mobile's new T-Satellite service worth $10 a month to be able to text from almost anywhere outside cellular coverage areas? The Starlink-based satellite service can be a convenience if you're camping or hiking remote areas, but also a communications lifeline for people who don't have regular cellular access or need emergency aid. To test it out, though, I had to find a cellular dead zone. T-Mobile estimates there are 500,000 square miles in the US with no cell coverage, so I left my home i

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Why I write recursive descent parsers, despite their issues (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-24 23:07:42

You're using a tool with a too-generic User-Agent You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately whatever you're using to do so has a HTTP User-Agent header value that is too generic or otherwise excessively suspicious. Unfortunately, as of early 2025 there's a plague of high volume crawlers (apparently in part to gather data for LLM training) that behave like this. To reduce th

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IBM Keyboard Patents

news.ycombinator.com Admiral Shark'S Keyboards 2026-01-29 15:30:27

JavaScript disabled or not supported It appears you have prevented JavaScript from running in your web browser or are using a web browser that does not support JavaScript. Admiral Shark's Keyboards presently requires JavaScript for quality-of-life features like switching between light/dark mode, navigating via title or image and copying search query links, and is necessary for the keyboard matrix simulators, keyboard property modals, interactable slideshows and image size optimisation. Please c

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The Sail instruction-set semantics specification language

news.ycombinator.com Alasdair Armstrong 2026-01-29 09:59:00

Implicit parameters are always integers, and they must appear first before any other parameters in the function type signature. The first argument can then just be omitted when calling the function, like so: Functions may also have implicit parameters, e.g. we can implement a zero extension function that implicitly picks up its result length from the calling context as follows: Sail will also ensure that the output of our function has precisely the length bits('n * 'm) for all possible inputs

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Getting decent error reports in Bash when you're using 'set -e'

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-26 05:40:27

You're using a tool with a too-generic User-Agent You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately whatever you're using to do so has a HTTP User-Agent header value that is too generic or otherwise excessively suspicious. Unfortunately, as of early 2025 there's a plague of high volume crawlers (apparently in part to gather data for LLM training) that behave like this. To reduce th

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An Entire Country Has to Be Evacuated Because of Climate Change

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-30 00:10:26

An Entire Country Has to Be Evacuated Because of Climate Change "The existential threat we face is not of our making. But it will remake us." Going Under Tuvalu, a small island nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is planning to evacuate all of its over 11,000 inhabitants, due to rising sea levels caused by climate change that mean, essentially, that the low-lying country has no feasible future. As Wired reports, the nation signed an agreement with Australia in 2023 to set up a migrati

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Intel is spinning off its Network and Edge group

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2026-01-30 00:34:18

In Brief Intel continues to streamline its business. The company plans to spin off its Network and Edge group, which is responsible for making chips for the telecom industry, as originally reported by CRN. Intel will be an anchor investor in the stand-alone business and will seek outside capital. Intel was rumored to be looking for a buyer for its Network and Edge group in May. This business produced $5.8 billion in revenue in 2024. This strategy seems similar to the company’s decision to sp

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Delta’s AI spying to “jack up” prices must be banned, lawmakers say

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-30 15:13:52

One week after Delta announced it is expanding a test using artificial intelligence to charge different prices based on customers' personal data—which critics fear could end cheap flights forever—Democratic lawmakers have moved to ban what they consider predatory surveillance pricing. In a press release, Reps. Greg Casar (D-Texas) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) announced the Stop AI Price Gouging and Wage Fixing Act. The law directly bans companies from using "surveillance-based" price or wage set

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Meta will stop running political ads in the EU

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-31 00:22:33

Meta will stop allowing political advertising on its platforms in the European Union as of October 2025, blaming the EU’s new "unworkable" transparency rules for what it called a "difficult decision." In a statement released by the company on Friday, Meta said the EU’s incoming Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising (TTPA) regulations presented it with "significant operational challenges and legal uncertainties." As of early October, users on any of Meta’s platforms in the EU will

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Meta to stop selling political ads in the EU from October

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2026-01-31 15:24:43

In response to the European Union’s incoming regulation of political advertising, Meta said on Friday that it will stop selling and showing political ads in the EU from October. Calling the legislation’s requirements “unworkable,” the tech giant wrote in a blog post that the law, dubbed Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising (TTPA), introduces “significant, additional obligations to our processes and systems that create an untenable level of complexity and legal uncertainty for adv

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Intel confirms it will dramatically cut its workforce by the end of 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-31 14:50:14

Intel provided more detail about the scope of its planned job cuts and other business changes while sharing its second-quarter earnings results. Reports in April suggested that Intel could eliminate around 20 percent of its staff in a restructuring plan. Today, the chipmaker said it anticipates having a core workforce of 75,000 employees by the end of 2025. It's a dramatic reduction considering that, at the close of the previous fiscal year, the company employed around 108,900 people. These cut

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Google is testing a vibe-coding app called Opal

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-02-01 06:22:51

AI-powered coding tools have become so popular over the past few months that almost every major tech company is either using one or making its own. Makers of these so-called “vibe-coding” tools are a hot commodity at the moment, with startups like Lovable and Cursor fending off buyers and investors keen to tap a hot trend. Google’s now become the latest to hop on this bandwagon: the company is testing a vibe-coding tool called Opal, available to users in the U.S. through Google Labs, which the

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Intel confirms it will cut a third of its workforce by the end of 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-01 20:50:14

Intel provided more detail about the scope of its planned job cuts and other business changes while sharing its second-quarter earnings results . Reports in April suggested that Intel could eliminate around 20 percent of its staff in a restructuring plan. Today, the chipmaker said it anticipates having a core workforce of 75,000 employees by the end of 2025. That's about a third less than the 108,900 people it employed at the close of the previous fiscal year. These cuts are part of the company

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Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-01 20:39:08

The global payments processing market is dominated by two major players: Visa and Mastercard. These two companies account for 90% of all payment processing outside of China and have a combined market value of approximately $850 billion. How is it possible that, in the era of global competition, such a large market niche is completely dominated by only two players? Let's explore this in-depth and examine the increasing challenges they face in protecting their market positions. Key Insights Domi

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How to Succeed as a Freelancer and Turn a Side Hustle into a Full-Time Career

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-02 12:43:55

Jeffrey Hazelwood/CNET Jamie Brindle has been freelancing for 16 years and is on a mission to "demystify" the freelance world. In 2020, amid a shaky job market and widespread rejection of corporate hustle culture, he started helping beginner freelancers become their own bosses. The expansion of remote work, advances in AI and the growth of influencer platforms have all led to a kind of self-employment boom. As Gen Zers and millennials find new ways to upgrade their skills in a flexible work se

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Intuit brings agentic AI to the mid-market, saving organizations 17 to 20 hours a month

venturebeat.com Sean Michael Kerner 2026-01-31 17:08:16

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Medium sized business are among the fastest-growing companies, but they face a technology paradox. They have outgrown small-business tools, but remain too small to use more robust enterprise solutions. This domain of the “mid-market,” which Intuit defines as companies that generate anywhere from $2.5 million to $100 million in annual reven

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'Sullivan's Crossing' Is Dominating My Netflix Feed. Why Have I Never Heard of It?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-03 04:00:04

Each week, Netflix releases a list of the Top 10 films and TV shows dominating the platform, and for the week of July 14, we noticed that not one, but two seasons of a TV show called Sullivan's Crossing are sitting among the most-watched titles. The poster for the series features two actors I'm pretty well-acquainted with: Scott Patterson and Chad Michael Murray. They both co-starred in Gilmore Girls, although Murray's stint was just for a few episodes early in the series before he got his real

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Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-03 09:28:31

If you are reading this article, you are most likely using a web browser, and you have some expectations or beliefs about online privacy and security. For example, I do not know what you are reading on other tabs on your web browser, and you would like to keep it that way. But the websites themselves know that you are reading a particular page on their website. They most likely know your IP address and if you are signed in to their website, they also know your identity. This is not unreasonable

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Checklists are hard, but still a good thing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-31 17:51:15

You're using a tool with a too-generic User-Agent You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately whatever you're using to do so has a HTTP User-Agent header value that is too generic or otherwise excessively suspicious. Unfortunately, as of early 2025 there's a plague of high volume crawlers (apparently in part to gather data for LLM training) that behave like this. To reduce th

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Latest Tech News

Dark patterns

NSW Fair Trading – Dark Patterns

The hype is the product

The Hype is the Product

Hackers plant 4G Raspberry Pi on bank network in failed ATM heist

A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat (2023)

With iOS 26, Safari will counter one of the web’s most invasive tracking methods

A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat

DOJ Has a Copy of the Epstein Jail Video With the ‘Missing Minute’: Report

EE to launch phone plans which restrict internet for teens

Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language

My First Look at T-Mobile's Unique Starlink T-Satellite Service Made Me Head Far From Home

Why I write recursive descent parsers, despite their issues (2020)

IBM Keyboard Patents

The Sail instruction-set semantics specification language

Getting decent error reports in Bash when you're using 'set -e'

An Entire Country Has to Be Evacuated Because of Climate Change

Intel is spinning off its Network and Edge group

Delta’s AI spying to “jack up” prices must be banned, lawmakers say

Meta will stop running political ads in the EU

Meta to stop selling political ads in the EU from October

Intel confirms it will dramatically cut its workforce by the end of 2025

Google is testing a vibe-coding app called Opal

Intel confirms it will cut a third of its workforce by the end of 2025

Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)

How to Succeed as a Freelancer and Turn a Side Hustle into a Full-Time Career

Intuit brings agentic AI to the mid-market, saving organizations 17 to 20 hours a month

'Sullivan's Crossing' Is Dominating My Netflix Feed. Why Have I Never Heard of It?

Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought (2023)

Checklists are hard, but still a good thing

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