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YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers

news.ycombinator.com Ben Schoon 2025-09-19 21:29:10

Over the past month or so, many YouTubers have been reporting major drops to their video view counts. Theories have run wild, but there’s one explanation involving ad blockers that makes the most sense, but YouTube isn’t confirming anything directly. Since mid-August, many YouTubers have noticed their view counts are considerably lower than they were before, in some cases with very drastic drops. The reason for the drop, though, has been shrouded in mystery for many creators. The most likely e

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Accelerated Game of Life with CUDA / Triton

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 01:46:02

Let’s look at implementing Conway’s Game of Life using a graphics card. I want to experiment with different libraries and techniques, to see how to get the best performance. I’m going to start simple, and get increasingly complex as we dive in. The Game Of Life is a simple cellular automata, so should be really amenable to GPU acceleration. The rules are simple: Each cell in the 2d grid is either alive or dead. At each step, count the alive neighbours of the cell (including diagonals). If the c

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Dwayne Johnson Casually Confirms ‘Jumanji 4’ Is Really Happening and Has a Release Date

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-03 13:00:00

Dwayne Johnson is on the media circuit at TIFF for his UFC biopic film, The Smashing Machine, but that didn’t stop him from giving a quick—but crucial—update to his reboot blockbuster series, Jumanji. According to Screen Rant, Johnson announced that a fourth installment in the series—more specifically, a third starring The Rock—is coming next year. While the news that a fourth Jumanji film is coming isn’t itself new, its status has been a little up in the air since at least 2021. Suffering from

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ICEBlock handled my vulnerability report in the worst possible way

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 13:38:49

Last week, I wrote about how Joshua Aaron's ICEBlock app, which allows people to anonymously report ICE sightings within a 5-mile radius, is – unfortunately, and despite apparent good intentions – activism theater. This was based on Joshua's talk at HOPE where he made it clear that he isn't taking the advice of local community groups, that ICE sightings aren't verified in any way, and that he doesn't know what he's doing when it comes to security and privacy. In that post, in the section about

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iPhone app alerts users to nearby ICE sightings

news.ycombinator.com Clare Duffy 2025-10-05 01:02:56

New York CNN — Joshua Aaron has worked in and around the tech industry for around two decades. He built his first app — a blackjack game — at computer camp when he was 13. His newest app is designed for a very different purpose: to let users alert people nearby to sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in their area. Aaron launched the platform, called ICEBlock, in early April after watching President Donald Trump’s administration begin its immigration crackdown. The White Ho

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This Common Heart Attack Drug May Actually Be Worthless for Most People

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-14 01:50:06

A common treatment given after heart attacks may not be worthwhile for a large segment of the population. New trial data finds that most people who suffer a heart attack do not benefit from taking beta-blockers afterward. A large international team of researchers conducted the trial, which compared the outcomes of nearly 10,000 heart attack patients who were either given beta-blocker therapy or not. “This trial will reshape all international clinical guidelines.’ On average, people with prese

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Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-15 13:19:31

At this summer's HOPE conference, Joshua Aaron spoke about ICEBlock, his iPhone app that allows users to anonymously report ICE sightings within a 5 mile radius, and to get notifications when others report ICE sightings near them. You can see the full talk, and the lively/infuriating Q&A, here, starting at 6:12:10. Thanks to repression from the highest levels of the Trump administration, his app has gone viral and garnered over a million downloads from the App Store. Karoline Leavitt called it

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Making Minecraft Spherical

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 14:12:34

Blocky Planet is a tech demo I created in the Unity game engine that attempts to map Minecraft’s cubic voxels onto a spherical planet. The planet is procedurally generated and fully destructible, allowing players to place or remove more than 20 different block types. While much of the implementation relies on common techniques you’d expect from your average Kirkland brand Minecraft clone, the spherical structure introduces a number of unique design considerations. This post will focus on these

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Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 05:43:05

Indonesia is currently in chaos. Earlier today, the government blocked access to Twitter & Discord knowing news spread mainly through those channels. Usually we can use Cloudflare's WARP to avoid it, but just today they blocked the access as well. What alternative should we use?

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The White House Is Going to Put Government Statistics on the Blockchain (Yeah, We Don’t Know Why Either)

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-24 16:20:38

Remember back in 2017 when Bitcoin’s price soared and companies started promising to add everything to the blockchain? It was an embarrassing era, since blockchain technology has very few practical purposes that can’t be solved by a regular, old-school database. But it sounds like the White House just got the memo and wants to usher in the world of 2017 again. President Donald Trump held a televised “cabinet meeting ” at the White House on Tuesday that clocked in at over 3 hours and 15 minutes.

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A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 15:27:19

My website: Publishing Germany's secret internet blocklist In Germany, we have the Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet (CUII) - literally 'Copyright Clearinghouse for the Internet', a private organization that decides what websites to block, corporate interests rewriting our free internet. No judges, no transparency, just a bunch of ISPs and major copyright holders deciding what your eyes can see. I decided to create a website, cuiiliste.de, to find blocked domains, as the CUII refuses to

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A German ISP tampered with their DNS – specifically to sabotage my website

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 20:27:19

My website: Publishing Germany's secret internet blocklist In Germany, we have the Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet (CUII) - literally 'Copyright Clearinghouse for the Internet', a private organization that decides what websites to block, corporate interests rewriting our free internet. No judges, no transparency, just a bunch of ISPs and major copyright holders deciding what your eyes can see. I decided to create a website, cuiiliste.de, to find blocked domains, as the CUII refuses to

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Ether notches first new record since 2021 after Powell speech teasing rate cuts

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-10-29 00:02:35

The second-largest cryptocurrency surged 15% late Friday, rising as high as $4,885.00 and surpassing its November 2021 record of $4,866.01. The price of ether smashed through its 2021 record on Friday after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hinted at upcoming rate cuts and investors returned to risk-on mode. The moves came during Powell's annual address from Jackson Hole, Wyoming. "With policy in restrictive territory, the baseline outlook and the shifting balance of risks may warrant adjust

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Bluesky blocks Mississippi under new age verification law

theverge.com Adi Robertson 2025-10-29 04:09:14

is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. Bluesky will block access from Mississippi IP addresses in response to a new state law requiring age verification and parental consent for underage users. The decision, outlined in a blog post, will stand until courts decide the fate of the law. “Mississippi’s approach would fundamentally change how users access Bluesky,” says the

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Linear scan register allocation on SSA

news.ycombinator.com Max Bernstein 2025-10-30 16:17:37

Much of the code and education that resulted in this post happened with Aaron Patterson. The fundamental problem in register allocation is to take an IR that uses a virtual registers (as many as you like) and rewrite it to use a finite amount of physical registers and stack space. This is an example of a code snippet using virtual registers: add R1, R2 -> R3 add R1, R3 -> R4 ret R4 And here is the same example after it has been passed through a register allocator (note that Rs changed to Ps)

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The Block Stacking Problem

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 14:01:44

The Block Stacking Problem John D. Norton Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Pittsburgh https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/jdnorton.html February 21, 2025 1. Introduction In the block stacking problem, a collection of blocks are to be stacked at a table edge. If we stack the blocks so that they protrude past the edge of the table, how far can they go horizontally? The curious and then surprizing result is that we can extend the stack horizontally arbitrarily far.

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Another Crypto IPO Hits the Market and Most People Still Have No Idea What Crypto Is

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-08 04:50:36

Blockchain-based lender Figure Technology Solutions has officially filed for an initial public offering, marking another move by crypto-related firms seeking a slice of the trillion-dollar machine of public markets. Both crypto bros and the banks that love them are already celebrating the move to go public, which they say marks a significant milestone in the evolving intersection of cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, and mainstream finance. Analysts posit that this signals a broader shif

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Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 20:01:38

Block Reels & Shorts on Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, YouTube. Set scrolling limits on any app with antiscroll mode. No Ads, No Reels, No Shorts, No Distractions. iOS has some limitations,so it’s not technically possible to block Reels and Shorts the same way as on Android. Although it can't be done the same way, I’m building an iPhone app with a different approach to help cut down on scrolling addiction. Drop your email and I’ll let you know when is launched!

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Faster Index I/O with NVMe SSDs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 11:17:20

The Marginalia Search index has been partially rewritten to perform much better, using new data structures designed to make better use of modern hardware. This post will cover the new design, and will also touch upon some of the unexpected and unintuitive performance characteristics of NVMe SSDs when it comes to read sizes. The index is already fairly large, but can sometimes feel smaller than it is, and paradoxically, query performance is a big part of why. If each query has a budget of 100-25

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Over $300 million in cybercrime crypto seized in anti-fraud effort

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-13 17:15:34

More than $300 million worth of cryptocurrency linked to cybercrime and fraud schemes has been frozen due to two separate initiatives involving law enforcement and private companies. One initiative is the T3+ Global Collaborator Program launched by the T3 Financial Crime Unit (T3 FCU), a joint effort deployed almost a year ago by intelligence firm TRM Labs, TRON, and Tether, with Binance joining as the first official member - all major forces in the blockchain space. According to intelligence

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Block shares pop on full-year guidance boost

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-11-26 22:44:20

Block shares jumped 6% in extended trading on Thursday after the fintech company increased its forecast for the year. Here is how the company did, compared to analysts' consensus estimates from LSEG. Earnings per share: 62 cents adjusted vs. 69 cents expected 62 cents adjusted vs. 69 cents expected Revenue: $6.05 billion vs. $6.31 billion expected Revenue fell close to 2% from $6.16 billion a year earlier. Block said gross profit rose 14% from a year earlier to $2.54 billion, beating analyst

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Block shares pop 11% on full-year guidance boost

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-11-27 08:47:02

Jack Dorsey, co-founder and chief executive officer of Twitter Inc. and Square Inc., listens during the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida, on Friday, June 4, 2021. Block shares jumped in extended trading on Thursday after the fintech company increased its forecast for the year. Here is how the company did, compared to analysts' consensus estimates from LSEG. Earnings per share: 62 cents adjusted vs. 69 cents expected Block doesn't report a revenue figure, but said gross profit rose 1

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Linux PC acting up? Here's my first course of action (and why it fixes things most of the time)

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-28 02:53:00

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET I've had it happen before. Back when drives consisted of spinning, magnetic platters, that dreaded "tick" was a sure sign a hard drive was failing. Once upon a nightmare scenario, I waited too late and wound up losing everything on my drive. Sure, I could have recovered that data, but at a pretty high monetary cost. Also: The first 5 Linux commands every new user should learn Since then, I've always been vigilant about checking for bad blocks and sectors on hard drives.

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Senators are trying to force ISPs to block all foreign pirate sites

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-28 03:45:10

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Lawmakers have introduced a new bill aimed at countering “foreign piracy sites,” as reported earlier by TorrentFreak. The bill, called the Block Bad Electronic Art and Recording Distributors (Block BEARD) Act, would allow copyright holders to ask a federal court

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Linux PC acting up? Here's my first course of action (and why it fixes things 99% of the time)

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-28 08:53:00

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET I've had it happen before. Back when drives consisted of spinning, magnetic platters, that dreaded "tick" was a sure sign a hard drive was failing. Once upon a nightmare scenario, I waited too late and wound up losing everything on my drive. Sure, I could have recovered that data, but at a pretty high monetary cost. Also: The first 5 Linux commands every new user should learn Since then, I've always been vigilant about checking for bad blocks and sectors on hard drives.

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Tornado Cash sold crypto “privacy”; the US saw “money laundering.”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-28 22:29:20

"Crypto mixers" exist because of a peculiar feature of cryptocurrencies—most are fully traceable using their public blockchain ledgers. To provide more privacy to crypto account owners, a mixer will let people toss their crypto into a large pool, where it is "mixed" with other people's crypto. At a later date, each crypto owner can choose to withdraw their money from the pool into a new, anonymous wallet, thus making the movement of the crypto harder to track. Of course, the obfuscation doesn't

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Tornado Cash sold crypto “privacy”; the US saw “money laundering.” A jury isn’t sure what to think.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-29 04:29:20

"Crypto mixers" exist because of a peculiar feature of cryptocurrencies—most are fully traceable using their public blockchain ledgers. To provide more privacy to crypto account owners, a mixer will let people toss their crypto into a large pool, where it is "mixed" with other people's crypto. At a later date, each crypto owner can choose to withdraw their money from the pool into a new, anonymous wallet, thus making the movement of the crypto harder to track. Of course, the obfuscation doesn't

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Blocking LLMs from your website cuts you off from next-generation search

news.ycombinator.com John Wang 2025-11-30 05:38:09

Why blocking LLMs from your website is dumb John Wang 2 min read · 1 hour ago 1 hour ago -- Listen Share Perplexity was recently accused of scraping sites that had explicitly disallowed LLM crawlers in their robots.txt files. In the wake of that revelation, a wave of how-to guides for blocking large-language-model scraping has surfaced [0]. They’re generally highly vitriolic, with people opposing this on both moral grounds (“AI is stealing your content”) as well as displaying a general distaste

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How to check for bad blocks on a Linux PC hard drive (and why you shouldn't wait to do it)

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-01 03:21:00

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET I've had it happen before. Back when drives consisted of spinning, magnetic platters, that dreaded "tick" was a sure sign a hard drive was failing. Once upon a nightmare scenario, I waited too late and wound up losing everything on my drive. Sure, I could have recovered that data, but at a pretty high monetary cost. Also: The first 5 Linux commands every new user should learn Since then, I've always been vigilant about checking for bad blocks and sectors on hard drives.

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uBlock Origin Lite has finally arrived for Safari - with one important caveat

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-03 03:08:00

Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways The uBlock Origin Lite ad blocker extension has arrived for Safari. This extension is much better at blocking ads than most built-in blockers. Make sure to install the official extension -- we have the correct link. Ad-blocking software has become a necessity for many of us because ads have become intrusive. Some ads are so bad that they can bring a browser to a slow, grinding halt. Even worse, they sometimes contain code that can

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YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers

Accelerated Game of Life with CUDA / Triton

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Ether notches first new record since 2021 after Powell speech teasing rate cuts

Bluesky blocks Mississippi under new age verification law

Linear scan register allocation on SSA

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Another Crypto IPO Hits the Market and Most People Still Have No Idea What Crypto Is

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Faster Index I/O with NVMe SSDs

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Block shares pop on full-year guidance boost

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Linux PC acting up? Here's my first course of action (and why it fixes things most of the time)

Senators are trying to force ISPs to block all foreign pirate sites

Linux PC acting up? Here's my first course of action (and why it fixes things 99% of the time)

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Tornado Cash sold crypto “privacy”; the US saw “money laundering.” A jury isn’t sure what to think.

Blocking LLMs from your website cuts you off from next-generation search

How to check for bad blocks on a Linux PC hard drive (and why you shouldn't wait to do it)

uBlock Origin Lite has finally arrived for Safari - with one important caveat

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