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2026-06-03

Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left (moddedbear.com)

Author leaves Gmail after 16 years due to aggressive, unsolicited AI features that feel disrespectful and infringe on email writing.

1067 pts · 720 comments

Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel

Job-seeker criticizes spammers targeting "Who wants to be hired" threads with mass-generated recruitment emails.

940 pts · 264 comments

Adafruit Receives Demand Letter from Fenwick Legal Counsel on Behalf of Flux.ai (Adafruit Industries - Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!)

Adafruit received a cease-and-desist letter from Flux.ai's counsel demanding it stop publishing an article about Flux.

660 pts · 270 comments

1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug (Ammar)

A VSCode webview bug allows attackers to steal GitHub tokens with full read-write access by clicking a link to a malicious Jupyter notebook.

529 pts · 79 comments

MAI-Code-1-Flash (Microsoft AI)

Microsoft releases MAI-Code-1-Flash, a 5B-parameter coding model that outperforms Claude Haiku 4.5 on benchmarks while using fewer tokens.

500 pts · 231 comments

Why Janet? (2023) (ianthehenry.com)

Janet is a small Lisp dialect suited for scripting, CLIs, and side projects due to its simplicity and distributable compiled binaries.

466 pts · 254 comments

CT scans of BYD car parts (lumafield.com)

Lumafield CT-scanned BYD car components, revealing vertical integration and design choices in a Chinese EV unavailable in America.

440 pts · 291 comments

A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020) (coveillance.org)

Walking guide identifying surveillance infrastructure in downtown Seattle, including cameras, license plate readers, and Wi-Fi tracking devices.

401 pts · 298 comments

Love systemd timers (Tyblog)

Systemd timers offer advantages over traditional cron for scheduling tasks, including better output handling, execution history, and clearer syntax.

380 pts · 263 comments

Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux (GitHub)

Tool allows Linux users to allocate unused GPU VRAM as swap space via NBD protocol, targeting laptops with soldered memory.

375 pts · 100 comments

AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study (Stanford Law School)

Stanford study finds law professors rate AI responses higher than peer-written answers in 75% of contract law comparisons.

332 pts · 278 comments

Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording" (TechRadar)

Article body wasn't reachable. HN discussion still summarized.

317 pts · 252 comments

Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API (MITM LLC)

Developer built dictation app for hand injury, split into App Store and direct-distribution versions after Apple rejected the full version.

305 pts · 164 comments

Stop Ruining It (Seth's Blog)

Qualities like musicality, delight, and trust emerge naturally when organizations avoid degrading them.

294 pts · 145 comments

Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it (blog.nns.ee)

Researcher remotely hacks Creative Sound Blaster Katana V2X speaker via Bluetooth to inject custom firmware and execute arbitrary commands as keyboard.

279 pts · 54 comments

Show HN: Eyeball (eyeball)

Eyeball is a browser game where players click to position a number on a line as accurately as possible.

263 pts · 80 comments

My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month (acdw.net)

After a month with Clojure, the author finds it more cohesive than Common Lisp and more practical than Scheme, despite syntax complexity.

259 pts · 132 comments

Trump signs downsized AI order after weeks of reversals (politico.com)

Trump signed a downsized AI executive order requiring voluntary 30-day government review instead of the 90-day version he rejected last month.

220 pts · 164 comments

Three Ways to Get Paid (2018) (Jason Zweig)

Three ways to make a living: lie to those who want lies and get rich; tell truth to truth-seekers and make a living; tell truth to those wanting lies and go broke.

219 pts · 141 comments

The advertising cartel coming to your web browser (blog.zgp.org)

Meta, Google, Apple, and Mozilla are building Attribution Level 1, a browser-based ad measurement system that favors Big Tech over smaller ad networks.

218 pts · 60 comments