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Proposed age verification laws require mass online surveillance, not privacy.
Multiple commenters argue age verification can be privacy-preserving, but others counter that the goal is surveillance, not child protection.
F3 is a research data file format embedding Wasm decoders for future-proof compatibility.
Skepticism over practicality and security, with calls for clearer advantages over Parquet.
Fired Googler says his Workspace CLI disrupted internal projects and leadership feared agents.
Split between those blaming Google bureaucracy and those saying Poehnelt skipped required launch approvals.
FUTO Swipe is an open, on-device swipe typing system challenging big-tech keyboards.
Enthusiasm for performance is tempered by criticism of the keyboard's non-free FUTO license.
Jerry Gretzinger has hand-drawn an evolving imaginary city map since 1963 using a custom card deck.
Fascination with the rule-driven process; pushback against suggestions to replicate it with AI.
Raymond Chen memorializes Tony Krueger, the Microsoft developer who invented Word's red and green squiggle underlines.
Thankful and critical reactions to the squiggle feature, plus a minor Wikipedia citogenesis discovery.
UN inquiry says Israel targeted Gaza children, amounting to genocide.
Split between UN reform advocates and those calling it a corrupted, powerless body.
Baidu's Unlimited-OCR uses Reference Sliding Window Attention to parse long documents in one shot.
Many commenters argue that OCR is far from solved, especially for complex layouts, non-Latin scripts, and mixed-content documents.
Mistral OCR 4 achieves top human-preference and benchmark scores for document extraction.
Mixed experiences: praised for degraded docs and handwriting, but receipt date extraction had 20% errors.
Bunny DNS drops all query fees, offering free DNS hosting for up to 500 domains.
Appreciation for Bunny service, but some note $1 minimum means DNS isn't truly free.
A WYSIWYG editor for TikZ diagrams that preserves existing LaTeX code formatting.
Strongly positive reaction; users praise open-source release and ability to touch old TikZ cleanly.
Coding agent loops are reshaping software development, creating codebases that humans may no longer understand.
Commenters are split: some mourn the loss of craft, others see early-stage potential in loop-driven development.
Crypto markets are self-referential games that farm retail gamblers, not serve genuine economic functions.
Commenters push back on the article's 'slippery slope' framing, comparing it to war on drugs propaganda.
An extreme heat conference was cancelled due to a red extreme heat warning in London.
Irony noted: climate resilience event cancelled by heat, sparking debate on heat tolerance and AC.
Vitamin D skepticism may be overdone; low levels likely warrant supplementation.
Split between those seeing personal benefits and skeptics citing weak RCT evidence.
LLMs have made vulnerability insight abundant, ending the special treatment of security reports.
Overwhelming agreement with the article, citing a deluge of AI-generated spam reports.
Benchmark finds several public models match Mythos on some bugs, but none find all nine.
Two camps: one sees Fable as uniquely capable; another sees better tooling, not raw intelligence.
MSG compiled a dossier on activists who opposed its facial recognition technology.
The thread largely condemns the dossier as an abuse of facial recognition.
AI platforms are raising prices as subsidies end, causing an affordability crisis.
Two camps: those citing API price drops of 50x as proof of falling costs, and those countering that accelerating hardware refresh cycles make AI more expensive overall.
Meta paused its employee-tracking program after an internal data leak exposed workers' information.
Irony noted: surveillance program undone by its own leak; many predict rebuild.