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LG smart TVs log audio with the screen off and scan home networks for devices.
Resignation that surveillance is a feature, with governments as a key barrier to change.
Internet Archive offers 2:1 match on new recurring $25+ donations throughout September.
Two camps emerge: matching-donor transparency concerns vs. trust in anonymous philanthropy.
Mistral raised €3B at a €21B valuation for sovereign open-weight AI.
Skepticism about Mistral's model quality versus US and Chinese competitors, but support for sovereign AI as a hedge.
A software engineer spends vacations studying math and physics to counter cognitive decline from work and digital distractions.
Strong agreement: readers share similar 'de-brainrotting' vacations and strategies for countering digital cognitive decline.
Jellyfin 12.0 rewrites database schema, adds book/comic support, and drops '10' major version.
Plex users eye Jellyfin as escape route; clients and music support still lag.
BZip3 claims higher compression ratios and speed than bzip2 using Burrows-Wheeler transform and context mixing.
Benchmark fairness disputed: matching zstd window size reverses the compression ratio comparison.
Two 512-bit RSA keys from 1999 Netscape root CAs were factored on a desktop computer.
Factoring 512-bit RSA is trivial; 1024-bit would take ~2,000 GPU-years.
A leaked 2003 email shows Bill Gates struggling to download and install Movie Maker.
The thread treats the email as a classic case of a company failing to use its own product.
A mathematician alleges OpenAI raced to claim a Navier-Stokes result after learning of his work.
The thread focuses on Buckmaster's allegations that OpenAI rushed to claim a Navier-Stokes result after learning of his team's progress.
Switzerland pilots replacing Microsoft 365 with openDesk on 3,000 federal computers.
Two camps debate whether organizational retraining or technical migration is the harder challenge.
Google's 2024 update traps new wiki domains in a 'jail' that blocks all but the main search result.
Skepticism that Google's jail only hits wikis competing with established domains like Fandom.
Interactive 3D map shows every surviving building in LA County by year built.
Dark map styling and missing demolished buildings drew critique, while technical execution earned praise.
Article body wasn't reachable. HN discussion still summarized.
Split between praising the trailer's horror vibe and debating whether Holmes's fraud was uniquely driven by identity marketing.
Over 80% of smartphones fail to comply with EU repairability rules one year in.
Support for the intent, but enforcement is the real failing.
89.6% of European companies using a CDN rely on Cloudflare, per CipherCue data.
Bunny.net is the most-cited European alternative, but commenters flag its immaturity and lack of Cloudflare Tunnel.
Open-weight LLMs near frontier ability will soon enable automated mass hacking; we must fix security now.
Most commenters confirm LLMs already find real vulnerabilities; concern centers on slow patch deployment and legacy software.
D2's TALA autolayout algorithm is now open-source under MPL-2.0, alongside the announcement.
Mixed reaction: praise for open-sourcing TALA, but criticism of its poor performance on directed graphs.
Caltech Mathathon is first hackathon for research-level math with AI.
Debate centers on whether a hackathon maps well to AI-driven math research.
Broadcom removed public VDDK downloads, blocking many VMware migration tools.
Broadcom's removal of VDDK is widely seen as a lock-in move, with archive.org hosting a torrent workaround.
New urinal designs nearly eliminate splashback by keeping impact angle below 30°.
Practical concerns about space requirements and existing mat solutions dominate.