frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

Open in hackernews

Ash HN: Is Privacy Dead to the Consumer?

2•labadal•4h ago
I've noticed that any time I'm buying software for my company I see, in detail, the subprocessors used, data collected and why. As a regular old consumer though, I get next to nothing when I sign up to a service.

Why do you think that is? Is privacy not that important to you? Do you feel obligated to give it up to get what you need?

Comments

JohnFen•4h ago
Privacy is very important to me. One of the ways I help preserve it is to avoid signing up for services unless I have literally no other option.

Any time I'm signing up for anything, it's a given that I'm also signing up to be surveilled.

Bender•3h ago
One could choose to not do business with anyone that does not accept cash. Less convenient but not the end of the world. There are also services that will accept cash and then go pick up merchandise. It's most commonly used for getting large appliances when one does not have a trailer but it can be used for just about anything.

I went with the middle ground. Cash for anything I do not want tracked and debt card for Team Bezos and horse feed so it appears I do not try to be private. Same for my computers. Locked down Linux for daily driver and a Windows mini-pc to stream Netflix with Microsoft Edge so that I maintain some tracked activity. Should cash go away then I go New Order Amish.

Airbnb is trying to win travelers back from hotels

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/05/13/airbnb-services-chefs-massage-haircuts/
1•pseudolus•50s ago•1 comments

"Google wanted that": Nextcloud decries Android permissions as "gatekeeping"

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/nextcloud-accuses-google-of-big-tech-gatekeeping-over-android-app-permissions/
1•thunderbong•1m ago•0 comments

Vision Language Models (Better, Faster, Stronger)

https://huggingface.co/blog/vlms-2025
2•jimmcslim•1m ago•0 comments

Google tests replacing 'I'm Feeling Lucky' with 'AI Mode'

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/google-tests-replacing-im-feeling-lucky-with-ai-mode/
1•MarcoDewey•3m ago•0 comments

An End to Dead App Design

https://quality.ghost.io/an-end-to-dead-app-design/
1•notkoalas•5m ago•0 comments

The Database Row That Did and Didn't Exist

https://www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2025/05/13/the-database-row-that-did-and-didnt-exist/
1•ingve•5m ago•0 comments

Crane: Reasoning with Constrained LLM Generation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09061
1•tough•7m ago•0 comments

New online courses based on Handbook of Applied Cryptography

https://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/hac/
2•teleforce•10m ago•0 comments

Vibe coders, would you use this?

https://vybecheck.com
1•spencerh21•11m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What do you think of this novel Rubik's Cube variant?

1•amichail•16m ago•0 comments

New Intel CPU Flaw Bypasses Spectre v2 Defenses to Leak Kernel Memory

https://cyberinsider.com/new-intel-cpu-flaw-bypasses-spectre-v2-defenses-to-leak-kernel-memory/
4•pierremenard•16m ago•0 comments

Ron Buckton laid off from Microsoft

https://twitter.com/rbuckton/status/1922364558426911039
6•latchkey•21m ago•0 comments

AI Tool Uses Face Photos to Estimate Biological Age and Predict Cancer Outcomes

https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsroom/press-releases/ai-face-photos-tool-estimate-age-predict-cancer-outcomes
1•pseudolus•21m ago•0 comments

Microsoft to lay off 6k workers despite streak of profitable quarters

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/13/microsoft-layoffs
3•ommz•22m ago•0 comments

José Mujica, Uruguay's modest leader who transformed the country, dies at 89

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/13/americas/uruguay-president-jose-pepe-mujica-obit-intl-latam
1•marcodiego•23m ago•0 comments

D Slices

https://dlang.org/articles/d-array-article.html
1•teleforce•23m ago•0 comments

'A New Era' of Cancer Therapies

https://undark.org/2025/05/12/cancer-therapies-new-era/
1•EA-3167•23m ago•0 comments

Emacs: My New Doric Themes

https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2025-05-13-emacs-doric-themes/
2•robenkleene•26m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: AI Founders, how do you handle liability clauses?

1•midgard27•28m ago•2 comments

Intelligence on Earth Evolved Independently at Least Twice

https://www.wired.com/story/intelligence-evolved-at-least-twice-in-vertebrate-animals/
1•hydrolox•29m ago•0 comments

Dusk OS C Compiler

https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos/tree/master/item/fs/doc/comp/c.txt?__goaway_challenge=js-refresh&__goaway_id=09245079d4cf1efcea00bf4a44558faf&__goaway_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fduskos.org%2F
3•doener•29m ago•0 comments

Google might replace the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button with AI Mode

https://www.theverge.com/news/665560/google-search-ai-mode-feeling-lucky-tests
1•mfiguiere•32m ago•0 comments

Ferroid: High-Throughput Snowflake-Like ID Generator in Rust

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1klkd7z/ferroid_a_customizable_snowflakestyle_id/
2•s0l0ist•33m ago•0 comments

Binary Formats Are Better Than JSON in Browsers

https://adamfaulkner.github.io/binary_formats_are_better_than_json_in_browsers.html
2•adamkf•33m ago•0 comments

China's AI-powered humanoid robots aim to transform manufacturing

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-ai-powered-humanoid-robots-aim-transform-manufacturing-2025-05-13/
1•gray_amps•33m ago•0 comments

Saudi Arabia's Humain Partners with Nvidia on AI Goals as Trump Visits

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-partners-with-nvidia-spur-ai-goals-trump-visits-2025-05-13/
1•bit_qntum•34m ago•0 comments

Nvidia CEO's net worth nears $120B as shares surge on Saudi chip deal

https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-ceos-net-worth-nears-120-billion-shares-surge-saudi-chip-deal-2025-05-13/
2•byte-bolter•35m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What's your best "data to wisdom" hack for SaaS?

2•korky•35m ago•0 comments

Flattening Rust's Learning Curve

https://corrode.dev/blog/flattening-rusts-learning-curve/
2•birdculture•38m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Economists, what's your opinion on US tariffs?

4•pinkmuffinere•42m ago•0 comments