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Large Language Models Are More Persuasive Than Incentivized Human Persuaders

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09662
1•flornt•25s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Claude Code alternative to CodeX-1

https://cloudcoding.ai/
1•sean_•3m ago•0 comments

Memelang – a hybrid relational-graph query language

https://huggingface.co/spaces/holtwork/memelang
1•holtwork•7m ago•0 comments

The Daily Whatever

https://www.genxy.io/p/the-daily-whatever-may-17-why-is
1•VMChattman•7m ago•0 comments

Understanding Transformers via N-gram Statistics

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12034
4•pona-a•9m ago•0 comments

How startups build trust (191 examples)

https://socialproofexamples.com/
3•carouselhero•11m ago•1 comments

How to get even a "quasi" objective view of quality OAIdeepresearch vs. Gemini

2•akkoceir•12m ago•0 comments

Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application you open

https://robertheaton.com/2020/02/05/wacom-drawing-tablets-track-name-of-every-application-you-open/
2•dvrp•13m ago•0 comments

The Weird 1970s Mechanical PONG [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdtLDYTN-NE
1•tobr•16m ago•0 comments

Actory AI – Autonomous QA for Fast-Moving Dev Teams

https://www.actory.ai/
2•GTCHO•19m ago•2 comments

Clever Toyota GR86, Subaru BRZ Bolt-Ons Turn Control Arms into Brake Coolers

https://www.thedrive.com/news/clever-toyota-gr86-subaru-brz-bolt-ons-turn-control-arms-into-brake-coolers
1•PaulHoule•22m ago•0 comments

We fall for fake health information – and how it spreads faster than facts

https://theconversation.com/why-we-fall-for-fake-health-information-and-how-it-spreads-faster-than-facts-250718
2•rntn•23m ago•0 comments

FDA plan to ban fluoride supplements baffles and alarms dental experts

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fda-fluoride-supplements-dental
5•XzetaU8•24m ago•0 comments

The Khashoggi Compromise

https://www.status.news/p/jeff-bezos-jamal-khashoggi-saudi-arabia-ai-deal
2•archagon•29m ago•1 comments

Arenas and Rust

https://blog.reverberate.org/2021/12/19/arenas-and-rust.html
1•whatever3•31m ago•0 comments

The Stochastic-Quantum Correspondence (2023)

https://inspirehep.net/literature/2635190
1•lisper•34m ago•0 comments

Latency numbers every programmer should know

https://gist.github.com/hellerbarde/2843375
1•behnamoh•35m ago•1 comments

The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo

https://blog.swgillespie.me/posts/monorepo-ingredients/
1•swgillespie•36m ago•0 comments

Do these Buddhist gods hint at the purpose of China's super-secret satellites?

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/do-these-buddhist-gods-hint-at-the-purpose-of-chinas-super-secret-satellites/
3•bundie•41m ago•0 comments

Emulator Debugging: Area 5150's Lake Effect

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2025/05/emulator-debugging-area-5150s-lake.html
1•ingve•44m ago•0 comments

In the Grand Scheme of Things

https://www.rxjourney.net/in-the-grand-scheme-of-things
2•bertblaast•45m ago•0 comments

Strands Agents, an Open Source AI Agents SDK

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-strands-agents-an-open-source-ai-agents-sdk/
1•devoxi•46m ago•0 comments

Starship Troopers Revolutionize Warfighting

https://perfectingequilibrium.substack.com/p/starship-troopers-revolutionize-warfighting
2•Michelangelo11•46m ago•0 comments

Directory of MCP Servers

https://github.com/chatmcp/mcpso
2•saikatsg•50m ago•1 comments

Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI and forced to DoorDash

https://www.yahoo.com/news/software-engineer-lost-150k-job-090000839.html
4•namanyayg•51m ago•0 comments

Toshiba says Europe doesn't need 24TB HDDs, witholds beefy models from region

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/toshiba-says-europe-doesnt-need-24tb-hdds-witholds-beefy-models-from-region
2•taubek•51m ago•0 comments

Norway signs the Artemis Accords for responsible space exploration

https://spacenews.com/norway-signs-artemis-accords/
2•namanyayg•51m ago•0 comments

Twilio denies breach following leak of alleged Steam 2FA codes

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/twilio-denies-breach-following-leak-of-alleged-steam-2fa-codes/
1•namanyayg•52m ago•0 comments

OCaml Web Development: Essential Tools and Libraries in 2025

https://tarides.com/blog/2025-05-15-ocaml-web-development-essential-tools-and-libraries-in-2025/
13•birdculture•52m ago•3 comments

CT Towing Co's Can Hold Personal Property for Ransom Because It Was Inside a Car

https://www.jalopnik.com/1861611/towing-companines-holding-personal-property-ranson/
4•rntn•52m ago•0 comments
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"We would be less confidential than Google" Proton threatens to quit Switzerland

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/we-would-be-less-confidential-than-google-proton-threatens-to-quit-switzerland-over-new-surveillance-law
153•taubek•5h ago

Comments

juancroldan•3h ago
Another day, another digital illiterate politician trying to regulate the digital world
OutOfHere•3h ago
And they will go where? To the Netherlands or Sweden? EU regulation applies there. They would have to go to Seychelles or Panama, but their servers would obviously still have to be elsewhere.

Switzerland would be useless if it can't remain a safe haven.

McDyver•3h ago
> "This revision attempts to implement something that has been deemed illegal in the EU and the United States. The only country in Europe with a roughly equivalent law is Russia," said Yen.

They can go anywhere in Europe, since that type of surveillance seems to be illegal

mrweasel•2h ago
The issue is that countries may not care. The Danish government famously refuses to comply with EU verdicts that makes logging all phone calls and spying on text messages illegal. The Danish supreme court and the European Court of Human Rights have agreed with the government that "it's fine" in a "please think of the children"-moment.
codethief•1h ago
That's outrageous. Would you have a source for this?
mrweasel•2h ago
Norway has also been a popular destination for these types of services.
speedgoose•2h ago
If someone knows a Norwegian datacentre offering colocation, that has no connection to USA, please let me know.
mrweasel•2h ago
I have no experience with them, so not a recommendation, but perhaps https://greenmountain.no?
speedgoose•2h ago
I somehow missed them. Thanks for the information. I’m afraid that the lack of public prices and an invitation to contact their salesman means it’s as expensive as it could be, but I’m sure Proton can afford.
mrweasel•2h ago
Having worked in the hosting and colo business in Scandinavia, it's normally not cheap. It's been a few years, but you're starting around €500 per month (in 2016 I think we could get you started at €350) and frequently you'll need to take at least a quarter of a rack.

Most hosting companies doesn't even really want colocation anymore, it's sort a niche product.

theMMaI•2h ago
They're owned by an israeli company nowadays fwiw
mrweasel•1h ago
Oh, I missed that.
Calwestjobs•1h ago
They deploy Pegasus from there or what would Israeli company need in there ?
theMMaI•1h ago
Seems mostly to be a real-estate investment but the ownership structure is a bit opaque. Their DCs host some critical infrastructure for banks.
theMMaI•1h ago
There's several that don't have immediate exposure to the US, like Bulk, Telenor, Blix, Orange Business Service (former Basefarm). Most of these are in or around Oslo.
magicalhippo•1h ago
As a Norwegian I would not feel safe hosting such here.

Of the ~10 parties with a chance of a seat at the parlament, absolutely none have any clue what so ever when it comes to IT security matters.

The major parties have multiple times attemted to push egregious laws like collecting all internet metadata in our country, and storing it for years. They argued it wouldn't be a risk because only authorized personel would have access...

Sheer luck has twarted those attempts.

rad_gruchalski•1h ago
There are 5 million people living in Norway and you have 10 parties in the parliament? Talk about divided country.
pastage•1h ago
A continuous spectrum is only divided if it has too few bins.
zukzuk•1h ago
Norwegians seem to me, an outsider, quite cohesive as a society. Much more so than just about any place i’ve spent time in. But they also seem to allow for a fair bit of diversity in certain things, politics being one — but only within certain parameters, so I suspect the differences between the parties are more around specific issues up for debate than big ideological / identity concerns, as they are in the US, for example.
mrweasel•28m ago
Denmark is a little under 6 million people, there are currently 12 parties eligible for election. That not really uncommon, the Netherlands also have a fairly large number of parties.

It seems more crazy to believe that two, three or four parties can represent 80 million or more people. The truth is that many of the parties in countries like Norway and Denmark are all fairly similar. They mostly agree on the basics. Six of the twelve parties in Denmark are, in my mind, variations on Social Democrats. I'm sure many would disagree, but they vary on issues, that in countries like the US, would be considered implementation details or narrow topics.

kubb•17m ago
I assure you forcing everyone into one of two options results in way more division. You can probably imagine why.
petre•2h ago
Lichtenstein is closer and uses the CHF.
sealeck•2h ago
But is an absolute monarchy (e.g. non-independent judiciary).
FirmwareBurner•1h ago
And their military defense is outsourced to Switzerland.
miohtama•2h ago
Sweden, having their legacy in social democracy and more state control, hates privacy

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/a-dangero...

It was also Swedish EU commissioner who wants to ban end-to-end encrypted chats and brought various proposals to the EU for this.

maronato•1h ago
What does social democracy have to do with hating privacy?

The UK, US, Australia, and other capitalist flagships are all trying to do the same. Not to mention the Patriot Act.

dehrmann•37m ago
> Sweden, having their legacy in social democracy and more state control, hates privacy

Generally, this is because Swedes trust the state.

anal_reactor•17m ago
Hot take but it makes sense to get rid of privacy under certain circumstances. What if we created a political system where you can trust the government to do a good, honest job. Privacy is needed because goals of the government aren't always aligned with goals of the society, but what if that wasn't the case.
hammock•2h ago
What happened to the ideas of offshore data centers and seasteading and pirate radio? Is it time to bring those back (again)?
Calwestjobs•1h ago
only musk can save datacenters from reaches of earths governments.

by transporting every cargo to USA for thorough inspection before flight.

catlikesshrimp•1h ago
Isn't the cost of taking down a satellite lower than putting it up?

The problem would be all the debris up there. Maybe destroying one satellite would destroy them all.

Calwestjobs•1h ago
Is not changing BGP route cheaper than taking down a satanlite ? Sorry, satellite.
devwastaken•1h ago
Mullvad operates out of Sweden. Unlike proton, mullvad doesnt have to respond to court orders. proton gives up user info thousands a year its right on their transparency page.
Batman8675309•1h ago
Proton isn’t giving up VPN users. It’s giving up mail users. There’s a huge legal difference.
sschueller•3h ago
This law change died in the "Vernehmlassung" which is early in the process. It's dead with opposition from all sides of the political spectrum. It had no chance.

https://www.inside-it.ch/vupf-revision-faellt-in-der-vernehm...

j45•1h ago
It’s odd people don’t push for laws to prevent for these kinds of laws to keep bubbling up every few years.
FirmwareBurner•1h ago
Think of the children
bdangubic•1h ago
every law is temporal, until it gets re-written or killed outright
edent•44m ago
The law can't bind future lawmakers. That's a common feature of every legal system.

Any legal system can pass a law saying "we revoke this previous law".

AnthonyMouse•38m ago
This is what constitutions are for. When you have the support, you install a constitutional protection that says the government can't do this. Repealing the protection requires the same super-majority needed to pass it, so changing the law isn't just a matter of the tyrants needing to get back to 51% from 49%, they have to get from 33% to 67%.

Then you layer these protections against multiple levels of government so they'd all have to be repealed together by separate legislatures before the government is allowed to do it, discouraging the attempt.

brnt•29m ago
Constitutions are amended all the time. The French even have a proces for reboots of the Republic.

These are goods things.

greyw•29m ago
In Switzerland you can change the constitution with popular votes. That only requires for 50% of the voters to agree and half of the cantons.
AnthonyMouse•26m ago
Then get half the voters to agree to make it two thirds. After you put the other protections in, naturally.
timeflex•11m ago
And then you make it so when the tyrants do get back to 51% that they can just ignore the constitution instead. And might as well make sure there are only two major political parties so even though the tyrants ignore the constitution, that the other 49% will stay busy stuffing their pockets with foreign donations.
ncr100•1h ago
Who sponsored this??

Best I could find as a non Swiss:

> Threema and Proton In the daily news of 'SRF', Jean-Louis Biberstein, the deputy head of the federal postal and telecommunications service, said that the requirements for service providers are not tightened, but merely specified. A company like Threema would have the same obligations as before after the revision. Threema contradicts this in a statement from the end of April. The Vüpf revision would force the company to abandon the principle of "only collecting as few data as technically required".

(From auto translation of report about this already failing to proceed.)

Is Federal Post the entity or is it a person, or a group in Swiss government seeking to take authority over information?

Calwestjobs•1h ago
Small logical question - How can proton deliver mail to you if it does not save anything ?
LexiMax•19m ago
To me the value prospect of Proton falls down even before that - how can e-mail ever be a secure medium of communication if only one side of the conversation is secure, given how ubiquitous Google and Outlook are in the space?
cfn•9m ago
The contents of the emails are encrypted so you have a normal login plus a key to unencrypt your email locally. They save your encrypted email conyents and your login but not the key and they also don't log your access (I'm assuming here from reading the article).
croemer•52m ago
Title needs a dash after Google, otherwise it reads weirdly
mystraline•9m ago
A few months back, I had Proton subscription for a few years.

I didn't realize just how batshit crazy their CEO was, and how potentially unsafe I was wrt to this administration.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/1id5v21/does_pro...

Long story short, the CEO has publicly backed Trump, Vance, and other officials in this new regime.

For starters, they are Swiss nationals; they should be steering clear of advocating for US politicians, let alone fascist adjacent politicians.

How safe is my data for real? If I help someone with trans-affirming health or abortion help, will I be outed by Proton? That's the kind of questions I absolutely must ask after declarations from their CEO.

Or put more plainly, I switched to another VPN provider and killed my subscription after the comments were made public. I simply do not trust this company to shield me and my data as they claim they would. Maybe its overblown, but reputation is a big thing with a 'privacy affiliated systems network'. And their CEO burnt it.