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Improvements to Mesa video decoding for Panfrost

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/improvements-to-mesa-video-decoding-for-panfrost.html
1•losgehts•33s ago•0 comments

The 'godfather of AI' reveals the only way humanity can survive superintel AI

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/tech/ai-geoffrey-hinton
1•reconnecting•3m ago•1 comments

Opensource: ThreeJS and Mapbox Mmorpg

https://github.com/WilliamAvHolmberg/threejs-mapbox-mmorpg
1•wavh•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: JustMySaaS – A growing collection of small web tools I built

https://www.justmysaas.com/
1•devxiyang•4m ago•0 comments

One-size-fits-all pancreatic cancer vaccine showed promise in early trial

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/pancreatic-cancer-vaccine-prevents-recurrence-phase-1-clinical-trial-rcna223980
1•mgh2•4m ago•0 comments

GEPA Agent Optimizer with Lakshya A. Agrawal [podcast]

1•CShorten•5m ago•0 comments

Russian government hackers said to be behind US federal court filing system hack

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/12/russian-government-hackers-said-to-be-behind-us-federal-court-filing-system-hack-report/
1•everybodyknows•6m ago•0 comments

Say No to Venn Diagrams When Explaining JOINs (2016)

https://blog.jooq.org/say-no-to-venn-diagrams-when-explaining-joins/
1•oftenwrong•6m ago•0 comments

A quantum safe encryption email service

https://tuta.com
1•obscure-enigma•6m ago•0 comments

Americans Are Getting Priced Out of Homeownership at Record Rates

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-08-13/americans-are-getting-priced-out-of-homeownership-at-record-rates
3•littlexsparkee•7m ago•2 comments

Mapped: Where ChatGPT is Banned in 2025

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-where-chatgpt-is-banned-in-2025/
1•mdp2021•9m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Prime Number Grid Visualizer

https://enda.sh/primegrid/
1•dduplex•11m ago•0 comments

Montana Mini-Computer Demo from Htmx Creator with Casey Muratori [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFhOn5Mc_rQ
2•aus10d•12m ago•1 comments

Tower 14 for Mac – Custom Git Workflows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYhtxBAzOB0
1•brunobrito•12m ago•0 comments

We open sourced our MCP server, and what it means for you

https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/why-we-open-sourced-our-mcp-server-and-what-it-means-for-you/
1•thebeardisred•14m ago•0 comments

Scaling Recommender Transformers to One Billion Parameters

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15994
1•PaulHoule•20m ago•0 comments

We caught companies making it harder to delete your personal data online

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2025/08/12/we-caught-companies-making-it-harder-to-delete-your-data
7•amarcheschi•20m ago•0 comments

Playwright for Beginners: Quick-Start Automation

https://qa.tech/blog/playwright-for-beginners-quick-start-automation/
1•Liriel•23m ago•0 comments

Miegakure Siggraph 2025 Talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucRukZM0d1s
1•bgthompson•24m ago•0 comments

Netflix Recommendations Mastery: Complete Implementation Guide

https://github.com/codeverseproo/Demo-Codes/tree/master/netflix
9•thunderbong•24m ago•0 comments

Farmers want California to change its autonomous tractor ban

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/farmers-want-california-to-change-its-autonomous-tractor-ban-244658757726
13•ccozan•27m ago•5 comments

The Birth of the Modern Moral Panic

https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/the-birth-of-the-modern-moral-panic
2•crescit_eundo•27m ago•0 comments

Sabu Disk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabu_disk
2•bookofjoe•27m ago•0 comments

Staff fear UK's Turing AI Institute at risk of collapse

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c24zz2vdv51o
3•mellosouls•29m ago•1 comments

Sam Altman and the Whale

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/11/1121402/sam-altman-and-the-whale/
1•warrenm•31m ago•2 comments

Show HN: AI that researches your B2B prospects like a human

https://www.intellisell.ai/
2•troyethaniel•31m ago•2 comments

Open Source worktree manager for Claude Code

https://stravu.com/crystal
2•jbentley1•31m ago•1 comments

OpenAI, cofounder Sam Altman to take on Neuralink with new startup

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/openai-cofounder-sam-altman-to-take-on-neuralink-with-new-startup/
2•voxadam•33m ago•1 comments

AI Models Are the Gold, Forward-Deployed Engineers Are the Gold Miners

https://www.emcap.com/thoughts/ai-models-are-the-gold-forward-deployed-engineers-are-the-gold-miners
2•yarapavan•35m ago•0 comments

Thousands evacuated in Spain as deadly heatwave fans Mediterranean wildfires

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/12/thousands-evacuated-in-spain-amid-deadly-wildfires-and-new-heatwave
2•melenaboija•36m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Reddit Ads Is a Scam

https://statuz.gg/blog/reddit-ads-is-a-scam-here-is-why
26•stewones•17h ago

Comments

kwillets•15h ago
I interviewed for an adtech position there last year, and it went pretty badly. I only had about 5 YOE in this area, but it seemed like they had even less, and it was like we were speaking different languages.
nhinck2•14h ago
If you have ever looked and their end of year reddit usage recap you would know that they have absolutely no idea how to calculate usage and engagement correctly.
ceejayoz•13h ago
> Reddit's advertising dashboard showing suspiciously high engagement metrics. Note the reported 161 clicks and nearly 27,000 impressions for a relatively small spend.

That's hardly suspicious if you've seen Reddit ads. High impressions, low clicks is precisely what I'd expect out of them.

> UserPath's analytics dashboard showing the real picture: only 93 new users total across ALL traffic sources during the same period, with significantly lower engagement metrics.

That's post-click engagement. Impressions are a pre-click (non!)engagement and would never show up in the page's analytics without a subsequent clickthrough.

> Discrepancy in Numbers: Reddit claims 160 clicks, but our first-party analytics only detected 43 unique users. That's a 73% discrepancy!

No, it isn't. Those are two very different metrics.

> Despite Reddit reporting 160 clicks, not a single user who came through the Reddit ads downloaded our application.

Failure to convert isn't necessarily indicative of fraud. Especially with only 160 clicks to analyze. Most of my own Reddit ad clicks are accidental, as they now make them look like posts/comments in your feed that are barely difference in appearance.

> Our analytics runs through our own domain, making it immune to ad blockers and privacy browsers.

The implementation at https://userpath.co/docs/setup-pixel looks entirely blockable. uBlock does a pretty good job of uncloaking these first-party analytics calls.

This appears to just be an ad for UserPath.

klysm•12h ago
I don't know much about the space, but is there any incentive against companies like Reddit or Google hunting for accidental clicks by making the ads look exactly like 'normal' elements? There are so many examples like Reddit, GMail, etc.
ceejayoz•6h ago
To some extent. Enough of it and ROI on a click drops below what they’re charging to deliver it. I’m sure they adjust to stay just over that threshold.
stewones•11h ago
Yeah, UserPath is our partner; without it, we would keep burning money through bad ads. Now we know where to invest, when to stop, and all that shit. There's nothing wrong with recommending good tools. Btw, it is free to try, set up an account, and see for yourself.

Regarding the uBlock being able to block our analytics requests, I'll give you $1oo if you prove me wrong.

Of course, any privacy tool will be able to do that as long as the user configures it to do so, but I challenge anyone to show me it doing that by default.

ceejayoz•5h ago
The footer of userpath.co says "built by @stewones". More than a partner, yes? Your own product?
arcza•3h ago
Good spot lol
thrown-0825•12h ago
reddit is a joke.

its leadership, staff, and users are all bottom of the barrel trash.

arcza•3h ago
Your post was very unconvincing to read and riddled with errors. Rage bait to prop up the Userpath thingy?