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Why are Big Tech companies a threat to human rights?

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/08/why-are-big-tech-companies-a-threat-to-human-rights/
32•HotGarbage•2h ago

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DaveZale•1h ago
there was a lot more innovation with the local dial-up DSL networks for sure! It was cheap, fast, high quality service, with a human you could contact LOCALLY.
CGamesPlay•44m ago
Wow, an article about human rights lost credibility before I could even read the headline. They put up their mandatory (for their marketing) cookie banner, the "settings" page uses a dark pattern where the optional cookies are already off so clicking them would turn them on, and the only buttons are "Accept Recommended Cookies" or "X". Oh look, the article includes a section about our right to privacy, how compelling.
echelon•26m ago
You can track readers and the spread of your content AND decry the the unfair market powers and advantages big tech has simultaneously.

Big tech is shaping public discourse. Big tech is censoring public squares. Big tech is forcing us to continue buying new devices. Big tech is killing open standards and platforms. Big tech is hurting democracy. Big tech is enabling monitoring. Big tech is using societal scale antipatterns to generate more profits than most countries. Big tech is engaging in anti-worker practices ...

cyclotron3k•21m ago
Until you click the "accept" button, you haven't agreed to accept any cookies, so if you instead click through to settings, it shows you the current state: cookies off. I think the toggles could be a bit clearer, but I don't really have a problem with it.

Having worked at AI (a long time ago), I can assure you this isn't some mastermind plot to sneak a couple of cookies onto the computers of the one or two people who click through to settings.

readams•33m ago
Amnesty has long since squandered any credibility they once had
sghiassy•13m ago
Why?
hsuduebc2•11m ago
I second that. Why?

The Curve of Binding Energy–I (1973)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1973/12/03/the-curve-of-binding-energy-i
1•NaOH•41s ago•0 comments

Science on a Sphere: Aerosols in the Air

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5552/
1•gmays•3m ago•0 comments

Toward Perpetual Violence

https://www.machineculture.io/p/toward-perpetual-violence
1•ryanhauser•10m ago•1 comments

I Almost Quit

1•Blarckat•26m ago•1 comments

Next obsession: retro Japanese video game art

https://theoutline.com/post/2623/beauty-japanese-playstation-dreamcast-video-game-art-wipeout-fin...
1•vinipolicena•26m ago•0 comments

Exposure to Commonly Used Chemical Tied to Parkinson's Disease Risk

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/exposure-commonly-used-chemical-tied-parkinsons-disease-risk...
2•wjb3•28m ago•1 comments

Battlefield6 Sensitivity Converter

https://battlefield6sensitivityconverter.com/
1•lleymrl651•28m ago•1 comments

Privacy Isn't Dead – It's Being Sold in Pieces

1•SilentByte•32m ago•0 comments

City lizards are more social

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0326
1•PaulHoule•40m ago•0 comments

Mortgage tech firm, big lenders accused of nationwide price-fixing scheme

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/mortgage-tech-firm-big-lenders-accused-nationwide-price-...
3•1vuio0pswjnm7•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Inscribe – Execute code blocks inside Markdown to get living documents

https://github.com/tesserato/Inscribe
1•tesserato•42m ago•0 comments

John Searle Has Died

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/books/john-searle-dead.html
11•sgustard•45m ago•2 comments

Scribd used to be good, but now its on the decline

https://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/scribd-used-to-be-good-but-now-its-on-the-decline
2•kozmonaut•47m ago•0 comments

Ruth Bader Ginsburg proposed congressional role in statutory interpretation

https://twitter.com/AjitPai/status/1977531225788035360
3•delichon•50m ago•1 comments

Jupyter Collaboration has a history slider

https://blog.jupyter.org/exploring-a-documents-timeline-in-jupyterlab-6084f96db263
1•fghorow•52m ago•1 comments

Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/syntax-highlighting-is-a-waste-of-an-information/
2•swyx•54m ago•0 comments

22% Jump in Electricity Rates Dominates New Jersey Governor's Race

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/business/new-jersey-electricity-prices-governor-election.html
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•56m ago•1 comments

Wasn't looking for a new app but this one changed how I see daylight

https://www.androidpolice.com/sun-surveyor-app/
3•fcpguru•1h ago•1 comments

Dating app Cerca will show how Gen Z dates at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/12/dating-app-cerca-will-show-how-gen-z-really-dates-at-techcrunch...
1•fcpguru•1h ago•3 comments

Very 'significant' Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/10/very-significant-jack-kerouac-story-discovered-afte...
2•pseudolus•1h ago•0 comments

Apple Graveyard – Products that it killed

https://lost-apple-gems.lovable.app
3•totaldude87•1h ago•3 comments

Everything You Need to Know About [California] SB 79

https://mnolangray.substack.com/p/everything-you-need-to-know-about
36•bickfordb•1h ago•24 comments

Open Table Formats and the Open Data Lakehouse

https://www.onehouse.ai/blog/open-table-formats-and-the-open-data-lakehouse-in-perspective
1•olayiwoladekoya•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: A Hub for Techproblems and Pain Points

https://realpainpoints.com
1•madneko•1h ago•0 comments

Is Systems Research Just About Making Numbers Bigger?

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/10/12/barbarians.html
2•SchwKatze•1h ago•1 comments

What Is a Data Lakehouse

https://hudi.apache.org/blog/2024/07/11/what-is-a-data-lakehouse/
1•olayiwoladekoya•1h ago•0 comments

How to Get Traffic from ChatGPT and Other LLMs

https://generate-visibility.ghost.io/how-to-acquire-customers-from-chatgpt-and-other-ai-chatbots/
1•jenthoven•1h ago•0 comments

Tests Show That a Pennsylvania Town's Water Was Contaminated by Fracking

https://www.sej.org/headlines/tests-show-pennsylvania-town-s-water-was-contaminated-fracking
22•geox•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: errdef – typed, structured error definitions in Go

https://github.com/shiwano/errdef
1•shiwano•1h ago•0 comments

Systemd-detect-fash: utility to detect problematic software and configurations

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/39285
2•phoronixrly•1h ago•0 comments