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Why online advertising is a scam – Bob Hoffman

https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=Ad+Contrarian&mid=887326486600BF78E242887326486600BF78E242&FORM=VIRE
1•giardini•2h ago

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giardini•1h ago
FTFA:

"Interactivity is, by 1,000 to 1, people clicking away from ads, not into ads..."

"ad fraud is very bad probably, nobody knows for sure....Reputable ad fraud researchers believe ad fraud is probably about 20% of all online spec...on the order of 70 to 80 billion dollars a year which, if true, means ad fraud is a bigger business than Nike or Coca-Cola...ad fraud could be the second largest source of criminal income in the world..."

"The metrics that were supposed to help us so much...what we think we know now is probably worse than what we used to know before all these metrics...the science is largely bullshit... "

"...nobody knows where their money is really going, they get reports telling them where their money is going, but the reports are unreliable..."

Discussion of marketing vs advertising - they're not the same!

Show HN: I derived Planck mass from sphere packing – 0.574 ppm, zero free param

https://zenodo.org/records/18089296
1•AlekseN•1m ago•1 comments

Essays on Longtermism: Present Action for the Distant Future

https://www.globalprioritiesinstitute.org/
1•nostrapollo•2m ago•0 comments

Microsoft engineer clarifies plans to 'eliminate' C, C++ languages by 2030

https://www.techradar.com/computing/cloud-computing/microsoft-engineer-clarifies-speculation-arou...
2•mikece•4m ago•0 comments

Portal vein-enriched metabolites regulate gut microbiome in insulin resistance

https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1550413125003614
1•PaulHoule•4m ago•0 comments

Intellectual Property Notices:Nintendo Switch 2

https://support.nintendo.com/jp/legal-notes/intellectual-property/switch2/index.html
1•kristianpaul•5m ago•0 comments

WorkBill Devlog: Building an accounting system as a solo, part-time founder

https://workbill.co/blog/devlog-001
1•aswinmohanme•5m ago•0 comments

Why Claude Code Skills Are Broken (and How to Fix Them)

https://enact.tools/blog/why-skills-break/
1•keithgroves•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Treasury – The personal finance app built for you (now on iOS)

https://treasury.sh/
1•junead01•6m ago•0 comments

What if, instead of making plans for January, you planned for your future self?

https://whispersofgrace.substack.com/p/what-if-instead-of-making-plans-for
1•RevExplorer•7m ago•0 comments

Everything That Can Be Deterministic, Should Be

https://vexjoy.com/posts/everything-that-can-be-deterministic-should-be/https://vexjoy.com/posts/...
1•AndyNemmity•8m ago•1 comments

EV battery leader CATL is gearing up for sodium-ion batteries in 2026

https://electrek.co/2025/12/29/ev-battery-leader-sodium-ion-batteries-2026/
1•breve•10m ago•0 comments

Built Gitmore so non-technical founders can understand dev progress

https://www.gitmore.io/
1•akhnid•10m ago•0 comments

The New Billionaires of the A.I. Boom

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/technology/new-billionaires-ai-boom.html
2•bookofjoe•13m ago•1 comments

Google is dead. Where do we go now?

https://www.circusscientist.com/2025/12/29/google-is-dead-where-do-we-go-now/
16•tomjuggler•15m ago•8 comments

Palantir Technologies Inc [pdf]

https://cdn.repub.ch/s3/republik-assets/repos/republik/article-wie-palantir-hartnaeckig-den-schwe...
1•weinzierl•17m ago•0 comments

Flourishing Study: Life gets better as we get older

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-025-00423-5
1•RickJWagner•18m ago•0 comments

Happy 16th Birthday, Krebsonsecurity.com

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/12/happy-16th-birthday-krebsonsecurity-com/
1•todsacerdoti•18m ago•0 comments

Designing software you're not working on

https://www.natemeyvis.com/on-designing-software-you-arent-working-on/
1•Theaetetus•21m ago•0 comments

How Good Is AI at Coding React?

https://addyo.substack.com/p/how-good-is-ai-at-coding-react-really
1•twapi•21m ago•0 comments

Certainty of Gods Promises

https://biblehub.com/topical/t/the_certainty_of_god%27s_promises.htm
2•marysminefnuf•22m ago•0 comments

Red Flags in HIPAA-Compliant AI

https://guardianhealth.dev/blog/hipaa-ai-red-flags/
2•rndkeithw•22m ago•0 comments

The Hive (Website)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hive_(website)
1•bariumbitmap•26m ago•0 comments

Zynk, Cross-platform, unlimited, private and efficient file transfer

2•justmarc•26m ago•0 comments

The House of Entropy: A systems engineering view on existential risk [pdf]

https://github.com/kiran-sf-swe/essays/blob/main/The%20House%20of%20Entropy%20-%20The%20Race%20Ag...
2•kiran_kumar_sf•30m ago•1 comments

'What's the stupidest use of AI you saw in 2025?'

https://slashdot.org/story/25/12/29/0738214/ask-slashdot-whats-the-stupidest-use-of-ai-you-saw-in...
2•MilnerRoute•34m ago•0 comments

A new way to map how cells choose their fate

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67782-6
2•stevenjgarner•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Starthub – Deploy horizontal n8n to Digital Ocean with one command

https://starthub.so
1•tgirotto•36m ago•0 comments

22M Affected by Aflac Data Breach

https://www.securityweek.com/22-million-affected-by-aflac-data-breach/
3•Bender•36m ago•0 comments

AI-generated code leaves businesses open to supply chain risk

https://www.scworld.com/news/ai-generated-code-leaves-businesses-open-to-supply-chain-risk
2•Bender•36m ago•0 comments

Researchers make "neuromorphic" artificial skin for robots

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/researchers-make-neuromorphic-artificial-skin-for-robots/
3•Bender•37m ago•0 comments