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Why we're "blinding" ourselves to protect users

https://wardblog.substack.com/p/ward-cloak-why-were-blinding-ourselves
1•bennydog224•1h ago

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bennydog224•1h ago
I struggled at first with trying to translate a technical framework (blind sigs/privacy pass) into a privacy feature end users would understand.

I ended up using the “casino” analogy to describe the new feature. Same thing, different words. The security knowledge stack is so dense that it helps to embrace analogies when explaining concepts to customers.

By “blinding” ourselves, we’re signaling to users that we’re making their data invaluable for marketing, analytics, or third party sharing. Think the EU “Reject unnecessary cookies” banner but on steroids.

JohnFen•26m ago
> we’re signaling to users that we’re making their data invaluable for marketing, analytics, or third party sharing.

I suspect that what you meant to say here is that you're making user's data not valuable for those purposes, but what you've literally said is that you're making it incredibly valuable for those purposes.

"Invaluable" means "having incalculable monetary, intellectual, or spiritual worth"

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The Refiner's Age

https://twitter.com/andreaazzini/status/2013641612232970646
1•azzarcher•1m ago•0 comments

OpenAI Agent SDK for Java

https://github.com/bnbarak/openai-agent-sdk
1•bbnvail•1m ago•1 comments

US threats of tariffs on memory manufacturers arrive

https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/howard-lutnick-memory-tariffs-micron
1•pjmlp•1m ago•0 comments

Year Old Vulnerability in Glibc

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-Security-Fix-For-1996-Bug
2•_tk_•2m ago•0 comments

Desktop Classic System – Spacial computing hearkening back to classic Mac OS

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1•PaulHoule•2m ago•0 comments

Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction

https://entropicthoughts.com/nvidia-stock-crash-prediction
1•todsacerdoti•3m ago•0 comments

The Only Two Markup Languages

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1•birdculture•3m ago•0 comments

Solar Futures open call for solarpunk projects

https://solarfutures.eu/open-call.html
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GeometricTransformer: Gated Cell Manifolds

https://github.com/MrPan2048/GeometricTransformer/blob/main/README.md
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Ask HN: People Interested in a Hackathon?

1•maliniwimmer•5m ago•0 comments

All the National Parks, Mapped and Trackable

https://parks.lukaswerner.com/
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Elon Musk floats idea of buying Ryanair after calling CEO 'an idiot'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/20/elon-musk-buying-ryanair-ceo-tesla-michael-ole...
2•beardyw•7m ago•0 comments

Not hot on bots, project names and shames AI-created open source software

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/18/openslopware_is_back/
1•gpi•7m ago•0 comments

GNU InetUtils Security Advisory: remote authentication by-pass in telnetd

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/20/2
1•jwilk•9m ago•0 comments

Two LLM Traps I Have Sprung on Myself

https://jakesimonds.leaflet.pub/3mcuiljjcgc22
1•jakesimonds•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Talkng AI group chat with voice

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1•-i•11m ago•3 comments

Building the first open-source quantum computer

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-world-source-quantum.html
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Urllib3 entered the "Billion-a-Month" club in 2025

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4•SethMLarson•12m ago•1 comments

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Mapping comedic timing with a computational framework

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Ask HN: Clipboard overflows causing system crashes in macOS Tahoe 26.3 beta 2?

1•nhubbard•14m ago•0 comments

Honda Has a New Retro Logo for Its EVs

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1•jumpocelot•15m ago•0 comments

Claude Code is the ChatGPT moment repeated and awful news for software stocks

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Supercomputing on Nitro in AWS Cloud with Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD)

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NASA launches Pandora, taking JWST's search for habitable worlds to a new level

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Urban Greenery Is Making Some Cities Hotter, Study Finds

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3•Brajeshwar•18m ago•1 comments

The most underappreciated achievement in theoretical physics

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1•Brajeshwar•18m ago•0 comments