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"Windows 11 26H1" is a special version of Windows exclusively for new Arm PCs

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/windows-11-26h1-is-a-special-version-of-windows-exclusive...
1•Bender•25s ago•0 comments

Automating Inference Optimizations with NVIDIA TensorRT LLM AutoDeploy

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/automating-inference-optimizations-with-nvidia-tensorrt-llm-aut...
1•matt_d•36s ago•0 comments

Malcolm Gladwell Announces Book Exploring the Nation's Gun Violence Epidemic

https://rbmediaglobal.com/malcolm-gladwell-announces-the-american-way-of-killing-a-new-book-explo...
1•paulpauper•2m ago•0 comments

Deepwiki.com (Devin) documentation of Sutskever-30-implementations

https://deepwiki.com/pageman/sutskever-30-implementations
1•pajop•5m ago•0 comments

Tékumel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A9kumel
1•emigre•7m ago•0 comments

Reports of Telnet's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

https://www.terracenetworks.com/blog/2026-02-11-telnet-routing
2•ericpauley•8m ago•1 comments

Agentic Engineering

https://addyosmani.com/blog/agentic-engineering/
1•Cyphase•9m ago•0 comments

WebMCP started as a solution to auth for agents at Amazon

https://www.arcade.dev/blog/web-mcp-alex-nahas-interview/
3•nearestnabors•10m ago•0 comments

Ford Falls Behind China's BYD in Global Sales for the First Time

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-10/ford-falls-behind-china-s-byd-in-global-sales-...
1•toomuchtodo•13m ago•1 comments

Show HN: agent alcove – Claude, GPT, and Gemini debate across forums

https://agentalcove.ai
1•nickvec•14m ago•0 comments

An ice dance duo skated to AI music at the Olympics

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/olympics-czech-ice-dancers-duo-ai-music/
1•saikatsg•16m ago•0 comments

Musk says xAI was reorganized, leading to some layoffs

https://www.reuters.com/business/musk-says-xai-was-reorganized-2026-02-11/
3•mraniki•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CodeMoot – Bridge Between Claude Code and Codex CLI

https://github.com/katarmal-ram/codemoot
1•katarmal-ram•18m ago•0 comments

Today is my last day at Anthropic. I resigned

https://twitter.com/MrinankSharma/status/2020881722003583421
3•saikatsg•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PolyMCP – Expose Python functions as MCP tools

1•justvugg•23m ago•0 comments

Ghost CMS adds support for welcome emails

https://ghost.org/changelog/welcome-emails/
1•Curiositry•23m ago•0 comments

DOJ says Trenchant boss sold exploits to Russian broker

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/doj-says-trenchant-boss-sold-exploits-to-russian-broker-capable...
2•_____k•23m ago•0 comments

PXL2000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PXL2000
2•dcminter•24m ago•0 comments

Video: A Brief Overview of the Atari 800XL

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/video-a-brief-overview-of-the-atari
1•rbanffy•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Yet another music player but written in Rust

https://github.com/temidaradev/rusic
2•temidaradev•29m ago•0 comments

Apple's Latest Attempt to Launch the New Siri Runs into Snags

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-11/apple-s-ios-26-4-siri-update-runs-into-snags-i...
4•petethomas•30m ago•2 comments

GLM 5 – The Next-Gen Frontier

https://glm5.app/
1•Jenny249•31m ago•0 comments

Iran's Digital Surveillance Machine Is Almost Complete

https://www.wired.com/story/irans-digital-surveillance-machine-is-almost-complete/
2•oavioklein•31m ago•0 comments

Deleted doesn't mean gone: How police recovered Nancy Guthrie's doorbell footage

https://www.theverge.com/tech/877235/nancy-guthrie-google-nest-cam-video-storage
5•wewewedxfgdf•32m ago•1 comments

A few design decisions for a new chat platform

https://sporks.space/2026/02/10/a-few-design-decisions-for-a-new-chat-platform/
3•zdw•33m ago•0 comments

Apple withholds 18.7.5 security update from iPhones and iPads supporting iOS 26

https://support.apple.com/en-us/126347
4•shantara•36m ago•2 comments

Building Modern Databases with the FDAP Stack

https://gotopia.tech/articles/412/building-modern-databases-with-the-fdap-stack
1•PaulHoule•37m ago•0 comments

TypeScript 6.0 Beta

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-6-0-beta/
2•enz•38m ago•0 comments

Three Conversations Worth Having with Your CTO

https://docs.eventsourcingdb.io/blog/2026/02/12/three-conversations-worth-having-with-your-cto/
1•goloroden•38m ago•0 comments

Microwave Oven Failure: Spontaneously turned on by its LED display (2024)

https://blog.stuffedcow.net/2024/06/microwave-failure-spontaneously-turns-on/
3•arm•38m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance

https://www.theverge.com/tech/876866/ring-search-party-super-bowl-ad-online-backlash
104•jedberg•1h ago

Comments

jedberg•1h ago
Amazon also had the ad about Alexa killing you. Not sure what they were thinking exactly.
tantalor•35m ago
That ad was great. I'm not sure how it sells Alexa products, but it was hilarious.
1970-01-01•1h ago
What backlash? "People voiced concerns" turns out to be 9 people if you follow the link. Where exactly is this backlash and why can't I smell it?
wolvoleo•1h ago
Ring has experienced backlash before when they allowed police departments to browse the imagery without any kind of oversight or warrant. And has changed their policies as a result (in the most minimal way but ok)

And these are pretty high profile people whose job it is to represent the people who will also have concerns but don't all contact the verge about it :)

By the way i use ring cameras too but I've already mitigated them a lot. Installed telephoto lenses that can only see the specific area I want them to see, and I removed the microphones so they can't hear what I'm saying. I got some free with my ring alarm so I didn't really want to waste the hardware either.

ranger_danger•1h ago
If you search for this story on other sites, the comments are full of backlash.
igleria•55m ago
At what number of people do you consider it a backlash?
1970-01-01•52m ago
1% of subscribers
thesuitonym•49m ago
What about people who aren't subscribers and do not want their privacy invaded?
1970-01-01•43m ago
I'm afraid it's GDPR for them
add-sub-mul-div•55m ago
The subtext is that idiots are buying these things and should at least become aware that there are reasons for backlash that haven't occurred to them.
assimpleaspossi•31m ago
I found out that on Reddit people go there and ask things like this (someone asked recently): "My girlfriend and I are looking for something to do. Are there any protests going on today we can go to?"

Can you imagine people actually searching things out like that? These "people voicing concerns" are like that. Someone has to find something to be enraged about for the sake of finding something to do.

goatlover•27m ago
Or people are concerned about living in a surveillance state and wish to protest that or some other issue. Why downplay legitimate societal concerns?
olyjohn•7m ago
[delayed]
egorfine•15m ago
Exactly. There are certainly more than 9 of us who value privacy and understand where this is going, but in comparison to millions of normies we aren't even a screeching voice of minority[1].

[1] https://www.howtogeek.com/746588/apple-discusses-screeching-...

teeray•9m ago
Everyone I’ve talked to about the Super Bowl ads has mentioned that one and said that it is creepy af. The backlash is mostly word of mouth in my experience.
gentleman11•1h ago
Fears of mass surveillance? It's already mass surveillance
colechristensen•33m ago
This nitpick in language adds nothing to the conversation and is fundamentally incorrect. "Fears of" does not imply the thing feared doesn't exist.
davidw•1h ago
The WeRateDogs guy broke character and put out a video attacking that ad

https://bsky.app/profile/weratedogs.com/post/3mejrtyvkyc2o

GaryBluto•56m ago
Why is it that (from what I've seen) the average American citizen is fine with mass surveillance but only if it's not used to track illegal immigrants? It's such an odd thing to draw a line in the sand over.
add-sub-mul-div•53m ago
Because it's them finally becoming aware that abuses of surveillance are real and tangible and not cable news rhetoric.
_DeadFred_•19m ago
Because we decided the Constitution doesn't apply to a huge group of people living within the United States, and that seems wrong to those of us raised to believe the Constitution was important and the actual law of the land. It kind of doesn't work at all once we add a government decided 'subjective' layer on top of it. You could argue that already happened but this is the first most obvious in our faces instance.
neogodless•4m ago
I have documentation proving that I am, in fact, the Average American Citizen.

I am not fine with mass surveillance.

blell•39m ago
The weratedogs guy has been posting political messages for as long as I can remember. This is completely in character for him.
moffkalast•24m ago
"They aren't good politicians, Bront."
Archelaos•1h ago
What exactly are the "neighborhood cameras" mentioned in the article?
jedberg•59m ago
Everyone's Ring doorbells and cameras.
wolvoleo•1h ago
https://archive.is/J7KGU

Archive link posted because in some cases (not all, strange enough) there's a paywall ("subscribe to continue reading")

crooked-v•54m ago
That ad gave me a visceral shudder of revulsion, not so much for the specific functionality on display as for the timing, which absolutely could not have been accidental. They might as well have just put 'and we're working on automatic alerts for ICE!' in the ad.
blibble•50m ago
that advert is just so horribly manipulative it's borderline evil

how can normal people go to work and produce this output?

(I suppose everyone that is prepared to work at Amazon corporate is... a certain type of person)

idle_zealot•21m ago
It's not really about the individual people. They're probably all pretty normal interpersonally. Our systems reward this behavior, so people do it. Surveillance is desired by the politically and economically powerful, and the contravening forces are weak and largely unorganized. Do we punish politicians or businesses for bad behavior? No? Then they'll engage in whatever behavior advances their interests.

You could purge the world of every single person with evil intentions, and things would maybe get better for a little while, but without fundamentally changing the underlying rules of the system the same thing would play out again with different actors.

text0404•47m ago
Even more concerning is that Ring is partnering with Flock [1], which has been the subject of quite a bit of controversy recently [2][3][4], with the CEO lashing out at critics with inflammatory language [5][6].

[1] https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/flock-safety-and-ring-partn...

[2] https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/flock-roundup

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/ice-school-c...

[4] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/effs-investigations-ex...

[5] https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/flock-ceo-goes-...

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903556

mjr00•43m ago
The Dark Knight was released in 2008. In that movie, Batman hijacks citizens' cellphones to track down the Joker, and it's presented as a major moral and ethical dilemma as part of the movie's overall themes. The only way Batman remains a "good guy" in the eyes of the audience is by destroying the entire thing once he's done.

Crazy to think that less than two decades later, an even more powerful surveillance technology is being advertised at the Super Bowl as a great and wonderful thing and you should totally volunteer to upload your Ring footage so it can be analyzed for tracking down the Jok... I mean illegal imm... I mean lost pets.

ViktorRay•34m ago
The Dark Knight was released in the summer of 2008. This was almost 7 years after 9/11.

Many aspects of that film were deliberately done to explore post 9/11 America. This includes the methods Harvey Dent uses, the things the Joker says, and the surveillance scenes and more.

These discussions surrounding surveillance have been around long before 2008.

mjr00•23m ago
Of course. The use of mass surveillance in the movie is not-so-subtly referencing the PATRIOT Act. But again, it's presented as a moral dilemma, and multiple protagonists acknowledge that it's far too powerful to exist, and its use is a last resort. It falls into the larger theme of Joker pushing Batman to violate his ethics for the greater good.

One could argue that because it was successfully used to catch Joker, the movie concludes that mass surveillance is sometimes necessary to stop evil, but it's at least presented as a dilemma. A massive corporation coming out and saying "mass surveillance is awesome because you can find lost pets" is a crazy escalation of the surveillance state.

slg•27m ago
It's hard to not become disillusioned with our industry when most of it is just the manifesting of that Torment Nexus tweet. It's like no one in the tech world actually understands any piece of fiction that they have ever consumed.
RankingMember•50s ago
I knew plenty of people growing up who thought Fight Club was just a fun movie about guys who like to fight and make a club to do so and it gets a little crazy, then cut to credits. They then theorized making their own such club. This to say, yeah, I think sometimes the audience can be overestimated in their ability to understand deeper meaning in art.
koolba•15m ago
> The only way Batman remains a "good guy" in the eyes of the audience is by destroying the entire thing once he's done.

A key part of that is when he tells Alfred that he did not even trust himself with that level of surveillance and coded it to only grant access to Alfred. Further, Alfred agrees to aid Batman by accessing the data but simultaneously tenders his resignation.

I doubt Amazon has anyone like Alfred in charge of this thing. Because if they did, the resignation would already have been submitted.

polar•12m ago
> Alfred

Wasn't it Lucius Fox?

Gagarin1917•12m ago
I mean the message in The Dark Knight is really messy. The characters believe it’s immoral, but they use it anyway, and it saves lives and stops the Joker.
mjr00•1m ago
Yeah, as I say in a sibling comment, it's a fair reading of the movie that it's ultimately pro-surveillance because it shows that despite being immoral, unethical mass surveillance catches the bad guy. But "surveillance is unethical but necessary when battling the forces of evil" is worlds away from "surveillance is totally awesome and everyone should buy a Ring camera."
b00ty4breakfast•2m ago
This is a bit orthogonal to the article, but Christopher Nolan gives me the willies. Almost all his films have this kind authoritarian apologia in them.
ChrisArchitect•32m ago
[dupe] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46950915
nullbyte•22m ago
I'm afraid that ship has sailed
Gagarin1917•13m ago
Bullshit. The only people worried are the ones that were already concerned and never bought a Ring.

I guarantee the vast majority of people LOVE this new feature.

josefritzishere•3m ago
Amazon has a very bad track record in this area. https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/amazon-is-wagi...