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Apple Slammed in Calif. Federal Court over AirTag's Alleged Use in Stalking

https://www.law.com/therecorder/2026/05/04/apple-slammed-in-calif-federal-court-with-lawsuits-over-airtags-alleged-use-in-stalking-/

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bitpush•59m ago

Something I've always found funny is when Apple creates a technology that can be used for malicious purpose, it is a user error. But when another company creates something that has adverse effect, it is the company's fault.

Here's a thought experiment

Meta creates Instagram leading to anxiety and mindless scrolling - Meta bad

OpenAI creates ChatGPT leading to jobloss and AI slop - OpenAI bad

Apple creates Airtag leading to IRL stalking - ???

While the King Lives: An Old C Programming Prank in GNU Hello from 1993

https://lowendbox.com/blog/while-the-king-lives-an-old-c-programming-prank-in-gnu-hello-from-1993/

1•bananamogul•40s ago•0 comments

ML Engineer

1•packydarn•1m ago•0 comments

The AI Ad-Hoc Prior Restraint Era Begins

https://twitter.com/TheZvi/status/2051746108658033130

1•paulpauper•1m ago•0 comments

The Traveling Salesdog Problem

https://www.wespiser.com/posts/2026-05-04-traveling-salesdog.html

1•wespiser_2018•2m ago•1 comments

Mazes and Monsters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazes_and_Monsters

1•Ariarule•3m ago•0 comments

Army Asks Missile Makers to Hack Their Own Weapons

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-great-110-trillion-wealth-transfer-wont-happen-any-time-soon-e8b...

1•fortran77•5m ago•1 comments

Reading Beneath the Surface: Social Cognition and Metacognition Benchmark

https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/kaggle-measuring-agi/writeups/Reading-Beneath-the-Surface

1•tenywan•6m ago•0 comments

Shipping an AI app in 30 minutes: the build order matters more than the model

https://medium.com/@jpelton722/i-shipped-an-ai-app-in-30-minutes-the-trick-wasnt-the-ai-46a0e504d273

1•jpelton•6m ago•0 comments

PayPal plans 20% job cuts

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-05/paypal-plans-job-cuts-as-fintech-s-new-ceo-pur...

3•DGAP•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Freu CLI – Cut web agent token usage by 90% via compiled browser skills

https://github.com/freu-ai/freu-cli

2•0xintelligence•7m ago•0 comments

Tools in the Grass: Raising the next generation of crafts person

https://www.popularwoodworking.com/editors-blog/tools-in-the-grass/

1•NaOH•7m ago•0 comments

RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Implementing PCI Passthrough for Gaming

https://scottjg.com/posts/2026-05-05-egpu-mac-gaming/

4•scottjg•8m ago•0 comments

Interactive US police bodycam map

https://badge.video

1•zoogies•9m ago•1 comments

Rejourney Swift Package Is Now in Open Beta

https://rejourney.co/engineering/2026-05-05/swift-package-open-beta

1•mrashiddev•10m ago•0 comments

All Eyes on the Nerd? The Unequal Distribution of Teachers' Attention [pdf]

https://www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/25144.pdf

1•efavdb•11m ago•0 comments

Outrage is letting someone else set the frame

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/outrag/

2•Ariarule•11m ago•0 comments

The mechanical latching memory of an adhesive tape

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/ae4acc

1•gnabgib•15m ago•0 comments

Key Strategies to Make SwiftUI Views More Reusable

https://matteomanferdini.com/swiftui-reusable-views/

1•DeusExMachina•15m ago•0 comments

Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers

https://marcua.net/minitools/figmimic/

1•speckx•15m ago•0 comments

Just Fucking Use Hetzner

https://justfuckingusehetzner.com/

1•zichy•15m ago•0 comments

Alcatraz coyote swam from Angel Island, not SF

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/alcatraz-coyote-unexpected-origin-22241335.php

1•kaycebasques•16m ago•0 comments

How to Automate MongoDB Imports, Exports, and Sync Jobs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xJbK2b6NV8

2•RoxiHaidi•18m ago•0 comments

AI Is a Mirror of Our Engineering Culture

https://techtrenches.dev/p/ai-is-a-mirror-of-our-engineering

1•davesailer•18m ago•0 comments

Tag, You're It [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83YcsIVBEEk

1•tfpgh•19m ago•0 comments

The Handoff Problem (Updated)

https://blog.dshr.org/2026/03/the-handoff-problem.html

1•speckx•24m ago•0 comments

Unlocking Long-Context LLM Training via Compiler-Based Sequence Parallelism

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27089

2•PaulHoule•25m ago•0 comments

Quirre – An AI marketing copilot for non-marketers

https://www.quirre.com/

2•dmnlaali•25m ago•0 comments

When innocent tools form dangerous chains to jailbreak LLM agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25624

2•leecoursey•26m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What's worse? Making decisions based on bad data or no data? Why?

2•jrs235•27m ago•1 comments

What five years of data tells us about lasting relationships

https://hanker.dating/study

4•whatsupdog•27m ago•0 comments