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What Color is Your Function? (2015)

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-your-function/
1•tosh•1m ago•0 comments

Using a Nintendo Switch to Speed Up a 3D Printer

https://hackaday.com/2026/05/15/using-a-nintendo-switch-to-speed-up-a-3d-printer/
1•speckx•2m ago•0 comments

Where Did All the Soul Go?

https://arpl.dev/blog/where-did-all-the-sould-go
1•mooreds•4m ago•0 comments

Psyllium husk is being touted as nature's Ozempic

https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2025/jun/11/what-is-psyllium-husk
1•rzk•6m ago•0 comments

Microsoft/Wil: Windows Implementation Library

https://github.com/microsoft/wil
1•Tomte•6m ago•0 comments

Playing Atari music on Amiga for free

https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2026-05-15-ym-fast-emu/
2•nopakos•6m ago•0 comments

JOOQ: The easiest way to write SQL in Java

https://www.jooq.org/
1•Tomte•7m ago•0 comments

Travelers on Air Force One ordered to throw away gifts, phones after China trip

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/15/us-orders-travelers-on-air-force-one-to-throw-away-gifts-pins-a...
3•leopoldj•9m ago•0 comments

Azure Container Apps Express

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/appsonazureblog/introducing-azure-container-apps-express...
1•vyrotek•9m ago•0 comments

Trump leaves China with no agreement but cites 'good' talks with Xi

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-leaves-china-no-agreement-thorny-issues-cites...
1•kaycebasques•11m ago•1 comments

I'm Not Sorry

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n09/thomas-nagel/i-m-not-sorry
1•lermontov•11m ago•0 comments

The shift towards pay to play

https://rosie.land/posts/the-shift-towards-pay-to-play/
2•mooreds•13m ago•0 comments

The Slowest SR-71 Blackbird Fly-By (2017)

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/story-behind-famed-sr-71-blackbird-super-low-knife-edge-pass/
3•_Microft•14m ago•0 comments

YA3 – Yet Another TB-303 clone, that runs in the browser and as a DAW plugin

https://ya3.surge.sh/
1•stagas•14m ago•0 comments

Przybylski's Star: Still After All These Years

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/05/15/przybylskis-star-still-bizarre-after-all-these-years/
2•JPLeRouzic•14m ago•0 comments

Kairos: The ancient Greek art of knowing when to act

https://bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/kairos-the-ancient-greek-art-of-knowing-when-to-act/
2•lschueller•18m ago•0 comments

Waymo recalls 3,800 robotaxis after they drive into flood waters

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/waymo-recalls-3800-robotaxis-after-able-drive-into-standing-water...
4•drob518•19m ago•0 comments

Building a UMatrix Replacement

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/umatrix.html
2•taviso•20m ago•0 comments

Ghost of long-extinct ancestor lives on in people today

https://www.science.org/content/article/ghost-long-extinct-ancestor-lives-people-today
1•gmays•21m ago•0 comments

Build a Full-Featured Text Editor from Scratch (Rust)

https://0xkiire.com/build-text-editor-from-scratch/
3•jabits•24m ago•0 comments

Apple Sold Out of Mac Minis and Mac Studios

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-mini
1•adgjlsfhk1•27m ago•1 comments

Git Is Not Fine

https://www.billjings.com/posts/title/git-is-not-fine/
2•steveklabnik•29m ago•0 comments

What Is Code?

https://martinfowler.com/articles/what-is-code.html
1•BerislavLopac•38m ago•2 comments

Bidirectional typechecking that does not stop

https://semantic-domain.blogspot.com/2026/05/bidirectional-typechecking-that-does.html
1•fanf2•38m ago•0 comments

Why Gemma-4 26B MoE works in HuggingFace but breaks in prod inference engines

https://github.com/maeddesg/vulkanforge/blob/main/docs/gemma4_26b_moe_solution.md
1•maeddesg•38m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Can I take Meta to court for banning business Insta or FB account?

7•milanspeaks•44m ago•3 comments

Linus Torvalds declares AI-fueled code surges as the new normal

https://www.neowin.net/news/linus-torvalds-declares-massive-ai-fueled-code-surges-as-the-new-norm...
3•ell1e•45m ago•0 comments

Goodgallery: WebGL sprite engine that can load 100k thumbnails in 1 second

https://ggdemo.s80.me/demo-100000/#fit
3•thunderbong•46m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's KOSA Endorsement Is Regulatory Capture with a Smiley Face

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/14/openais-kosa-endorsement-is-regulatory-capture-with-a-smiley-...
5•repelsteeltje•46m ago•0 comments

Elephants Still Don't Play Chess

https://whattotelltherobot.com/p/elephants-still-dont-play-chess
2•stefie10•46m ago•1 comments
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U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app

https://macdailynews.com/2026/05/15/u-s-doj-demands-apple-and-google-unmask-over-100000-users-of-popular-car-tinkering-app-in-emissions-crackdown/
54•tencentshill•52m ago

Comments

EGreg•34m ago
Worth pointing out that this is part of a much larger encroachment on user privacy, and not just in the US: https://community.qbix.com/t/increasing-state-of-surveillanc...
squibonpig•25m ago
I wish that article wasn't extremely ai written
EGreg•25m ago
What would that improve in this case?
squibonpig•22m ago
It would be more concise and the analysis section at the end would be more useful. I still read it I just hate reading articles online knowing I could have run a chatgpt deep research to the same effect.
EGreg•18m ago
Can you tell me what you would cut, in this article, specifically, that would make it more meaningfully concise?

The point isn't that you can't run the deep research. Everyone now has more capabilities, and if you want to waste time and tokens you can do it. The point is someone has done the work compiling these, and made it available once, for everyone to read. Think "caching". It has the exact amount of information needed to show the details of every attack. There is a lot. Sadly making it "concise" will remove information -- there is that much.

I do usually make edits to an article after I get it from an AI, as an editor would do when a writer submits something. I hate having AI shibboleths like "It's not X. It's Y". So I make it more humanized. But at the end of the day, the article does what it's supposed to do: make people aware of things in one place, rather than have to research it themselves every time.

ane•3m ago
Why not just write it yourself? We can all have ChatGPT regurgitate the same information. You're supposed to add value, editorializing isn't enough.

Just like I don't want to look at AI art or listen to AI music, I don't want to read AI written blogslop.

The web is now full of shit. What a waste.

embedding-shape•31m ago
> The government says it needs this information to identify and interview witnesses who can testify about how the tools were actually used.

Why start this whole thing, if you don't already have this information and have people willing to help you as witnesses?

Sounds to me they're saying they don't have this already, but why is this investigation happening in the first place then? Rather than finding every user of the tool, find the users who use the tool in the way you don't approve of, then request the information for those?

Really bananas approach to go for "Every single user of the app" and "Everyone who bought a dongle" when it has very real and legal use cases.

seemaze•25m ago
Why stop there? Why not request the PII of every person who could have plausibly downloaded the app at any point in time?
khazhoux•19m ago
It's the only way to be sure. Also, think of the children.
cogman10•2m ago
Yeah, I'd HAPPILY report every single truck rolling coal around me if there was a place to report that information.

Hell, I've seen a truck roll coal around cop cars and, obviously, nothing happened.

This is just gross privacy intrusion masquerading as "protecting the environment". We don't need 100% compliance to the law and simple prosecution/ticketing of obvious violations would go a long way towards solving the problem outright.

analogpixel•22m ago
Hopefully they hand it over, and all of these people lose their licenses. I'm sick of breathing in their exhaust on the way to work.

I think people should have the freedom to do what they want; if you want to have a truck that has horrible exhaust, fine, but we'll have it piped back into your cab for you to breathe instead of the people behind you, and if you want a car that sounds like a thousand go-carts racing down the street fine, but it'll be through headphones destroying your hearing every time you hit the gas.

Yaa101•15m ago
Welcome to our brave new digital world, governments and DOJs do this because now they can, I am afraid this is only the beginning.
basilgohar•10m ago
Tyranny comes and goes, and sometimes just changes shape and serves some more than others, and that gives the illusion to those it serves that it's gone. It's always been around in some form or another.
goolz•5m ago
The saddest part is, most people simply do not care, my parents constantly echo the sentiment that if I have nothing to hide, I have nothing to fear. I would argue this slippery slope came about 20+ years ago during the initial Patriot Act. They normalize the behavior, take a few more freedoms, and keep on trucking. I used to be proud to be American. Now I am just worried.
Danox•13m ago
Get a warrant…
codedokode•9m ago
That's why you should be downloading from F-Droid anonymously.
EvanAnderson•6m ago
For sure. Another demonstration of why "side loading" software is better.
logicchains•2m ago
That's why F-Droid eventually won't work on new Android phones.
Simulacra•4m ago
Sounds like I need to download this app..