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Why Are Gay Bars Building Databases of Their Patrons?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/why-are-gay-bars-building-databases-their-patrons
12•hn_acker•47m ago

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graemep•23m ago
Its not just gay bars in California. My daughter said a pub in the UK scanned her driving license when checking her age. A supermarket chain just announced they are rolling out face recognition cameras. Its profitable and there will be endless "think of the children" type arguments in favour.
throwitaway222•17m ago
Has anyone else felt lately that like in the 80s and 90s things were what they appeared to be? A bar was a bar. A church is a church. A museum is a museum. A hospital is a hospital.

Now I can't help but think of all the nefarious owners - maybe it's some non-profit in Isreal, or has funding from China, or is run by the Russian mafia. Nothing seems to be genuine anymore, and every now and then there's some giant scandal that proves it all right. What's left of America. And everyone's asking for more privacy, but I fear the nefarious owner class that has allegiance to some other country is also asking for more privacy.

Bender•8m ago
For what it's worth most gay bars, massage parlors and brothels near military installations have been recorded since the at least the 1970's. My squadron installed some of the surveillance systems and had cooperation from local business owners. The purpose was to identify military personnel at risk of being compromised. None of that information was shared outside of the military.

A Closed-Loop Framework for Scored Text Synthesis

https://github.com/hanning-labs/hl-gen
1•asabra•36s ago•0 comments

LLMs Can't Jump [pdf]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28024/1/Scientific_Invention_Position_Paper%20%2817%29.pdf
2•snorbleck•2m ago•0 comments

India's Assam faces worst floods in years

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1•saikatsg•3m ago•0 comments

Terminal Themes, and the Rabbit Hole That Produced Them

https://williamzujkowski.github.io/posts/2026-07-19-oklch-terminal-themes/
1•speckx•3m ago•0 comments

How did The Shawshank Redemption become the highest rated #1 movie on IMDB?

https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/1v8pm2x/comment/p07p4ri/
3•thunderbong•3m ago•0 comments

An open source library for rendering and editing slides in chat apps

https://www.blockslides.com/
2•Mojmalik•3m ago•0 comments

ClickCannon: Building a Tool for Benchmarking ClickHouse

https://clickhouse.com/blog/building-clickcannon-a-tool-for-benchmark-clickhouse
2•mikeshi42•5m ago•0 comments

Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude

https://www.anthropic.com/research/discovering-cryptographic-weaknesses
7•gslin•5m ago•0 comments

I Built a Calendar App Kids Control – Even Parents Can't Access It

https://github.com/mihirshaikbugs/kid-compass
2•mihirshaik•6m ago•0 comments

Ads in Software Are Like Stickers on Laptops

https://daringfireball.net/2026/07/ads_in_software_are_like_stickers_on_laptops
1•Brajeshwar•6m ago•0 comments

CryptanalysisBench: Can LLMs Do Cryptanalysis?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18538
2•rvz•8m ago•0 comments

Designing With AI on a budget as an engineer: Google+ChatGPT

https://www.kcoleman.me/2026/06/11/designing-with-ai-indie.html
2•speckx•9m ago•0 comments

Wikimedia Foundation declines to voluntarily recognise the union

https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/07/27/statement-cwa-recognition-request/
3•ravenical•10m ago•0 comments

Anthropic A.I. Model Finds Flaws in Tough-to-Crack Encryption Algorithms

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/us/politics/anthropic-ai-encryption-security-aes.html
3•edsimpson•11m ago•0 comments

Children, sponsors arrested by ICE after tips from US child migrant

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/thousands-children-sponsors-arrested-by-ice-after-tips-u...
4•tartoran•13m ago•1 comments

Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI

https://openai.com/index/scientific-computing-agentic-ai/
4•mfiguiere•14m ago•0 comments

Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7

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3•tmtvl•15m ago•0 comments

I Tried Coding My Own Graphics Library

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JGMgpyCTsY
2•linggen•17m ago•0 comments

Setup a Simple, Self-Hosted Web Server with OpenBSD

https://btxx.org/posts/self-hosted-openbsd/
3•linggen•17m ago•0 comments

A personalized scam [AI-enabled] is coming for you

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2•Calvin02•18m ago•1 comments

Magnolia Search

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Lessons in Networking from Fighting Games [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jb0FOcImdg
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Giant Concentric Rings Discovered in the Atmosphere of Venus

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4•geox•20m ago•0 comments

Protesting Flock, Arizona Man Presents Plan to Surveil Government Officials

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5•pavel_lishin•21m ago•1 comments

WOFF 1.0: a milestone on W3C's journey of fonts on the web

https://www.w3.org/blog/2026/woff-1-0-a-milestone-on-w3cs-journey-of-fonts-on-the-web/
3•hn_acker•22m ago•0 comments

Coding Tools MCP (v0.2.2):Give any AI chat or agent a pair of hands on your code

https://github.com/xyTom/coding-tools-mcp
3•xytom•23m ago•0 comments

I vibe-coded a travel app in a weekend, security scan found 8 critical flaws

https://github.com/KrazyKulsum/trip-together-planner-21/tree/main
4•kulsumshannan•23m ago•0 comments

Stuck agents: coverage, capacity, or me

https://saheb.github.io/blog/posts/stuck-agents-coverage-capacity-or-me/
2•saheb37•25m ago•0 comments

The Download: OpenAI's predictable hack, and an AI stock sell-off

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/28/1140868/the-download-openai-hack-ai-stock-sell-off/
2•joozio•25m ago•0 comments

Bots Took over Our Lives

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/how-bots-took-over-our-lives
2•Brajeshwar•26m ago•0 comments