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Ask HN: How can I find trackers I did not place in my stuff?

2•jvilalta•1h ago
By sheer luck I found a Tile BLE tracker in a car I purchased recently. I assume it was put there by the previous owner in case of theft and forgotten. It nonetheless has been destroyed. Now I'd really like to know how you defend yourself against this sort of attack?

I'm not looking to defend against a 3 letter agency or nation-state, but against any low tech stalker, ex, would be thief, or cop without access to Flock cameras type of adversary. Looking for something that would be able to find BLE trackers regardless of platform/company.

I ran a scan using nRF but there is a lot of noise out there and isn't sustainable. Have you found trackers in your stuff? How do you defend against trackers? There are apps out there but it's hard to trust them with the required permissions. Open source would be great. I'm on Android and have "tracker protection" or whatever enabled.

Show HN: Faaah – Filesystem as an AI Handler

https://github.com/sebastiancarlos/faaah
1•httbs•1m ago•0 comments

Depression has tripled in the last 15 years. Arthur Brooks about the cause

https://bigthink.com/series/full-interview/meaning-crisis-brooks/
1•lschueller•6m ago•0 comments

I built a client-side HEIC converter using WebAssembly

https://heictools.io
1•suolex•6m ago•0 comments

GPT-4 finished training four years ago today

https://twitter.com/gdb/status/2086092396023120286
3•nekofneko•10m ago•0 comments

Dithered QR Codes

https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/
1•jmusall•10m ago•0 comments

Big Tech Changed Health Care. The System Must Keep Up

https://www.newsweek.com/big-tech-changed-health-care-the-system-must-keep-up-opinion-12291938
1•brandonb•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: VD – TUI Password Manager and OTP Authenticator for Unix

https://github.com/ahmedhosssam/vd
1•ahmedhosssam•15m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: If Social network is created today, what do you want to see?

2•kocial•17m ago•3 comments

The Fool (Tarot Card)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fool_(tarot_card)
1•jackhalford•23m ago•0 comments

How AI is breaking the British State

2•andsoitis•25m ago•0 comments

You can build an AI agent's memory layer with only Go's standard library

https://towardsdev.com/the-memory-efficient-ai-agent-building-a-context-engine-in-go-d4b7557c44d8...
2•cheikhdev•25m ago•0 comments

Google DeepMind enters a new era as co-founder Demis Hassabis shifts AI role

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/08/google-demis-hassabis-deepmind-shifts-role
2•flancian•25m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why is Open POWER Foundation a wasteland?

2•climate_denier_•26m ago•1 comments

My server is a phone now

https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/
2•seg6•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Try Benzi – A coding harness/agent beating Claude Code itself on Sonnet

https://benzi.fly.dev/about
1•showhz•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo

https://photosynthesis.camera
1•sajomes•28m ago•1 comments

How to Handle a Difficult Colleague

https://www.thetrueengineer.com/p/surviving-the-workplace-how-to-handle
1•adletbalzhanov•30m ago•0 comments

Should you stop cracking your knuckles?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260807-should-i-stop-cracking-my-knuckles
2•tchalla•39m ago•0 comments

Confessions of a Democratic Socialist [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61tUsrNejRM
1•donsupreme•42m ago•0 comments

Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled

https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations
3•adletbalzhanov•42m ago•0 comments

How Can LLM RL Work Despite Information-Theoretic Inefficiency

https://www.beren.io/2026-07-26-How-Can-LLM-RL-Work-Despite-Information-Theoretic-Inefficiency/
1•sshh12•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Turn tweets into beautiful, shareable photos

https://tweet.download/
1•azeemkafridi•46m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ExpertCache – Run the Full GPT-OSS 120B (63GB) on a 16GB M1 Pro

https://github.com/amos-labs/expertcache
1•rick_barkley•47m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Inertia – Not your Grandfathers animation editor

https://inertiagraphics.com/
1•hpen•48m ago•0 comments

SpaceX Earnings Reveal X's Shrinking Ad Biz

https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/417046/spacex-q2-earnings-show-xs-shrunken-ad-biz....
4•keeda•49m ago•1 comments

Roku Fairgound, a new 24/7 AI slop channel

https://therokuchannel.roku.com/details/b484db42f3d31b6dc2f604d453c694a0/fairground-ai-creator-tv
2•timoth3y•49m ago•1 comments

Why I'm gone [video][59 mins]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VbyhUmtuBw
2•Bender•50m ago•0 comments

AI Settles a 25 Year-Old Problem We Left Behind

https://twitter.com/DimitrisPapail/status/2086158118354887060
5•amichail•53m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Books Written for Polyglots?

1•s4074433•53m ago•0 comments

High-frequency trading firm just hired Bjarne Stroustrup (creator of C++)

https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/a-high-frequency-trading-firm-just-hired-bjarne-stroustrup...
5•refp•54m ago•2 comments