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Flock-style scanners now track WiFi/Bluetooth identity from devices in your car

https://www.techradar.com/vehicle-tech/think-flock-is-bad-this-new-tech-is-coming-to-link-license-plates-with-your-phone-and-it-could-be-more-bad-news-for-privacy
3•ck2•42m ago

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ck2•40m ago
mirror: https://tech.yahoo.com/cybersecurity/articles/flock-style-sc...

we have reached the point where now at any point in the future they can trace anyone backwards for months without a warrant (and without probable cause)

they can pick a person and then just look for a crime to prosecute since most people break laws daily without realizing it

4d4m•18m ago
Friendly reminder many manufactured goods also have RFID stickers within, used to track/trace parts during factory assembly. These are active and readable at all times by systems like this - irrespective of if the devices are powered.
ck2•6m ago
ha my shoes have RFid tags for stock tracking, I wonder how far away that can be read

even most watches people have now broadcast bluetooth MAC (and maybe ANT+ id)

and that data is never ever going away, there's no warrant and no law to regulate it

they still have tracking data for everyone who visited Epstein Island decades ago (which is even more crazy that no-one was prosecuted out of hundreds)

An AI agent's memory changes while reading Harry Potte

https://squidler.io/blog/agent-memory-harry-potter
2•tidbeck•1m ago•0 comments

Dux: DuckDB-native dataframes for Elixir, with distributed execution

https://cigrainger.com/blog/introducing-dux/
1•ahamez•1m ago•0 comments

The Beginner's Guide to AI Governance

https://www.karlsnotes.com/the-beginners-guide-to-ai-governance/
1•valkrieco•1m ago•0 comments

Apple's statements about its developer program in the Epic trial

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/8/8.html
1•speckx•2m ago•0 comments

Using Supabase? This one's for you

https://rowly.me
1•popkoren•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Naturalist's Walk – A Web Game Based on William Jardine's Library

https://www.thenaturalistswalk.com/
2•soneca•5m ago•0 comments

Write Code Like You Just Learned How to Program (2010)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/87.html
1•tosh•6m ago•0 comments

King Tut was buried with more than a hundred pairs of underwear

https://www.popsci.com/science/king-tut-buried-with-underwear-weirdest-thing-podcast/
2•speckx•7m ago•0 comments

A leaderboard of trading losses, including Situational Awareness

https://www.ft.com/content/340bf9e7-0e67-4d19-b671-3dc8186efb99
2•merksittich•10m ago•0 comments

The Neoclouds Build Cash Hoards Faster Than Revenues

https://www.nextplatform.com/cloud/2026/08/14/the-neoclouds-build-cash-hoards-faster-than-revenue...
2•rbanffy•10m ago•0 comments

Leading economies' borrowing costs highest since 2008

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/17/government-borrowing-costs-highs-inflation-franc...
3•rf15•11m ago•0 comments

Buy Your Friends Batteries

https://domenkozar.com/2026/08/17/buy-your-friends-batteries/
3•domenkozar•14m ago•2 comments

A Vacuum of the Imagination

https://angadh.com/rockets-1
2•paulpauper•14m ago•0 comments

Nvidia Will Back OpenAI Project with as Much as $105B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-17/nvidia-to-invest-up-to-105-billion-for-openai-...
3•newusertoday•15m ago•1 comments

We don't search databases–we calculate reality. EXXOGEN is now live

https://sites.google.com/view/exxogen
3•kisnorbert•17m ago•0 comments

Benchmark Driven Development

https://charlesazam.com/blog/benchmark-driven-development/
2•couAUIA•17m ago•0 comments

Tetrachromacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy
4•Isamu•17m ago•0 comments

Plastic Nightmare

https://cinemasojourns.com/2026/08/17/plastic-nightmare/
2•jjgreen•19m ago•0 comments

Sun Clock

https://sunclock.net/
2•Gecko4072•21m ago•0 comments

Germ Lisp (2024)

https://ngyro.com/blog/introducing-germ-lisp.html
2•Tomte•21m ago•0 comments

Linux 7.3 SMP Improvement to Help Reduce Latency, Improve Real-Time Performance

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-SMP
4•rbanffy•21m ago•0 comments

A Decongestant Debate That Won't Clear Up

https://undark.org/2026/04/15/sudafed-phenylephrine-debate/
2•onychomys•22m ago•0 comments

AI Text Watermarking Playground

https://watermark.keito.me/
2•keito•22m ago•0 comments

DagFlo: Turn code/diagrams/docs into visual stories

https://www.dagflo.com/
2•aargh_aargh•22m ago•0 comments

Trusting-Trust Attack Against a Linux Distribution Through Binary Manipulation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24888
2•Tomte•24m ago•0 comments

Pentagon order US universities to Cut Chinese or else

https://www.scmp.com/news/us/article/3364337/pentagon-orders-30-us-universities-scrutinise-ties-c...
3•trilogic•24m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What's the Best Agent Harness?

2•cakbeslik•26m ago•1 comments

Friction Is the Feature

https://huntergatherer21c.com/2026/08/12/two-friction-is-the-feature.html
2•nate•27m ago•0 comments

GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?

https://dhruv2038.bearblog.dev/github-has-an-availability-problem-is-it-time-to-look-elsewhere/
28•dhruv3006•27m ago•3 comments

Beeswax

https://spellbeeswax.com/
1•bookofjoe•28m ago•0 comments