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Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models

https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic
209•melded•4h ago•52 comments

FPGA Based IBM-PC-XT

https://bit-hack.net/2025/11/10/fpga-based-ibm-pc-xt/
75•andsoitis•3h ago•13 comments

Brimstone: ES2025 JavaScript engine written in Rust

https://github.com/Hans-Halverson/brimstone
145•ivankra•7h ago•73 comments

AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem

https://github.com/kavishdevar/librepods
1123•moonleay•19h ago•329 comments

Garbage Collection Is Useful

https://dubroy.com/blog/garbage-collection-is-useful/
69•surprisetalk•5h ago•9 comments

De Bruijn Numerals

https://text.marvinborner.de/2023-08-22-22.html
33•marvinborner•3h ago•7 comments

Fourier Transforms

https://www.continuummechanics.org/fourierxforms.html
26•o4c•1w ago•5 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler (2023)

https://research.swtch.com/nih
87•naves•5h ago•2 comments

Measuring the doppler shift of WWVB during a flight

https://greatscottgadgets.com/2025/10-31-receiving-wwvb-with-hackrf-pro/
75•Jyaif•1w ago•0 comments

Anthropic's report smells a lot like bullshit

https://djnn.sh/posts/anthropic-s-paper-smells-like-bullshit/
645•vxvxvx•7h ago•207 comments

AI is killing privacy. We can't let that happen

https://www.fastcompany.com/91435189/ai-privacy-openai-tracking-apps
13•johnshades•15m ago•4 comments

PgFirstAid: PostgreSQL function for improving stability and performance

https://github.com/randoneering/pgFirstAid
61•yakshaving_jgt•5h ago•5 comments

Holes (1970) [pdf]

https://rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil375/Lewis1.pdf
4•miobrien•2d ago•0 comments

Three kinds of AI products work

https://www.seangoedecke.com/ai-products/
64•emschwartz•2h ago•65 comments

Production-Grade Container Deployment with Podman Quadlets – Larvitz Blog

https://blog.hofstede.it/production-grade-container-deployment-with-podman-quadlets/index.html
31•todsacerdoti•5h ago•14 comments

Where Educational Technology Fails: A seventh-grader's perspective

https://micahblachman.beehiiv.com/p/where-educational-technology-fails
22•subdomain•5h ago•72 comments

Vintage Large Language Models

https://owainevans.github.io/talk-transcript.html
32•pr337h4m•5h ago•12 comments

Maybe you’re not trying

https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/maybe-youre-not-actually-trying
304•eatitraw•8h ago•140 comments

IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs

https://codeberg.org/IDEmacs/IDEmacs
283•nogajun•18h ago•116 comments

Dissecting Flock Safety: The Cameras Tracking You Are a Security Nightmare [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY
61•emsign•3h ago•16 comments

Diamonds and Lasers: Thermal Management for Chips

https://spectrum.ieee.org/thermal-management-chips
5•rbanffy•1w ago•0 comments

Waiting for SQL:202y: Group by All

http://peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2025/11/11/waiting-for-sql-202y-group-by-all
3•ingve•5d ago•0 comments

Things that aren't doing the thing

https://strangestloop.io/essays/things-that-arent-doing-the-thing
421•downboots•1d ago•195 comments

The Internet Is No Longer a Safe Haven

https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/10/the-internet-is-no-longer-a-safe-haven/
182•akyuu•6h ago•143 comments

A new documentary about the history of forced psychiatric treatment in Spain

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr43vx0rrwvo
118•binning•5h ago•104 comments

Run Nix Based Environments in Kubernetes

https://flox.dev/kubernetes/
95•kelseyhightower•6d ago•29 comments

Iran begins cloud seeding operations as drought bites

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2622812/middle-east
115•mhb•5h ago•125 comments

UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in north Wales

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c051y3d7myzo
139•ksec•8h ago•178 comments

Alchemy

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/alchemy
20•tobr•6d ago•13 comments

Writing a DOS Clone in 2019

https://medium.com/@andrewimm/writing-a-dos-clone-in-2019-70eac97ec3e1
56•shakna•1w ago•21 comments
Open in hackernews

Dissecting Flock Safety: The Cameras Tracking You Are a Security Nightmare [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY
61•emsign•3h ago

Comments

echelon•2h ago
These cameras are showing up everywhere in my state. It's creepy. I had no idea what they were, and now suddenly they're at every intersection, gas station, you name it.

I don't like that the government is tracking everyone's movements so openly. I knew they were doing this with cell phone data, but that wasn't so brazen.

extropic-engine•2h ago
did you know that flock has a data sharing contract with ring cameras? amazon’s panopticon is much larger. i believe it is on by default and users have to manually opt out, but i don’t have a ring camera to verify.
garrettlangley•57m ago
That’s inaccurate. It’s opt-in, police request footage in a geofence, and as a Ring user, you can select to share or not. The police are only notified if you chose to share.
vanc_cefepime•39m ago
Feel free to place a disclosure that you are a cofounder of Flock.
CharlesW•35m ago
Only sharing specific clips is opt-in¹, but the program and its notifications are on by default. Maybe not surprisingly, consumers aren't asked if they want to participate, and the option is buried enough that most people will never see it.

¹ I'm being generous here. Police can still obtain Ring footage via warrants or "emergency" requests that don’t involve the user choosing to share anything.

diogenes_atx•2h ago
Here in Austin, the city council no longer allows Flock ALPR's (automated license plate readers) on city streets, but Home Depot and other businesses still use them in their parking lots, and they scan your vehicle license plate every time you enter and exit the premises. Flock sells its data to ICE and law enforcement.
wldcordeiro•2h ago
Plus they'll position them close to an intersection in the parking lot of a business so they can get around something like the restriction Austin put in.
garrettlangley•59m ago
That’s inaccurate. We do not sell data.
CharlesW•45m ago
Correct. Flock sells cameras and platform access, but gives data from their shared, nationwide surveillance utility to ICE and law enforcement.

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/flock-massachus...

https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-...

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/surveillance-com...

notrealyme123•43m ago
that's an odly specific answer.
y-c-o-m-b•39m ago
As the CEO of Flock, don't you feel you have more information to offer this community outside of the "we do not sell data" statement you've made over and over? The fact that you do not engage here in the ethical aspects of your product doesn't look good for you and only deepens suspicion that something darker is going on behind your doors.
garrettlangley•9m ago
Consistent because it’s the truth. We do not and have never been in the business of monetizing data.

Our customers place cameras and have total control over where and how that information is shared with law enforcement.

There is no conspiracy theory here or “dark activity” behind doors.

We are trying to help people stay safe.

Welcome feedback or new ideas to make our communities safe.

walterbell•53m ago
"Find Nearby Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR)" (70 comments), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45487452

Adversarial computer vision and DIY OSS $250 RPi Hailo ALPR (2M views), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ

"Tire Pressure Sensor IDs: Why, Where and When (2015)" (30 comments), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45490202

baby_souffle•39m ago
Ooof. When I heard "android things" I knew they had a problem. It was a google project that had little adoption and was killed only a few years after it was announced (so, better than average for google, then?).

I wonder what they estimate the "replace with newer" cost to be versus the "figure out how to deploy $modernAndroid fleet wide" costs. Bonus points if you express it as a percentage of CEO's compensation / company wide revenue.

conradev•4m ago
The camera companies always end up having a lot in common:

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/2123068verkadac...

rpcope1•1m ago
It's not just Flock anymore. Another Y Combinator startup, Blissway has been putting cameras in a lot of places in Colorado, and you can't tell me it's not going to be used for exactly the same shit.