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I cracked a $200 software protection with xcopy

https://www.ud2.rip/blog/enigma-protector/
54•vmfunc•2h ago•19 comments

Self-hosting my photos with Immich

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-11-29-self-hosting-photos-with-immich/
103•birdculture•5d ago•39 comments

Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025

https://blog.cloudflare.com/5-december-2025-outage/
590•meetpateltech•13h ago•447 comments

Nook Browser

https://browsewithnook.com
20•ray__•1h ago•15 comments

Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

https://haveibeenflocked.com/
42•pkaeding•1h ago•18 comments

Albert Michelson's Harmonic Analyzer (2014) [pdf]

https://engineerguy.com/fourier/pdfs/albert-michelsons-harmonic-analyzer.pdf
10•o4c•1h ago•2 comments

Leaving Intel

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog//2025-12-05/leaving-intel.html
153•speckx•7h ago•66 comments

Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI

https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-3-pro-vision/
386•xnx•12h ago•198 comments

Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros
1523•meetpateltech•16h ago•1169 comments

Extra Instructions Of The 65XX Series CPU (1996)

http://www.ffd2.com/fridge/docs/6502-NMOS.extra.opcodes
35•embedding-shape•4h ago•5 comments

Adenosine on the common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox

https://genomicpress.kglmeridian.com/view/journals/brainmed/aop/article-10.61373-bm025c.0134/arti...
101•PaulHoule•6h ago•48 comments

Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps

https://frinkiac.com/
52•GlumWoodpecker•3d ago•20 comments

Ivan Sutherland Sketchpad Demo 1963 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6orsmFndx_o
30•fs_software•3d ago•0 comments

PalmOS on FisherPrice Pixter Toy

https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=27.%20rePalm#pixter
8•dmitrygr•1h ago•1 comments

YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries

https://www.ynetnews.com/tech-and-digital/article/bj1qbwcklg
183•mystraline•3h ago•110 comments

Most technical problems are people problems

https://blog.joeschrag.com/2023/11/most-technical-problems-are-really.html
358•mooreds•15h ago•265 comments

Guide to making a CHIP-8 emulator (2020)

https://tobiasvl.github.io/blog/write-a-chip-8-emulator/
5•AlexeyBrin•6d ago•0 comments

Perpetual futures, explained

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/perpetual-futures-explained/
79•sirodoht•7h ago•30 comments

Idempotency keys for exactly-once processing

https://www.morling.dev/blog/on-idempotency-keys/
105•defly•4d ago•41 comments

Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust

https://corrode.dev/blog/defensive-programming/
234•PaulHoule•12h ago•47 comments

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

180•proberts•12h ago•224 comments

Fizz Buzz in CSS

https://susam.net/fizz-buzz-in-css.html
75•froober•8h ago•20 comments

Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond

https://netflixtechblog.com/av1-now-powering-30-of-netflix-streaming-02f592242d80
490•CharlesW•1d ago•256 comments

Show HN: HCB Mobile – financial app built by 17 y/o, processing $6M/month

https://hackclub.com/fiscal-sponsorship/mobile/
123•mohamad08•3d ago•51 comments

Tides are weirder than you think

https://signoregalilei.com/2025/11/12/tides-are-weirder-than-you-think/
89•surprisetalk•4d ago•22 comments

The missing standard library for multithreading in JavaScript

https://github.com/W4G1/multithreading
49•W4G1•7h ago•13 comments

Sam Altman’s DRAM Deal

https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal
205•pabs3•4h ago•172 comments

Onlook (YC W25) the Cursor for Designers Is Hiring a Founding Fullstack Engineer

1•D_R_Farrell•12h ago

Frank Gehry has died

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y2p22z9gno
152•ksajadi•7h ago•55 comments

Making RSS More Fun

https://matduggan.com/making-rss-more-fun/
192•salmon•16h ago•94 comments
Open in hackernews

Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

https://haveibeenflocked.com/
41•pkaeding•1h ago

Comments

habinero•59m ago
I love these kinds of sites, since they're indistinguishable from honeypots. Sure, have my license plate and the information that I'm worried about being watched.
Simulacra•58m ago
Sounds like social media ;-)
RobRivera•43m ago
Lmao I got honeypotted in h.s. by one of those 'does your crush like you' astrology sites
alilikestech•38m ago
Lol I actually tried it with my plate, i hope i don't get SWATed
MangoToupe•35m ago
Who isn't worried about being watched? I am certainly not confident the government can tell their ass from their face, so anyone could be suspect.
AdmiralAsshat•33m ago
With no other identifying info, though, what can they do with a license plate number in isolation?
rogerrogerr•20m ago
Exactly - you can collect license plates numbers way easier than this. The best data they can really get is a connection to an IP address.
CamperBob2•9m ago
Sell it to the cops as belonging to "self-identified persons of interest."
pests•8m ago
Some states, like Michigan, you can request owner information (including address) by a in-person SOS visit and $15 a plate. I've always thought this should be PII and shouldn't be allowed on reddit, for example, where PII is banned. Post a driver with plate in Michigan and you may have doxxed them.
boomboomsubban•6m ago
They list their sources, if you care but don't trust them you could replicate it on your own.
onetokeoverthe•54m ago
just enter 10 license numbers.
tptacek•29m ago
Besides the obvious privacy concern: at the very least in my state (Illinois), it's not lawful for public bodies to disclose the license plate numbers read from ALPR cameras, so this data set is necessarily incomplete.

But, give it a year or two, and you can replace this whole website with a black background and 72 point white bold text "YES".

calvinmorrison•20m ago
Flock is a private company, right. That's the whole schtick. Like, Flock can retain records indefinitely for example, they may sell those records to the government but they're a private party.
tptacek•19m ago
What's your point? To the extent they're a private company you're even less likely to get access to records from Flock ALPR cameras.
calvinmorrison•16m ago
> at the very least in my state (Illinois), it's not lawful for public bodies to disclose the license plate numbers read from ALPR cameras, so this data set is necessarily incomplete.

They're not a public body, that was my point

user3939382•12m ago
Can’t wait for the Flock Equifax/SouthParkWereSorry-esque breach announcement any day. I should start a betting pool w my friends.
opengrass•6m ago
Have I ran out of 100,000 requests?
pilingual•3m ago
Put up billboards around metros with a license plate reader that queries this database with each passing car and announce "White Tesla Model Y XYZ-1234 You've been focked for: Inv"

What a sick society we live in.