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143•dvrp•2h ago•36 comments

Erdős Problem #1026

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/the-story-of-erdos-problem-126/
24•tzury•1h ago•0 comments

Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders

https://quill-os.org/
189•Curiositry•5h ago•63 comments

8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions

https://www.koi.ai/blog/urban-vpn-browser-extension-ai-conversations-data-collection
287•takira•3h ago•92 comments

Native vs. emulation: World of Warcraft game performance on Snapdragon X Elite

https://rkblog.dev/posts/pc-hardware/pc-on-arm/x86_versus_arm_native_game/
43•geekman7473•6h ago•14 comments

“Are you the one?” is free money

https://blog.owenlacey.dev/posts/are-you-the-one-is-free-money/
258•samwho•3d ago•52 comments

Nature's many attempts to evolve a Nostr

https://newsletter.squishy.computer/p/natures-many-attempts-to-evolve-a
156•fiatjaf•5d ago•83 comments

Essential Semiconductor Physics [pdf]

https://nanohub.org/resources/43623/download/Essential_Semiconductor_Physics.pdf
155•akshatjiwan•2d ago•7 comments

Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers

https://andrewmccalip.com/space-datacenters
77•flinner•8h ago•126 comments

Show HN: I designed my own 3D printer motherboard

https://github.com/KaiPereira/Cheetah-MX4-Mini
35•kaipereira•1w ago•10 comments

Light intensity steers molecular assemblies into 1D, 2D or 3D structures

https://phys.org/news/2025-11-intensity-molecular-1d-2d-3d.html
14•PaulHoule•5d ago•0 comments

Umbrel – Personal Cloud

https://umbrel.com
161•oldfuture•10h ago•93 comments

Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj69d89l8l5o
9•haunter•9h ago•8 comments

The Bob Dylan concert for just one person

https://www.flaggingdown.com/p/the-bob-dylan-concert-for-just-one
61•NaOH•6h ago•12 comments

Rollstack (YC W23) is hiring multiple software engineers (TypeScript) US/Canada

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rollstack-2/jobs/QPqpb1n-software-engineer-typescript-us-ca...
1•yjallouli•4h ago

Ford kills the All-Electric F-150

https://www.wired.com/story/ford-kills-electric-f-150-lightning-for-hybrid/
297•sacred-rat•8h ago•481 comments

Debugging TLS failures in distroless containers

https://lucabaggi.com/posts/ssl-docker/
7•asaiacai•5d ago•0 comments

In Defense of Matlab Code

https://runmat.org/blog/in-defense-of-matlab-whiteboard-style-code
98•finbarr1987•3d ago•108 comments

Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century

https://hpjansson.org/chafa/
132•birdculture•12h ago•24 comments

Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/secret-documents-show-pepsi-and-walmart
331•connor11528•8h ago•93 comments

A kernel bug froze my machine: Debugging an async-profiler deadlock

https://questdb.com/blog/async-profiler-kernel-bug/
76•bluestreak•9h ago•14 comments

John Updike wrote it all down

https://newrepublic.com/article/201598/john-updike-wrote
13•samclemens•6d ago•1 comments

Understanding carriage

https://seths.blog/2025/12/understanding-carriage/
32•herbertl•5d ago•7 comments

Cosmic-ray bath in a past supernova gives birth to Earth-like planets

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx7892
89•toomuchtodo•13h ago•32 comments

The appropriate amount of effort is zero

https://expandingawareness.org/blog/the-appropriate-amount-of-effort-is-zero/
86•gmays•10h ago•54 comments

We are discontinuing the dark web report

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/16767242?hl=en
122•satertek•15h ago•38 comments

SoundCloud confirms breach after member data stolen, VPN access disrupted

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/soundcloud-confirms-breach-after-member-data-stole...
77•technonerd•4h ago•9 comments

I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me

https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-chatgpt
634•florian_s•18h ago•404 comments

Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable

https://johnlian.net/posts/hdmi-cec/
230•jlian•8h ago•112 comments

Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/upcoming-changes-to-let-s-encrypt-certificates/243873
284•schmuckonwheels•10h ago•219 comments
Open in hackernews

We are discontinuing the dark web report

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/16767242?hl=en
122•satertek•15h ago

Comments

9dev•15h ago
Another one for the graveyard!
moebrowne•15h ago
https://killedbygoogle.com/
sunaookami•14h ago
Is this site still updated? Last entries are from 2024, no way Google didn't kill something this year.
mungoman2•9h ago
I hear the team running the site was laid off.
alex1138•9h ago
The people responsible for sacking the people who have been sacked have since been sacked
extraduder_ire•6h ago
Looks like it's been updated since you posted this.

I know it's still active because I see someone with that handle posting on bluesky regularly.

eimrine•15h ago
Why was it opened? Is it that dark web where asassination markets and similar stuff happens?
stuaxo•13h ago
That market was fake, the report on it is really interesting (but the people submitting to it were real).
pluto_modadic•14h ago
huh. did their source / login get burned?
7bit•14h ago
> While the report offered general information, feedback showed that it didn't provide helpful next steps.

Translation: We don’t actually want to keep spending time, money, and resources on this.

jajuuka•14h ago
That's my read. That it's not a revenue generator and taking server resources that could go to something that is making them money. They've at least added more things to Google One over the past year which softens the blow.
ikiris•7h ago
Doubtful. The issue is probably the service needs to be moved to some framework that isn't deprecated and being turned off, and no one can justify side projects these days that don't sell an AI product.
nospice•8h ago
That's not how it reads to me. I think it's more that they feel they can't share enough information to make it useful without compromising their operating methods. Which is an eternal struggle with stuff like that: the bad guys are reading too.
eitally•4h ago
No, not really. The way this worked is that if they detected personal information on a "dark web" (per their definition -- I have no idea what this actually meant) site, they would show you a report that told you which PII was listed, and it was usually things like your fname/lname, address, phone or location. The problem is that it wasn't actionable [because it was the dark web], unlike their current personal data privacy features and data removal tool.

This is one where I don't blame them for killing it because "it" wasn't really even a product -- it was just a very basic, not useful at all, report.

prepend•11h ago
I found the info not actionable because it wouldn’t say what actual values were posted.

I have a common name Gmail account. The password is rather complex and I would be surprised if it leaks as only I and Google know it. However, I would get reports that it’s on the dark web with blanked out password values. So I never knew if they actually compromised or just something else.

They would also report when some random site that used my Gmail address as user id was on the darknet that I don’t care about. I don’t care if my fidofido account is leaked. I never use it and if I did, then I would reset.

I think if the data were useful Google would have kept this up.

I bet they keep tracking though, just keep the reports internal.

thesuitonym•8h ago
I never got the Google dark web reports, but my credit card used to send me reports constantly saying that my email address was 'found on the darkweb.' Okay, that's not useful information. If it showed me if there were associated passwords, that might be helpful, but just saying my address was found on the darkweb is meaningless. My email address is public information.

The worst part is, it was an email address I hadn't used in about 10 years, and they wouldn't let me take it out of the report.

deepsun•6h ago
Well you could change the email address you use for the financial services only, and keep it secret. Then it would be harder to impersonate you.
placatedmayhem•4h ago
Or, use a service that lets you generate an address for each business you deal with or use case you have so you can treat them as disposable. After chasing down spammers and companies selling my info, including my email, I found this was easier to keep up with and is more effective. Spam me once or sell it to another company, and I burn that address, replacing it with the original company if I really need them to keep in contact.
deepsun•4h ago
I tried to do that but found out there's almost no services that I would want to treat my account there disposable. If I bother to provide them my email address -- I usually also want to access my account there later (e.g check order status).

There are tens of services where I'd like it disposable, but hundreds of services where account is warranted. And some of those thousands will be compromised some day.

liquidgecka•37m ago
Yeah.. I have a five letter email that's a common first and last name @ gmail.com. I second everything you said. Getting report hits every few days are useless given how few sites do any kind of validation. :-/
thaumasiotes•31m ago
> I have a five letter email that's a common first and last name @ gmail.com.

What are the common two-letter first or last names?

xxmarkuski•10h ago
I set it up for an old Google account that has been breached. It did a relatively good job, but HIBP has more data in my experience, albeit it mainly looks at emails, whereas Google's report can do lookups by full name, address, and phone number. I think it was useful, but did not get enough love to be like a second HIBP.
arccy•10h ago
did anyone ever get a report? i never got anything at all...
tonytamps•9h ago
always with 2 days of a HIBP email
breppp•9h ago
yes, it was a cool feature showing which of your data has leaked and in what leak

I remember email and phone being the major ones. A kind of improved haveibeenpwned

lavezzi•9h ago
yes, but recent alerts don't seem to be reporting properly, which now makes sense given the news.
atomic128•9h ago
HTTP response dumps from the Tor dark web: https://rnsaffn.com/zg4/
MinimalAction•8h ago
While this was a free service and thus Google is under no obligation to continue offering this service, this is still quite sad. They could have atleast bundled it for some tier of Google One paid subscription.
therein•8h ago
It was as inactionable and useless as the ones that ID.me or whatever sends. Also calling it Dark Web report always felt super insincere. It had nothing to do with the "dark web", that just served a way to make it sound cooler and more hackery. Aren't we talking about something that's equivalent to HaveIBeenPwned?
bflesch•8h ago
Can one of the good souls at google please donate the data to archive.org?
martythemaniak•8h ago
Is there a product that will do go through the vast expanse of accounts you have and either delete them or mass-change their passwords? I basically I wish to shrink my online presence as much as possible, but doing it manually would mean finding all the various accounts I have, logging in, trying to close, etc. Seems like good fit for an LLM browser agent.
rolph•7h ago
whenever you conceive of a weapon/tool to use in a time of struggle, make preparation for the possibility it may be siezed and directed against you.

such a product must be crafted to mitigate its own abuse, as well as the original problem.

rolph•7h ago
dark web reports in general, seem to be a funnel for paid "security" and monitoring services, VPNs AV suites, typically you review your passwords for strength and redundancy, then you are redirected to buy some service, that ultimately looks like a data hoover, and put everything in a cloud scheme. now we have AI and FOMO to hook and reel in, seemingly more effective than darkweb boogeymen for adoption and revenue.
levocardia•7h ago
I might be misremembering this but FWICR on Chrome it would link your saved passwords with the dark web report, and automatically recommend you change any account that had the same password as the "pwned" account found in the dark net. Was pretty useful.
permo-w•1h ago
Apple has this feature on iOS. no idea where they source the info from, but in your keychain it will say something like "this password has appeared in a data leak"
mholt•5h ago
Discover (Card/Bank) also announced recently that they are stopping their dark web report service. I wonder if they just used Google, or if it's a coincidence...
Mistletoe•4h ago
The email about this went to my spam folder on Gmail. Ok, come on Google.
password-app•2h ago
Google discontinuing this is unfortunate timing given the recent breach surge (700Credit, SoundCloud, LinkedIn leak).

Alternatives: haveibeenpwned.com (free), 1Password Watchtower, Bitwarden breach reports.

The harder part isn't knowing about breaches—it's actually rotating passwords afterward. Most people know they should but don't because it's tedious.

Automated rotation tools are emerging but need careful security architecture (local-only, zero-knowledge) to avoid creating new attack vectors.