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I audited the privacy of popular free dev tools, the results are terrifying

https://www.toolbox-kit.com/blog/i-audited-popular-dev-tools-privacy-results-are-scary
52•WaitWaitWha•2h ago

Comments

iberator•2h ago
That's why real programmers are those who can work offline without the Internet. (just the repositories)

:)

local first.

bmenrigh•2h ago
Can we stop it with "and the results are terrifying", "and you won't believe what I found", "the <x> situation is insane", etc.? The over-hyping of low quality, low effort content is making it hard to find actually interesting or informative things.
cheschire•2h ago
Find a better and more accessible solution than clickbait.

Please, do it.

arcfour•2h ago
"Privacy concerns found in audit of popular dev tools" (or something along those lines) would work without feeling sensationalized.
cheschire•26m ago
Yes this one time. I’m speaking generally in response to the general plea.
bmenrigh•1h ago
"better", "more accessible"? What the hell are you talking about? Clickbait doesn't make anything better or more accessible.

Instead, it makes it impossible to pre-select for interesting information. Instead of telling you what something is about, it tells you how you should feel about it. That's not improving accessibility.

cheschire•27m ago
I meant from the author’s perspective. Clickbait is too easy, which is probably why it’s so popular.
bmenrigh•12m ago
Oh completely. But my perspective is that we all should individually punish clickbait by not clicking. More broadly, we should strive to keep HN full of quality tech content rather than clickbait.
SunshineTheCat•1h ago
Yea I was thinking the same thing.

When you reach for the most exaggerated, over-the-top word possible when describing something relatively mundane, what will you use when you talk about something that actually is "terrifying?"

thfuran•1h ago
“The most terrifying thing you’ve ever heard”. You can even stick with that one as long as your subjects are monotonically scary.
gmuslera•2h ago
Using canary URLs in these and other sites may be interesting too.
OsrsNeedsf2P•2h ago
Decent article. Painful to read the LLM output.
speedyapoc•1h ago
Comment is a bit of an aside, but it's a shame what happened to JSONFormatter.org. The UI was preferable to alternatives for me, it ranked highly in Google so I could just search "JSON formatter" and access it, etc.

Now the site freezes 50% of the time when loading it on my Mac and when it doesn't freeze, there's a 5 second period of waiting before I can paste any input. Not to mention ads taking up 40% of the screen. The classic tech cycle of life.

beart•1h ago
I love regex101.com, so really happy to see it breaks the mold here.
dbacar•1h ago
Glad that I am using Firefox with:

- uBlock Origin

- cookieAutodelete

- privacy badger

Any additions to my arsenal welcome!

ozlikethewizard•57m ago
Ironfox/Librewolf with just uBlock. The more extensions you have the way easier you are to fingerprint.
hohithere•1h ago
> Free Dev Tools

And test only online websites (」°ロ°)」

deafpolygon•1h ago
what dev uses public websites to do any kind of work?

Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intels-make-or-break-18a-process-node-debuts-for-...
194•vanburen•3h ago•147 comments

MacBook Pro with new M5 Pro and M5 Max

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-macbook-pro-with-all-new-m5-pro-and-m5-max/
582•scrlk•8h ago•560 comments

GPT‑5.3 Instant

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-3-instant/
237•meetpateltech•4h ago•156 comments

Claude's Cycles [pdf]

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf
380•fs123•11h ago•186 comments

An Interactive Intro to CRDTs (2023)

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/an-interactive-intro-to-crdts/
61•evakhoury•3h ago•9 comments

We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell

https://gamehistory.org/cookies-bustle/
43•sb057•2h ago•6 comments

Textadept

https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/
16•giancarlostoro•2d ago•0 comments

Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language

https://elbowgreasegames.substack.com/p/voxray-games-pushes-major-update
31•spacemarine1•1h ago•5 comments

The Xkcd thing, now interactive

https://editor.p5js.org/isohedral/full/vJa5RiZWs
1051•memalign•11h ago•143 comments

Don't Make Me Talk to Your Chatbot

https://raymyers.org/post/dont-make-me-talk-to-your-chatbot/
8•pkilgore•20m ago•0 comments

Don't become an engineering manager

https://newsletter.manager.dev/p/dont-become-an-engineering-manager
264•flail•8h ago•196 comments

Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3m3AMRlYfc
373•pcdavid•8h ago•57 comments

When AI writes the software, who verifies it?

https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026/02/28/when-ai-writes-the-worlds-software.html
84•todsacerdoti•6h ago•71 comments

Launch HN: Cekura (YC F24) – Testing and monitoring for voice and chat AI agents

60•atarus•8h ago•19 comments

Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native

https://tonsky.me/blog/fall-of-native/
86•todsacerdoti•5h ago•96 comments

Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit in foreign spy and criminal hands

https://www.wired.com/story/coruna-iphone-hacking-toolkit-us-government/
127•alwillis•3h ago•37 comments

TorchLean: Formalizing Neural Networks in Lean

https://leandojo.org/torchlean.html
54•matt_d•2d ago•7 comments

I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/03/im-struggling-to-think-of-any-online-services-for-which-id-be-will...
836•speckx•8h ago•505 comments

Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/arms-cortex-x925-reaching-desktop
249•ingve•15h ago•148 comments

MacBook Air with M5

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-the-new-macbook-air-with-m5/
334•Garbage•8h ago•386 comments

Show HN: Explain Curl Commands

https://github.com/akgitrepos/explain-my-curl
28•akgitrepos•2d ago•0 comments

Rubio to World: Stop Doing the Exact Same Thing the US Just Did

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/03/rubio-to-world-stop-doing-the-exact-same-thing-the-us-just-did/
17•hn_acker•28m ago•0 comments

Disable Your SSH access accidentally with scp

https://sny.sh/hypha/blog/scp
83•zdw•3d ago•35 comments

I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project

https://twitter.com/Gavriel_Cohen/status/2028821432759717930
401•devinitely•9h ago•207 comments

GitHub Is Having Issues

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/n07yy1bk6kc4
180•Simpliplant•3h ago•116 comments

The Two Kinds of Error

https://evanhahn.com/the-two-kinds-of-error/
24•zdw•1d ago•11 comments

Payment fees matter more than you think

https://cuencahighlife.com/why-payment-fees-matter-more-than-you-think/
84•dxs•4h ago•54 comments

Show HN: Online OCR Free – Batch OCR UI for Tesseract, Gemini and OpenRouter

https://onlineocrfree.qzz.io
9•naimurhasanrwd•2h ago•2 comments

Intercepting messages inside Is­Dialog­Message, installing the message filter

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260226-00/?p=112090
7•ibobev•4d ago•0 comments

Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-unveils-new-studio-display-and-all-new-studio-displa...
199•victorbjorklund•8h ago•219 comments