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Rendezvous with Rama

https://blog.engora.com/2026/03/rendezvous-with-rama.html
41•Vermin2000•32m ago•28 comments

Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse

https://felixturner.github.io/hex-map-wfc/article/
299•imadr•5h ago•39 comments

JSLinux Now Supports x86_64

https://bellard.org/jslinux/
163•TechTechTech•5h ago•37 comments

Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft

https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/legal-vs-legitimate/
229•dahlia•6h ago•227 comments

Thomas Selfridge: The First Airplane Fatality

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2026/03/thomas-selfridge-first-airplane-fatality.html
18•Hooke•1h ago•3 comments

Show HN: The Mog Programming Language

https://moglang.org
84•belisarius222•4h ago•37 comments

DARPA's new X-76

https://www.darpa.mil/news/2026/darpa-new-x-76-speed-of-jet-freedom-of-helicopter
111•newer_vienna•5h ago•104 comments

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-09-2026-a-new-chapter-for-bluesky
203•minimaxir•2h ago•185 comments

Launch HN: Terminal Use (YC W26) – Vercel for filesystem-based agents

61•filipbalucha•5h ago•47 comments

Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional

https://cbs12.com/news/local/florida-news-judge-rules-red-light-camera-tickets-unconstitutional
212•1970-01-01•4h ago•324 comments

Oracle is building yesterday's data centers with tomorrow's debt

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/oracle-is-building-yesterdays-data-centers-with-tomorrows-debt.html
63•spenvo•1h ago•16 comments

Fontcrafter: Turn Your Handwriting into a Real Font

https://arcade.pirillo.com/fontcrafter.html
393•rendx•12h ago•128 comments

Fixfest is a global gathering of repairers, tinkerers, and activists

https://fixfest.therestartproject.org/
116•robtherobber•4h ago•11 comments

Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw

https://github.com/DenchHQ/DenchClaw
63•kumar_abhirup•7h ago•66 comments

Rethinking Syntax: Binding by Adjacency

https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold/blob/master/docs/articles/binding_exprs.md
31•owlstuffing•1d ago•10 comments

Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX part 1: PSU and NVRAM (2020)

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/restoring-a-sun-sparcstation-ipx-part-1-psu-and-nvram
80•ibobev•6h ago•44 comments

Velxio, Arduino Emulator

https://velxio.dev/
27•dmonterocrespo•1d ago•8 comments

Flash media longevity testing – 6 years later

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1q6xnun/flash_media_longevity_testing_6_years_later/
114•1970-01-01•1d ago•55 comments

Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/workers-report-watching-ray-ban-meta-shot-footage-of-peop...
125•randycupertino•3h ago•45 comments

Durdraw – ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems

https://durdraw.org/
22•caminanteblanco•3h ago•12 comments

The Most Beautiful Freezer in the World: Notes on Baking at the South Pole

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-most-beautiful-freezer-in-the-world
15•mitchbob•2h ago•4 comments

Things I've Done with AI

https://sjer.red/blog/2026/built-with-ai/
55•shepherdjerred•2h ago•55 comments

An opinionated take on how to do important research that matters

https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2026/how-to-win-a-best-paper-award.html
52•mad•5h ago•6 comments

Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/20/ireland-coal-free-ends-coal-power-generation-moneypoint/
797•robin_reala•11h ago•496 comments

Reverse-engineering the UniFi inform protocol

https://tamarack.cloud/blog/reverse-engineering-unifi-inform-protocol
129•baconomatic•9h ago•56 comments

No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026

https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/tz@iana.org/thread/P6D36VZSZBUSSTSMZKFXKF4T4IXWN23P/
56•speckx•9h ago•64 comments

Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery

https://liliputing.com/the-new-jolla-phone-with-sailfish-os-is-on-track-to-start-shipping-in-the-...
164•heresie-dabord•5h ago•104 comments

US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]

https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/memoranda/2026/03/03/25-403.pdf
507•dryadin•15h ago•397 comments

So you want to write an "app" (2025)

https://arcanenibble.github.io/so-you-want-to-write-an-app.html
10•jmusall•1h ago•2 comments

FreeBSD Capsicum vs. Linux Seccomp Process Sandboxing

https://vivianvoss.net/blog/capsicum-vs-seccomp
107•vermaden•9h ago•40 comments
Open in hackernews

Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/workers-report-watching-ray-ban-meta-shot-footage-of-people-using-the-bathroom/
125•randycupertino•3h ago

Comments

ChrisArchitect•2h ago
[dupe] Discussion on source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47225130
baal80spam•2h ago
"Dumb fucks". Honestly... Volenti non fit iniuria.
ryandrake•2h ago
Privacy-wise, isn't this completely on-brand and expected from Meta? Is anyone surprised by these kinds of revelations?
moab•2h ago
No. Read the book "Careless People". Meta leadership tried to downplay it by saying the stories are exaggerated. It seems doubtful to me.
kjsingh•1h ago
I have read it and was enough to delete the insta account for good. Still have the fb unfortunately use it to handle some Non profit pages
visheshdembla•2h ago
Water is wet. Grass is green.
dylan604•59m ago
While water maybe we, grass being green is going to be a regional/timing thing. My grass currently brown
JohnMakin•2h ago
It's cheaper for them to settle in a lawsuit than what they are gaining by doing this. If it wasn't, they wouldn't. The laws are broken.
sdoering•1h ago
As is already revealed with Meta leadership knowing that they make 7billion a year on scam ads. They even calculated that global regulations and fines might cost them 1 billion.

So fines and regulations are priced in as a fraction of the net earnings.

https://mashable.com/article/meta-7-billion-dollars-scam-ads

autoexec•2h ago
"using the bathroom" will be the least of what they're watching people do. Anyone wearing these glasses (or similar) should know that all of the audio/video picked up by the glasses will be watched and analyzed by others, likely by AI as well. Just like the entire point of facebook is to spy on people and profit from that data, the entire point of these devices is to spy on people in ways that the facebook app doesn't/can't and profit from that data.
simmerup•1h ago
And now realise the same is true for your robot vacuum, car camera, doorbell camera, etc etc

We consumers have no protection against big tech

SoftTalker•1h ago
Don't use it.
Semaphor•1h ago
Sure you do. All of those are available in local versions without Internet.

Youjust need to care enough, be able to afford them (while my vacuum has no camera, it requires the cloud, but it was significantly cheaper than a local or hackable one), and have the ability to self host something like home assistant.

pseudocomposer•1h ago
We definitely don’t have any hard boundaries baked into this tech preventing big tech from (ab)using our data this way. But are there specific companies you think are doing this? I think with Meta products, it’s been rather obvious for a long time. But I’ve had a Nest doorbell camera and thermostats for years, and first iRobot and now Roborock vacuums, and they don’t really seem so suspect.
autoexec•16m ago
You should assume that Google is collecting every scrap of data they can from nest products and that your data will (or could) be handed over to police and the state with or without warrants and with zero notice to you. There were concerns raised with irobot devices selling the floorplans of your home (https://gizmodo.com/roombas-next-big-step-is-selling-maps-of...) and now its owned by China (Picea) so who knows what they're doing. Roborock is also a Chinese company who appears to have been under investigation in Korea for data leaks (https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-03-05/busines...).

At this point I'd consider anything not locally hosted (and certainly anything owned by Google, Amazon, or facebook) to be highly suspect.

boomskats•1h ago
Speak for yourself, I rooted my vacuum the day I bought it
indubioprorubik•55m ago
At least the vacuum does not try to start a civil war for add impressions..
anonym29•49m ago
>We consumers have no protection against big tech

Stop buying it. You are not a robot that is forced to purchase a video doorbell or a robotic vacuum cleaner or a smart thermostat.

You have free will. If you do not like a commercially available product, don't buy it, don't use it. It's that simple.

jasonlotito•37m ago
I think it's a reasonable ask that when buying a product, it has reasonable levels of safety, security, and privacy. Especially with products that might change over time because of software updates.

Yes, there are ToS, but it's fine for us as a society to say that consumers deserve more protection against big tech so we aren't a TOS update away from having everything shared or be used for something that wasn't promoted.

> You have free will. If you do not like a commercially available product, don't buy it, don't use it.

Caveat emptor. But lemon laws exist, too.

And, a commercially available product now might not be the same a year from now.

munk-a•29m ago
There's compelling reasons for all sorts of home devices to be connected to the internet[1] but the rub is that ToS flexibility and software updates make this a backdoor waiting to happen. I feel like our legal system has significantly failed us by not empowering the consume to say "I accept your device with a wifi antenna for the purposes of updating and I reject any exfiltration of personal data from it to your servers". You can have such a contract written - but this is really a place where something like a consumer advocacy board should step in and make sure those rights and sanely guaranteed.

1. It'd be great to ease the method for updating, it'd be nice to be able to easily monitor the device especially if it could become active in some manner while you're absent (I don't want the stove turning on to broil right after I leave on a three month vacation)

anonym29•27m ago
Just to clarify, I don't mean what I said in a manner hostile to consumers, I mean what I said in a manner hostile to abusive corporations. Let them either adapt to market demand for better products (which we demonstrate by not continuing to buy their current garbage), or let them (the corporations) starve and die if they refuse to.

Stop feeding the parasites.

autoexec•12m ago
> Stop buying it

That's my policy, but there's a sucker born every minute and they are buying these products so anytime you are in or near their homes or anywhere a microphone or camera can see you (even one mounted on some idiot's head) you're at risk. Even worse, both people and corporations typically don't disclose their use of those devices when you enter their homes/businesses either.

staplers•1h ago
Sadly, "using the bathroom" will cause a more immediate visceral reaction for most people than "maliciously manipulating your entire life via ad networks and media".
dylan604•1h ago
Do we really care what it is that will cause the visceral reaction? If I said it might reveal ways/means or private IP or any of a million other examples, few would really care as not everyone is involved in that. However, everyone goes to the bathroom.
munk-a•33m ago
I care a little bit - I think it's genuinely disappointing that your privacy can be so thoroughly compromised by interesting uses of metadata... but I also won't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. It'd be great is people truly understood the dangerous of invasive monitoring outside their physical forms (a, imo, relatively minor privacy to have compromised compared to your behavior) - but if it gets folks riled up I'm all for it.
expedition32•46m ago
Great if I wear sunglasses at the public pool people think I'm a nonce filming kids.
Xiol•31m ago
Sunglasses, no.

Meta RayBans, deservedly.

john_strinlai•4m ago
>nonce

today i learned this word has a definition outside of cryptography. it appears to be UK slang for pedophile.

nervysnail•1h ago
Anyone wearing these glasses in public should be punched in the face. Especially public transport.
philipallstar•1h ago
Why especially public transport?
irishcoffee•1h ago
Well, when you physically assault someone on public transport, at least there's a lot of witnesses present who can testify against you?
dylan604•1h ago
Or for you. If nobody saw nuthin...
kotaKat•1h ago
“Hey Meta” gets “OK Glassed”.
anonym29•44m ago
Violence isn't the answer. Handheld IR/non-visible-wavelength LiDAR systems that permanently fry CMOS image sensors are.

If state laws permit the capture of light, let them capture light. Light has no spectrum allocation laws, no license required to emit, and as long as you're not disturbing anyone (e.g. with deliberately obnoxious use of visible wavelengths), you're not breaking any laws.

LiDAR operators do not have a legal duty to protect image sensors around them.

munk-a•15m ago
As much as I'd like a quick hack to disable raybands recording me - that feels like a pretty slam dunk case of destruction of property.
paxys•1h ago
How many times will the same report be regurgitated and reposted? There is nothing added here that the original source didn't cover already (https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-...). Read that instead of the derivative blogspam.
winddude•1h ago
Yea, but not a bad reminder to ridicule people who wear them, and if possible destroy on site.
miltonlost•59m ago
Can that original source be reposted on HN within a short timespan or will it be deleted/comments moved? How then would this report gain more traction if only allowed once?
gus_massa•11m ago
From a comment by ChrisArchitect somewhere in this thread:

> [dupe] Discussion on source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47225130 .

More info: 1439 points | 6 days ago | 838 comments

paxys•1h ago
Meta does Meta things (again). People surprised (again).
munk-a•1h ago
Won't this cause significant legal issues in two party consent states and have a huge potential to run afoul of revenge porn laws?
thegrim33•1h ago
Source: Someone who says that someone said that someone anonymous said. (Literally)
magicalist•1h ago
> Source: Someone who says that someone said that someone anonymous said. (Literally)

Weird way to say workers given anonymity for whistleblowing interviewed by two reporters and not denied by meta in their response?

m4rtink•36m ago
Facebook at it again - creating the worst possible image in society of a potentially useful technology by their carelessness and greed.