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Tony Hoare has died

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony-hoare-1934-2026.html
797•speckx•3h ago•90 comments

Show HN: RunAnwhere – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon

https://github.com/RunanywhereAI/rcli
77•sanchitmonga22•1h ago•20 comments

Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1061544/125f911834966dd0/
155•jwilk•3h ago•117 comments

Billion-Parameter Theories

https://www.worldgov.org/complexity.html
14•seanlinehan•31m ago•3 comments

I built a programming language using Claude Code

https://ankursethi.com/blog/programming-language-claude-code/
39•GeneralMaximus•1h ago•44 comments

Intel Demos Chip to Compute with Encrypted Data

https://spectrum.ieee.org/fhe-intel
164•sohkamyung•5h ago•51 comments

Rebasing in Magit

https://entropicthoughts.com/rebasing-in-magit
133•ibobev•4h ago•92 comments

I put my whole life into a single database

https://howisfelix.today/
344•lukakopajtic•8h ago•164 comments

Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy

https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
296•pjmlp•9h ago•314 comments

Meta acquires Moltbook

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-network
222•mmayberry•3h ago•137 comments

Show HN: How I Topped the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard on Two Gaming GPUs

https://dnhkng.github.io/posts/rys/
142•dnhkng•5h ago•48 comments

Launch HN: Didit (YC W26) – Stripe for Identity Verification

35•rosasalberto•3h ago•37 comments

More agent tools and AI tools should be pricing on outcomes

https://jxnl.co/writing/2025/06/12/lovable-monetization-and-the-vibe-coder-economy/
11•AnhTho_FR•16h ago•2 comments

RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard

https://gist.github.com/bignimbus/a75cc9d703abf0b21a57c0d21a79e2be
76•jdauriemma•3h ago•60 comments

The Enterprise Context Layer

https://andychen32.substack.com/p/the-enterprise-context-layer
9•zachperkel•3h ago•0 comments

Throwing away 18 months of code and starting over

https://tompiagg.io/posts/we-threw-away-1-5-years-of-code
6•tomaspiaggio12•2h ago•0 comments

I used pulsar detection techniques to turn a phone into a watch timegrapher

https://www.chronolog.watch/timegrapher
26•tylerjaywood•2d ago•5 comments

Open Weights Isn't Open Training

https://www.workshoplabs.ai/blog/open-weights-open-training
15•addiefoote8•18h ago•3 comments

Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/08/social-media-child-safety-internet-ai-surveillance.html
348•bilsbie•5h ago•204 comments

Defeat as Method

https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/khosravi.php
6•akbarnama•1h ago•0 comments

The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to "The Office" (2009)

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/
228•janandonly•3d ago•97 comments

We are building data breach machines and nobody cares

https://idealloc.me/posts/we-are-building-data-breach-machines-and-nobody-cares/
21•idealloc_haris•3h ago•7 comments

PgAdmin 4 9.13 with AI Assistant Panel

https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/9.13/query_tool.html#ai-assistant-panel
70•__natty__•6h ago•20 comments

Levels of Agentic Engineering

https://www.bassimeledath.com/blog/levels-of-agentic-engineering
9•bombastic311•9h ago•2 comments

Yann LeCun's AI startup raises $1B in Europe's largest ever seed round

https://www.ft.com/content/e5245ec3-1a58-4eff-ab58-480b6259aaf1
393•ottomengis•7h ago•210 comments

How many options fit into a boolean?

https://herecomesthemoon.net/2025/11/how-many-options-fit-into-a-boolean/
35•luu•3d ago•17 comments

Sending Jabber/XMPP Messages via HTTP

https://gultsch.de/posts/xmpp-via-http/
42•inputmice•4h ago•5 comments

MariaDB innovation: vector index performance

http://smalldatum.blogspot.com/2026/02/mariadb-innovation-vector-index.html
12•gslin•2d ago•0 comments

A New Version of Our Oracle Solaris Environment for Developers

https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/announcing-a-new-version-of-our-oracle-solaris-environment-for-d...
38•naves•2d ago•24 comments

Show HN: DD Photos – open-source photo album site generator (Go and SvelteKit)

https://github.com/dougdonohoe/ddphotos
45•dougdonohoe•5h ago•11 comments
Open in hackernews

Ad-tech is fascist tech

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/10/ice-tech/#foreseeable-outcomes
75•only_in_america•2h ago

Comments

krunck•1h ago
"...Google execs all work for their shareholders, in a psychotic "market system" in which the myth of "fiduciary duty" is said to require companies to hurt us right up to the point where the harms they inflict on the world cost them more than the additional profits those harms deliver"

Nailed it.

tptacek•1h ago
Not really. The idea that "fiduciary duty" requires companies to maximize shareholder value is a pernicious Internet myth.
fsflover•1h ago
And yet this is exactly how every single megacorp works.
topaz0•1h ago
That myth long predates the internet version of it I think. Pernicious, yes.

But note that the quote does call it out as a myth.

tptacek•7m ago
Fiduciary duty isn't a myth! It just doesn't mean what people claim it means.
fsflover•4m ago
Will you enlighten us?
text0404•1h ago
Citation needed because all evidence to the contrary.
mindslight•17m ago
Legally, sure. (there's a citation, a case between craigslist and a minority shareholder (ebay I think?), that backs up your argument about the common trope).

But when stock valuations are completely disconnected from fundamentals like earnings, then regardless of the legality we're kind of circling back to the market pushing that dynamic, aren't we? It's like the market is no longer even optimizing for short term gains per se (eg quarterly earnings), but rather for whatever memes might boost their meme stock. Sometimes this is [still] quarterly earnings, and sometimes it's about the perceived size of the market or how they're cozying up to the fascists in power. So for public companies, it's not like major shareholders, the board, or management really have the ability to work towards longer term plans that go against this dynamic.

nickff•1h ago
This piece is a polemic screed against ad-tech, which seems to conflate fascism and the police state. The majority of citations are either themselves or other polemics.
sharkjacobs•1h ago
Would you be assuaged if it was titled "Ad-tech is police state tech"?
lo_zamoyski•1h ago
Word use is important. We have allowed thumos (and epithumia) to rule over nous.

It has become acceptable to misuse words, like "fascist" or "communist" in political contexts, to the detriment of rational and fruitful discourse. Often a false equivalence is drawn between denying something is "fascist" or "communist" and denying something is bad. This is false. Something can be bad without being fascist or communist.

There is plenty to be critical about in American politics and in tech, but calling everything you don't like "fascist" or "communist" isn't helpful. These seem to be go-to words used by those "defending" what is now a crumbling postwar liberal democratic order, i.e., anything that seems at odds with this order is reflexively called one of these two terms, depending on which faction of the American uniparty you align with.

nickff•1h ago
I think that would definitely make it a more precise polemic, but the incorrect use of the word seems more of a symptom of the author's sloppiness than anything else.
hananova•1h ago
This comment is dismissing a thoughtful and factual article by the character of the writer rather than the truth of their words. Interesting.
nickff•1h ago
What did I say about the writer's character?
bobtheborg•1h ago
I found many points interesting. Here's one:

Policymakers supposedly work for us/the people and they could have made surveillance ad tech expensive and thereby severely limited it, but

> "Policymakers failed us because cops and spies hate privacy laws and lobby like hell against them. Cops and spies love commercial surveillance, because the private sector's massive surveillance dossiers are an off-the-books trove of warrantless surveillance data that the government can't legally collect."

nickff•1h ago
That point may be pithy, but it's unconvincing to any skeptic; those are characteristics of a polemic.
Herring•1h ago
You’d still be having fascism here even if the internet didn’t exist. The most reliable way to prevent the rise of the far right is to implement robust safety nets and low inequality, to reduce status anxiety and grievance. Support for such measures (welfare, healthcare, unionization, high taxes etc) is usually low among Americans. Eventually rents/healthcare/tuitions outpace income, so people become desperate and start voting for strongmen.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/10/welfare-cuts...

christkv•1h ago
How do you prevent the rise of the far left? Just asking because both axis are as much a threat to human freedom and happiness.
topaz0•1h ago
The post is not about preventing the rise of fascism, it's about not preemptively building tools for them to use in implementing fascism.
pigeons•1h ago
Remember those sci-fi books and movies about the dystopian totalitarian futures where advertisements were constantly targeted at you?
leptons•1h ago
I worked for an ad-tech company for 3 months. I could not wait to get out of there.

It became clear to me quickly that the data these people wanted to collect on anyone and everyone could be used against me should they want to - not that I was doing anything questionable, but it was just creepy as F**.

The final straw for me was when they got some kind of contract with a major hotel chain and were all-too-giddy to listen in on the smart TVs in every room. I did not want to help them further any of their agendas, so I bailed on that place. Fortunately this was many years ago when dev jobs were easy to come by, I had 3 offers in a week.

amadeuspagel•1h ago
HN has ads (job ads for YC companies). When I see people post these deranged takes about ads on HN, I always ask myself: Do they not notice this--a common criticism of ads is that they blend too much into the real content, and this is nowhere more true then on HN--or do words just not mean anything to them, do they just mindlessly repeat memes rather then thinking about what these ideas mean for their own life? Is a sentence which to me expresses an idea to them more akin to a drug that gives them a kind of moral high? Because if I thought that ads were fascist, I'd look for a forum that doesn't have any, like Lobsters[1].

[1]: https://lobste.rs/

topaz0•1h ago
By "ad-tech" it's referring to the surveillance that underlies modern targeting of ads on the internet. YC's job ads don't do that.
hightrix•1h ago
When most people complain about ads, they are complaining about targeted ads.

Job postings, Show HN, and other ads on HN are contextually relevant to a majority of the users and require no tracking to present.

This post appears to be about the former, not the later.

topaz0•1h ago
Why is this flagged?
drcongo•41m ago
I didn't flag it because it might be the first original thought that blog has had in years, but I totally understand the impulse to flag pluralistic without even reading it.
fsflover•28m ago
What are you talking about? This blog has many good, not flagged submission here.
afpx•1h ago
Why was this flagged? And, there's no vouch option

Yes, Thiel openly says surveillance tech is the anti-Christ. Then, he goes on to build the tech.

The frustrating thing is seeing it happen in real-time and knowing you can't inform or educate enough people.

afpx•1h ago
https://www.worthynews.com/105933-peter-thiel-warns-of-antic...
xyclonbee•57m ago
Today on "anything I don't like is literally hitler"...