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We hid a free trip to Switzerland in our privacy policy

https://www.cape.co/blog/easter-egg-in-privacy-policy
63•bwoah•2h ago

Comments

Archonical•1h ago
This is just an ad.
skrebbel•1h ago
But it's a nice ad!
raldi•1h ago
"This is just a common publicity stunt."

"No, it is an exceptional publicity stunt."

tosti•1h ago
Does she know she's an ad?
kitesay•1h ago
No one reads the fine print as they need the service.
lynndotpy•1h ago
I read the fine print and plenty of others do too. Corporations have convinced people they're powerless and illiterate when they're usually not.
g-b-r•45m ago
Maybe you don't.

Some put off using the service and look for alternatives for as long as possible (often ever) if they're presented with tomes of legal documents to accept

cryzinger•1h ago
The implication here is kind of funny in that even if you do write legal stuff in language that your customers can understand, most of them still won't read it. And to be fair, I'm guilty of this more often than not.
focusedone•1h ago
Smart PR move and motivation to read more privacy policies.

Looks like they only offer one plan, $99/month, which is pretty steep but must offset what other carriers make selling customer info. That's about double what I'm paying now but I do like the idea.

aidenn0•1h ago
That's more than double what I'm paying for 3 phone lines now.
altairprime•1h ago
Previously:

Cell service for the fairly paranoid (33 days ago, 191 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144325

soopypoos•53m ago
> In 2024 alone, the FCC fined major U.S. carriers $200 million for illegally selling subscriber location data.

Was that "you didn't put that in your privacy policy" or "your policy is illegal"?

fallinghawks•40m ago
"email us for a chance to win a free trip to Switzerland"

A chance to win is not enough motivation for me to actually write the email. I would assume it was simply an opportunity to collect email addresses, so I (personally) am not to likely to email them even if I did fully read their privacy policy.

Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

https://www.sambent.com/the-white-house-app-has-huawei-spyware-and-an-ice-tip-line/
286•speckx•4h ago•91 comments

Do your own writing

https://alexhwoods.com/dont-let-ai-write-for-you/
257•karimf•9h ago•79 comments

Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

https://claude.nagdy.me/
48•taubek•1h ago•21 comments

Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)

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118•HughParry•2h ago•49 comments

How to turn anything into a router

https://nbailey.ca/post/router/
525•yabones•8h ago•194 comments

Agents of Chaos

https://agentsofchaos.baulab.info/report.html
28•luu•3d ago•2 comments

Bird brains (2023)

https://www.dhanishsemar.com/writing/bird-brains
272•DiffTheEnder•9h ago•177 comments

Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct

https://github.com/electrikmilk/cherri
203•mihau•2d ago•42 comments

Researchers find 3,500-year-old loom that reveals textile revolution

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29•geox•3d ago•1 comments

The stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/30/1134780/r3-bio-brainless-human-clones-full-body-repla...
12•joozio•11h ago•12 comments

Android Developer Verification

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification-rolling-out-to-a...
3•ingve•10m ago•0 comments

Seeing Like a Spreadsheet

https://davidoks.blog/p/how-the-spreadsheet-reshaped-america
46•paulpauper•2d ago•14 comments

OCR for construction documents does not work, we fixed it

https://www.getanchorgrid.com/developer/docs/endpoints/drawings-doors
103•wcisco17•6h ago•64 comments

William Blake, Remote by the Sea

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/william-blake-remote-sea
32•occurrence•3h ago•1 comments

Roulette Computers: Hidden Devices That Predict Spins

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34•o4c•2d ago•5 comments

A sea of sparks: Seeing radioactivity

https://maurycyz.com/projects/spinthariscope/
38•maurycyz•3h ago•16 comments

Show HN: Coasts – Containerized Hosts for Agents

https://github.com/coast-guard/coasts
46•jsunderland323•6h ago•15 comments

CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

https://www.codingfont.com/
263•nvahalik•6h ago•152 comments

IronGlass Brings Legendary Soviet Cinema Lenses to Mirrorless Cameras

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4•PaulHoule•4d ago•0 comments

Agentic AI and the next intelligence explosion

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20639
7•silverpiranha•35m ago•0 comments

Recover Apple Keychain

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34•speckx•4h ago•11 comments

In math, rigor is vital, but are digitized proofs taking it too far?

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84•isaacfrond•4d ago•73 comments

Tickets Are Prompts

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5•bushido•43m ago•0 comments

Build123d: A Python CAD programming library

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100•Ivoah•1d ago•41 comments

Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26524
181•zaikunzhang•11h ago•73 comments

I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BJ4pnropWdnzzgeJc/i-am-definitely-missing-the-pre-ai-writing-era
221•joozio•15h ago•179 comments

Take better notes, by hand

https://brianschrader.com/archive/take-better-notes-by-hand/
152•sonicrocketman•5h ago•69 comments

An NSFW filter for Marginalia search

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_134_nsfw/
78•speckx•6h ago•14 comments

I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog

https://blog.lysk.tech/excalidraw-frame-export/
260•mlysk•14h ago•105 comments

A Taxonomy of Interiors

https://misfitsarchitecture.com/2026/03/29/a-taxonomy-of-interiors/
3•downweight•3h ago•0 comments