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Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2dy6e8klw0o
29•cdrnsf•2h ago

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matchbok3•1h ago
Any best on if they will just re-release this under the radar once the press attention dies down? Zuck isn't spending billions to just not release this stuff.
nemomarx•1h ago
I mean the feature is "you can tag another users handle to base images on them", that doesn't seem like core functionality?
noisy_boy•52m ago
It would be if it suddenly became popular and they could show more ads to people for using it.
encomiast•1h ago
Meta seems to be completely tone-deaf when it comes to products and features. I wonder if this is a function of a single person, surrounded by people with little incentive to disagree, having all the decision making power in a company.
j16sdiz•1h ago
They think like an Advesting company. They listen to their customers.
encomiast•50m ago
I guess it's obvious, but haven't really thought about this. Back in the day we had media companies and advertisers. Magazine publishers/newspapers/TV Studios on the one hand and the Leo Burnetts/Ogilvy/Wieden+Kennedy on the other. There was always a tension between what advertisers wanted and what creatives wanted. The studio/publishers knew that bowing completely to advertisers was a fast track to making crap and the advertisers knew they needed to remind the publishers that they are only as good as their audiences.

With Meta we these have more or less merged. It's not really clear now who the customer is. They need to attract both eyeballs and money. I'm not sure what the long-term consequence of that is, but my hunch is it leads to accounting and advertising winning since they actually generate money. And the result is junk creative.

BenFranklin100•49m ago
The fish rots from the head. It’s Zuckerberg.
matthewfcarlson•57m ago
Good.
BenFranklin100•50m ago
This and and other thing like Zuckerberg’s desire to integrate facial recognition into Meta’s Ray-ban glasses puts him in squarely in the lead for world’s creepiest human.

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-smart-glasses-face-recognit...

Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows

https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-07-09/chemical-bonds-relativity
120•hhs•4h ago•42 comments

QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/quadrf-can-spot-drones-and-see-wifi-through-my-wall/
472•speckx•10h ago•176 comments

Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets

https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-trade-secret-theft/
624•stock_toaster•6h ago•300 comments

An iroh powered smart fan

https://www.iroh.computer/blog/an-iroh-powered-smart-fan
35•surprisetalk•3d ago•4 comments

The footgun of right-to-left decorative characters

https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/the-footgun-of-right-to-left-decorative-characters
15•dado3212•3d ago•3 comments

An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1080822/990a8a5e2d379085/
103•chmaynard•7h ago•93 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4-bc75-476a-97cf-49055cd98d31/cdc_proof.pdf
366•scrlk•8h ago•299 comments

SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/spacex-wants-to-launch-100000-more-starlink-sate...
91•CrankyBear•9h ago•295 comments

Inference Optimization for MiMo v2.5: Pushing Hybrid SWA Efficiency to the Limit

https://mimo.xiaomi.com/blog/mimo-v2-5-inference
48•theanonymousone•3d ago•18 comments

The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017)

https://vfxblog.com/2017/08/23/the-tech-of-terminator-2-an-oral-history/
177•markus_zhang•10h ago•68 comments

Combustion engine web-based simulator

https://combustionlab.net
125•mytuny•5d ago•54 comments

New York City to to ban deceptive subscription practices

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/10/new-york-city-deceptive-subscriptions-ban
434•randycupertino•8h ago•224 comments

Good Tools Are Invisible

https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/07/10/good-tools-are-invisible/
367•theanonymousone•16h ago•175 comments

Late Bronze Age Collapse

https://acoup.blog/2026/01/30/collections-the-late-bronze-age-collapse-a-very-brief-introduction/
332•dmonay•14h ago•232 comments

AI 2040: Plan A

https://ai-2040.com/
164•kschaul•1d ago•167 comments

Computation as a universal and fundamental concept

https://ergo.org/courses/computation-as-a-universal-and-fundamental-concept
93•simonpure•11h ago•73 comments

Alternate clock designs and time systems

https://serialc.github.io/altClocks/
108•ethanpil•4d ago•59 comments

Moss (YC F25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/moss/jobs/52LnqLQ-software-engineer-sdk
1•srimalireddi•5h ago

Preemption is GC for memory reordering (2019)

https://pvk.ca/Blog/2019/01/09/preemption-is-gc-for-memory-reordering/
13•mpweiher•2d ago•2 comments

After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell

https://avi.press/posts/2026-07-10-after-7-years-in-production-scarf-has-reluctantly-moved-away-f...
87•aviaviavi•13h ago•100 comments

FreeCAD in the Browser

https://magik.net/freecad/
29•cui•2h ago•17 comments

Show HN: Wyrm – Solve algebra by touch, built on an open-source soundness engine

https://github.com/dicroce/wyrm_math
63•dicroce•1d ago•9 comments

War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history

https://waratlas.org
120•NaOH•9h ago•58 comments

A love letter to flashcards

https://lesleylai.info/en/flashcards/
133•surprisetalk•11h ago•82 comments

Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/spider-silk-loses-top-spot-natures-strongest-material-s...
159•simonebrunozzi•10h ago•126 comments

Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church

https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-15956159/Incredible-lost-city-discovered-Egypts-des...
163•Bender•4d ago•75 comments

GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in ALL Linux distributions for 15 years

https://nebusec.ai/research/ionstack-part-2/
42•djfergus•6h ago•9 comments

Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?

58•Asmod4n•4d ago•61 comments

Successful Companies Go Blind

https://ianreppel.org/how-successful-companies-go-blind/
194•speckx•13h ago•68 comments

How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI

https://casp.ac/reports/ai-enabled-terrorism
186•imustachyou•8h ago•158 comments