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KOReader

https://koreader.rocks/
400•Cider9986•4h ago•133 comments

Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25398
124•spIrr•2h ago•78 comments

Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac

https://github.com/drumih/turbo-fieldfare
30•gitpusher42•22m ago•0 comments

Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem

https://www.claire-blackshaw.com/blog/2026/07/shipping-godot-vr-and-porting-to-psvr2-a-partial-po...
35•ibobev•2h ago•0 comments

Darktable

https://www.darktable.org/
89•siatko•2h ago•39 comments

Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2580119-hunter-gatherers-introduced-fish-to-a-mountain-lake-...
44•stevenwoo•2d ago•28 comments

More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

https://tailscale.com/blog/jailbroken-kindle-proxy-tun-modes
326•Error6571•10h ago•100 comments

Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite

https://tracewayapp.com/blog/sqlite-vs-duckdb
67•rubenvanwyk•1h ago•37 comments

Amiga Graphics Archive

https://amiga.lychesis.net/index.html
96•Bluestein•5h ago•16 comments

Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word

https://enklypesalt.com/posts/context-collapse-part3-ai-worming-through-word/
180•Canopy9560•3h ago•163 comments

Disrupting supply chain attacks on NPM and GitHub Actions

https://github.blog/security/supply-chain-security/disrupting-supply-chain-attacks-on-npm-and-git...
45•nyku•3h ago•11 comments

User Interfaces of the Demo Scene

https://www.datagubbe.se/scenegui/
326•zdw•10h ago•55 comments

SpecForge – A Platform for Authoring Formal Specifications

https://docs.imiron.io/v/0.5.10/en/tour.html
55•agnishom•4h ago•3 comments

SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers

https://micrologics.org/blog/sqlite-in-production-optimizing-wal-mode-concurrency-and-vfs-layers-...
175•ankitg12•8h ago•54 comments

A Texture Lookup Approach to Bézier Curve Evaluation on the GPU (JCGT)

https://jcgt.org/published/0015/02/01/
25•ibobev•2h ago•3 comments

TokenTown: A visual way to understand how LLMs work

https://laurentiugabriel.github.io/token-town/
48•laurentiurad•2h ago•13 comments

Show HN: Write, simulate and synthesize VHDL/Verilog in the browser

https://risingedge.pro
8•wozniakpawel•6d ago•3 comments

Lisp moving Forth moving Lisp

https://letoverlambda.com/textmode.cl/guest/chap8.html
82•fallat•2d ago•21 comments

Codex Security

https://github.com/openai/codex-security
571•bakigul•18h ago•210 comments

French musician Kavinsky found dead

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/07/29/dj-kavinsky-known-for-his-track-nightcall-found-dead-...
234•bristleworm•3h ago•53 comments

Ancient Rome's version of Google Maps: how long to reach the beach

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/07/02/ancient-romes-version-of-google-maps-how-long-to-reac...
57•gnabgib•6d ago•35 comments

ALP: Adaptive lossless floating-point compression

https://github.com/cwida/ALP
25•fanf2•3d ago•3 comments

San Francisco: Don't Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/san-francisco-dont-fall-industry-defense-surveillance-pricing
55•hn_acker•2h ago•8 comments

Show HN: A verification browser for AI agents – 13ms windows, one-call checks

https://github.com/hongnoul/hwatu
8•hongnoul_•1h ago•1 comments

Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver to Windows

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Sponsors-RADV-Windows
33•DemiGuru•1h ago•7 comments

Show HN: Echologue – the private AI voice journal I built for myself

https://echologue.com/
21•arisAlexis•2h ago•11 comments

Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript

https://github.com/twalichiewicz/HNewhere
393•twalichiewicz•17h ago•105 comments

A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/business/economy/data-center-electricians-training.html
17•thm•44m ago•5 comments

Kalshi attacks a Wisconsin law banning election bets as 'voter suppression'

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/27/nx-s1-5905360/kalshi-wisconsin-election-betting-prediction-markets
49•hn_acker•2h ago•14 comments

Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9

https://mac-classic.com/news/half-life-ported-to-mac-os-9/
291•freediver•18h ago•139 comments
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San Francisco: Don't Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/san-francisco-dont-fall-industry-defense-surveillance-pricing
55•hn_acker•2h ago

Comments

JumpCrisscross•23m ago
Bill: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
xhkkffbf•20m ago
I agree that surveillance pricing sounds terrible and discriminatory. But people are also happy with coupons, codes, introductory pricing, employee discounts and many of the other schemes that do more or less the same thing. One guy who worked for an athletic shoe company told me that they had a special code that their sponsored athletes could give to their friends.

In the end, what's the difference?

JumpCrisscross•16m ago
> what's the difference?

For me, it's the surveillance infrastructure per se. My main curiosity around these bills is to what extent surveillance pricing–versus ad targeting–drives the economics of those systems. (My prior is not much.)

robrtsql•12m ago
Well, they're all discounts, for starters.

Surveillance pricing defenders claim that surveillance pricing is better because it works both ways--it might offer a higher price to someone who is desperate, but someone who is likely not that motivated might get a sweet deal. I highly doubt that. A highly-advertised, transparent discount or sale is how you sell to someone who is not that motivated. Surveillance pricing is how you (secretly) extract as much money as possible from the desperate.

sgc•3m ago
Actually many people thoroughly detest forced "memberships" to pay the actual price of the item, digital coupons, forced use of apps, and all of the other utter nonsense. I hope surveillance pricing bills destroy all of them forever.
delichon•13m ago
This is what I think of when I think of personalized pricing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlT3uHlNAg&t=111s

It's pretty much what I've done when selling at flea markets all of my life. I ask what I think the market will bear, per person and situation. I don't feel at all guilty for it. It doesn't surprise me at all that mass customization in the information age has brought us to it at scale, or that the force of law would be necessary to repress it.

Some people seem to feel they have a right to the best price without negotiating or shopping. I don't feel that I'm owed or owe that privilege.

b345•7m ago
It is because you're on the side benefitting from it. It doesn't benefit the consumer or the working class.
JumpCrisscross•3m ago
> It doesn't benefit the consumer or the working class

It should absolutely benefit the blue-collar consumer. Whom it hurts is the moderately rich. (If it works as intended.)

Eisenstein•1m ago
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