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Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

https://oskrim.github.io/hardware/2026/08/09/remarkable-over-ssh.html
17•tremguy•1h ago•7 comments

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

https://gukov.dev/math/2026/08/02/new-magic-hexagons.html
74•gukoff•5h ago•15 comments

My server is a phone now

https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/
378•seg6•14h ago•158 comments

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

https://github.com/jmarshall23/msword
102•BruceEel•7h ago•44 comments

Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386

https://os8088.com/
197•jggonz•13h ago•118 comments

The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)

https://halfhill.com/byte/1998-12_alpha.html
20•Lammy•2h ago•7 comments

The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/8/4/the-grid-that-doubles-the-strength-of-the-ground
43•michaefe•4d ago•8 comments

Everything You Do Is Being Recorded

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-wearable-surveillance-countermeasures/687203/
42•ike_usawa•1h ago•22 comments

You might want to build your WebApp in Canvas instead of HTML

https://hivekit.io/blog/why-you-might-want-to-build-your-webapp-in-canvas-instead-of-html/
26•wolframhempel•6d ago•24 comments

Fastmail offers EU data region

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/
452•groomlake•20h ago•247 comments

Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding

https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/heuristics/differential.html
281•bobbiechen•1w ago•29 comments

Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled

https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations
245•adletbalzhanov•14h ago•155 comments

Show HN: DeepSeek-V4 Latent Reasoning – moving "thinking" into latent space

https://blog.n.ichol.ai/packaging-latent-reasoning-as-a-real-model
6•nmitchko•1h ago•3 comments

Dithered QR Codes

https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/
250•jmusall•13h ago•21 comments

Uber SubmitQueue: a high-performance speculative merge queue

https://github.com/uber/submitqueue/
9•handfuloflight•1w ago•0 comments

Protopia

https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/protopia
29•surprisetalk•4d ago•23 comments

The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011)

http://longbets.org/601/
165•doubletwoyou•8h ago•74 comments

_for-sale DNS records

https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/
409•shaunpud•23h ago•157 comments

Stylized GGX Shading

https://alexandrelamure.github.io/graphics-posts/stylized-ggx-shading.html
38•ibobev•5d ago•0 comments

CSS: The bomb inside your inbox

https://portswigger.net/research/css-the-bomb-inside-your-inbox
37•ashurandi•2h ago•8 comments

Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (2025)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44184-025-00171-5
71•davidbarker•6d ago•21 comments

How to Survive in a Louisiana Swamp

https://unherd.com/2026/08/how-to-survive-on-a-louisiana-swamp/
16•bookofjoe•3d ago•2 comments

Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g64152v71o
27•1659447091•8h ago•25 comments

Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)

https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/46/Supplement_1/A34/7181621
152•bohaska•11h ago•152 comments

Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse

https://eclipsefan.org/?v=2&t=max&layers=eclipse%2Cbesselian%2Cumbra-live%2Cshadow-3d%2Ccloud-pro...
170•MarcoDewey•17h ago•49 comments

Making difficulty curves in games

http://www.davetech.co.uk/difficultycurves
133•hakkikonu•4d ago•51 comments

Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation

https://airy.so
8•login588•3h ago•5 comments

TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics

https://theoremdb.org/
50•frozenseven•11h ago•4 comments

Should you stop cracking your knuckles?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260807-should-i-stop-cracking-my-knuckles
73•tchalla•14h ago•76 comments

Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI's Soaring Cost

https://www.404media.co/software-giant-sap-stops-most-travel-and-hiring-because-of-ais-soaring-cost/
54•theanonymousone•4h ago•31 comments
Open in hackernews

Everything You Do Is Being Recorded

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-wearable-surveillance-countermeasures/687203/
40•ike_usawa•1h ago

Comments

zhoBEENG•52m ago
Obama was promoting The Age of Surveillance Capitalism over seven years ago now. Industry insiders have known all this since 1999. Yet almost every single person I know carries a cellphone and drives a car with telemetry, things that are entirely optional. Most humans use Meta products regularly; also optional. For all the feigned outrage, people want this, and will work hard every day to pay for the next iteration of the surveillance apparatus.

PS: Something in this vein that many people are unaware of is that the 6G standard for cell towers is planned to include ISAC (Integrated Sensing and Communication). I haven’t heard a single AFK person talk about this.

JohnFen•46m ago
I don't think people want this. I think people want the other benefits that those things bring, and increasingly feel that it's impossible to escape being surveilled anyway so do their best to ignore the whole issue.

Being resigned to something is not the same as wanting that thing.

bamboozled•36m ago
Agree, you’re either a digital hermit or you’re part of the problem / system
lifestyleguru•40m ago
Almost every person installs security cameras hoping that one day they will "catch the criminal" unaware that the footage probably is used in all possible ways all the time, yet in case when the crime against them finally happens the footage might not be admitted as a proof.
bossyTeacher•33m ago
> yet in case when the crime against them finally happens the footage might not be admitted as a proof.

Or there is simply not enough staff available to carry out the procedures needed to apprehend and charge the individual. Or a myriad of other things. People think law enforcement is easy.

lotsofpulp•38m ago
I have seen enough instances of government authorities abusing their power (or even civilians using the courts against another civilian) to know that the best defense you have in a situation where you are the victim is to have your own recording.

Easiest example is having your own dash cam (don’t know why all auto manufacturers don’t have Tesla style camera recordings, especially given that all new cars come with cameras anyway).

Of course, now that video editing is cheap and difficult to spot, who knows if your evidence will make much of a difference.

NooneAtAll3•34m ago
the main solution is the same as with many other problems - education on what's wrong + making the right way as easy as possible

it's easy to fall into complain hole, as that seems to fulfill the 1st part

but 2nd part is as much or even more valuable

fn-mote•10m ago
> making the right way as easy as possible

I wish I knew what you were talking about here.

It seems like the easy way would be to forbid the collection of this data… but that is obviously not happening, so I need a different part 2.

asmodeuslucifer•25m ago
By leveraging mobile network infrastructure – towers, spectrum, antennas, and some hardware – ISAC can detect, locate, and track objects (including passive ones with no electronics). This will enable a wide range of use cases such as UAV airspace monitoring, autonomous vehicle safety, industrial automation, and immersive AR experiences. Commercial deployment is expected alongside 6G rollouts in the 2030 timeframe

https://www.ericsson.com/en/6g/isac

zhoBEENG•6m ago
Thank you, this deserved a link. I was being lazy.
neonstatic•21m ago
> For all the feigned outrage, people want this, and will work hard every day to pay for the next iteration of the surveillance apparatus.

My sad realization is that the Buddhists were right all along. The primary drivers of human mind, before self-purification, are greed, anger, and ignorance. What you are describing here is greed. People want to get useful things for free. This is the core of the problem. If people were, by default, expecting to pay for everything they use, spying on them would not be accepted. Instead, they want stuff for free and they choose to be willfully blind to the spying.

Razengan•49m ago
The EFF or some other watchdog should put out some public ads that depict corporations as a creepy person stalking someone:

It's a lot more disgusting and universally hated when you hear about a peeping tom, or a pervert, or a jealous ex, hounding someone,

but when faceless corporations and governments do it to EVERYBODY 24/7, everyone's like, ehh.

I mean, right now, just think about me, clicking on your HN profile, googling your name, going through all your public photos.. Don't you find me repulsive just talking about that?

antics9•38m ago
No. Why should I find you repulsive?

You might find something I wrote interesting. Then whatever public info there is on me helps you to get to know me a bit better. You may stop there and forget about me, or you may try to reach out.

There is nothing wrong about that.

Razengan•24m ago
> Why should I find you repulsive?

Me googling your shit might lead to your real name, your family photos etc

Just because it's all public doesn't mean you want the cashier from the supermarket following you around to your family picnic

or just because you like to let the sunlight in doesn't mean you want random pedestrians peering in through your windows..

"Public" life is compartmentalized.

Permit•8m ago
> Just because it's all public doesn't mean you want the cashier from the supermarket following you around to your family picnic.

This has never happened to me. Out of the space of “bad things that can happen to me” I don’t have time to worry about things with such a small probability of occurring.

NooneAtAll3•17m ago
where's archive link when it's needed the most...
eimrine•11m ago
copy the original link then go to archive .is then paste the link into the second field than choose any result. not a rocket science. the article is not interesting tbh.
gsky•11m ago
https://archive.is/JxaZ7
jareklupinski
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37m ago
i get a little thrill knowing im that important to someone :)
fragmede•19m ago
Right? There are 8 billion humans on those planet. You are 0.0000000125% of humanity. No one outside your family and friends even knows you, nevermind gives a shit about you, unless you stick out in some way. If GP wants to take a tour of my GitHub or my blog and send me a thoughtful email, I'd be delighted!
bossyTeacher•36m ago
I think people's idea of privacy is very simplistic and personal and relies on the disgust of a human peering over your files. Most laypeople don't have the same disgust of machines peering over their personal files that is why the weirdo video recording elicits a negative response but Meta or Alphabet doing it doesn't. Plus the fact that they "depend" on Meta and Alphabet tech makes it easier to give them a pass not unlike fans of [insert your favourite celebrity] who happily look away or justify the celebrity's bad actions.