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If Meta loses this trial, Instagram and Facebook could change forever

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyqpx6xk69o
17•tartoran•2h ago

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xvxvx•55m ago
‘By allegedly targeting child users, Meta "chose to exploit" young people in order to hook them on its platforms, so it could grow its user base and expand its business.’

That’s been standard practice for many industries for decades. Fast food, junk food and soft drinks being the most obvious. Tobacco and alcohol products have had to become more covert. And don’t get me started on the porn industry…

j16sdiz•31m ago
> prohibit the creation of multiple accounts

I wonder how they are going to enforce this.

I meant, it would be great if this can be enforced without being yet another id verification scheme. ... but I am not optimistic on this one.

pullshark91•20m ago
It's high time it happened already. I'm so sick of them

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/
215•bilsbie•5h ago•93 comments

The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]

https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/vinton_report_5.pdf
134•ronbenton•4h ago•58 comments

AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64

https://meanhamster.com/news/agi-64-brings-sierra-adventures-to-the-commodore-64
39•erickhill•3h ago•4 comments

Gmail might partially be to blame for receiving emails from other Sean Conners

https://boston.conman.org/2026/08/11.1
21•dmarto•1h ago•19 comments

A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better"

https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/
421•Narishma•12h ago•228 comments

Claude: System Prompts

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-prompts
589•tosh•16h ago•242 comments

Rhombus 1.1 is now available

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/08/rhombus-v1.1.html
38•spdegabrielle•4h ago•14 comments

Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network

https://reticulum.network/
46•sudo_cowsay•5h ago•12 comments

Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of "Solar Realms Elite"

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2013/02/18/amit-patel-creator-of-solar-realms-elite/
35•bananaboy•1w ago•6 comments

Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter

https://wiki.lowtechlab.org/wiki/Filtre_%C3%A0_eau_c%C3%A9ramique/en
135•Bluestein•5d ago•34 comments

Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence

https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/122095
35•surprisetalk•5d ago•1 comments

Applying a photosynthetic process to treat "dry eye"

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/taking-tip-plants-eyes
19•gumby•4h ago•0 comments

SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX

https://pikuma.com/blog/programming-intel-pentium-mmx-simd
92•ibobev•3d ago•41 comments

How do I permanently disable Google Photos pop-up prompt to backup my photos?

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/256212140/how-do-i-permanently-disable-google-photos-pop...
47•dt3ft•3d ago•14 comments

Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome

https://buf.build/blog/protobuf-lsp
134•theanonymousone•10h ago•86 comments

The AI Credit Resale Economy

https://vectoral.com/blog/who-are-the-token-brokers
253•mlenhard•14h ago•101 comments

Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees

https://github.com/crabbuild/prolly
15•forhappy•4h ago•0 comments

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent

https://math-ai-org.github.io/mathcode/
77•homarp•10h ago•25 comments

Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y8bGBE71yw
61•tobr•1d ago•16 comments

Red queen hypothesis – a new way forward for self-improving AI

https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/red-queen-hypothesis-new-way-forward-self-improving-ai
30•hardlianotion•9h ago•2 comments

Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee

https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-scales-back-250-billion-openai-data-center-guarantee-wsj-...
165•root-parent•8h ago•64 comments

A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/zkp/
67•evakhoury•2d ago•38 comments

Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga

https://nnamgreb.de/blog/Clamiga+-+Common+Lisp+for+the+Amiga
101•emptybits•4d ago•12 comments

Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life

https://commonreader.wustl.edu/winning-and-losing-at-the-great-game-of-intimacy/
78•lermontov•2d ago•21 comments

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios
589•pentagrama•16h ago•242 comments

The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding

https://www.highereddive.com/news/inside-the-federal-keyword-lists-that-canceled-billions-in-rese...
171•walrus01•4h ago•63 comments

Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers

355•stagas•11h ago•95 comments

Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-16/stripe-nears-deal-to-buy-ai-firm-openrouter-fo...
251•zacharyozer•8h ago•178 comments

St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core

https://www.wptv.com/news/treasure-coast/region-st-lucie-county/saint-lucie-nuclear-power-plant-u...
172•toomuchtodo•13h ago•131 comments

A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator

https://ei3lh.eu/2026/08/16/a-true-telnet-bbs-on-a-casio-calculator/
97•austinallegro•16h ago•9 comments