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WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator
WhatsApp removed hidden notes telling AI not to recommend a regulator, and not to cite GDPR or CCPA once a lawyer came up. We quote both notes.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,798 posts.
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PostgreSQL 9.4 Released
18 DECEMBER 2014: The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces the release of PostgreSQL 9.4, the latest version of the world's …
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ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation
Families disappeared and isolated without legal access; one child with cancer deported without medication and pregnant mother deported as well
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Why I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consistency, mastery, and fun
I’ve spent the last year building keyboards , which has included writing firmware for a variety custom circuit boards.
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The Insecurity Industry
The greatest danger to national security has become the companies claiming to protect it
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Dropbox Project Infinite
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
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Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Postgres
Personal website of Phil Booth
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The surreal experience of my first developer job
Nearly ten years ago I graduated with a degree in Mathematics & Computing, with a keen interest in pursuing a career involving maths and programming, but with little idea how. First and foremost I had decided to stay in Manchester after uni, rather than risk getting stuck at my parents' if I moved...
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Copying is the way design works (2020)
What exists in the space between riffing and ripping
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Page Dewarping
Flattening images of curled pages, as an optimization problem.
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Organizing complexity is the most important skill in software development
Organization skills are more important than algorithmic wizardry, but harder to teach. So we teach algorithms instead. Managing complexity you learn on a job.
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Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs
We've got the wrong theory about how minds work and it's ruining our lives
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How to overcome Phone Addiction
Phone addiction is a huge problem, here is what the research and statistics say. Follow these tips to overcome phone addiction.
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AWS's Egregious Egress
Amazon’s says: “We strive to offer our customers the lowest possible prices, the best available selection, and the utmost convenience.” When it comes to egress, their prices are far from the lowest.
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Stability.ai – Introducing Stable Video 3D
When we released Stable Video Diffusion, we highlighted the versatility of our video model across various applications. Building upon this foundation, we are excited to release Stable Video 3D. This new model advances the field of 3D technology, delivering greatly improved quality and multi-view whe
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Firing programmers for AI is a mistake
Ah, the tech industry.
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We're improving search results when you use quotes
How snippets in Google’s search results are being improved by forming them around where quoted words or phrases occur in a web document.
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Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake
Network data confirm the restriction of Twitter on multiple internet providers in Turkey as of Wednesday 8 February 2023. The incident comes as authorities raise concerns over disinformation online, although ...
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EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors
Civil rights activist Dr. Patrick Breyer warns of an unprecedented "double-attack" on secure messaging ahead of critical Friday and Monday EU meetings. Ahead of a highly critical weekend for digital civil rights in Europe, former Member of the European Parliament Dr. Patrick Breyer is sounding th
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Something weird is happening on Facebook
Someone appears to be pouring enormous energy and effort into a data collection project aimed at building personality profiles from social media interaction…again
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UnifiedPush: A decentralized, open-source push notification protocol
A modern Android smartphone relies on a lot of services, from app stores and calendars to messaging and push notifications. Most of them have open alternativ...
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Ripgrep – A new command line search tool
In this article I will introduce a new command line search tool, ripgrep , that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher (an ack clone) with the raw performance of GNU grep. ripgrep is fast, cross platform (with binaries available for Linux, Mac and Windows) and written in Rust .
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9 years of Apple text editor solo dev
Thoughts on building Paper as an indie maker.
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Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard
Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance today announced a new working group that plans to develop and promote a new connectivity standard.
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Rooms can be as bright as the outdoors
focusing after dark • corn cob bulbs • before + after photos • saving ½–2h/day • my setup • why don’t more people do this?! • FAQs
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A 10 year old Xeon is all you need
Or running Gemma 4 on a 2016 Xeon with no GPU, 25 flags, 128 GB of DDR3, and a 25B-parameter MoE.