Articles by notRobot
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Pixel phones running Graphene OS not eligibile for battery replacement program (twitter.com/nikolaig22)

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Curl maintainer: AI security reports are no longer slop (haxx.se)

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Non stupid age verification for social media (twitter.com/vincirss)

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"Mathematics is a fundamentally *human* story" (twitter.com/getjonwithit)

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Single ATC controller was managing LaGuardia Airport at time of Air Canada crash [video] (youtube.com)

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Metaphors Ubiquitous in Computer and Internet Terminologies [pdf] (theartsjournal.org)

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Anthropic and Palantir Bring Claude to U.S. Intelligence and Defense (2024) (palantir.com)

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Tailwind lays of 75% of their team due to traffic drop to docs because of LLMs (twitter.com/ybhrdwj)

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Portableapps.com – Portable software for USB, portable, and cloud drives (portableapps.com)

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List of predictions for autonomous Tesla vehicles by Elon Musk (wikipedia.org)

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Microsoft has disabled the ICC Chief prosecutors email account (twitter.com/liamcunningham1)

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Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data (twitter.com/lundukejournal)

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Ask HN: Got asked to build AI agent that replaces humans. Would you do it?

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Hospitals in the US want to call patients customers now (reddit.com)

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Working game of Tetris inside a PDF (twitter.com/thomasrinsma)

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The Textfiles Directory (textfiles.com)

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Usage statistics of server-side programming languages (w3techs.com)

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Entire news station production staff replaced by AI system (reddit.com)

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Ask HN: Do you use a non-mainstream distro/OS? If so, which and why?

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Every American's Social Security number, address may have been stolen in hack (fox5dc.com)

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Ask HN: Where do you find the links that you submit to HN?

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"I may have invented story points, and if I did, I'm sorry now" (2019) (ronjeffries.com)

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Gen Z should be willing to work for free, long hours, says Squarespace CMO (fortune.com)

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New Wi-Fi Takeover Attack–All Windows Users Warned to Update Now (forbes.com/sites/daveywinder)

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How the first Microsoft Office 2007 vulnerability was discovered (twitter.com/laughing_mantis)

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You can't use Photoshop without giving a Adobe full access to all your work (twitter.com/samsantala)

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I found the GPT-4o iOS system prompt (x.com)

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Update your Chrome browser ASAP. Google confirms zero-day exploited in the wild (zdnet.com)

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Just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo (twitter.com/arithmoquine)

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I've been thinking about Meta's support for open-source AI all day (twitter.com/carmguti)

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Solder Scroll – 3D Printable Ergonomic, Adjustable Solder Tool (printables.com)

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Problem with selling developer tools is that devs have no purchasing authority (twitter.com/d_feldman)

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[flagged] Microsoft offered FFmpeg small one-time payment instead of support contract (twitter.com/ffmpeg)

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OpenAI says it can clone a voice from just 15 seconds of audio (engadget.com)

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VideoLAN: App Stores Were a Mistake. Can't Update VLC on Windows and Play Stores

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Libraries struggle to afford e-books, seek new laws in fight with publishers (go.com)

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50+ Passengers injured upon sudden altitude drop due to Boeing instrument fail (smh.com.au)

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Something peculiar in my 2yo's bedroom led me to a revelation about our universe (twitter.com/latifnasser)

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It's January 11 and the following companies have done layoffs so far this year (twitter.com/vicvijayakumar)

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Subscription Hell (twitter.com/gokulns)

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Inflate Twitter like count by repeatedly clicking the like button (twitter.com/ustayready)

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OwnCloud vulnerability with max severity score comes under "mass" exploitation (arstechnica.com)

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Armagetron Advanced: a Tron clone in 3D (armagetronad.org)

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LG Forces removal of streaming app Nebula because of 'LGBT+ Content' (twitter.com/dwiskus)

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Armbian – Linux distro for ARM development boards (armbian.com)

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Reddit Removing the Ability to Opt-Out of Ad Personalization (reddit.com)

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Ask HN: Why don't social media apps allow users to pay to remove ads?

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The Maintainer of the Nvidia Open-Source “Nouveau” Linux Kernel Driver Resigns (freedesktop.org)

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Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam (twitter.com/realcrackwatch)

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Unity of Opposites (wikipedia.org)

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Foxconn founder Terry Gou announces run for Taiwan presidency (msn.com)

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[flagged] Anyone incarcerated 2+ years is going to return to their Google account deleted (twitter.com/grahamstarr)

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Deadliest AI scam I've ever heard of: plant and fungi foraging guide books. (twitter.com/heymakwa)

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The Remarkable Story Behind the Most Important Algorithm of All Time [video] (youtube.com)

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Detroit woman falsely arrested while pregnant due to facial recognition tech (nbcnews.com)

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1990 Capitol Crawl to Access for All (lacounty.gov)

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IRS vows to digitize all taxpayer documents by 2025 (arstechnica.com)

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Why everything you buy is worse now [video] (youtube.com)

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Shopify employee breaks NDA to reveal firm replacing laid off workers with AI (thedeepdive.ca)

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Google's answers to factual questions differ person-to-person (twitter.com/mcnees)

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Ask HN: Do we need more users to browse /newest on HN?

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Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever (2020) (buzzfeednews.com)

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Most users are not 'computer people' (reddit.com)

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Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Twitter clone “Threads” (twitter.com/alx)

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Uber charged me $29,994 USD for a Uber ride (twitter.com/home)

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I can smell and taste for the first time in my life (reddit.com)

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Loss of $1M research after janitor unplugged freezer because of 'annoying alarm' (cnn.com)

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Species without mitochondria might have evolved from escaped jellyfish cancer (twitter.com/fawwazanvilen)

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AskScience’s concerns regarding Reddit’s API changes: askscience (reddit.com)

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I Went to India to Learn About Bollywood [video] (youtube.com)

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JP Morgan Chase Employee Systems Monitoring [pdf] (jpmorganchase.com)

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JPMorgan Chase and Co tracks employees to dystopian extents (reddit.com)

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Creative Labs Sound Blaster Demo: Dr. Sbaitso (classicreload.com)

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“There was a time that computer sound wasn’t guaranteed” (theverge.com)

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When you visually compare two hashes, how many digits do you check? (twitter.com/david3141593)

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A Man on the Operating Table (2015) (foreignpolicy.com)

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Teacher failed kid for essay because an AI-detection tool flagged his work (twitter.com/failnaut)

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"Coolmath.com apparently makes $60k every single day off ads" (2013) (celebritynetworth.com)

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A surprisingly powerful fully functional miniature of the GWR King Class (instagram.com)

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Elon Musk tells Twitter staff to pause ‘new feature development’ during glitch (fortune.com)

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New GPT Bing refuses to write cover letters because 'unethical' and 'unfair' (businessinsider.com)

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The Apache HTTP Server Project (apache.org)

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Action needed for GitHub Desktop and Atom users after unauthorised repo access (github.blog)

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India surpasses China to become most populous country in the world (downtoearth.org.in)

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Archiving Your Teen Self (annehelen.substack.com)

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Gell-Mann Amnesia (2018) (epsilontheory.com)

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Ask HN: What are your new year's resolutions?

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Zorin OS – Alternative to Windows and macOS (zorin.com)

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2022 Russian businessmen mystery deaths (wikipedia.org)

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Tech salaries have managed to keep pace with the insane cost of living (twitter.com/nhuntwalker)

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Elon Musk taking legal action over Twitter account that tracks his private jet (bbc.com)

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nobody.live – Streams with Nobody Watching (nobody.live)

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Ticketmaster / Taylor Swift debacle converted Gen Z'ers into antimonopolists (businessinsider.com)

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I run a one-person business. I pay for 25 SaaSes (twitter.com/gergelyorosz)

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Dick Costolo: I'm stepping down as CEO of Twitter (2015) (twitter.com/techemails)

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Chinese authorities turned people’s Covid app red to stop them from leaving (twitter.com/jamesmelville)

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Twitter is no longer enforcing its Covid misinformation policy (cnn.com)

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I trained an AI chatbot on my childhood journal entries (twitter.com/michellehuang42)

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Twitter grapples with Chinese spam obscuring news of protests (washingtonpost.com)

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[flagged] Tesla is in the business of selling emission credits, not just cars (twitter.com/stealthygeek)