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1479 points by drewfax · 611 comments
If you are running Android 8 or higher, a virus has been installed on your device and is silently awaiting remote activation. Over the past few months, devic...
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sambuccid: It doesn't solve the current issue, but in case we don't manage to push back on this, some people might not know that there are various actual linux OSes for mobile: - SailfishOS: still linux based and seems fairly community inclusive, but the UI part of the stack is closed sourc...
khurs: Android users need to switch to Graphene. Someone needs to create a Linux based mobile OS foundation - Google's domination is contrary to many large companies interests, and if Meta and many other such companies were approached, they may well donate large sums of money in their o...
nusuth31416: I use Android because it lets me install whatever I want on my phone, which it does not seem to me, controversial. The phone is either mine or it is not. I don't want Google's protection. Particularly, if I can't refuse it.
anilgulecha: I understand the frustration (I'm an avid fdroid user across many many devices). But this article comes off as childish with the virus/trojan/"malware vendor". With such an article, many (including perhaps google) get the ammo to disregard what fdroid says, by branding them as ch...
379 points by unliftedq · 158 comments
Kimi K2.7 Code, an open-weight model, is now generally available in GitHub Copilot. This is the first open-weight model offered as a selectable option in the Copilot model picker, giving…
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c7b: Gotta say, I've lost all interest in cloud-based AI products. Too many cool features and workflows that I was once excited about that I can't or don't use anymore for a variety of reasons (price hikes, subjectively nerfed, disappeared altogether, replaced,...
Kon5ole: I am a huge fan of Copilot CLI. It just feels so logical and low-friction to use compared to Claude Code. Having the ability to juggle various models at will is really nice too. ("Plan this using Opus 4.6, let GPT 5.
nsoonhui: I used GitHub Copilot for my VS 2026 development and switched between ChatGPT and Claude. That was before I discovered Claude Code and the Codex app. Copilot was OK for my purposes, and the USD 10 per month fee was enough for my usage.
andhuman: Finally an alternative to the big dogs that a company can use. People have been asking for a way to run the Chinese models from a trusted provider. Here GitHub delivered! The performance, if we trust the benchmarks, put it at Sonnet 4.6.
350 points by doener · 136 comments
ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser - Chocobozzz/PeerTube
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djaro: As a professional YouTuber, the main issue I instantly see with this is the lack of monetization. I think people who don't make videos for a living severely underestimate how expensive it is to produce high-quality videos people want to watch.
CM30: It's a promising system, and I'd probably use it over a non-federated video hosting system if I wanted to run a video hosting site of some kind. Yet it's currently hard to find a real usecase for it, since neither the content you want nor audience is there on PeerTube at the mome...
raphinou: I am currently recording tutorial videos for an open source project. It's produced fully with Foss software (on Linux, obs, kdenlive) and about an open source project, so I wanted to host it with peertube (though YouTube might be used later on for its network effect, it was easie...
rbbydotdev: Would be pretty incredible to see decentralized federated media individual accounts and aggregators implement the x402 payment protocol (https://x402.org) as a way for creators to get paid, and thus continue to create. Im envisioning a spotify replacement.
341 points by toomuchtodo · 162 comments
The Stringer Bell rule is obsolete, as Trump and state attorneys general let the egg producers off the hook for a brazen conspiracy. Still, egg prices did drop as a result of the investigation.
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abeppu: Ok here's maybe a dumb or maybe a crazy question or maybe not: - the Fed has price stability as part of its dual mandate, and in its normal operation does this at the level of manipulating the money supply for everyone, through changing the interest rates given to large banks (II...
CGMthrowaway: I did not realize the egg crisis was found to be price fixing operation. As I recall during the whole thing the news was non-stop about how it was related to broad-based inflation, chicken culling for avian flu, etc. Seems like all that was a lie, or at least merely a half-truth.
arjie: Wow, well I have egg on my face. I have frequently used this as an example of the "oh so the egg guys got greedy and then got saintly" to parody the idea that price is primarily determined by greed.
Taronar: Things like this mainly occur in markets with little competition, killing of small business causes issues like this. Much of our grievances are caused by our high level of market concentration.
339 points by mgh2 · 99 comments
The Spanish government has blacklisted U.S. data analytics giant Palantir Technologies from public and private state-controlled companies due to growing concerns over the potential misuse of classified national security information.
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milanito1985: Spain is really going in the right direction, I wonder why no one countries inspire from what they are doing
Dibby053: They seem to have been granting contracts to manage all kinds of critical data to Huawei's Palantir equivalent lately, so it's probably less about security risks and more about the current source of the bribe money.
ink: I really like what Spain is doing recently. If it weren't for climate change, I'd consider moving there.
gus_: Unfortunately this order will probably be revoked in 2027/2028, we'll see.
298 points by IngoBlechschmid · 152 comments
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kokada: While it is certainly an interesting bug, I kinda feel that the title is click bait? Because this
cryptsetup luksSuspendfrom what I understood is not really officially supported but an extension done in Debian, so if anything this regression only affected Debian? I am not sure...
bitbasher: I don't see any other way? When you sleep (suspend to RAM), everything is stored in RAM and is encrypted but the master key is present in kernel memory (if I recall correctly).
moktonar: Did the Feds desperately need a way of getting the key? is this a bugdoor? Has the commits been traced? Recently I’ve been seeing this pattern a lot and I’m starting to be a little bit suspicious. Maybe it’s because people are more sensible to this and post more on it?
tombert: I don't think this bothers me. The only reason that I do the disk encryption is so that I don't have to worry about people going through my laptop to steal tax documents and/or credit card stuff when I sell the laptop.
295 points by mushstory · 161 comments
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alzamos: The book “against intellectual monopoly” has shaped a lot of my thinking on this topic - economists have looked at the various occasions in which patents were introduced into an industry (or extended in scope), and there is no evidence they actually improve innovation/efficiency/...
sebastianconcpt: Sanity! No AI has accountability so also should not own any benefits (not only patent but anything beneficial). Violate that and you created a blackhole of value creation.
exabrial: I can't put measure tapes either or a notebook either. This is pretty hilarious this even had to be said. These are just software programs, stop acting like a kill -9 is a crime.
michaelfm1211: Can the petitioner re-file with his own name as the inventor, or does this mean that all AI-generated inventions are unable to be patented?
275 points by ColinWright · 150 comments
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thayne: Code review doesn't have a single purpose. Finding code that is hard to maintain is one of those, and and an important one, but certainly not the only one, and I'm not sure it is even the most important one.
donatj: What I find to be maybe the single most important part of code review is knowledge transfer. Our entire small team thumbs up a PR before it's merged unless there's a big rush on it, and this gives everyone on the team a rough idea of the state of the codebase at any given time.
sjburt: My attitude has always been that code review is best thought of as the gate where code goes from being owned by the author to being owned by the team or project. The code I'm reviewing is not your code, it is code that is about to become our code.
titzer: This just makes reviewers and authors lazier. The purpose of code review is multi-faceted. Hard to maintain? Yes. Might have bugs? Yes. Can be done simpler/cleaner? Yes. Is in line with project code style? Yes. Get someone else to also understand the code? Yes.
251 points by FigurativeVoid · 34 comments
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jackconsidine: This was an excellently written, salient post with some good tidbits. I've learned some of these lessons the hard way. I'll add a few. Proof of work is important, but it's not about the magnitude of energy you spend.
FinnLobsien: The problem here is that most points are about how to formulate your ask. I think the biggest thing is that you're much more likely to get help if you show you're doing the best to solve it yourself.
Aurornis: > One of the strongest ways to show that you’re worth helping is to demonstrate that you are a serious person When I’ve been in positions where a lot of people ask for help, this is the #1 place I saw people drop the ball. The advice to show proof of work up front is important.
mrtb: I've been DM'ing randos on LinkedIn for lightweight consults and found that offering to pay up front and asking strangers to price their own time can help to show seriousness and often results in free interactions or buy-me-a-coffee pricing. e.g.
220 points by varjag · 93 comments
How AI could destroy mathematics and barely touch it
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olooney: Greg Egan's description of how mathematics evolves into "truth mining" in his novel Diaspora is seeming more and more prescient. It essentially describes what mathematics would look like after formalization records all theorems discovered so far in a huge, collective database an...
credit_guy: People think mathematics is about proving theorems. I think that's just an accident of history. When we write software, we very seldom write proofs that our algorithms are correct.
manuelz: Very good! Thank you!! Meta: - Sad to see how well thought out + well written stuff like this only makes it to the HN front page by a fluke. (Below: https://news.ycombinator.
octopus143: Some previous submissions HN history +-- 2mo before by sdfrew | 4 points / 1 comments | The Fall of the Theorem Economy | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862472 | +-- 2mo before by fuglede_ | 3 points / 1 comments | The Fall of the Theorem Economy...
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