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Apply the same logical test to freedom of speech, and you’ll get the same result. You’re not missing anything about what’s likely to happen to you personally. What you’re missing i…

This article is misinformed if not intentionally misleading about Apple Pay’s privacy status. It is technically true that Apple does not share your credit card number , but it does…

This is an iOS 26 regression. There are a bunch of soft hyphens in there, which is why it works on other browsers and in previous versions of iOS.

Sorry, fixed link: https://demo.fingerprint.com/playground . I agree on randomization, but there are other places where it doesn’t stick out like that. I’ll look up specifics if I …

This tool is deeply flawed. Fingerprinting protection is sometimes done by binning, which this tool rewards, and is sometimes done by randomizing, which this tool harshly punishes.…

Great post! Also check out oklch.com, I found it useful for building an intuition. Some stumbling blocks are that hues aren’t the same as HSL hues, and max chroma is different depe…

> spacer gifs Hacker News actually still uses these for comment indentation, check this page’s source code.

restic’s rest-server append-only mode unfortunately doesn’t prevent data deletion under normal usage. More here: https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/060_forget.html#secu... . T…

This page seems designed to direct attention anywhere but the meat of the issue: are the moon details in Samsung photos derived from sensor data alone, or also external photos? To …

Right, disappearing messages aren’t a safeguard against a malicious recipient, they’re a blast radius limiter on future device compromise on either end.

The abandoned plan was perceptual hashing, which should return the same hash for very similar photos, while the new one is a checksum, which should return the same hash only for id…

I felt this way for a while, but I’d like to offer another angle: maybe it’s like saying “Every company eventually hires tall people. Some have no tall people, but it’s just a matt…

The never-ending chain has bothered me too. I realized that if there is a theory of everything, it needs to prove itself. As far as I know, that’s a logical contradiction. Maybe re…

Don’t mistake this for victory. Google’s standard playbook when forcing things people don’t like is to spread the action out over a longer timeframe, exhausting the media and keepi…

I listened to a lot of mic testing a few months ago, frustrated by the AirPods Pro Gen 1 too. My conclusion was that all wireless earphone mics are pretty bad, and you’re not going…

HN is overly dismissive of tech in Android devices. People should look up testing of Samsung’s current gen 108 MP sensor. It’s true that it doesn’t look sharper when displaying the…

After thinking about this for a minute, I think the point wasn’t that people shouldn’t have fallen for this in particular, but to give everything a tint of uncertainty. It’s a pret…

My problem with this is that it conflicts with identity ownership. If I give every company someunqiueaddress@someservice.com, I no longer have the ability to switch email providers…

I got a memorable phone number a while ago. Websites like numberbarn.com make it relatively easy. A key realization I had is that repeating numbers aren’t the thing to look for, be…

The article does say it’s “experimentally extremely well confirmed”.

Who achieves more power, the guy who dedicates his life and soul to it, or the guy who wants it, but only if it’s ok with everybody, and only when his family doesn’t need him?

Did you suggest they change their device settings? Yours was probably the right approach, I’m just curious whether we have actual data to support that people prefer this split conf…

I like this change. If a website misconfigures encoding and users have an encoding override menu, the result is 99% of users see a broken website, 1% know how to fix it. The menu d…