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maneeshon Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says

Espionage is murder?

maneeshon FBI stymied by Apple's Lockdown Mode after seizing journalist's iPhone

Isn’t a pin considered a password and not required to be given up, unlike a fingerprint or Face ID?

maneeshon Large US company came after me for releasing a free open-source alternative

I totally doubt it’s illegal, but the argument hinges on the trademarked name, not the export tool tech. “Provides functionality with top smartwatches” has no chance of a cease and desist, but “provides functionality with Garmin” might get you one.

maneeshon Why I love my Boox Palma e-reader

The benefit for me with the boox series is access to the kindle app on play store. And obsidian.

maneeshon Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade

I mean, more Europeans die from heat issues than Americans from guns. https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/28/opinion-us-heat-de...

maneeshon The electrifying rise and litigious fall of energy beer

Will they put four vodkas and 3 red bulls in a single glass for the price of a college students budget? Because that was a four loko

maneeshon Doomsday Prepping: Reactionary Behavior or Inherited Instinct?

Do you have any examples of how this could be done?

maneeshon A Visit to the Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City (2023)

The incredible racism in this statement! Imagine if an American were to say this about Mexicans

maneeshon OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

Isn't his narrative that he is basically the only person in the world who has already done this?

maneeshon Casino-like apps have drained people of millions

Plenty of online casinos exist as well.

maneeshon Show HN: kproximate – A Kubernetes node autoscaler for Proxmox

If you host multiple proxmox nodes, you can host other VMs on each bare metal node in addition to the kid cluster, right?

maneeshon Epic Games is laying off 16% of its staff

The economy has been growing in 2023 though

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-growth

maneeshon I Quit Reddit in 1 Day

Founder of Pavlok here. Awesome to read this!!

maneeshon Hubble sees possible runaway black hole creating a trail of stars

The best sci-fi trilogy I’ve ever read. I don’t know why there is a lot of hate on hn towards it.

maneeshon Spanish firm wants to kill one million octopuses a year

This was my one piece of knowledge for the day! Thanks for this!

maneeshon Show HN: Turn your Pandas dataframe into a Tableau-style UI for visual analysis

Wow! this is super cool!

maneeshon Google and Mozilla are working on iOS browsers that aren't based on WebKit

I've been using Kiwi browser on Android, which allows you to install chrome extensions! (Including ublock)

It's a game changer!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowse...

maneeshon Stripe tried to raise more funding at a $55B-$60B valuation

Where is that number from?

maneeshon Loneliness is a measure of self-understanding

Parents always do seem to find meaning in life after they multiply

maneeshon Goldman Sachs lost $1.2B in 2022 mostly because of Apple Card

I have a 770 credit score on experian and I was rejected for the Apple Card

maneeshon Ask HN: Does anybody use the HN hide button?

If it could be moved, or require confirmation (or an undo option), that would be awesome. I keep accidentally hitting it, and it makes me sad.

maneeshon Clipboard: Cut, copy, and paste anything, anywhere, all from the terminal

Very interested

maneeshon Stanford hates fun

Were you a sophomore in Toyon 2006-07? I think you may have been my roommate…

maneeshon Show HN: Transform any Wikipedia article into a graphical timeline

Wow this is so cool! Thank you for the recommendation!

maneeshon Web automation: Don't use Selenium, use Playwright

Wow this is cool

maneeshon World’s Best Airlines Were Just Announced and Not One US Carrier Made the List

I fly business on air France quite often (usually Europe to/from south America) and their service, food, routes and reliability have been consistently the best experience I've had in comparison to all other airlines. Not to mention their amazing CDG business lounge.

maneeshon Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle

This was so fun!

Make one new puzzle a day like Wordle and I'll get addicted for sure :)

maneeshon Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? (1956)

This article is about a piece of art...not your living situation.

maneeshon Pay attention to deviations from mainstream incentives

This is part two of a series. Part 3 appears to be gated as members only.

maneeshon Pay attention to deviations from mainstream incentives

Fascinating article!