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skilledon Show HN: Search >34k niche blogs and RSS feeds

Looks good! How much is something like this going to cost you?

Asking because my immediate thought was that these types of projects usually get their lights turned off rather quickly because of costs.

What is your source for the feeds?

skilledon Oscar: an open-source contributor agent architecture

Announced today through this,

The I/O journey continues in Bengaluru - https://developers.googleblog.com/en/the-io-journey-continue...

AI Project Maintainer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=986_MUsOk1g

> At Google, we lead many open source projects, and maintaining them all can be a lot of work! So we created Project Oscar, a reference for an AI Agent that helps with open source project maintenance, starting with Go, a project with over 93,000 commits and 2,000 contributors, but you can imagine supporting all kinds of different projects.

skilledon Exclusive-Google-backed software developer Gitlab explores sale, sources say

"Source: Reuters"

-> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40983486

skilledon Linksys Velop Routers Caught Sending WiFi Creds in the Clear

Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers - (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40917312) - July 2024 (214 comments)

skilledon Being a "night owl" associated with mental sharpness

Night owls' cognitive function 'superior' to early risers, study suggests - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40933477 (83 comments)

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Majority of sites and apps use dark patterns in the marketing of subscriptions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40934898 (230 comments)

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It has always been a thing. As someone who spends a lot of time in /new - I think the system is pretty good, with very few exceptions here and there. And, also from what I have observed - the front page does get moderated quite heavily, and unworthy stories (or obvious spam) get thrown out pretty quickly.

skilledon Linus Torvalds: RISC-V Repeating the Mistakes of Its Predecessors [video]

Full video,

Linus Torvalds on security, AI, open source and trust- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPvRIWXNgaM

skilledon Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All but Dead, Market Analysts Say

The thing costs a bazillion dollars, what did they expect… people to suddenly wear this for day to day tasks?

I said it on the day they first announced it, as soon as the media hype was over, no one would ever mention it again.

Other than price, not sure what else they could do to make it appealing.

skilledon Lessons from 20 Years Hacking MySQL

There is a part 2 also, which is linked at the bottom of this first post, for that reason I removed the mention of (Part 1) from the title.

skilledon Second factor SMS: Worse than its reputation

Twilio said the data was accessible between May 10 and May 15, 2024[0].

I mean, even if we disregard the auth codes thing, which according to CCC were being generated on a static timer, if someone did get access to this bucket - they would have gotten away with a juicy list of phone numbers and names from some of the top companies, at the very least.

I'm not sure how hard it would be for an S3 scanner to guess "idmdatastore", so it is difficult to say if anyone else got in. Even if not, a live database storing live data without encryption or anything is crazy. I feel like IdentifyMobile will feel the wrath of this no matter what.

[0]: https://stackdiary.com/twilio-issues-an-alert-about-a-securi...

skilledon How much EU MEP politicians get paid

Context for who this guy is:

YouTube prankster voted in as Cyprus MEP - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4nnrwr72dqo

skilledon Ask HN: Where have you found "your people" in real life?

Travel. Didn’t look for anyone but kept bumping into people, which ultimately led to doing excursions together or just having dinner/lunch. Have met a lot of interesting people like this, including oldschool software engineers, artists, writers and doctors. Some have turned out to be ones to keep for life.

skilledon AI industry needs to earn $600B/year to pay for hardware spend

The original report was discussed recently,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40869461 (527 comments)

skilledon Reddit's Robots.txt Changed

They are not indexing new pages. I should have made that more clear.

skilledon Reddit's Robots.txt Changed

Yes, it makes sense from a 600 million monthly visitors point of view, but that would still be a pretty interesting development if they don't respect it.

skilledon Reddit's Robots.txt Changed

Every search engine other than Google has stopped indexing pages from Reddit.

Google has not commented on whether they plan to respect it. Rich Results[0] say they're using a version from June 25. The new version was last modified July 1.

[0]: https://search.google.com/test/rich-results

skilledon The African workers driving the AI revolution, for about a dollar an hour

So who will train the AI?

skilledon Microsoft Is Dead (2007)

You forgot laptops.

skilledon Microsoft Is Dead (2007)

IBM invested in OpenAI? IBM bought GitHub?

IBM doesn't move like this, even if those are acquisitions.

Microsoft is very focused on where the money flows, and they have adapted to the change of times.

skilledon Microsoft Is Dead (2007)

Ok, thanks for letting me know.

> Microsoft's Windows was the dominant desktop operating system (OS) worldwide as of February 2024, with a market share of around 72 percent.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/218089/global-market-sha...

skilledon Unverified NPM Account Takeover Vulnerability for Sale on Dark Web Forum

> Any claims originating from this source should be treated with a healthy amount of skepticism, due to the possibility of scams.

From a zero rep user too…

If ShinyHunters reposts it then I will take it serious.

skilledon A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too

https://archive.is/aubJh

skilledon Multi-token prediction models and baselines

> In April we published a paper on a new training approach for better & faster LLMs using multi-token prediction. To enable further exploration by researchers, we’ve released pre-trained models for code completion using this approach.

The HN discussion on the paper,

Better and Faster Large Language Models via Multi-Token Prediction - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40220851 - May 2024 (128 comments)

skilledon Jony Ive Opens Up on What It Was Like Working for Steve Jobs

God this site can't even do the basic courtesy of linking to their source...

Here is the pod episode,

Jony Ive shaped the iPhone. These are the songs that shaped him - https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/02/life-in-seven-songs-podcas...

skilledon Google's greenhouse gas emissions jump 48% in five years

Google's carbon emissions surge nearly 50% due to AI energy demand - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40859993 - (103 comments)

skilledon Ask HN: Why do we have the "hide" button in HN

Sometimes an article will land on the front page and it will disgust me so much that I have no choice but to hide it. It’s either that or I will lose self-control and spray radioactive waste all over the people who are commenting inside the said article’s thread.

For this reason alone, it is useful.

You can also use it to bump stories from second page, especially if something you are not interested in is dominating the front page.

skilledon 'Almost every Apple device' vulnerable to CocoaPods

Source,

https://www.evasec.io/blog/eva-discovered-supply-chain-vulne...

skilledon Apple execs are giving themselves bonuses as a reward for illegal dumping

https://mastodon.social/@ashleygjovik/112703561727001821

skilledon Introducing the Theia IDE

Ahh! Thanks. I didn't see it because its not the official source, I only checked those two.