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New ask Hacker News story: Facebook Messenger inserting web links into regular text?

Facebook Messenger inserting web links into regular text? 2 by reassess_blind | 0 comments on Hacker News. Something interesting I noticed today with Facebook Messenger. A friend messaged me: “How we gonna celebrate Christmas this year with no tree” And messenger somehow parsed the URL “christ.as” out of this, despite there being no URL in the text, making the whole message clickable. Sender was Android, receiver (me) was iOS. Can’t seem to replicate this when sending from iOS. http://christ.as appears to be an empty holding domain, but I wonder if they’re seeing a spike in traffic from anyone mentioning Christmas. Also wonder if this happens with any other words or phrases, and if there’s any potential “attack” vector by someone registering these domains.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What Terminal apps (via homebrew) support 24 bit color on macOS Tahoe?

Ask HN: What Terminal apps (via homebrew) support 24 bit color on macOS Tahoe? 2 by amichail | 0 comments on Hacker News. Any suggestions?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is it immoral not to correct someone else's grammar on social media?

Ask HN: Is it immoral not to correct someone else's grammar on social media? 2 by amichail | 7 comments on Hacker News. People use grammar to judge your education and intelligence all the time. That's why they don't want you correcting other people's grammar online — it threatens a signal they rely on. But online writing should be judged by content, not grammar. And so it would seem that failing to correct someone else's grammar online is not just unhelpful — it is immoral.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to deal with fake job applicants?

Ask HN: How to deal with fake job applicants? 2 by rswerve | 0 comments on Hacker News. My company recently posted an open role and we've been inundated with AI-generated applicants. 404 LinkedIn profiles, near-copies of known real applicants, no-show interviews, artificial voices, the whole gamut. But often the fake resumes are difficult to tell apart from real ones. What strategies are folks using to weed out the fake applicants? I'd like to do something hard to circumvent with AI, but not onerous for real humans, being sensitive to the fact that many people are desperate for work, spraying and praying, and even a small task might exclude them.

New ask Hacker News story: I launched a Mac utility; now there are 5 clones on the App Store using my story

I launched a Mac utility; now there are 5 clones on the App Store using my story 12 by tTarnMhrkm | 5 comments on Hacker News. I'm a solo dev, and I wanted to share a recent experience as a case study on the current state of the App Store and indie development. A few months ago, I built a simple macOS utility to solve a personal frustration: verifying the actual speed of USB-C cables and devices in the Mac menu bar. It is call USB Connection Information and it supports macOS 13 and up. Before launch, there were no other apps in this specific niche on the Mac App Store. The app became unexpectedly successful, hitting the top 100 paid utilities and getting a good amount of organic press. In the last two weeks, at least five near-identical apps have appeared on the App Store. The concerning part is that some of these clones have copied my App Store description, including my personal origin story about why I built the app. A few open-source clones have also appeared on GitHub, which...

New ask Hacker News story: Dear HN. Please make the Hacker News header stick to the top of the browser

Dear HN. Please make the Hacker News header stick to the top of the browser 3 by cbeach | 0 comments on Hacker News. Dear HN team - please add the following styles to the top