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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What is Google Flights' business model and has it changed recently?

Ask HN: What is Google Flights' business model and has it changed recently? 5 by lastofthemojito | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm wondering if anyone has any more info than I do regarding why Google offers Google Flights? As far as I know there's no paid version of the software and Google doesn't take a cut of any sales they refer. It seems like it must cost Google a fair amount of money to run and doesn't have any direct revenue source. I also wonder if anything has shifted recently - I think Google Flights has been around for over a decade, and for most of that time it felt aligned with my interests - simplifying the process of finding the cheapest flights to get me where I want to go. Unfortunately, it has recently seemed degraded in several ways. 1) It doesn't reliably offer round-trips made of 2 one-way tickets from 2 different airlines. 2) It doesn't reliably pick up new destinations. I recently saw an airline added a route that would allow me to...

New ask Hacker News story: Google reCAPTCHA on archive.is asking to scan a QR with a mobile device

Google reCAPTCHA on archive.is asking to scan a QR with a mobile device 3 by linuxhdr | 0 comments on Hacker News. https://ibb.co/Ps4vSwSc

New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: You now need a government id in order to create an Anthropic account

Tell HN: You now need a government id in order to create an Anthropic account 7 by I_am_tiberius | 1 comments on Hacker News. I don't know if this is totally new, but I just can't believe it. I remember that they requested a telephone number 2 years ago, which was already way too much. But now they forward you to a scetchy website called withpersona.com and want you to make a selife with your passport.

New ask Hacker News story: Getting hit with "Prove you are a human" at every other website

Getting hit with "Prove you are a human" at every other website 17 by shmde | 6 comments on Hacker News. I click on websites posted here to read the articles and every other one of them requires me to solve some fking puzzle or click on a checkbox or some other bullshit. With cloudflare acting like a bouncer at almost 50-60% of the pages and the weird anime girl on 10-20% of the pages doing some fuck all calculations on my browser and google capctha requiring me to play the damn select crosswalks which is impossible to get correct in tbe first try. I am tired and sick of it. I dont even bother anymore I close the browser page and move on nowadays. Or just come back read the comments on hn for that article. I cannot even read an article in peace without these pesky bouncers at every other website. I'm tired boss. Do you folks feel the same or am I over reacting. Edit: forgot to add the classic google captcha

New ask Hacker News story: WorkOS reports security breach

WorkOS reports security breach 11 by werrett | 0 comments on Hacker News. It's not on their website or Trust center yet, but we received the following breach notification from WorkOS: We are writing to notify you of a data security incident that we detected on October 30, 2026 and are continuing to investigate. We value your trust and want to keep you informed while our investigation continues. What Happened On October 30, 2026, at 16:39 UTC, WorkOS detected anomalous traffic to an internal business system. Our investigation identified evidence the attack was likely driven by ARTEX, an AI-assisted, autonomous penetration testing framework, from IP addresses based in Hong Kong and China. The unauthorized actor gained access to an internal API used by our sales and marketing tools. Through this service, it was able to access data from our Salesforce and Snowflake instances. These systems hold business contact information, account and commercial information, aggregated and de-ident...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Does anyone enjoy work anymore?

Ask HN: Does anyone enjoy work anymore? 4 by jackmalpo | 5 comments on Hacker News. Now that all I do is basically prompt AI all day, I'm struggling to actually enjoy work anymore. I don't get in the flow like I used with coding, which was when I loved the job the most. I'm finding all of the AI trends boring at this point. Trying to go with the flow, but not sure I'm enjoying the ride... How are y'all feeling?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What to do about incorrectly suspended GitHub account, no notice?

Ask HN: What to do about incorrectly suspended GitHub account, no notice? 3 by sshah03 | 0 comments on Hacker News. They have no form of support other than creating a ticket for reinstatement, that I've seen in some cases not get a response for months. I also have an enterprise org that pays them monthly, that I can not access now (though others still can luckily). I received an e-mail about education benefits re-verification (I didn't even know I had education benefits), and a notice that I had 30 days to submit re-verification to keep getting the benefits, and then along with the email my account was suspended. It says I asked for the benefits in the 2010s, which if I did I do not remember now, do not recall seeing the benefits on my account, and I was not using them. Regardless, the e-mail says I have 30 days to either re-verify or opt out of the benefits or I lose them, but instead they just suspended my entire account? I'm very confused about what's going on, an...