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New ask Hacker News story: Why are websites trying to talk at me?

Why are websites trying to talk at me? 2 by LeratoAustini | 4 comments on Hacker News. Why am I seeing this on so many sites recently (in FireFox)? I've seen it half a dozen times in the past month or so, had never noticed it before then. "You can't use speech synthesis because the speech dispatcher library is missing" There's a 'learn more' link, but it just talks about getting speech synthesis working in my browser. Searching for the error string returns similar discussions. I don't want to do that (especially if it's some new marketing fad). Obviously it's speech synthesis but *what is it saying?* The most recent instance was a dell.com product page posted here on HN: https://ift.tt/LT8rGFV As lots of people on HN will have visited that link I thought somebody might be able to tell me what they heard?
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why is Google tolerating impersonation of Gmail from it's own domain?

Ask HN: Why is Google tolerating impersonation of Gmail from it's own domain? 5 by dvh | 1 comments on Hacker News. For several weeks now I've been receiving spam impersonating Gmail. It always contain link to https://ift.tt/RzEagm9... The email looks like this: https://ift.tt/TWpePcd Even Google's own Gemini knows it's a scam: > The URL https://ift.tt/RzEagm9 points to a specific Google Cloud Storage bucket named "rightsmoves". Based on recent security data and web scans, this particular bucket has been associated with malicious activity, specifically phishing and "traffic stealing" schemes. I've reported it several times via Google Cloud Platform abuse form and they ignore it. Is it Google's total incompetence? Why are they allowing scams from their own domain?
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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Google Trust and Safety is a joke

Tell HN: Google Trust and Safety is a joke 2 by tokyobreakfast | 1 comments on Hacker News. Been getting partly unskippable pornographic ads (both explicit audio and video) for dick pills inserted into innocuous YouTube videos, like educational content. Immediately reported to Google. That was more than a week ago. No response, and I've seen the ad multiple times now, on different browsers/devices. Do actual humans review this, or does Google automate everything to the point it's just a bot? Malicious ads are as old as time but this is as egregious as I've ever seen it.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why is the $0 hijacking of intellectual labor so normalized in OSS?

Ask HN: Why is the $0 hijacking of intellectual labor so normalized in OSS? 3 by fumi2026 | 9 comments on Hacker News. I’ve noticed a fascinating paradox in this community. We celebrate "disruption" and "innovation," yet we maintain a cultural dogma where individual's lifework is expected to be donated for $0. "Open Source" has become a polite euphemism for the legalized looting of independent inventions. We expect creators to sacrifice years of life-force, only for Big Tech to strip-mine the logic and patent the derivatives—effectively banning the original author from their own work. I’m curious about the collective ethics here: 1. The Cognitive Tax: If one requires an LLM summary to "verify" a non-perturbative logic, does that person truly qualify as a "contributor," or are they just an end-user of someone else’s cognitive sacrifice? 2. The "Hacker" Spirit: Since when did the spirit of hacking—understanding things fro...
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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: YouTube gave my username switzerland to a half government organization

Tell HN: YouTube gave my username switzerland to a half government organization 7 by faebi | 2 comments on Hacker News. I had the username @switzerland since 20.03.2006. Swiss tourism had another username since 17.10.2006. Now recently google gave my username away to swiss tourism without any notification. Their other username was fine for literally 20 years. Worse, the app still showed my username for a long time meanwhile youtube.com/@Switzerland already showed that of swiss tourism (Schweiz Tourismus) and I was not aware of that. Hence, I lost it some months ago. Why do I tell you? You might loose your username and you aren't even aware of it.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why do AI code editors suck at closing tags?

Ask HN: Why do AI code editors suck at closing tags? 5 by cryptography | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?

Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100? 10 by krishadi | 24 comments on Hacker News. Curious what items under $100 have made your life better or any meaningful impact. Revival of this [thread](https://ift.tt/AYRdIa8) from 6 years ago. Thought it would be fun to have new answers to this :)
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