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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Android Chrome deletes your browsing history silently

Tell HN: Android Chrome deletes your browsing history silently 2 by grehbies | 0 comments on Hacker News. Under specific, but still indefensible circumstances , which I just learned is somehow the intended behavior. I don't think I quite understand what computing has become at this point. I keep encountering situations where the SWEs, who write and maintain software that I assumed to be trustworthy, decide that superficial considerations are more important than data integrity or user control of critical decisions. It keeps happening, so it's not a mistake or an oversight. Some of you genuinely think that this is how software should work. Low system storage causes a write error which corrupts the database which houses the history
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: When and why did you start believing in God?

Ask HN: When and why did you start believing in God? 7 by dvrp | 34 comments on Hacker News. I presume many here are not believers. So, for those who believe—and in the spirit of open and genuine curiosity—I’d love to know what made them change their minds.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do you model temporarily invalid data structures

Ask HN: How do you model temporarily invalid data structures 2 by escot | 0 comments on Hacker News. Say you’re making a chess game. A valid board only has one piece per square, or zero. But, you have an algo that generates boards by moving pieces around and during that algo you may move a piece on top of another and then later decide to move one of them to get back to valid. Do you try to use some existing Board type and just avoid in your algo those invalid states (like by using a stack or some data structure to avoid iteratively moving pieces one at a time). Do you have a separate InvalidBoard type that allows multiple pieces per square? I think it’s context dependent but I’m curious how you’ve seen this handled in different ways.
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New ask Hacker News story: Forensic analysis of STM32F7 firmware failure modes in drone swarms

Forensic analysis of STM32F7 firmware failure modes in drone swarms 3 by ArchiveForensic | 1 comments on Hacker News. Free-access link to the full forensic analysis and data sources: https://ift.tt/qMC8Fdm
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New ask Hacker News story: Sqlit – A lazygit-style TUI for SQL databases

Sqlit – A lazygit-style TUI for SQL databases 2 by MaxTeabag | 0 comments on Hacker News. sqlit is a lazygit-style TUI for SQL. Connect and query your database from the terminal in seconds, no config files or documentation to read first. It supports all the major databases: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MariaDB, FirebirdSQL, Oracle, DuckDB, CockroachDB, ClickHouse, Snowflake, Databricks, Supabase, Cloudflare D1, Turso, Athena, BigQuery, Spanner, Redshift, IBM Db2, SAP HANA, Teradata, Trino, Presto, Apache Flight SQL, Apache Impala, SurrealDB, and osquery. A few things that come built in: - Keyboard focus: Context aware keybindings always visible - Docker integration: auto-detects and connect to running database containers - Vim-style query editor with customizable keybindings. - Fuzzy filter in results window. - SSH tunnels, OS-keyring credential storage, password manager integration. - Autocomplete for tables, columns, and procedures. - Cloud CLI integration (browse extern...
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New ask Hacker News story: S there room for a VPN with zero Five Eyes servers and RAM-only infrastructure?

S there room for a VPN with zero Five Eyes servers and RAM-only infrastructure? 3 by yanbinette | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've been building on AWS for years and got deep into privacy/networking recently. The more I learned, the more I realized most VPN providers are theatre. The problem I see: "no-logs" is meaningless if your servers are physically in the US, UK, Canada or Australia. A warrant is a warrant. Even providers I respect like Mullvad and Proton have servers in Five Eyes countries. What I'm thinking: - Servers only in Iceland, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Romania, Japan - RAM-only — no disk, no logs possible by design, reboot wipes everything - WireGuard - Open source, annual Cure53 audit - BTC/Monero, no account required Break even is around 200-300 customers. Infrastructure to start is maybe $500-1000/month. Honest question: does Mullvad already own this positioning well enough that there's no room? Or is "zero Five Eyes + provably no logs...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is it just me or has Gemini enshittified in the last three weeks?

Ask HN: Is it just me or has Gemini enshittified in the last three weeks? 3 by EvanMcCormick | 3 comments on Hacker News. As someone who's been using the Gemini Pro plan for the past 9 months, I noticed a massive jump in the amount of rate-limiting I'm getting from Gemini since around the beginning of May. It seems to coincide with the updated UI and the release of the Gemini 3.5 Preview model. For the better part of this year, Gemini was my go-to model for answering simple questions quickly. The google search plug-in made it super easy to ask, and it seemed to have endless capacity for research and complex answers on the $20/month plan. Meanwhile, I used Claude very sparingly, and saved most of my Pro plan for Claude Code tokens. Now I find that I'm rate-limited by Gemini harder than Claude. Is compute being shifted away from Gemini behind the scenes? Maybe LLM compute is finally moving away from subsidized direct consumer use. Still, I had previously thought that Gemin...
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