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Governments ban self-custody crypto, require backdoors on all computers (2035) 6 by EGreg | 1 comments on Hacker News. It started quietly. Governments didn’t outlaw cryptography or decentralized protocols outright. Instead they pressured Apple, Microsoft, Google, Intel, AMD, and every other major vendor of chips, operating systems, and browsers to "comply with national security". Phase 1, the AI backdoor: Every new device shipped with a mandatory Trusted AI Module (TAM). Officially it was marketed as anti-fraud and child protection. In reality, TAM was a resident AI agent with kernel-level hooks. It intercepted every program running on the machine, scanned for "dangerous math", and reported "anomalous behavior" upstream. People were told it was like antivirus. Few realized it was more powerful than any rootkit ever devised. Phase 2, obsolescence of the old machines: At first people clung to their older laptops, Raspberry Pis, and off-grid servers. But u...

Ask HN: When you imagine, do you see the distance? 2 by imvetri | 0 comments on Hacker News. Answer - No. It is an eye seeing the Imagination. Not two eyes. What do you think?

Form16x – Simplify tax season: JSON output and regime comparisons from Form 16 2 by taxedo | 1 comments on Hacker News. I got tired of manually copying numbers from Form 16 PDFs into India’s tax filing portal every year. So I built *Form16x*, a Python CLI + library that parses these PDFs into structured JSON. Beyond extraction, it can: - Consolidate multiple Form 16s if you switched jobs - Calculate taxes under both regimes → recommends the better one - Show salary/deduction breakdowns directly in the terminal (tree view, colored output) - Suggest tax optimizations (80C, 80D, NPS, etc.) - Provide a Python API (`TaxCalculationAPI`) with multi-year tax rules (AY 2020–2025) *Repo:* https://ift.tt/rEoyTh0 Form 16 is similar to a W-2 in the US or a T4 in Canada — semi-structured PDFs with inconsistent layouts. Filing usually means manual data entry. Form16x tries to make that structured and automatable. Would love feedback from HN — both on the technical approach (PDF parsing + structure...

Ask HN: What do you recommend for test observability? 2 by vrm | 0 comments on Hacker News. I maintain an OSS project with a very involved CI setup. We're at the point where it is worth having observability into which tests are flaky, especially within intra-test-run retries. An ideal solution would be a managed service that takes junit.xml exports from cargo nextest, vitest, playwright, pytest, and go test. What do you all recommend?

Ask HN: Why is enrolling in Apple's Developer Program so difficult in 2025? 7 by thomas_witt | 2 comments on Hacker News. I recently attempted to enroll a small 1-person company in the Apple Developer Program, and the process turned into a surprisingly terrible journey. I expected a quick online sign-up and a $99 payment – instead I got weeks of identity checks and problem after problem. Frustratingly, the whole thing started because I wanted to use Sign in with Apple. Apple forces you into the developer program just to enable it, and charges €99/year for the privilege. Google and Amazon both offer their equivalent login services for free, set up in minutes. I can’t see how this policy benefits Apple’s ecosystem. So I needed: - D-U-N-S verification: Apple required a D-U-N-S Number for the company – very uncommon in the EU. Applying took several days and even a manual phone confirmation with an outsourced D&B subsidiary. - Document uploads: Apple support then asked me to uplo...

What 30k Free Users Taught Me About Charging $10/Month 6 by evermike | 5 comments on Hacker News. Two years ago we decided to test an idea. What if we built a small native Trello power-up — simple, clean, and entirely dependent on the marketplace? Could it turn into a small business? Could it be a model for side projects? It took off fast. 30,000+ installs, thousands of daily users, and today—over 500 paying customers. Sounds good, right? Not really. On the bright side — Trello is a fair ecosystem. Even small developers get discovered. No downranking, no hidden boost for “big players.” Clean UI guidelines, seamless integration, no middlemen, no 30% commission. Just connect Stripe and go. A perfect playground for a polished mini-product. But then reality set in. We priced it simply: $10 per workspace. Flat. Unlimited people, unlimited projects. Sounds fair? Turns out even $10/month was a huge barrier. When it was free, growth was fast and constant. Teams used us daily for months, som...

Ask HN: Were programmers more surprised than general public by ChatGPT in 2022? 3 by amichail | 2 comments on Hacker News. Maybe programmers were more skeptical about what AI could do before ChatGPT was released?

Google Ends Support for Lynx Browser 10 by zhenyi | 1 comments on Hacker News. Accessing google.com in Lynx now shows: Google Update your browser Your browser isn't supported anymore. To continue your search, upgrade to a recent version. [Learn more]

Google Doesn't Rank My Site for My Own Brand Name 23 by hypeaccount | 11 comments on Hacker News. I run a small business in Canada. Oddly, if you search my brand name, my own site doesn’t show up at all on the first page. Instead, Facebook, Instagram, and random sites that link to me outrank me. I’ve submitted my sitemap to GSC, checked indexing, and built branded backlinks—but Google still ignores my homepage. It’s bad because people looking for me are funneled into other platforms where I lose control of the user journey. Has anyone else experienced this? Is this Google punishing small/new sites, or do I need to approach brand SEO differently? At this point it feels like Google wants me to buy ads just to show up for my own name.

Tell HN: ChatGPT Is Down 2 by WolfOliver | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Does anyone else pronounce CLI as "clee"? 3 by codazoda | 11 comments on Hacker News. I often pronounce CLI as "clee". Many of my co-workers chuckle and repeat "cee el eye". They aren't being disrespectful, they've just never heard it. Some style guides treat CLI as an initialism, which just means that people tend to pronounce the letters individually. How do you pronounce CLI?

Ask HN: Why is there no native SSH hook to run a local command before connecting 5 by tetris11 | 1 comments on Hacker News. The `LocalCommand` parameter only runs a command on the local machine after the connection is established. Is there no pre-connection hook? My use case is simply that I do port knocking to expose my ssh port, and want this working automatically at the SSH config level so that I can use it transparently from other utilities (e.g. Ansible inventory, Emacs over TRAMP)

Nepal Prime Minister Resigns. Parliament / Ministires set on Fire. 15 by njsubedi | 2 comments on Hacker News. Amidst protests by Gen-Z against yesterday's inhumane killing of 19 student protesters, the country's capital is on fire. The prime minister of Nepal has resigned, and fleed on an army helicopter - probably abroad. Many other ministers have been evacuated. The parliament building, ministries, and all of the top political parties have been burnt down. Submitted this because yesterday evening there was a post and many of you were concerned for Nepal. Coverage: https://ift.tt/Oe0DbTA

Ask HN: Are there many C developers here? 8 by Forgret | 7 comments on Hacker News.

Plex Update: Notice of a potential security incident 3 by white_viel | 1 comments on Hacker News. Dear Plex User, We have recently experienced a security incident that may potentially involve your Plex account information. We believe the actual impact of this incident is limited; however, action is required from you to ensure your account remains secure. What happened An unauthorized third party accessed a limited subset of customer data from one of our databases. While we quickly contained the incident, information that was accessed included emails, usernames, and securely hashed passwords. Any account passwords that may have been accessed were securely hashed, in accordance with best practices, meaning they cannot be read by a third party. Out of an abundance of caution, we recommend you immediately reset your password by visiting https://plex.tv/reset. Rest assured that we do not store credit card data on our servers, so this information was not compromised in this incident. What...

Google Meet Outage 3 by thanhhaimai | 0 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/6QsXfnl

Does anyone think the current AI approach will hit a dead end? 2 by rh121 | 4 comments on Hacker News. Billions of dollars spent, incredible hype that we will have AGI in several years. Does anyone think the current deep learning / neural net based AI approach will eventually hit a dead end and not be able to deliver its promises? If yes, why? I realize this question is somewhat loosely defined. No doubt the current approach will continue to improve and yield results so it might not be easy to define "dead end". In the spirit of things, I want to see whether some people think the current direction is wrong and won't get us to the final destination.

Ask HN: How much can we trust open-source projects or our hardware? 3 by solosquad | 5 comments on Hacker News. For large open-source security-focused projects like Kali Linux, we’re told there are no backdoors but with millions of lines of code, how can we actually verify that? Full manual auditing isn’t feasible for most individuals. Some thoughts/questions: Are reproducible builds and supply-chain audits enough to trust the binaries? What strategies exist for spotting subtle backdoors in such large codebases? For hardware, how do you approach the risk of compromised firmware, microcode, or hidden subsystems (e.g. Intel ME, AMD PSP)? Do projects like Coreboot, Heads, or formally verified kernels meaningfully reduce this risk in practice? Beyond reading every line yourself, what’s the best way to build confidence? How much trust (percentage-wise) do you personally put in OSS security projects or commodity hardware, and what technical mitigations do you use to minimize blind trust? ...

Ask HN: Is there a desire for an AI summary friendly version of Hacker News? 2 by linotype | 16 comments on Hacker News. Recently I received a lot of negative feedback from a few HNers about an AI summary I posted about a complex immigration concept (changes to non-Immigrant visas in the US). The post received a number of upvotes but the comments were negative from Anti-AI folks. I’ve seen a number of negative posts about AI here as well. Would there be any interest in a static site that would regularly scan the public HN posts from their API and generate AI summaries of the content without a comment section?

Automated Workday check in/check out and Microsoft Teams messages monitoring 2 by quacktheboss | 0 comments on Hacker News. This should save people a lot of time. I could not find anything of the sort, and had to write it myself! Enjoy! https://ift.tt/lOdSyJQ

New Member Alert 3 by FatMike | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hi. Is there a cooling period before I can post something?

Ask HN: What do you think of the new Digg? 2 by LorenDB | 1 comments on Hacker News. I was invited to the beta the other day. I actually never used the old Digg, but the new Digg seems pretty nice. Almost like Reddit without the toxic people. Do others have experience with the new Digg? What are your thoughts?

Ask HN: Is witch hunting on social media becoming normal entertainment? 3 by koolala | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Pick for a Calorie Tracking App 2 by ramon156 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

ASIC: Proof-of-Concept Binary Optimizer Reduces Size, More to Come 2 by Forgret | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’ve built a PoC binary optimizer called ASIC that replaces common instruction sequences with specialized instructions. Even with only 2 patterns implemented out of 19 identified, it reduced a test binary by 0.02%. Imagine the potential once all patterns are covered. Highlights: Works directly on binaries, no source changes needed. Compatible with existing optimizations like O2/O3, Oz, and strip. Cross-architecture potential, not limited to ARM64 or ELF. Can complement packing tools (like UPX) without slowing execution. This is early-stage, but the concept proves instruction-level pattern replacement is feasible. Next step: implement all hot patterns for meaningful optimization. Would love thoughts from anyone who’s worked with binary transformations or runtime instruction emulation.

Ask HN: Moving from Dev to PM 2 by madmonk | 1 comments on Hacker News. Like many, I'm struggling to find a new role and am thinking it may be time to pursue a new career. I'm kicking around the idea of moving more towards a scrum master / project manager role. Have any of you made the jump and, if so, any recommendations on how to make (or not make) the change?

If AI agents take the jobs, who buys the stuff? 8 by babua | 4 comments on Hacker News. AI agents are getting rolled into everything. Companies will use them because they’re fast and cheap. But if agents replace a lot of paid work, people lose income. Less income → less spending → businesses push even harder on automation. Feels like a loop. Cheaper prices help, sure, but not if folks don’t have paychecks. New jobs might show up, but I’m not convinced the timing works. Also, if most gains go to a few owners, their extra spending won’t replace everyone else’s demand. So what actually keeps demand up? Profit-sharing so workers own a piece? Some kind of income floor from “automation dividends”? Totally new markets that soak up all this output? Or maybe real-world limits (energy, compute, regulation) slow things down. I might be missing something—what’s the concrete mechanism here?

Ask HN: Is anyone here deliberately low‑tech? If so, why and how? 3 by scdnc | 0 comments on Hacker News. I know this is Hacker News, which is exactly why I'm asking

Ask HN: When was the last time you visited Stack Overflow? 4 by TimLeland | 2 comments on Hacker News. I recall using Google daily to search for solutions to dev issues using Stack Overflow. I think it's been a year plus since I visited the site. What about you?

Is Google Down? - EU networking issue 44 by vtemian | 30 comments on Hacker News. edit: Romania, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey can't access any Google services

Ask HN: Why is ChatGPT worse now? 2 by nunocoracao | 2 comments on Hacker News. Last month or so just been getting worse and worse results from chatgpt - quality went down... Claude on the other hand keeps surprising me. What's going on?

Ask HN: Difficult Interview Question 5 by ransom1538 | 7 comments on Hacker News. I am interviewing candidates for data engineering role we have. One of the most critical questions I ask is: "How can you transfer a file to another machine?" I can't get anyone in an interview to answer this. I never get sftp,scp,rsync,email,usb,nas or s3 buckets/gsutil. Nothing. Nope. I want to get into cool topics, parallel transfers, etc, nope. Help. Is this question dated?

You can customize HN to be darkmode friendly 5 by Skullfurious | 3 comments on Hacker News. Basically just have ublock origin installed in your browser, click the icon, go into the settings, click My Filters on the top, and paste the following. After you apply and reload the page you should have a Nordic style theme that's a bit easier on the eyes. ------------------- ! Darker page background + main text color news.ycombinator.com##body, .c00:style(background-color: #1e222a !important; color: #c8d0d9 !important;) ! Top orange bar (nav/header) news.ycombinator.com##td[bgcolor="#ff6600"]:style(background-color: #2a2f3a !important;) ! Body content background news.ycombinator.com##[bgcolor="#f6f6ef"]:style(background-color: #1e222a !important;) ! Full black elements background news.ycombinator.com##[bgcolor="#000000"]:style(background-color: #2a2f3a !important;) ! Hide spacing row news.ycombinator.com##tr#pagespace:style(display: none !important;) ! Hac...

Tell HN: I kinda want to go back to Java 3 by throwmeaway222 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I left Java behind after using it for 20 years around 2018 or so. I've been using Python, Typescript since. I think Python has made huge strides in recent times... but now with LLMs and Agentic programming - I feel like Java would absolutely be worth it again. Python helped us invent LLMs - it's quite possible if it didn't exist we would never had invented them. But my life has always been in systems, backends, etc.. Java was too verbose. Too many things to NAME. Now, agents can name shit for us. I feel like the verbosity would be absolutely worth it now - and put this compressed code life in Python behind me. Anyone else feel this way, or are you Go/Rust/Python 4 life now? I'm only hoping to discuss this with ex-Java's.

Ask HN: How to Harden Your Phone? 2 by mandeepj | 0 comments on Hacker News. Inspired by this thread - https://ift.tt/CNF7wtd Whenever I hear the Pegasus app or read about it at HN, I get a bit worried. So, today was that day again. I'm sure we have cybersecurity experts, security researchers, and Infosec pros here at HN. What do you recommend to keep your phone, especially an iPhone, hardened as a brick? Came across the following article, although a bit dated, which suggests not using FaceTime and iMessage. But in another search, I found iMessage is more secure than just plain old SMS/Text. I'm more worried about zero-click exploits. https://ift.tt/DqI2AK7 Just a thought - would having a firewall[0] on your phone to block any incoming request or quarantine it for review will work? A response to a user-initiated request is different than an independent request coming to your phone. A clarification to avoid mixing both. Also, a traffic monitor[1] to watch excessive outgoing t...

Ask HN: If you were to start a business outside of tech, what would it be? 6 by utkarsssh17 | 1 comments on Hacker News. For those who’ve moved on or are thinking about life after a career in tech: what would you pursue next? Would you start a business, dive into a hobby, switch fields entirely, or just relax?

LinkedIn seems to be leaking Google Docs 3 by pbd | 0 comments on Hacker News. A friend of mine shared a google doc link with me over linkedin. Linkedin rendered the thumbnail of the post alongwith the doc header as well. But lo & behold, turns out I can't access the doc because the doc was restricted to his google workspace! Lol. What on earth? I guess this is some issue of caching gone wrong? Also, is Google letting linkedin have unrestricted access to its' google docs thumbnails & doc headers?

From $4B to Forgotten: The Rise and Fall of Clubhouse (2024) 5 by lawrenceyan | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Tools for Crossword Puzzle Generation? 2 by ekorbia | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I'm big fan of crossword puzzles such as the New York Times daily crossword and I'd like to build my own crossword puzzle game. Has anyone had any luck using AI or other tools to speed up the process of building crossword puzzles? I've used the Phil crossword puzzle maker to export crossword patterns with a few clues and answers in JSON format. Then I've tried various prompts with Claude Sonnet 4 to fill out the rest of the puzzle but I haven't been able to produce a valid crossword puzzle with the across and down words intersecting properly. Any advice on tools or prompting would be appreciated. Thanks!