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by rstuart4133 | 2025-08-25 21:36:12+00:00
Meanwhile, here in Australia ...

It used to be as bad as others describe here, if not worse. A few years ago my 92 yo mother disconnected her land line because she was getting 20 calls a day. The spammers had figured out the number range of her retirement village, and hammered it mercilessly.

But other day I was reflecting on how oddly silent it has become on the phone spam front. This article made me wonder - just how long had it been since I received a spam call or SMS. So I looked at the phones block list. It seems the answer is 4 months of spammless bliss on my phone.

The ACMA (Australian Communications and Media Authority - the government body that polices this sort of thing) have been hammering on about this for years, apparently without success. I had given up on them. Yet now in 2025, they had a total victory, they've annihilated all phone spam, and I didn't notice for months. No media release, no trumpeting from the roof tops. They just quietly and effectively did their job.

I salute you sirs and madams. Good work. Not just good - excellent work. In fact brilliant. Your efforts make me proud to be an Australian.
by effgoogle | 2025-08-25 21:36:41+00:00
Fuck google.

This combined with the 'age verification' coming to all Google properties means it is a very small step from that new world to full Google verification of everything you visit and everything on your device, at any time, for any reason with the penalty being incontestable ban from your device, apps and data.

Get ready for facebook style 'we are interrupting you for a video selfie because we have detected you are a threat' across all google properties (Android, Chrome, Gmail, Maps...).

Move to linux phones, now.
by bullen | 2025-08-25 21:36:59+00:00
http://move.rupy.se/file/radxa_works.mp4

Radxa CM5 + Waveshare CM4 Nano

Packs a punch at very low power...

You probably need a tiny Nuctua fan on it if you're going to play HL2 on it.

It's ARM so it will take a while for titles to be ported, but studios better realize this is the platform of the future.

Currently game engines are clueless.
by commakozzi | 2025-08-25 21:37:02+00:00
I'm a pilot, i know what things look like in the air from varying distances, balloons, other planes, helicopters, stray plastic sheet, lasers, whatever. I'm also not a believer in supernatural things and i hope aliens are not visiting our planet without our knowledge and/or permission. However, (here we go): I have seen an object in the sky seemingly being intelligently controlled & doing things that we have no current ability to do or understand (as far as we know) and these maneuvers would absolutely turn the occupant (if there was one) into a warm liquid. it had a single kind of unnaturally bright (but not blinding for some reason) blueish light and it just danced in the sky like physics just didn't matter at all. I and 4 other friends of mine watched it for about 3-5 mins until it turned toward space and zipped away like it was nothing. This was clearly a large object, about the size of a fighter jet.

Based on that experience and my interpretation of my senses, I feel like i personally know for a fact that SOMETHING is flying around in our skies that we currently have no inventory for (that is publicly known at least) and to be absolutely prudent i would want to investigate that object and understand what it is, where it came from and who made it (i also want to fly it) and that would be an absolute priority. It's not that there's nothing in the skies of interest. There is something up there that people are seeing that's not being misidentified (it's not being identified at all!), but it's a real object. My guess: advanced american drone with a new power source and propulsion system that the general public (including research scientists) didn't know was possible. Other than that, sure maybe aliens, if our understanding of the universe is just completely flawed and FTL is actually possible.

I'm not here to try to convince anyone (maybe i am subconsciously, but whatever). It's just incredibly frustrating because i absolutely hate religion and any other belief systems that might promote a lack of critical thinking, and it looks like i'm presenting a lack of critical thinking here. Yes, i do not know what it was, but I'm also an educated engineer who happens to be a pilot. I completely understand that humans have faulty perception and probably even more faulty brains, but I also understand when something is an object versus when it's of some other quality (gas, solid, etc.). I'm increasingly annoyed when i see the entire subject seem to get dismissed simply because there are so many bad reports and bad information.

I agree somewhat with the premise here but also, if there are aliens visiting our planet from another solar system and they just got here today, then what kind of action could humans take anyway? These things would probably be able to reshape reality at that point, idk.
by godelski | 2025-08-25 21:37:04+00:00
Isn't the current CoD anti cheat system also flagging Valorant as cheating software because of Valorant's anti cheat?[0]

Fundamentally the problem with any anti cheat system is that it is indistinguishable from a root kit. You're giving software full privileges to your machine with the ability to edit your kernel, inspect running processes, and inject code into running processes. I'm not saying there's no situations where you don't want a program to be able to do this but you should be extremely cautious about doing so because that program essentially owns your machine.

Put it this way. Suppose you trust those game companies and their anti cheat software. Do you trust that this software will never be hacked? I mean we're talking about an extremely high profile target with wide adoption. Sounds like you're adding a pretty valuable target that's worth far more to hackers than it is to the game studios. I mean we're talking about the same game studios that let easily solvable but game breaking bugs persist for years. Even ones where the community has provided patches for...

[0] <https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/battlefield-6-and-valorant...>
by mrbluecoat | 2025-08-25 21:38:16+00:00
> The requirement will go into effect in September 2026 for users in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand. Google notes how these countries have been “specifically impacted by these forms of fraudulent app scams.” Verification will then apply globally from 2027 onwards.

At least most of the world has until 2027 to install LineageOS or GrapheneOS.
by sillywalk | 2025-08-25 21:38:25+00:00
There was an earlier article that had more details[0]. And the Redbook for the High-End server[1] has a lot of information.

[0] https://www.servethehome.com/ibm-power11-launched-with-up-to...

[1] https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/pdfs/sg248587.pdf
by 4MOAisgoodenuf | 2025-08-25 21:38:38+00:00
Do they really? I've seen plenty of surveys that say American consumers are _keeping_ their passenger cars for longer and longer periods (12.8 years in 2025 https://www.spglobal.com/automotive-insights/en/blogs/2025/0...)

But is there any study that says the components or designs are needing less repairs or are getting cheaper to maintain over that 12.8 year period as opposed to, say, an econobox sedan from 2005?

Is a modern family car with GDI, CVT, plastic oil pan, infotainment system, and litany of safety sensors going to last as long without bankrupting its owner as an equivalent product from a comparable market segment 20 years ago?
by aucisson_masque | 2025-08-25 21:38:41+00:00
> Google is explicit today about how “developers will have the same freedom to distribute their apps directly to users through sideloading or to use any app store they prefer.”

« Développer will have freedom » yet they are entitled to Google’s verification.

It’s just another stone in the grave of Android and even though I shipped off this sinking ship 6 years ago to iOS, this is still concerning because ultimately apple’s IOS is in competition solely with Android.

If Android gets so bad it has all the disadvantage of iOS, some more, for instance with the embedded spyware that manufacturer are paid to include, and none of the good side of iOS, then everyone lose. Apple doesn’t have to compete anymore, they just have to not suck.
by Havoc | 2025-08-25 21:38:46+00:00
>What does a "dead light" mean in this context?

I'm in the UK that has more reliance on ring circuits i.e. electrically its a chain of devices. So depending on details one fault can take out all the lights in a room

>Your landlord isn't changing your bulbs?

They're just taking their time.

Normally I'd just replace bulbs myself but this is a bit more complicated cause its hooked into other devices as well and i can't even tell what is broken
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-25 21:38:55+00:00
You would need more rods if you're cycling more of it at once... but you can add 25x as many rods and it'll still be 20x cheaper than a battery, right?

I don't think losses would be immense. You'll spend a few months warming up the neighboring dirt, but after that the amount of heat escaping per day will look about the same as the seasonal system.
by vetrom | 2025-08-25 21:39:56+00:00
You have misunderstood the question, or perhaps buried the lede. 'Open in that regard' is tantamount to not open at all. If you gatekeep being able to load an app to an Android phone behind these processes, you're essentially stuck with no recourse if you, say, have a banned google account, or have some reason you don't wish to send your government ID to these companies.
by nearbuy | 2025-08-25 21:40:04+00:00
This isn't true at all. The LLMs absolutely world model and researchers have shown this many times on smaller language models.

> techniques like vector tokenization

(I assume you're talking about the input embedding.) This is really not an important part of what gives LLMs their power. The core is that you have a large scale artificial neural net. This is very different than an n-gram model and is probably capable of figuring out anything a human can figure out given sufficient scale and the right weights. We don't have that yet in practice, but it's not due to a theoretical limitation of ANNs.

> probability distribution of the most likely next token given a preceding text.

What you're talking about is an autoregressive model. That's more of an implementation detail. There are other kinds of LLMs.

I think talking about how it's just predicting the next token is misleading. It's implying it's not reasoning, not world-modeling, or is somehow limited. Reasoning is predicting, and predicting well requires world-modeling.
by XorNot | 2025-08-25 21:40:26+00:00
I've had this happen a couple of times now. There's definitely some jobs where I looked around and realized I'd used just about every tool I have.

I think the only disappointment at the moment is my Makita rotary drywall cutter - a reciprocating multi tool is just so much easier to control and makes nice straight cuts easily.

Still waiting for the welder to have its moment though.
by CharlesW | 2025-08-25 21:40:32+00:00
Patrick, it’s really hard to tell if you're serious or legitimate from this made-in-Lovable-in-5-minutes site.

If you are serious, I recommend that you ask the admins (hn@ycombinator.com) to delete this post, then spend at least half an hour thinking about a better name, and what readers might need to know before you (1) create a more substantive landing page and (2) re-announce. That would at least give you a chance at making a positive first impression.
by bri3d | 2025-08-25 21:41:11+00:00
I don't think this comment is accurate based on the article, although you cite personal experience elsewhere so maybe your project wasn't the one that's documented here?

> What Google is doing is using the huge chillers that would normally be cooling the air in the facility to cool water which is directly pumped into every server.

From the article:

> CDUs exchange heat between coolant liquid and the facility-level water supply.

Also, I know from attaching them at some point that plenty of mainframes used this exact same approach (water to water exchange with facility water), not water to air to water like you describe in this comment and others, so I think you may have just not had experience there? https://www.electronics-cooling.com/2005/08/liquid-cooling-i... contains a diagram in Figure 1 of this exact CDU architecture, which it claims was in use in mainframes dating back to 1965 (!).

I also don't think "This eliminates ANY air based transfer besides the chiller tower." is strictly true; looking at the photo of the sled in the article, there are fans. The TPUs are cooled by the liquid loop but the ancillaries are still air cooled. This is typical for water cooling systems in my experience; while I wouldn't be surprised to be wrong (it sure would be more efficient, I'd think!), I've never seen a water cooling system which successfully works without forced air, because there are just too many ancillary components of varying shapes to successfully design a PCB-waterblock combination which does not also demand forced air cooling.
by Animats | 2025-08-25 21:41:48+00:00
I was really hoping for a Snow Crash movie. That project has been in development hell for years. Instead, we got Ready Player One, which is like Snow Crash for dummies. There's a trailer for a low-budget version of Snow Crash.[1] It's awful.

I don't hold out much hope for that project. Snow Crash is about a conspiracy between a media baron and a televangelist to take over the world. That would upset a lot more people now than in 1992.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8WYiYcaRY4
by engineeringwoke | 2025-08-25 21:42:09+00:00
Burning American flags is free speech? It's definitely an interpretation... and one that many legal scholars disagree with, similar to Roe v Wade. Not that repealing Roe v Wade was a good thing, but it didn't have a solid legal foundation.

It's not all about getting your way... well maybe the better way to say it is that the left got their way, for sixty years. And some of those wins from that period for the left were built on shaky ground. There has to be give and take in any healthy political system.
Show HN: RAG-Guard: Zero-Trust Document AI
by mrorigo | 2025-08-25 21:42:45+00:00
Hey HN,

I wanted to share something I’ve been working on: *RAG-Guard*, a document AI that’s all about privacy. It’s an experiment in combining Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with AI-powered question answering, but with a twist — your data stays yours.

Here’s the idea: you can upload contracts, research papers, personal notes, or any other documents, and RAG-Guard processes everything locally in your browser. Nothing leaves your device unless you explicitly approve it.

### How It Works

- * Zero-Trust by Design*: Every step happens in your browser until you say otherwise.

- * Local Document Processing*: Files are parsed entirely on your device.

- * Local Embeddings*: We use [all-MiniLM-L6-v2](https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v...) via Transformers.js to generate embeddings right in your browser.

- * Secure Storage*: Documents and embeddings are stored in your browser’s encrypted IndexedDB.

- * Client-Side Search*: Vector similarity search happens locally, so you can find relevant chunks without sending anything to a server.

- * Manual Approval*: Before anything is sent to an AI model, you get to review and approve the exact chunks of text.

- * AI Calls*: Only the text you approve is sent to the language model (e.g., Ollama).

No tracking. No analytics. No “training on your data.”

### Why I Built This

I’ve been fascinated by the potential of RAG and AI-powered question answering, but I’ve always been uneasy about the privacy trade-offs. Most tools out there require you to upload sensitive documents to the cloud, where you lose control over what happens to your data.

With RAG-Guard, I wanted to see if it was possible to build something useful without compromising privacy. The goal was to create a tool that respects your data and puts you in control.

### Who It’s For

If you’re someone who works with sensitive documents — contracts, research, personal notes — and you want the power of AI without the risk of unauthorized access or misuse, this might be for you.

### What’s Next

This is still an experiment, and I’d love to hear your thoughts. Is this something you’d use? What features would make it better?

You can check it out here: [https://mrorigo.github.io/rag-guard/]

Looking forward to your feedback!
by rl3 | 2025-08-25 21:43:39+00:00
>The person openly praising Hitler did not get banned at all.

Content moderation at Meta is a joke now. I reported an account multiple times for hate speech. The account's photos were comprised entirely of racist caricatures of black people. Like absolutely vile, hateful shit.

Each time, I received a notification along the lines of: [paraphrasing] "We found that the account in question did not violate our community standards. Therefore, we did not take any action. Thanks for the report."

Yeah, OK. Gross.
by dekhn | 2025-08-25 21:44:01+00:00
What blows me away is that there are quantum calculations which grow as O**7 with respect to the number of atoms and scientists are fine with running them because N is small, computers get faster and more memory all the time, and the results are valuable.

(I'm not a computer science expert, so if I used the O(n) terminology differently from the standard, sorry).
by DebtDeflation | 2025-08-25 21:44:09+00:00
There used to be stories about small manufacturing companies that bought AS/400s in the early 1990s, installed them in their factories, then at some point there was construction and walls were built around them, and then they were discovered 20+ years later, still running, when they were upgrading their production lines and trying to figure out what was actually running them.
by nerdix | 2025-08-25 21:44:27+00:00
There are plenty of miniPCs with replaceable RAM and storage. Some of the newer ones based on the Ryzen Ai CPUs have soldered RAM but most don't.

Replaceable CPU is harder to find. However, there is the Minisforum MS-A1 which has an AMD AM5 motherboard with replaceable CPU.

https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-ms-a1
by oliwary | 2025-08-25 21:44:37+00:00
Fun analysis! I run https://squareword.org, which has 5x5 letters featuring words both down and across. Guesses are applied to the horizontal words, but the vertical words can be used as support, a bit like in Sudoku.

I wonder how the analysis would work here - since the verticals form words as well I think you get a lot more information from each guess. Many players can now solve them consistently in 6 or 7 guesses.
Show HN: Tool to optimize keyboard layout by counting characters
by ogdakke | 2025-08-25 21:45:33+00:00
Hi, I created this cli tool to help people decide which keys to remap where based on what kinds of characters appear in your directory.

It counts characters and sequences of characters, so you can see what kind of typing patterns appear for a given project or programming language. Outputs table, json, csv and has a nice TUI with lots of filtering options
by itishappy | 2025-08-25 21:45:42+00:00
The Munsell color system isn't really intended for displays, rather it's a collection of pigments, similar to Pantone. The transforms can get a bit weird (for example, since the swatches are discrete, there's no defined way to get intermediate colors). Munsell's ideas, particularly the axes of hue, value, and chroma, have absolutely influenced modern color spaces and are very much on display in the OKLCH space.
by jajuuka | 2025-08-25 21:46:06+00:00
Yep, available to anyone. It's much more restrictive though. Basically you need a valid developer certificate to sign apps. You can use your own with a free developer account but you only get so many tokens per week and apps need to have their tokens refreshed weekly.

You can also use an enterprise developer certificate that lasts forever but if Apple revokes it then the app stops working until you get another working cert.

It does require you to turn on iOS developer settings by connecting to a Mac with Xcode installed to enable but then you can manage app installation and refreshing via an App Store like Alt Store. EU has different system where there is no limit on amount of sideloadable apps but the apps still need to be approved by Apple. Alt Store also have a EU specific App Store for that purpose.

I side loaded on iOS for a long time. Get Youtube++ for ad free and I forget the Reddit client I used that was side loaded as well. You can run the server on any PC or Mac that will handle side loaded apps and being on the same WiFi network allows the server to automatically refresh the installed apps. Only big downside is updates are not automatic or simple. To update an app you have to download the new app .ipa and then sign it like you were installing it fresh. Usually it picks up the existing configs and data though. So it's not a full app wipe.

The sideloaded subreddit is where I got into it through.
by keyle | 2025-08-25 21:46:47+00:00
I use Base everyday but it's leaps and bounds behind Postico for Postgres in terms of UX.

Copy pastes, duplicate rows, sorting and filtering. Sadly postico does not do SQLite.

But for SQLite as native app, there is no better than Base.

Look forward to the upgrade thank you.

Edit: thanks for row edit, that's great. What about duplicating rows or copying between tables of the same structure?
by LaurensBER | 2025-08-25 21:47:10+00:00
While the 395 is very cool I do feel that the next generation will be an enormous step forward if AMD integrates FSR 4 in their APUs. Neutral network based upscaling makes a huge difference since you can get away with far lower (real) rendering resolutions and don't need any (expensive) anti-aliasing solutions anymore.

There's a bunch of demos on YouTube of people upscaling from as low as 360p and while not pretty, it's definitely serviceable. It might be worth the wait if you're budget constraint or patient!
by ta8645 | 2025-08-25 21:48:01+00:00
> Instead it is being used to make everything it touches worse.

Your bias is showing through.

For what it's worth, it has made everything I use it for, much better. I can search the web for things on the net in mere seconds, where previously it could often take hours of tedious searching and reading.

And it used to be that Youtube comments were an absolute shit show of vitriol and bickering. A.I. moderation has made it so that now it's often a very pleasant experience chatting with people about video content.
by petralithic | 2025-08-25 21:48:14+00:00
Tariffs are taxes, they are not opposed to raising them, they just won't call them "taxes." It's honestly remarkable how effective they are in reaching their policy goals, because they understand their voter base extremely clearly. They know that their voters largely go off of key words, so by changing those words, one can make them support whatever policy one wants. It is amazing to witness, really.