Is this not going too far? It's a pretty weak "let's save the kids argument" that only serves to improve mass-surveillance outside of the argument presented. Like, this is the advent of strong thought policing and thought monitoring over the wires—oh no, you can't use a VPN because it's bad for "the kids"!
Readit Newscptcobalt commented on End well, this won't: UK commissioner suggests govt stops kids from using VPNs theregister.com/2025/08/1... · Posted by u/rntn
Was it really interesting? To me, it has certain hallmarks of an AI-generated article. In particular, it introduces the same concept several times, in different sections. For example, fare classes, nested booking, and the SABRE system each get two different introductions.
The content seems legitimate, but I felt like my time was being wasted through at minimum a lack of editing.
I think this is an example of above average but not great AI writing. I still read it to the end because the subject is interesting and there is enough focus (and, seemingly) expertise on the topic.
I think the telltale for me that makes me count as heavily AI-assisted is the lack of inclusion of real, inline examples of actual fares & their restrictions. I know I've seen them broken down before in other content. But not once here was there a full readout of an actual fare bucket & its rules. I think a human writer would have been tempted to include even one of those as an artifact, but an AI as a topic reviewer/summarizer/collator won't unless explicitly instructed.
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It seems like this new PNG spec just cements what exists already, great! The best codecs are the ones that work on everything. PNG and JPEG work everywhere, reliably.
Try opening a HEIC or AV1 or something on a machine that doesn't natively support it down to the OS-level, and you're in for a bad time. This stuff needs to work everywhere—in every app, in the OS shell for quick-looking at files, in APIs, on Linux, etc. If a codec does not function at that level, it is not functional for wider use and should not be a default for any platform.
cptcobalt commented on VisionOS 26 keeps pushing Apple's newest platform toward the future sixcolors.com/post/2025/0... · Posted by u/tosh
According to the best estimates, a little more than 500,000 Vision Pro units have been sold. Pretty good for what is tantamount to a prototype.
It was mentioned somewhere during WWDC that "hundreds of companies" are using Vision Pro, so that's at least 200 companies, as well.
Prototype is not a charitable interpretation of the product. If you've been part of hardware, firmware, and software development processes, you'd really truly understand what prototypes are.
cptcobalt commented on Updates to Windows for the Digital Markets Act blogs.windows.com/windows... · Posted by u/nixass
How kind of Microsoft to feature Arc, an end-of-life browser, in their screenshot for browser defaults.
cptcobalt commented on Cracking the Dave and Buster's Anomaly rambo.codes/posts/2025-05... · Posted by u/CharlesW
I wonder whether any interesting HTML injection tricks could be done by exploiting autocorrect in the same way.
I think the point of BlastDoor, as covered in the post, is that Apple is indeed working to prevent injection at the cost of silently failing & poorly handling legitimate messages.
> By being pedantic about the formatting, BlastDoor is protecting the recipient from an exploit that would abuse that type of issue.
So, not impossible, but less likely than you think
cptcobalt commented on Never film the new Ex90 because you will break your cell camera old.reddit.com/r/Volvo/co... · Posted by u/taubek
Perhaps this is a reactionary question, but: shouldn't this be recall worthy? Or is it inherent to Lidar itself?
This has the potential to damage safety-critical sensors used in backup cameras or autonomous vehicles—and, obviously, inflicts damage on personal property like smartphones.
Volvo even states online that their sensors can damage cameras: https://www.volvocars.com/uk/support/car/ex90/article/47d2c9...
To me it is hard to visualize how much damage the total energy gained from digesting chemical bonds of food could do to an airplane. I can better visualize the damage that could be done by a highway car crash or detonating a handful of TNT in an airplane.
These counterfactual comparisons are a slippery slope and not as helpful as you think. I hardly think that you, I, or most others have an intuitive understanding for what happens when a 1 gram meteor hits earth. Have you ever witnessed that?
The average failure state of a battery is not similar to detonating a handful of TNT on an airplane, which is a more instantaneous explosion. Sure, some battery failure states are violent and would unquestionably be a cause for an airplane to call a mayday and land, but something like puncturing a soft-cell battery is still a slower release than TNT.
We should just expect people to get better at understanding useful units — I'd prefer someone learns Wh since it is indeed a useful metric—kWh is the usual major unit of energy at home, and Wh is just smaller than that.
cptcobalt commented on The Website Hacker News Is Afraid to Discuss daringfireball.net/2025/0... · Posted by u/jgruber
I would like to see more DF on HN. The something rotten in Cupertino was a shattering post—people in my circle who do not read DF were discussing and sending it around, and I work at a place where so many dang people read HN. So I agree with Gruber’s concern.
I’m surprised this post too is already flagged.