Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android

kotaKat 5 days ago

Meaning to use your device you need to have a contractual relationship with a foreign (unless you are in the US) third party that decides what you can or cannot do with it. Plus using GrapheneOS is less of an option every day, since banks and other "regulated" sectors…

arielcostas 4 days ago

Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

rickybule 2 days ago

Hello! I've got experience working on censorship circumvention for a major VPN provider (in the early 2020s). - First things first, you have to get your hands on actual VPN software and configs. Many providers who are aware of VPN censorship and cater to these locales…

_verandaguy 2 days ago

Cognitive load is what matters

nromiun 20 hours ago

A lot of comments mention John Ousterhout's book Philosophy of software design and it's definition of complexity of a system being cognitive load (I.e the number of disparate things one has to keep in mind when making a change). However IIRC from the book, complexity of…

ppsreejith 34 minutes ago

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

meetpateltech 4 days ago

Do the simplest thing that could possibly work

dondraper36 a day ago

I think this works in simple domains. After working in big tech for a while, I am still shocked by the required complexity. Even the simplest business problem may take a year to solve, and constantly break due to the astounding number of edge cases and scale. Anyone proclaiming…

codingwagie a day ago

FFmpeg 8.0

gyan a week ago

What are OKLCH colors?

tontonius 6 days ago

Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

alsetmusic 4 days ago

A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website

shaunpud 6 days ago

Claude for Chrome

davidbarker 4 days ago

DeepSeek-v3.1

wertyk a week ago

Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy

porridgeraisin a day ago

You can opt out, but the fact that it's opt-in by default and made to look like a simple T/C update prompt leaves a sour taste in my mouth. The five year retention period seems... excessive. I wonder if they've buried anything else objectionable in the new terms…

troad a day ago

AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions

freetonik a week ago

A visual introduction to big O notation

samwho a week ago

Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS

__bb 5 days ago

Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account

helloplanets 6 days ago

Go is still not good

ustad a week ago

Tesla said it didn't have key data in a fatal crash, then a hacker found it

clcaev a day ago

https://archive.is/s1psp

metaphor a day ago

We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA

CTOSian 4 days ago

U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel

givemeethekeys a week ago