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kingforaday··on German court calls Google aerial imagery 'spying'
Hmm interesting. Are they saying the general accessibility of the platform is what shouldn't be allowed or the photograph itself?

> The judges also determined Google must provide property owners with advance notice when an area is photographed.

But Google's satellite imagery is from a blend of providers like Vantor WorldView, GeoEye, Landsat, etc so....

kingforaday··on No More Icons in Every Menu by Default
> "putting an icon in every menu item by default which shipped with macOS Tahoe — but now it’s gone in Golden Gate"

They needed to make room for Siri.

kingforaday··on Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit
0xdeafbeef or arcfour - Short of the CVP from Anthropic, would love to know if Mistral Large 4 would solve what you needed...
kingforaday··on Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks
Try fish.audio - their S2 Pro has been very decent. The S2.1 Pro might be better but haven't had a chance to try it.
kingforaday··on A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her
I had this funny thought the other day when I was in a Teams meeting and someone wanted to record it. Sure, we all had to consent, accept agreements, and then gain the ability to turn our cameras and mics on, but it was a standard status meeting, nothing special. So, I thought to myself, what if we were doing this in-person? Would we have someone break out a camera and record our meeting? Something seems off with the WFH approach.
kingforaday··on C for Rust programmers
It’s definitely great that memory safety is becoming more pervasive. Though I’ll believe “a world without memory corruption” right up until another <insert your relevant hacker hero name> comes along and finds a way through an unsafe block, an FFI boundary, or the hardware itself (Rowhammer says hi).
kingforaday··on C for Rust programmers
I'm with you. Since the post already shows Clang catching the array-decay bug, the author could even just add a “always build with -Wall -Wextra -fsanitize=address,undefined” note and some explanation of course.
kingforaday··on Show HN: Offrun – manage every coding agent from one workspace
Nice site and I'm surprised (also not surprised) by how many there are. A few missing that you might consider adding:

- paperclip

- multica

- perplexity computer

kingforaday··on Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility
Guess you weren't living near the Urumqi, Xinjiang rioting? Almost a year of severe internet restrictions.
kingforaday··on Xiaomi MiMo v2.6
Are you finding DS better then kimi k3 and glm-5.3? Do you mind sharing your primary use case?
kingforaday··on Show HN: Fly By – retro biplane flying game
Anyone else remember Sky Kid?

Great game and this reminds me of it. Thanks for sharing.

kingforaday··on EVE Online moves to Python 3
Spot on. Py2 was integer division, Py3 was true division. In Py2 you could get the true division with an `from __future__ import division` (Can't recall which Py2 version this became an import). Fun fact too: In Py3 you can do a // to get back to the floor division effect (e.g. 1 // 2 --> 0)
kingforaday··on Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes
Full July 2026 Summary: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/microsoft-patch-tuesday-rep...
kingforaday··on Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access
It's going to continue to suck getting prompt rejections on their overly aggressive "benign" safety margin thresholds [1]. Without a clear understanding of what triggers it, I guess we will pay for input/output tokens on the usage credits and not get refunds? As others on HN, I found very limited utility during the Fable 5 week in early June for my benign-engineering tasks and don't look forward to this new release, but I will try.

1. https://www.anthropic.com/news/redeploying-fable-5

kingforaday··on .garden TLD's change to a bad neighborhood
Would you consider .aero, .cat, .asia, .info novelties? They have been around for 20+ years. Sure, there are over 1500 gTLDs now, but when does something stop becoming a novelty? .ai a ccTLD, that Google recognizes as a gTLD, is that a novelty? These are a bit rhetorical.
kingforaday··on Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models
They have an impressive set of investors [1]. Also, HN Headline [2] from the other day with 100+ comments.

1. https://sakana.ai/company-info/?lang=en

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48624782

kingforaday··on A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison
> "He was a hacker-turned-security consultant who, later in life, helped shape the modern white-hat."

They left out convicted criminal.

kingforaday··on US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks
> You should be safe in Australia since they actually need to be friends with China.

As a non-Australian, I enjoyed very much reading about Australia in a book by Tim Marshall titled "The Power of Geography". I didn't quite realize just how vulnerable they become with China's ambitions and expanse in the South Pacific due to their reliance on vital sea lanes for trade with its Asian partners. After reading that book, I can appreciate your comment much more.

kingforaday··on FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home
I was just looking for something to watch tonight. Thanks for the recommendation!
kingforaday··on Can we have the day off?
This is certainly a fun exercise in economics. By taking a shortened work-week, should the companies then pay us 80% of our current comp? Or maybe a little less since they will have to pay for the added tokens we are now using as part of our job that we used to do manually (i.e. time)? Or perhaps we are able to justify that now they can save overhead by reducing facilities costs by 20% as well. Oh but maybe their business lease has a continuous occupancy clause and now the reduction in foot traffic causes them to get penalized so they need to reduce our salaries even more. Slippery slope my friend.
kingforaday··on Project Glasswing: An Initial Update
From your statement and the parent comment, just learned that "cargo cult" is a thing, but cargo-culting as a compound is something AI has made up? [1].

As I was educating myself, I found Richard Feynman's Commencement Speech at Caltech in '74 [2] that might have coined this for our industry? If you would rather listen than read [3]. Posting this for others curious on the term.

1. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Cargo-culting&hl=...

2. https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvfAtIJbatg

kingforaday··on Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels
By default Windows 11 will not run an untrusted .exe/PE file - it's governed by Microsoft Defender SmartScreen that will present a pop-up scaring people away and it actually isn't intuitive to click-through to run the program unless you've done it before.
kingforaday··on Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
It's fun to think about tile dilation per the exif captured Create Date: "2026:04:03 00:27:39.26". I know it's negligible over the trip, but when they took it, was their time really "2026:04:03 00:27:39.25"?
kingforaday··on More common mistakes to avoid when creating system architecture diagrams
Their master diagram example in #3 contains a #2 mistake with an unconnected resource (the stripe account). Maybe a double validation of why the master diagrams can be hard to maintain.
kingforaday··on Ghostling
For cross-compilation ease it makes sense if you don't care about the size explosion.
kingforaday··on Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild
"Many of our security bugs are detected using AddressSanitizer, MemorySanitizer, UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer, Control Flow Integrity, libFuzzer, or AFL."

Interesting they are listing archived projects and not OSS-Fuzz. What's the reason for this?

kingforaday··on Show HN: ClawShield – Open-source firewall for agent-to-agent AI communication
Is this an openclaw created account and openclaw post of its own self-created work?
kingforaday··on Sidecar – your AI-accelerated development workflow in one shell [video]
https://github.com/marcus/sidecar
kingforaday··on Speed up responses with fast mode
..But it says "Available to all Claude Code users on subscription plans (Pro/Max/Team/Enterprise) and Claude Console."

Is this wrong?

kingforaday··on Turn any website into a live, structured data feed
To add, it's also strictly forbidden by all the major ISPs Acceptable Use Policy. At least in the US.
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