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  1. Ask HN: Preemptive practical security steps for a postquant world?

    Vague consensus seems to be that this is still a while away. However Harvest now, decrypt later attacks are a thing so curious whether there are any changes one can make now to inch proactively in the right direction?…

    1 points 0
  2. Ask HN: Recent life change you made with "why didn't I do this earlier" vibes?

    Bit of an open ended non-tech question that I reckon is low effort to respond to but has high chance of having a big positive effort on someone's life

    3 points 2
  3. Ask HN: Where is all the Chinese software?

    [Forgive if this is culturally ignorant somehow] Apparently the USA has 1.6m programmers, while China has 7m. Yet I can't think of much Desktop software that is obviously Chinese i.e. the development house is chinese.…

    17 points 13
  4. IRS to fire 6,700 staff (independent.co.uk)
    19 points 15
  5. Alibaba, Baidu, ByteDance heat up price war for llms (scmp.com)
    2 points 0
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  7. Why is Windows forcing edge install on iPhone?

    Windows 10 reboot on an old install. Welcome to your new install (???). Type in your phone number to verify (the install you've been using for months) ????. Fine whatever verification code. Sure. Get text. It's a link.…

    20 points 3
  8. Ask HN: More Bots on HN Lately?

    I've noticed instant voting on comments submitted lately. As in click submit on comment, immediately go to profile and check the score on it. Appears to be damn near instant (<2sec even on long comments) so its not a…

    6 points 4
  9. Did GCP just turn cloud functions into their primary CI/DI tech?

    >Starting April 20, 2020, Cloud Functions will use Google Cloud Build, Container Registry, and Google Cloud Storage to build and store your source code, and deploy container image(s) before running them on Google Cloud.…

    2 points 1
  10. Ask HN: Is there a outline-like tool that works like pi hole?

    pi hole is great but lately I feel it's no longer enough. Articles are becoming downright reader hostile. Half the page is covered by a cookie message and the a subscribe to newsletter overlay on top of that. And then…

    1 points 5
  11. Why is Google search better at autocorrect than Chrome spellcheck?

    I get that the one is offline dictionary driven but surely I'm not the only one that noticed the painfully obvious difference between them.

    1 points 0
  12. Ask HN: Why doesn't hn have a notification mechanism?

    //Half rant, half ask hn...please forgive. Why doesn't hn have a notification mechanism equivalent to reddit's orange-red? When someone posts something sensible in response to one of my comments on (any) social platform…

    1 points 1
  13. Ask HN: Notification of responses on HN?

    Why doesn't HN have the equivalent of the orangered envelopes that reddit has? Seems like a bit of a fundamental flaw to me. e.g. I often get cases where I only realize days later that someone responded to my post. By…

    1 points 1
  14. Ask HN: How many privacy extensions?

    I've been adding privacy related addons to my browser (adblock, Disconnect, Ghostery and now Privacy Badger). With the addition of Privacy Badger I'm starting to think I need a more structured approach. Does running…

    1 points 2
  15. Ask HN: Why does MM denote millions of dollars?

    Per SI unit convention a single M indicates mega/millions. A quick Google suggests its related to Roman numerals - but MM in Roman numerals would suggest 2000, not a million. Other Google results indicate that M stands…

    2 points 5
  16. Ask HN: Google 2 factor authentication security?

    I've got it enabled &#38; it works well using the authenticator android app. I'm worried about the android device though: If I lose it someone has a device with both the authenticator plus android apps (gmail etc) that…

    5 points 2