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  1. Ask HN: Why are 5 comments/day “posting too fast”, what precisely is “too fast”?

    Notice: I have used the search function and read ALL results, none contains a precise definition of what "too fast" is. Some suggest emailing HN, but I do not have an email address anymore (because they all want phone…

    25 points 48
  2. Ask HN: Which sites do you spend your evenings on? Where is the “real” Internet?

    For me, it has been https://old.reddit.com/r/all for many years. But if you glance over reddit nowadays, almost everything is either a picture or video (which is probably what they wanted to achieve with their…

    5 points 13
  3. Ask HN: Why are toggle switches replacing checkboxes? Isn't on/off less obvious?

    Every website and software seems to move to the left/right sliding thingies. I know the right side is on. But whenever I have to use them, I always have this little doubt on my mind of "did I really set it correctly?"…

    445 points 377
  4. Ask HN: Why does Firefox need the “Advertising ID Permission” on Android?

    I thought Firefox was against tracking??? The pending Firefox 108.1.0 update on my Android's Google Play shows this as a newly added permission, I can't find any documentation about why they recently added this. TAKE…

    2 points 1
  5. Ask HN: Does the Ethereum foundation really not develop a post-Merge client?

    TL;DR: To use the new Proof of Stake network, you'll need 2 pieces of software in parallel. It seems only one of those is developed by the Ethereum foundation - implementations of the other one are only developed by…

    15 points 12
  6. Google Play app+web now disallow seeing app perms, installing is the only way to

    Google has removed the "Permissions" link on the pages of apps both in the Google Play app (latest version as of 2022-06-07) and on the Google Play website. Not shipping a sample link so I don't get accused of trying to…

    1 points 0
  7. Ask HN: How to emulate 2FA hardware in software?

    The threads about FIDO and GitHub requiring 2FA have shown that many people are concerned about various issues with hardware keys. Examples of the concerns are: lack of convenient backup, cloud backup, privacy,…

    15 points 8