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August 18, 2022 (3y ago)
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  1. Ask HN: Why Are We Ignoring the Urgent Need for End-to-End Encrypted Emails?

    We're all obsessed with making sure our chat apps like WhatsApp and Signal have end-to-end encryption (E2E), but we completely ignore emails. Emails can reveal a person's entire life story, far more than any chat app…

    25 points 19
  2. Ask HN: Am I being too paranoid?

    Since most companies are being unreasonable, I'm paranoid because monitor manufacturers might have backdoors to record screens and store the data in their memory, or transmit it to the company in the case of smart…

    15 points 12
  3. CCI imposes a penalty of Rs. 1337 crore ($160M) on Google (cci.gov.in)
    2 points 0
  4. Bitcoin Miner Gets Caught Censoring Transactions (thedefiant.io)
    5 points 0
  5. Searching for hidden silicon art on a microchip (twitter.com)
    52 points 3
  6. Tell HN: Consider waiting before upgrading to macOS Sonoma

    I upgraded to it yesterday and noticed several bugs, two of which are quite annoying: 1. The Touch ID feature is not functioning perfectly. It fails to detect fingerprints after only two unsuccessful attempts, whereas…

    13 points 14
  7. Ask HN: Can EVERYTHING be represented by the mathematics of today?
    3 points 5
  8. Tell HN: I'm not comfortable with Google Maps showing all my reviews to everyone

    Anyone can easily follow my whereabouts by looking at my Google reviews. This is a serious privacy risk that will deter users who value their privacy from leaving reviews.

    17 points 26
  9. GitHub hands out your repo visitors IP like candy who ask for it politely (twitter.com)
    36 points 11
  10. Could We Move the Sun? (2013) (universetoday.com)
    1 points 1
  11. Tell HN: HN is slow if user is logged-in
    4 points 3
  12. Any disadvantages of using multiple encryption algorithms on same data?

    My aim is to encrypt data using multiple encryption algorithms using different encryption keys in a layered fashion for future proof. I'll use 1. AES-256-CBC 2. RSA with > 8192 key 3. Triple DES 4 Blowfish 5. Twofish 6.…

    4 points 12
  13. The Tiniest Bird You've Ever Seen – Zebra Finch Hatching (youtube.com)
    5 points 0
  14. Ask HN: What e2e encrypted service I can use for custom notifications?

    Currently i use Telegram to get custom notifications like my server error logs, bank credits/debits, new software updates etc. Sometime this includes sensitive info. So please suggest me an e2e service that got API,…

    3 points 2
  15. SEC Awards Approximately $18M to Three Whistleblowers (sec.gov)
    4 points 0
  16. Ornithopter with morphing-coupled wingbeat pattern [video] (youtube.com)
    37 points 11
  17. The Little Seal Bug Optical Sound Recovery from Lightweight Reflective Objects (youtube.com)
    2 points 0
  18. Ask HN: Fastest way to search 4B hashes? 10M/s searches needed
    4 points 0
  19. Ask HN: How tech paranoid are you?
    6 points 5
  20. Ask HN: I want to be an expert in many things but my lifetime won't be enough

    If you are this kind, how do you decide which things to work on?

    368 points 221
  21. Tell HN: YouTube comments section gone to trash. Almost every comment is spam
    2 points 6
  22. 1 points 0