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GDPR is a failure

GDPR is a failure

đź’Ą Check out this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: GDPR is one of the things that both EU citizens like to brag about, and companies like to advertise with. But as someone who does make extensive use of it, the entire process is flawed, the laws are ignored, and enforcement is borderline impossible. It's the data protection equivalent of the cookie popups, which I'd even argue are more effective in their goal.Whenever a company has my data and uses it for marketing purposes without an easy opt out, or a company has my…
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j178/prek: ⚡ Better `pre-commit`, re-engineered in Rust

j178/prek: ⚡ Better `pre-commit`, re-engineered in Rust

đź’Ą Explore this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: pre-commit is a framework to run hooks written in many languages, and it manages the language toolchain and dependencies for running the hooks. prek is a reimagined version of pre-commit, built in Rust. It is designed to be a faster, dependency-free and drop-in alternative for it, while also providing some additional long-requested features. NoteAlthough prek is pretty new, it’s already powering real‑world projects like CPython, Apache Airflow, FastAPI, and more projects are picking it up—see Who is using prek?. If you’re looking for an alternative…
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How Data Brokers Can Fuel Violence Against Public Servants

How Data Brokers Can Fuel Violence Against Public Servants

đź’Ą Read this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: A new report published Tuesday finds that while violent threats to public servants across the US have been increasing, “comprehensive” state-level consumer privacy laws do not provide adequate protections for those civil servants, creating a “data-to-violence pipeline.”The report was published by researcher Justin Sherman of the Security Project at the Public Service Alliance, a platform that provides free and discounted security services to current and former public servants. While Trump officials have referred to documenting federal immigration agents’ behavior on the job as “violence” and…
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RAIL-Suite/RAIL: Remote Agent Invocation Layer

RAIL-Suite/RAIL: Remote Agent Invocation Layer

🚀 Explore this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: One line of code to make any application AI-controllable RAIL is a universal bridge that connects any application (C#, C++, Python, Node.js) to any LLM (GPT, Claude, Gemini). Instead of rewriting your application, you add one line of code and the AI can call your methods directly. Project Purpose Language RailOrchestrator Main AI application (UI + LLM routing) C# / WPF RailBridge.Native Native DLL for cross-language IPC C# (Native AOT) RailSDK.Universal Client SDK for .NET apps C# (.NET Standard) RailSDK Analysis & manifest generation tools…
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KDE Plasma Login Manager Won’t Support Systemd-Free Linux or BSD Systems

KDE Plasma Login Manager Won’t Support Systemd-Free Linux or BSD Systems

✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: KDE's new Plasma Login Manager is tightly bound to systemd, making it unusable on systemd-free Linux distributions and BSD systems.KDE’s upcoming Plasma Login Manager will make its first official appearance in Plasma 6.6 (scheduled for release on February 17), explicitly designed as a successor to the long-standing SDDM, which has been used by KDE Plasma for years.KDE developers have framed it as deeply integrated into the Plasma stack itself, with the goal of modernizing the login process by aligning it more closely with how Plasma…
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Founding Product Designer at Emerge Career

Founding Product Designer at Emerge Career

đź’Ą Discover this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Emerge Career’s mission is to break the cycle of poverty and incarceration. We’re not just building software; we’re creating pathways to real second chances. Through an all-in-one platform deeply embedded within the criminal justice system, we recruit, train, and place justice-impacted individuals into life-changing careers. Our vision is to become the country’s unified workforce development system, replacing disconnected brick-and-mortar job centers with one integrated, tech-powered solution that meets low-income individuals exactly where they are. Today, the federal government spends billions annually on education and training…
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Now.live – Emergency info on slow connections for USA and Canada

🔥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: âš  Active Disasters & Declarations (FEMA | EC) âś… No active declarations 📍 Find Local Info United States: AL AK AZ AR CA CO CT DE DC FL GA HI ID IL IN IA KS KY LA ME MD MA MI MN MS MO MT NE NV NH NJ NM NY NC ND OH OK OR PA PR RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA WA WV WI WY | VI AS GU MP Canada: AB BC MB NB NL NS NT NU ON…
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What’s up with all those equals signs anyway? – Random Thoughts

What’s up with all those equals signs anyway? – Random Thoughts

đź’Ą Explore this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: For some reason or other, people have been posting a lot of excerpts from old emails on Twitter over the last few days. The most vital question everybody’s asking themselves is: What’s up with all those equals signs?!And that’s something I’m somewhat of an expert on. I mean, having written mail readers and stuff; not because I’ve been to Caribbean islands.I’ve seen people confidently claim that it’s a code, or that it’s an artefact of scanning and then using OCR, but it’s neither — it’s…
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KrystianJonca/lnai: Unified AI configuration management CLI

KrystianJonca/lnai: Unified AI configuration management CLI

✨ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Stop maintaining separate config files for every AI coding tool. Define once in .ai/, sync everywhere. One source of truth — Write your project rules, MCP servers, and permissions once Works with your tools — Syncs to native formats each tool actually reads Stay in sync — Update .ai/ and run lnai sync to propagate changes instantly Automatic cleanup — Orphaned files are removed when configs change Tool Config Generated Claude Code .claude/ Codex .codex/ Cursor .cursor/ Gemini CLI .gemini/ GitHub Copilot .github/copilot-instructions.md OpenCode…
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Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?

đź’Ą Discover this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: I've been using Twitter / X for a good decade now, and while I've found it's a great place to connect with native app dev communities (I'm well connected with the React Native scene), I really struggle to connect with any web devs.There are a few big names like Adam Wathan who are pretty active on Twitter of course, but considering how widespread web dev is, I see precious few up-and-coming web devs coding in public.So, where are they? I have explored BlueSky a bit,…
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