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Surveillance Findings: Age Verification as Mass Surveillance Infrastructure

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🔥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Independent decompilation of the Persona Wallet APK v1.14.0 (SDK v2.32.3, built March 11, 2026) and analysis of the web inquiry bundle from cdn.withpersona.com (inquiry-main.js, 1.8MB) reveals the full scope of Persona's surveillance capabilities. The APK was obtained from APKPure and decompiled with jadx 1.5.5. The Roblox APK v2.714.1091 was decompiled separately to confirm the SDK integration. All findings are from publicly available APKs and client-side JavaScript served to every user. New SDKHardcoded AES-256-GCM Telemetry Encryption Key Every copy of the Persona SDK contains a hardcoded…

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Make Your Own ColecoVision At Home (Part 5 – Making More)

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🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Leako – my ColecoVision clone – has reached a point where it has to become a thing that is actually buildable by other, more normal, people. On top of that, we’ve got chip and part shortages out the wazoo, and a smattering of bugs and reliability issues to knock down. Will revision number seven be the charm? What’s New? This revision of the board was mostly to try and improve reliability of the machine. While heavily testing (playing with) my previous-generation board, a lot of…

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Euro-Office · GitHub

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🚀 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Your sovereign office Euro-Office provides a truly open, transparent, and sovereign solution for collaborative document editing. Euro-Office is not designed for stand-alone use, but developed to be a web based and integrated in another product that handles documents, for example a file sharing solution, an online wiki, a project management tool and so on. With Euro-Office you can view, edit and work with others on spreadsheets, documents, presentations and even PDF files. It has a nice web interface and we are also working on…

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Drop – Gaming Collaborations by Corsair

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Fallout x Corsair x Drop x Elgato Every piece of gear is wasteland-ready, designed to give your vault that unforgettable Nuka-Cola™ flavor. Starting our next chapter, drop.com will become a hub for our collaborations with truly exciting titles—from The Lord of the Rings™ and Cyberpunk 2077™ to Fallout Nuka Cola™, Doom: The Dark Ages™, and more—across the full CORSAIR family of…

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Sidenai/sidex: VS Code rebuilt on Tauri. Same architecture, 96% smaller. Early release. · GitHub

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💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code. Same architecture, native performance, fraction of the size. Early Release — This project is in active development. Many features are not fully working yet. We're releasing early because a lot of people wanted to help build this out. If you're into open source and want to help make a lightweight, native code editor a reality, you're in the right place. SideX is a 1:1 architectural port (HEAVILY STRIPPED) of VSCode that replaces Electron with Tauri (Rust backend +…

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Why we replaced Node.js with Bun for 5x throughput

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🔥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Update (March 30, 2026): Shortly after this post went live, Bun shipped a fix for the memory leak. 🔥 We replaced Node.js with Bun in one of our most latency-sensitive services and got a 5x throughput increase. We also found a memory leak that only exists in Bun's HTTP model. The service is called Firestarter. It's our warm start connection broker: it holds thousands of long-poll HTTP connections from idle run controllers, each waiting for work. When a task run arrives, Firestarter matches it to…

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Winners of the 2026 Kokuyo Design Awards

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💥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The Kokuyo Design Awards, (previously) arguably Japan’s most-prestigious stationery design award, has been held for almost a quarter of a century now. Hosted by 120-year old stationery firm KOKUYO, the award receives close to 1500 entries each year for new products that have yet to be commercialized, with winning concepts given the opportunity to become real-life products. For this year’s theme—hamon: design that resonates—designers were asked to submit concepts based on their own unique, lived experience, which in turn has the potential to resonate with…

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recovery of a severely corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool, plus constructive gap analysis and reference tool set · Issue #1107 · kdave/btrfs-progs · GitHub

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🚀 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Hello, and thanks in advance for reading. This is not a bug report. It is a case study write up of a recovery effort on a severely corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool, shared here in case any of the observations are useful to btrfs-progs development. The goal is constructive, not a complaint. One paragraph summary A hard power cycle on a 3 device pool (data single, metadata DUP, DM-SMR disks) left the extent tree and free space tree in a state that no native…

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Stamp It! All Programs Must Report Their Version

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Table of contents Recently, during a production incident response, I guessed the root cause of an outage correctly within less than an hour (cool!) and submitted a fix just to rule it out, only to then spend many hours fumbling in the dark because we lacked visibility into version numbers and rollouts… 😞 This experience made me think about software versioning again, or more specifically about build info (build versioning, version stamping, however you want to call it) and version reporting. I realized that…

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kessler/gemma-gem: Gemma Gem runs Google’s Gemma 4 model entirely on-device via WebGPU — no API keys, no cloud, no data leaving your machine. · GitHub

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🚀 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Your personal AI assistant living right inside the browser. Gemma Gem runs Google's Gemma 4 model entirely on-device via WebGPU — no API keys, no cloud, no data leaving your machine. It can read pages, click buttons, fill forms, run JavaScript, and answer questions about any site you visit. Chrome with WebGPU support ~500MB disk for model download (cached after first run) Load the extension in chrome://extensions (developer mode) from .output/chrome-mv3-dev/. Navigate to any page Click the gem icon (bottom-right corner) to open the chat…

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