1. Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access Total comment counts : 25 Summary error Overall Comments Summary Main point: The discussion centers on open-access publishing and ACM’s transition to OA, comparing APC-based, library-funded models like Subscribe to Open (S2O), and their implications for authors, institutions, and readers. Concern: The shift could burden authors or libraries with high costs, create inequities, and raise licensing and quality issues (e....

1. Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed Total comment counts : 68 Summary Google announces Gemini 3 Flash, a fast, cost-efficient member of the Gemini 3 family designed for frontier intelligence at Flash-level latency. It pairs Pro-grade reasoning with speed for coding, complex analysis, and quick app interactivity. Available in the Gemini app, AI Mode in Search, and via the Gemini API across Google platforms. It outperforms Gemini 2....

1. alpr.watch Total comment counts : 30 Summary Local governments are increasingly deploying surveillance tech such as Flock Safety ALPR cameras that read license plates, collect biometric data, and build vast databases, with over 80,000 cameras already in use. alpr.watch scans meeting agendas for keywords (e.g., “flock,” “alpr”) and maps where such discussions occur, enabling civic action and notifications. ALPR operates 24/7 and shares data across agencies, creating a widespread surveillance network....

1. 2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web Total comment counts : 6 Summary Two early pioneers, Last.fm and Audioscrobbler, independently built music discovery around collaborative filtering before the Web 2.0 era. Last.fm, founded in 2002 by four Austrian/German students in London, let users build listening profiles and share them via a “Map of Music,” using collaborative filtering to recommend songs akin to Amazon’s item-to-item approach. Audioscrobbler, started the same year by Richard Jones at the University of Southampton, coined “audioscrobbler” (scrobbling) to track listening and generate recommendations....

1. VPN location claims don’t match real traffic exits Total comment counts : 9 Summary IPinfo’s analysis of 20 popular VPNs found 17 exit traffic from countries different than claimed, with many listing 100+ countries but using few actual data centers in the US/Europe. They examined 150k exit IPs across 137 countries, revealing mismatches between claimed and measured exits. Mullvad, IVPN, and Windscribe had zero mismatches; others show significant discrepancies, often via virtual locations....

1. GNU Unifont Total comment counts : 10 Summary GNU Unifont is a GNU Project font providing glyphs for all printable BMP code points (U+0000–U+FFFF), with growing coverage of SMP and CSUR. It is dual-licensed under GNU GPLv2+ with the GNU Font Embedding Exception and the SIL Open Font License v1.1, permitting use in commercial software; derivatives must remain under the same terms, preserving contributor acknowledgments. As of version 13.0.04, there are standard and CSUR variants....

1. GPT-5.2 Total comment counts : 91 Summary error Overall Comments Summary Main point: Discussion comparing OpenAI’s ChatGPT with Google Gemini, weighing performance, benchmarks, pricing, and user experience. Concern: The main worry is that benchmarks may not translate to real-world UX and reliability, with bugs, session handling issues, and opacity around pricing and training undermining value. Perspectives: Viewpoints range from Gemini outperforming ChatGPT on current information and OCR to skepticism about benchmarks and concerns over price increases, transparency, and inconsistent UX....

1. Size of Life Total comment counts : 69 Summary error Overall Comments Summary Main point: Discussion centers on Neal.fun’s dynamic soundscape and its reception, including comparisons to retro games, praise for the labor of love, and mentions of related science/education content. Concern: Abrupt, non-smooth transitions in the dynamic music risk breaking immersion. Perspectives: Viewpoints range from admiration and support for the creator and the dynamic audio design to critique of sharp cuts and discussion of related educational content and potential monetization concerns....

1. Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 years from now Total comment counts : 152 Summary error Overall Comments Summary Main point: A discussion about predicting and crafting a ten-years-from-now Hacker News front page using AI, sparking humor, nostalgia, and debate about the model’s limits. Concern: The main worry is that AI-generated futures may be misleading, repetitive due to context-taint, and could propagate a false sense of what the future holds, plus concerns about second-order effects and verification....

1. Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1 Total comment counts : 10 Summary Jepsen independently evaluated NATS JetStream (v2.12.1) and found data loss under several fault conditions. On minority-node data corruption or truncation, coordinated power failures, OS crashes with delays or pauses, committed writes could be lost and persistent split-brain could occur. The root cause traced to a disk-flush policy that waited two minutes before acknowledging writes. A belated note cites a similar issue with process crashes in v2....