1. Keep Android Open
Total comment counts : 34
Summary
At FOSDEM, F-Droid users wrongly believed Google canceled Android lockdown; plans remain, fueling concerns about misinformation and gatekeeping. In response, F-Droid and IzzyOnDroid are adding banners warning of shrinking time and urging civic action. Development continues: F-Droid Basic is moving to 2.0-alpha3 with a manual upgrade path. The team reports steady app updates (Buses 1.10, Conversations 2.19.10+free, Dolphin Emulator 2512, Nextcloud suite, ProtonVPN 5.15.70.0 with WireGuard) and explores a “Play Store flavor” avoiding Google dependencies. Overall, efforts emphasize openness and reducing proprietary dependencies.
Overall Comments Summary
- Main point: The discussion centers on Google’s plan to restrict sideloading and the threat this poses to an open Android ecosystem, including the viability of AOSP forks and community/regulatory responses.
- Concern: The primary worry is that verification requirements could lock out de-Googled distributions and erode user freedom by making Android effectively closed.
- Perspectives: Opinions range from urging a hard fork or foundation-led open Android (e.g., through F-Droid or PinePhone) and regulatory pressure, to accepting Google’s direction, drawing comparisons to Apple and noting practical barriers.
- Overall sentiment: Highly critical
2. Turn Dependabot Off
Total comment counts : 3
Summary
Dependabot is a noise machine that wastes time on Go security alerts. Replace it with scheduled GitHub Actions running govulncheck and your test suite against the latest dependencies. The filippo.io/edwards25519 vulnerability showed how Dependabot can generate thousands of irrelevant PRs and dubious scores (Wycheproof alert). Govulncheck filters by package and symbol reachability, avoiding false positives. Integrate via govulncheck -json or the golang.org/x/vuln/scan Go API. Only true vulnerabilities should trigger remediation; update timing should align with your development cycle, not dependency churn.
Overall Comments Summary
- Main point: The discussion revolves around improving Rust/Cargo supply chain security by seeking a govulncheck-like tool for Rust, evaluating the sandboxed-step action, and balancing dependency updates to reduce risk.
- Concern: There is concern that using third-party actions and speeding up dependency upgrades could introduce new supply chain vulnerabilities.
- Perspectives: Views diverge between those who welcome tooling like govulncheck equivalents and weekly Dependabot cadence, and those who prefer avoiding external actions and are wary of rapid upgrades.
- Overall sentiment: Cautiously optimistic
3. Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI
Total comment counts : 32
Summary
ggml.ai, the founding team behind llama.cpp, is joining Hugging Face to keep AI truly open. Georgi and colleagues will maintain ggml/llama.cpp full-time, with HF supplying long-term resources while the community stays autonomous and 100% open-source. Since 2023, ggml.ai has aimed to standardize efficient local AI inference and grow an open-source ecosystem, enabling private AI on consumer hardware. The collaboration will pursue seamless transformers integration, improved packaging and UX for ggml-based software, and broader local-first access to open-source models, building the ultimate, efficient inference stack for Local AI.
Overall Comments Summary
- Main point: Georgi Gerganov’s llama.cpp and Hugging Face have catalyzed a shift toward accessible local AI inference, sparking optimism about open-source governance and questions about long-term sustainability.
- Concern: There is worry about potential vendor lock-in and loss of openness if a single company controls the local LLM ecosystem, along with doubts about Hugging Face’s long-term viability and sustainable business model.
- Perspectives: The discussion ranges from strong admiration for open-source progress to cautious skepticism about corporate consolidation, with calls for competition or nonprofit stewardship to preserve autonomy.
- Overall sentiment: Mixed with cautious optimism.
4. Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links
Total comment counts : 17
Summary
Wikipedia’s English edition is deprecating and blacklisting Archive.today after the site used to direct a DDoS against a blog and after editors found archived pages tampered with to insert the targeted blogger’s name. The edits appear tied to a grudge over the operator’s aliases. The community voted to remove all Archive.today links and block new ones, citing unreliability and potential misuse. Editors suggest replacing with other archives like Internet Archive. The FBI is investigating the founder’s identity. Blogger Jani Patokallio welcomed the decision; Archive.today’s operators allegedly threatened him.
Overall Comments Summary
- Main point: The discussion centers on the reliability, ethics, and manipulation risks of web archiving (retrospective edits, doxxing risks, and legitimacy of Archive.today versus alternatives such as Perma.cc).
- Concern: Retroactive changes and doxxing threaten the trustworthiness of archived pages and raise safety and ethical issues around how archiving services are used.
- Perspectives: Viewpoints range from condemning retroactive edits and harassment, to defending archiving practices and advocating safer alternatives, to debating best practices like dual labeling or alternative services to preserve access.
- Overall sentiment: Mixed
5. I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer
Total comment counts : 25
Summary
While diving near Cocos Island, I found vulnerability in a diving insurer’s member portal. The login relied on incrementing IDs and static default passwords, with no MFA, rate limiting, or lockout. When I registered three students, their IDs were sequential, and many accounts still used the default password, exposing profiles (name, DOB, address, phone, email) and minor data. I automated a verification with Selenium to confirm scope, never accessing beyond it, and deleted any data. I reported to CSIRT Malta and disclosed on Apr 28, 2025; embargo expired May 28, 2025; issue addressed; seeking confirmation of user notifications.
Overall Comments Summary
- Main point: There is a broad, ongoing debate about how vulnerability disclosure should work, who bears responsibility when flaws are found, and how laws, insurance, and organizational practices shape incentives for security researchers.
- Concern: The main worry is that current legal threats and corporate resistance discourage disclosure, leaving critical vulnerabilities unpatched and potentially undermining national and customer security.
- Perspectives: Different viewpoints range from calling for strong protections for white-hat researchers, mandatory cyber audits for organizations and safer reporting channels, to criticisms that lawyers and insurance incentives push companies to suppress information and hinder practical security improvement.
- Overall sentiment: Mixed
6. Facebook is cooked
Total comment counts : 110
Summary
After eight years away, the author returns to Facebook and finds the main feed flooded with AI-generated thirst traps and engagement bait, not posts from friends. A few non-AI posts slip through, including an AI video of a cop returning a boy’s bike, but most content is lurid or relationship-meme clutter. The author questions whether the AI-driven algorithm is behind it and worries some posts may be real, not bots. Disgusted by underage-looking AI images, they quit Facebook for good—until school updates force a re-entry.
Overall Comments Summary
- Main point: The discussion centers on whether Facebook’s evolving algorithms and design have degraded feeds for many users, while still delivering meaningful connections for a minority.
- Concern: The main worry is that engagement-driven recommendations, biases by gender or region, and AI-generated content are harming user experience and public discourse.
- Perspectives: Viewpoints range from nostalgia for the “Peak Facebook” era and meaningful private sharing to widespread frustration at noise, manipulation, and a bloated UI, with notes about global usage patterns and gender effects.
- Overall sentiment: Mixed
7. OpenScan
Total comment counts : 0
Summary
OpenScan offers affordable, open-source 3D scanners built with modular hardware and photogrammetry to produce high-quality models. A community-driven project, it aims to democratize 3D scanning for hobbyists and professionals. Prices have been stable since early 2022, and US shipping includes taxes and fees at checkout. The site features various configurations (Classic, Mini) and Sketchfab collaborations, highlighting textured models. They invite people to join Discord, sign up for their newsletter, and contribute to digital preservation and creation.
8. Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization
Total comment counts : 4
Summary
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Overall Comments Summary
- Main point: This discussion critiques a mine dataset for incompleteness, noting the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant is missing and highlighting MSHA regulation and the weekly, pipe-delimited MSHA mine data retrieval system as a source.
- Concern: The main worry is that omitting key mines like WIPP could misrepresent the mine landscape and understate asbestos hazard risks.
- Perspectives: Some participants appreciate the focus on MSHA-regulated mines and express relief it excludes the initially feared mines, while others worry about asbestos hazards and emphasize the reliability of the MSHA data.
- Overall sentiment: Mixed
9. Blue light filters don’t work – controlling total luminance is a better bet
Total comment counts : 24
Summary
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Overall Comments Summary
- Main point: The thread debates whether blue-light filtering and warmer lighting (Night Shift, amber glasses, color-temperature adjustments) meaningfully reduce eye strain and improve sleep, or whether these effects are negligible or largely placebo.
- Concern: A major worry is that claims about blue-light filters may mislead people or promote ineffective “science” while ignoring individual differences and broader sleep hygiene.
- Perspectives: Views range from strong personal experience of benefits to skepticism about the science and emphasis on experimentation and personal variation.
- Overall sentiment: Mixed
10. Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders
Total comment counts : 14
Summary
Claude Code Security, a new capability in Claude Code (web), is in limited research preview for Enterprise/Team users and expedited access for open-source maintainers. It scans codebases for security vulnerabilities, reasons about code like a human researcher, and suggests patches for human review. It uses multi-stage verification to minimize false positives, assigns severity and confidence ratings, and requires human approval before fixes. Built on Claude’s cybersecurity work (including Frontier Red Team and Opus 4.6, which found 500+ vulnerabilities), it aims to empower defenders against AI-enabled attacks and invites collaboration.
Overall Comments Summary
- Main point: The discussion centers on how AI/LLM-powered vulnerability discovery and security tooling are reshaping audits and the job market, with some predicting disruption but others expecting humans to specialize and leverage AI as tools.
- Concern: The main worry is job displacement for auditors and security professionals, overhyped AI claims without transparent metrics, and the risk of large firms dominating while smaller specialists struggle.
- Perspectives: Perspectives range from doom-like predictions of widespread replacement to optimism that AI will augment human security engineers and create specialized roles, tempered by skepticism about AI’s ability to “think outside the box,” the need for transparency and testability, and mixed experiences with current tools.
- Overall sentiment: Mixed