Germany: Amazon is not allowed to force customers to watch ads on Prime Video
Eigentlich gab es bei Amazon Prime keine Werbung, später kostete werbefreies Streaming zusätzlich Geld. Dagegen hatten Verbraucherschützer geklagt – mit Erfolg. Einem Urteil des Landgerichts München zufolge darf das US-Unternehmen Amazon in Deutschland nicht einseitig die Vertragsbedingungen seines Streamingdiensts Prime Video ändern und den Zuschauern Werbespots zeigen. Damit habe der Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen mit einer Klage […]
I Have to Live in a Forest to Work on Open Source
This fictional story begins more than 10 years ago. I was a student at technical university and was confused by how outdated some of the programming-related courses are. I was checking out a few first lections and usually skipping the rest of them (except a couple courses that were fun and uptodate). In my spare […]
Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
It’s the time of the year again, so I’d be interested hear what new (and old) ideas have come up. Previously asked on: 2024 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42373343 2023 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38467691 2022 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34190421 2021 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095 2020 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24947167 2019 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20899863 2018 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17790306 2017 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15148804
TikTok unlawfully tracks shopping habits and use of dating apps?
Unlawful tracking across apps. It’s no secret that TikTok is rather data hungry. After all, the popular video platform’s algorithm seems to know exactly what content users want to see. However, it’s not well known that TikTok also tracks you while using other apps. A user found out about this unlawful tracking practice through an […]
Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?
When working on my projects and talking to investors, I often hear: “Just post it on Hacker News or Reddit and show that people love it.” What I find strange is that Hacker News feels oddly opaque. I’ve never met anyone who can clearly explain how it works in practice. Not just the rules, but […]
Explaining the Widening Divides in US Midlife Mortality: Is There a Smoking Gun?
We are grateful to Maximilian Worth for outstanding research assistance. For helpful comments we thank Paul Novosad, Anne Case, Andrew Cherlin, and seminar participants at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy, the Wennberg International Collaborative, the American-European Health Economics Study Group, the 2024 Empirical Health Economics Workshop, the University of Houston, and […]
Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in mice
【Key Research Achievements】 Demonstration that natural bacteria isolated from amphibian and reptile intestines achieve complete tumor elimination with single administration Combines direct bacterial killing of cancer cells with immune system activation for comprehensive tumor destruction Outperforms existing chemotherapy and immunotherapy with no adverse effects on normal tissues Expected applications across diverse solid tumor types, opening […]
Here is the 15 sec coding test I used to instantly filter out most applicants
If you have a remote position open, your challenge is not attracting the correct candidate, it’s filtering out the bad ones, because you’ll have hundreds or thousands of them. This my favorite technique:Add a programming knockout question to the application process that is so simple to solve that only* unqualified developers will not do it […]
I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero
Edit: A few people on HN have pointed out that this article sounds a little LLM generated. That’s because it’s largely a transcript of me panicking and talking to Claude. Sorry if it reads poorly, the incident really happened though! Or: How I learned that “I don’t use Next.js” doesn’t mean your dependencies don’t use […]
OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer
Starting with OBS Studio 32.0.0 a new renderer backend based on Apple’s Metal graphics API is available for users to test as an experimental alternative to the existing OpenGL backend on macOS. This marks an important step in OBS Studio’s development to adapt one of the modern APIs that deliberately broke with the past to […]