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Stefan Müller :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://climatejustice.social/@peer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>peer</span></a></span> </p><p>„sondern: ich lass <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> verwenden?“</p><p>Ja, guck Dir mal an, wie <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Ecosia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ecosia</span></a> funktinoiert und was sie mit dem eingenommen Geld und mit den Daten machen.</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Goolge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Goolge</span></a> ist ein Spionagekonzern und das Firmenmotto <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/dontBeEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dontBeEvil</span></a> wurde schon vor einigen Jahren (Jahrzehnten?) über Board geworfen.</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/GoogleIsEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleIsEvil</span></a> </p><p>Das Einzige, was ich von denen benutze ist Google Scholar.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://climatejustice.social/@OhWeh" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>OhWeh</span></a></span></p>
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> Lifts a Ban on Using Its <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> for <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Weapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Weapons</span></a> and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Surveillance</span></a><br>Google published principles in 2018 barring its AI technology from being used for sensitive purposes. Weeks into President Donald Trump’s second term, those guidelines are being overhauled.<br><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/DontBeEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DontBeEvil</span></a>?<br><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/google-responsible-ai-principles/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/google-respons</span><span class="invisible">ible-ai-principles/</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>"<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a>'s parent company [is] lifting a longstanding ban on [using <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>] for developing <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/weapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>weapons</span></a> and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> tools…<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Alphabet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alphabet</span></a> [is] dropping a section [of its written guidelines] which previously ruled out applications that were 'likely to cause <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/harm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>harm</span></a>'."<br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy081nqx2zjo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/cy081nqx</span><span class="invisible">2zjo</span></a> </p><p>"Google defended the change, arguing that businesses and democratic governments needed to work together on AI that 'supports national security'."</p><p>Which democratic governments, exactly?</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DontBeEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DontBeEvil</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/WTF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WTF</span></a></p>
Paul<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Tutanota</span></a></span> Would like to support Firefox but unfortunately it's too energy inefficient and slow on a modern Android Flag ship in comparison to chromium based browsers.</p><p>Also I do not tolerate Mozillas choice of mass dismissals rather than lowering the work duration across all workers. It's an evil capitalist strategy ruining lifes while the others shall work harder to not be fired next when money is tight.</p><p>Remember <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DontBeEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DontBeEvil</span></a></p>
skua<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jackyan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jackyan</span></a></span> <br>"Not long after I wrote this, traffic to my blog plummeted."</p><p>Laughing and crying when I read this.</p><p>I thought they were just $$$$ addicted. </p><p>This is bad news.</p><p>Fortunately I'm fluent in ovine, "Baaaaaaaaah".</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DontBeEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DontBeEvil</span></a></p>
Bradley Stowers<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://techhub.social/@Techmeme" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Techmeme</span></a></span> No, no, no, they "misspoke". Right, Eric Schmidt?</p><p><a href="https://twit.social/tags/DontBeEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DontBeEvil</span></a></p>
Bradley Stowers<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@verge" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>verge</span></a></span> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/DontBeEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DontBeEvil</span></a></p>
Erik van Straten<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@SpaceLifeForm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SpaceLifeForm</span></a></span> wrote:<br>&lt;&lt;&lt; Why should a CDN have to police websites? &gt;&gt;&gt;</p><p>They don't. However, because Cloudflare abuses the knowledge that cybercriminals know that blocking Cloudflare's IP-address ranges will result in lots if false positives (for decent websites), this doesn't imply that Cloudflare should be able to get away with this. They DO have a responsibility.</p><p>The only things they have to do, instead if trying to fool us with the usual "freedom of speech" rubbish:</p><p>(1) Refuse anonymous or obviously identity-spoofing customers, such as:</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;• complaints-booking[.]info<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;• defi-chainfix.pages[.]de<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;• evri.mylocal-parcel-gb[.]com<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;• loginmicrosoftonlinecom.pages[.]dev<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;• ing.es-areacliente[.]com</p><p>See also <a href="https://www.trustwave.com/en-us/resources/blogs/spiderlabs-blog/its-raining-phish-and-scams-how-cloudflare-pages-dev-and-workers-dev-domains-get-abused/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">trustwave.com/en-us/resources/</span><span class="invisible">blogs/spiderlabs-blog/its-raining-phish-and-scams-how-cloudflare-pages-dev-and-workers-dev-domains-get-abused/</span></a> for abuse of Cloudflare's free workers.dev and pages.dev domains (the article is 1 year old but still very to the point);</p><p>(2) Refuse customers using known malicious IP-addresses and/or registrars;</p><p>(3) Treat complaints seriously - and listen to those who know, such as Mandiant (as can be seen in for example <a href="https://www.virustotal.com/gui/ip-address/188.114.96.0/relations" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">virustotal.com/gui/ip-address/</span><span class="invisible">188.114.96.0/relations</span></a>: tap ••• a couple of times until you see Mandiant in the third column);</p><p>(4) Always first show a warning page (shown before proceeding to actual site) for new customers, and more often show such a page after receiving complaints and/or when in doubt regarding the customer's intentions.</p><p>Cloudflare is complicit to cybercrime if they continue to facilitate it for their own profit - which is exactly what they and other Big Tech firms are doing right now (I call that <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/internetCancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internetCancer</span></a> ).</p><p>It is simply unfair that, on the current internet, everybody says that nobody is to blame (except the victims) if innocent individuals have their bank accounts drained, or companies file bankrupcy after ransomware gangs managed to penetrate their network perimeters via phishing attacks and/or hosted malware.</p><p>See also <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/112883883343165898" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStrat</span><span class="invisible">en/112883883343165898</span></a>.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@dangoodin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dangoodin</span></a></span> : thanks for the article: <a href="https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/cloudflare-once-again-comes-under-pressure-for-enabling-abusive-sites/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/security/2024/</span><span class="invisible">07/cloudflare-once-again-comes-under-pressure-for-enabling-abusive-sites/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DontBeEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DontBeEvil</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/LackOfAuthentication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LackOfAuthentication</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ShortSightedness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShortSightedness</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Cybercrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cybercrime</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BulletProofHosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BulletProofHosting</span></a> <br><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AllowingAnonymousBusinesses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AllowingAnonymousBusinesses</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Cloudflare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cloudflare</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Fastly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fastly</span></a></p>
Miss Givings<p>People choosing NOW to whine about "Biden isn't a good candidate." That is just about as unAmerican as you can get. We are at a point where we have to choose between good and evil, and if good is kinda tired right now, it has reason to be - and that's no excuse to vote for evil. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DontBeEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DontBeEvil</span></a></p>
Dr. Angus Andrea Grieve-Smith<p>stfu Google <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/dontBeEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dontBeEvil</span></a></p>
𝗠𝗔𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗠𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗠𝗔𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀<p><a href="https://det.social/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/dontbeevil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dontbeevil</span></a> or ...what evaaa <a href="https://det.social/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meme</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/mamema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mamema</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>memes</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>youtube</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/googleservices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>googleservices</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/alphabet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alphabet</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/tracking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tracking</span></a></p>
Michael Porter<p><a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/DontBeEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DontBeEvil</span></a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@secretgeek/112314664922859524" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.cloud/@secretgeek/112</span><span class="invisible">314664922859524</span></a></p>
Betterifyouneil<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@verge" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>verge</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> wants us to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThinkAgain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThinkAgain</span></a></p><p>Beefed up and drunk on power. <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DontBeEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DontBeEvil</span></a> was it?</p><p>Keeping secrets from the people with the water swindling and now playing in regions that are committing genocide?</p><p>Maybe just a little evil.</p>
Kit 🔻<p><strong>Sundar Pichai and Thomas Kurian are genocide profiteers.</strong> We cannot comprehend how these men are able to sleep at night while their tech has enabled 100,000 Palestinians killed, reported missing, or wounded in the last six months of Israel’s genocide — and counting.</p><p><strong>The truth is clear: Google is terrified of us. They are terrified of workers coming together and calling for accountability and transparency from our bosses. They are choosing to reveal the falsity of Google’s “open culture” in order to get rid of a threat.</strong> The corporation is trying to downplay and discredit our power.</p><p><strong>These mass, illegal firings will not stop us. On the contrary, they only serve as further fuel for the growth of this movement.</strong></p><p><strong>Make no mistake, we will continue organizing until the company drops Project Nimbus and stops powering this genocide.</strong> </p><p>source: <a href="https://medium.com/@notechforapartheid/statement-from-google-workers-with-the-no-tech-for-apartheid-campaign-on-googles-indiscriminate-28ba4c9b7ce8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/@notechforapartheid</span><span class="invisible">/statement-from-google-workers-with-the-no-tech-for-apartheid-campaign-on-googles-indiscriminate-28ba4c9b7ce8</span></a> </p><p>6/6</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/NoTechForApartheid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoTechForApartheid</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/NoTechForGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoTechForGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DropNimbus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DropNimbus</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DontBeEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DontBeEvil</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/StopGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a></p>
jose<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@verge" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>verge</span></a></span> in the beginning I was one who admired and defending <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a> development, now I know it's just a tracking OS capture of user behavior, nothing remain from the first releases, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/dontbeevil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dontbeevil</span></a> it's normal, it's just business and nothing it's free.</p>
Alex Rosenberg<p>Oh look, more spam sent to my server from Google's Gmail servers, complete with valid DKIM.</p><p>This is your reminder that all of the "anti-spam" stuff that Google uses as an excuse to deny inbound email to Gmail users is actually just anti-competitive nonsense that does not work. They're the largest source of spam themselves. The call is coming from inside the house.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GmailSpam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GmailSpam</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/DontBeEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DontBeEvil</span></a></p>
Stefan Müller :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.uno/@brozu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>brozu</span></a></span> </p><p>I remember from the beginning that the company had a motto: <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/DontBeEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DontBeEvil</span></a></p>
Cory Doctorow<p>To understand why, we must think of how decisions get made in large organizations, or, more to the point, how arguments get resolved in these organizations.</p><p>We give Google a lot of shit for its "<a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/DontBeEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DontBeEvil</span></a>" motto, but it's worth thinking through what that meant for the organization's outcomes over the years. Through most of Google's history, the tech labor market was incredibly tight, and skilled engineers and other technical people had a lot of choice as to where they worked.</p><p>4/</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://werd.social/@ben" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ben</span></a></span> </p><p>Alternative headline:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a>-powered <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigData</span></a> is already eating up the planet. We don't have to wait for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AGI</span></a> </p><p>But then,<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a> aka <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> never was the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DontBeEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DontBeEvil</span></a> company...</p><p><a href="https://mastodo.neoliber.al/@Neblib/111161982500846474" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodo.neoliber.al/@Neblib/11</span><span class="invisible">1161982500846474</span></a></p>
Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​<p><strong>I suspect Google has an image problem</strong></p><p>Not a problem with images. But a problem with their image. Particularly amongst the tech and start-up world.</p><p>4 September marked the firm's 25th anniversary --- a notable milestone.</p><p>A few stories were submitted to Hacker News, which caters to hackers and start-ups (though the readership is somewhat broader). None fared especially well, and they were ultimately merged into a single item.</p><p>Which is sitting squarely as the <strong>80th ranked story of the day</strong> as is evident here on HN's front page archive: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2023-09-04&amp;p=3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.ycombinator.com/front?day</span><span class="invisible">=2023-09-04&amp;p=3</span></a></p><p>The day's top story? "Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python" (Yes, HN leans technical.)</p><p>I've come to understand a few things about HN and its rankings. In particular, stories can be penalised if a "flamewar detector" is triggered: more than 40 comments and comments &gt; votes. That's possible, as the item has 75 votes and 208 comments, though I suspect as well that the story was actively flagged.</p><p>Oh, except for something I've just remembered: when posts are merged, the flamewar detector is generally disabled. Which would suggest that the story <em>was</em> in fact flagged. Hrm...</p><p>Discussion ... varied, but trends negative.</p><p>I suspect so long as the firm remains a money-minting machine it can pay to overcome resistance. But the cool factor seems well off.</p><p>And the natives are no longer friendly.</p><p><strong>Edit:</strong> Late add about flamewar/merge dynamics.</p><p><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/FuckGoogle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FuckGoogle</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Google25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google25</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/DontBeEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DontBeEvil</span></a></p>