Hacker News: tagyro

Ethical AI that respects privacy and the planet

tagyro — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:30:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.infomaniak.com/en/apps/download-euria

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519812

Points: 2

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New comment by tagyro in "Woman stranded in Spain after UK's eVisa system mistakes her for twin sister"

tagyro — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:06:47 +0000

Accenture …that tracks

New comment by tagyro in "Pixel Watch 5"

tagyro — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:24:24 +0000

I’ve had multiple instances of my Mac unlocking while I was more than 5-6 meters away. At some point I decided not to trust the time of flight calculation and disable it.

New comment by tagyro in "Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS"

tagyro — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:21:22 +0000

I’m going to post this every time there’s a new markdown to pdf submission: quarto (https://quarto.org) is my go to tool. You can use it in R Studio, visual studio code or the cli. Uses pandoc under the hood, has support for latex and many more niceties.

OpenAI, Anthropic AI agents implicated in new security breaches

tagyro — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:19:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/openai-anthropic-ai-agents-implicated-new-security-breaches-2026-08-05/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189848

Points: 4

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New comment by tagyro in "If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe"

tagyro — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:04:34 +0000

And why is that a problem? Their website, their content, their choice.

New comment by tagyro in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

tagyro — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:34:43 +0000

And Anthropic illicitly used code I wrote to train their models.

New comment by tagyro in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

tagyro — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:55:32 +0000

Definitely not.

I work to put food in the table.

New comment by tagyro in "'Ghost jobs' could soon be illegal in New York"

tagyro — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:35:29 +0000

if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you

This is not an isolated case, I have multiple job ads that get reposted every couple of months

New comment by tagyro in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

tagyro — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:31:32 +0000

Meta laid off around 2,000 employees this year and in April they announced a further 10% planned cut in their workforce [0].

Employees were told to work from home and were sent emails at 4AM informing them they've been let go. Those that weren't impacted have software on their computer that tracks their every move. Remaining employees can now opt out of being tracked at work for half an hour [1]. Meanwhile, @Meta is raking in record profits.

ClickUp reduced headcount by 22% - and the CEO tweeted that the "business is the strongest it's ever been". In the same tweet, the CEO motivated this cut by their intention to build the "100X organization" ...[2] A week before the layoffs, they posted this video [3].

Webflow fired most of its staff, with some finding out about it after more than 24 hours [4] (while being on a locked visa, which means they'll have to leave the country!).

Cloudflare laid off 1,100 employees (~20% of its workforce) [5] and hired over 1,000 interns (one could say replaced).

My question for anyone still working at these companies:

Why are you still working there?

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/technology/meta-layoffs-a...

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93x0k194yno

[2]: https://x.com/DJ_CURFEW/status/2057522382315929802

[3]: https://www.tiktok.com/@clickup/video/7638681657058364702

[4]: https://nypost.com/2026/05/28/tech/bloodbath-at-california-t...

[5]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/

New comment by tagyro in "'Ghost jobs' could soon be illegal in New York"

tagyro — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:21:24 +0000

I'll give you an example I've experienced myself:

I save all the jobs I apply to, so it's fairly easy to check/compare and I found plenty of cases where job ads get reposted after some time.

In one instance, I applied for a role in December '25, got a (boilerplate) rejection email a couple of days later (although my profile directly matched the job requirements and I had previous experience working in that specific field), job ad goes offline and re-appeared 3 months later - exact same time and job description.

New comment by tagyro in "I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID"

tagyro — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:25:30 +0000

I'll write a full article in a year or two, but here's the short version: some weeks ago, as I was looking for job offers, I found one that was interesting. As I didn't knew the company, I wanted to do my due diligence and check them out. I open the website and find a ClickFix (the "prove you're not a bot" type) attack on their main page.

I spent over 2 hours and a small (but bigger than 0) amount of my own money to report the issue by emailing and even trying to call them (they didn't have any dedicated responsible disclosure page or contact). After some time, they finally answered my emails, took down the website and "fixed" the issue.

When I finally applied for the role, got ghosted for a week and only after I wrote them again, asking for an update, I got rejected as they allegedly were looking for someone more junior - though the job title was explicitly "Senior XXX Lead".

Some years ago, I went to interview (in person) at a big European financial institution. As I got there around lunchtime, I happened to get to the front door at the same time as some employees were returning from lunch who, very kindly, held the door open for me.

I was in their office around their computers, unsupervised and unaccompanied, for 10-15 minutes, enough time to plant some O.MG USB-C cables.

During the interview, I had a chance to talk to the CTO and told them what happened and how I was allowed access in the office, and immediately saw his face change and quickly change topic, and end the interview.

Unsurprisingly, I didn't get the job - I should have probably kept my mouth shut.

New comment by tagyro in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

tagyro — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:32:33 +0000

Tant pis

If the price for some sort of functioning Siri is my privacy, I’m happy with the current dumb Siri

Meta Lays Off 8k Employees, as A.I. Casualties Mount

tagyro — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:18:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/technology/meta-layoffs-ai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48333927

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

Cognitive Surrender

tagyro — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:34:15 +0000

Article URL: https://addyosmani.com/blog/cognitive-surrender/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063837

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

AI company's breached biometrics, ID document images make deepfake fraud easier

tagyro — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:37:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/ai-companys-breached-biometrics-id-document-images-make-deepfake-fraud-easier

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700445

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Steve Jobs, speech at the Apple campus (1999) [video]

tagyro — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:06:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoM2Y2KO6kU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47475723

Points: 2

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New comment by tagyro in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

tagyro — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:43:59 +0000

I almost fell for a very sophisticated phishing attack last December and most of the "verifiable" information was from my LinkedIn account.

For each role I had described some of the tasks and accomplishments and this was used in the phishing message.

Since then, I removed my photo, changed my name only to initials and removed all the role-specific information.

It's a bit of a bummer as I'm currently in the process of looking for a new job and unfortunately having a LinkedIn profile is still required in some places, but once I find it, I'll delete my profile.

New comment by tagyro in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

tagyro — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:10:17 +0000

not really

Wero acquired iDeal and integrated it (as well as Payconiq)

AI Memorization Research

tagyro — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 09:11:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/ai-memorization-research/685552/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46613944

Points: 2

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