Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by Mozilla — and Asking 60 LLMs a set of 20 questions

Issue #1250 — September 10, 2023

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Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by Mozilla foundation.mozilla.org \| points: 559 \| comments: 289

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Asking 60 LLMs a set of 20 questions benchmarks.llmonitor.com \| points: 441 \| comments: 246

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FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free” arstechnica.com \| points: 323 \| comments: 83

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Every type of plastic used by LEGO (2022) bricknerd.com \| points: 288 \| comments: 97

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Decoded: GNU Coreutils (2018) maizure.org \| points: 247 \| comments: 122

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Snoop unto them as they snoop unto you blog.dataparty.xyz \| points: 223 \| comments: 137

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LogoScale – A method for vectorizing small, crappy logos msprout.notion.site \| points: 214 \| comments: 35

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Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US layoffs moneycontrol.com \| points: 213 \| comments: 428

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Morocco earthquake kills more than 1,000 nbcnews.com \| points: 210 \| comments: 121

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Scammers can exploit email forwarding flaws to impersonate high-profile domains today.ucsd.edu \| points: 195 \| comments: 50

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Bare-Metal Kubernetes, Part I: Talos on Hetzner datavirke.dk \| points: 186 \| comments: 63

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Julia and Mojo Mandelbrot Benchmark discourse.julialang.org \| points: 185 \| comments: 135

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Using LD_PRELOAD to cheat, inject features and investigate programs rafalcieslak.wordpress.com \| points: 182 \| comments: 101

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Show HN: Conway’s Game of Life in TypeScript’s type system github.com \| points: 179 \| comments: 44

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Public restrooms are hard to find in America washingtonpost.com \| points: 178 \| comments: 361

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The Development of the C Language (2003) cm.bell-labs.co \| points: 171 \| comments: 22

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The U.S. housing market vs. the Canadian housing market awealthofcommonsense.com \| points: 169 \| comments: 398

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CRISPR used to ’reprogram’ cancer cells into healthy muscle in the lab livescience.com \| points: 166 \| comments: 28

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Investors account for 30 per cent of home buying in Canada, data show theglobeandmail.com \| points: 157 \| comments: 176

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Dennis Austin, developer of PowerPoint, has died washingtonpost.com \| points: 155 \| comments: 87

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