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Google Accidentally Leaks Android's Upcoming Material 3 Expressive Design Language
Odin: General-purpose language with built-in data-oriented data types
Article URL: https://github.com/odin-lang/Odin
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905081
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Learnings from winning against Leela Chess Zero
Article URL: https://lichess.org/@/nightfox/blog/my-learnings-winning-against-leela/KM26gjXk
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905080
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HeliBoard
Article URL: https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905079
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A commercial fork of TeXmacs is coming from China
Article URL: http://forum.texmacs.cn/t/discord-channel-mogan-liii-stem-user-group/2032
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905076
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'It is touching and stupid': Katamari Damacy creator on his new game
The geometry of taste: putting numbers on preferences
Article URL: https://briefer.cloud/blog/posts/recommendation-systems-2025-04-28/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905057
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Show HN: FileKey – Encrypt files with passkeys, locally. No servers or accounts
Article URL: https://github.com/RockwellShah/filekey
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905053
Points: 1
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Message Queueing with LavinMQ
Article URL: https://lavinmq.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905048
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Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQRLujxTm3c
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905026
Points: 2
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Culture comes first in cybersecurity, putting it on the frontline in culture war
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/06/opinion_column/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43904989
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Setting Startup Policies
Article URL: https://blog.staysaasy.com/p/setting-startup-policies
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43904979
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Startup helps farmers grow plant-based feed and fertilizer using wastewater
Article URL: https://news.mit.edu/2025/fyto-helps-farmers-grow-plant-based-feed-and-fertilizer-using-wastewater-0506
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43904971
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“Your privacy is a promise we don’t break”: Dating app Raw exposes sensitive user data
Any app that hands over user data is a concern, but leaky dating apps are especially worrying given the sensitivity of the data involved. A relatively new app called Raw that aims to rewrite the rules of dating is the latest to trip over its coattails by exposing user data to…well, anyone who asked for it.
Launched in 2023, Raw is a dating app that aims to solve some of the traditional problems in online dating, including fake or egregiously touched-up photos, and ghosting (where one person goes silent on each other). The company’s app shares user locations and asks them to post daily photos of themselves to create a more authentic matching experience.
The service collects customer data including what you’d expect for a dating app, such as name, birth date, gender identity, and photos, along with your geolocation and IP address. It stores at least some of its data on servers in the US.
Its privacy policy tells people that it uses end-to-end encryption, or, according to its GenZ-speak on its consumer FAQ:
“Your information is cloaked in encryption and guarded like a princess in a castle by our devs. We don’t sell or share your info in any way – your privacy is a promise we don’t break.”
That text is in all caps on the site so the company’s intentions must be deadly serious, but unfortunately it didn’t follow through according to TechCrunch, which did some impressive sleuthing. The news site ran a copy of the app on a virtualized Android device, which is a copy of the Android operating system running in software. It created a new user account on the app, and watched what happened when another copy of the app requested that user’s profile data. The publication saw the server return the profile data without requiring any authentication.
Like most online services, Raw answers requests for data via an application programming interface (API). This is a service designed for software (in this case, its smartphone app) to request user profile data from its servers. The app does that by sending an 11-digit user ID to an online address.
TechCrunch worked out that anyone could grab information from a profile by accessing the API in a browser, and all they need is the 11-digit user ID. They could also vacuum lots of peoples’ data en masse by just changing the user ID numbers.
Raw hadn’t mentioned the issue on its site at the time of writing. CEO Marina Anderson told TechCrunch that the issue had been resolved and that regulators had been notified. The news site also reported that she hadn’t arranged for a third-party audit for the app.
The company has ambitions beyond better matches. It is planning to release a wearable device called the Raw Ring, with sensors that read wearers’ vital signs and an audio tracker that listens to them. Raw is marketing the Black Mirror-esque device as an anti-infidelity tool that “analyzes voice and emotional cues for changes that tell the real story”. The sign-up button to register your interest in the device urges you to “Join the Flirt-Free Zone”.
This idea gives us the chills even without the data leak, as there’s a long, dark history of surveillance tech online that those in controlling relationships can use to monitor their partners. Not only that, there are also many cases of such apps exposing peoples’ sensitive data.
The Raw Ring, which stores its data in the cloud, promises end-to-end data encryption, although the TechCrunch story gives us pause. We wonder how many people will wear this willingly after the company’s technological faux-pas?
We mailed Anderson and Raw with these and other questions. If they reply we’ll update this story.
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Full Steam Ahead with RISC-V and Fedora Linux 42
Article URL: https://fedoramagazine.org/full-steam-ahead-with-risc-v-and-fedora-linux-42/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43904957
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Shortridge Makes Sense of Verizon's 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report
Article URL: https://kellyshortridge.com/blog/posts/shortridge-makes-sense-of-verizon-dbir-2025/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43904915
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MTerrain: Optimized terrain system and editor for Godot
Article URL: https://github.com/mohsenph69/Godot-MTerrain-plugin
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43904865
Points: 2
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