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Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public

Article URL: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tracking-alpr-cameras/flock-safety-credibility-lost-as-it-repeatedly-lies-to-city-councils-police-departments-and-public-across-the-country Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986731 Points: 454 # Comments: 162

Upcoming GPU Pricing Updates

Effective August 1st, 2026, we will be updating prices on select GPUs. This change reflects strong demand for advanced GPU capacity and helps us expand reliable access to high-performance compute for customers. Even with the updated rates, DigitalOcean continues to offer some of the most competitive GPU infrastructure pricing in the market. Below is a detailed breakdown of these upcoming changes and how they affect you. On-Demand GPU Price Adjustments Effective August 1, 2026, on-demand pricing

Building a Local-Only Chrome Extension That Autofills Job Application Forms

If you've ever filled out a dozen job application forms in a row, you know the special kind of tedium involved. This post is part of my ongoing "automation foundation for shipping personal projects at scale" series, continuing from Getting Claude Code and Codex to collaborate. This time I'm writing about a Chrome extension that fills out job application forms with one click, built so that no data is ever sent to a server — everything stays local. I'll walk through MV3, heuristic field inference,

RAG debugging guide: fast ways to reduce retrieval errors

Your RAG-backed support assistant just told a customer the refund window is 30 days. It's 14. The retrieval logs look clean: chunks came back, latency was normal, nothing errored. That's what makes RAG failures slippery. The pipeline still returns an ...

Postgres Full-Text Search Instead of Elasticsearch

Build full-text search with tsvector, GIN indexes, and pg_trgm typo tolerance on Prisma Postgres. For most apps, no Elasticsearch cluster required.

Grabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation data

Cloudflare Fundamentals - Account Role API deprecated

The Account Roles API is deprecated and is being replaced by the Permission Groups API. An end of life date has not yet been established. What you need to do Review the Permission Groups API documentation; the response schema differs from the legacy Roles response. Highlights Integrations migrating to the Permission Groups API must obtain Permission Group IDs from that API and use them in the Account Members API policies request shape. Integrations that persist legacy Role IDs will need to r

Sandbox SDK - Run Devin on Cloudflare using Devin Outposts

Devin Outposts ↗ lets you run Devin agents on Cloudflare. Each Devin session runs in its own isolated sandbox backed by Cloudflare Containers, so agents can execute code and use development tooling in an isolated environment. Use Devin Outposts when you want Devin sessions to run on Cloudflare managed infrastructure, with each session isolated from the others. To get started, refer to Run Devin on Cloudflare using Devin Outposts.