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LG ThinQ Terms of Use
Some of my kitchen appliances are LG and I installed the LG ThinQ app on my phone. Sometimes I like to leave a cold dish in the oven before I go out then remotely start it when I’m on my way back home, so I arrive to a nice hot dinner. After a recent HN post about LG malware and further research, I decided to kick my appliances out of the network. I also tried to remove my user account just to find out that in order to use the app I need to first accept the new terms of use. I asked ChatGPT for a summary. This seems a lot more aggressive than the standard terms of use of other products and services. 1. No arbitration opt-out. You give up court, jury trial, class actions, mass actions, and collective claims. Most disputes must go through individual arbitration, and LG says your only alternative is to stop using the service. Claims generally must be brought within one year. (Sections 20.b and 20.c) 2. Broad rights over anything you submit. LG receives a perpetual, irrevocable, transferab
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84 points, 52 comments on Hacker News
Pinecone Introduces Nexus Engine for Compiling Business Context into Structured Data for AI Agents
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Haunt 0.4.0 released
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GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization
231 points, 118 comments on Hacker News
Goodbye, and thanks for all the Bikesheds
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Cache Directory Tagging Specification
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What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph
197 points, 235 comments on Hacker News
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Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help?
129 points, 48 comments on Hacker News
LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
608 points, 317 comments on Hacker News
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Qubes OS Security in the Public Record
51 points, 9 comments on Hacker News
The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal
93 points, 18 comments on Hacker News
neither gcc nor clang are compliant with standard c++
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GitRoot
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Version Controlled SQL Database Dolt Releases 2.0 with Automatic Storage Cleanup and Compression
DoltHub has recently released Dolt 2.0, a major update to the open source version-controlled SQL database. The latest major version adds automatic storage optimization, including garbage collection and compression, along with improved support for large and vector data types. By Renato Losio
DOSBox on OpenVMS (Alpha CPU)
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Show HN: Find someone in the dark – light them or light yourself? (Three.js)
Article URL: https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/signal-in-the-dark Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48955740 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP
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How does Pangram work?
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Show HN: IKEA Complexity Index
39 points, 17 comments on Hacker News
Regressive JPEGs
343 points, 30 comments on Hacker News
Arduino Launches Plug-and-Play Modules for Long-Range Sensor Projects
16 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Moonstone: Modern, cross-platform Lua runtime and package manager written in Zig
19 points, 4 comments on Hacker News
I Started a "Dirt Notebook"
28 points, 19 comments on Hacker News
DrDroid (YC W23) Is Hiring
1 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Stenchill: 3D Printable Solder Paste Stencil Generator
20 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
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