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2026-06-10 Hacker News Top Stories #

Anthropic released the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. Fable 5 is safe but over-censored, mistakenly flagging normal content, while Mythos 5 has no safety restrictions but excels in capabilities, and both models have significantly reduced prices. Marko Stanic created a first-person shooter game using 1993-style software rendering, a 256-color palette, and lighting techniques, sparking discussions about pure software rendering and classic engines. Apple announced a new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models, integrating privacy protection and multi-modal capabilities, leading to debates about data protection and privacy technology design. Signal issued a statement criticizing the UK government's surveillance plan, which requires scanning device content, age verification, and nude content checks, pointing out its harm to privacy and ineffectiveness. Apple upgraded Apple Intelligence and Siri AI, adding multi-modal and context capabilities, but the comment section generally believes that AI application scenarios are limited and unreliable. Music Decoy is a zero-resource-consumption macOS tool that prevents Apple Music from automatically launching by occupying the bundle identifier, earning praise for its clever solution. Microsoft's open-source tools were attacked through a supply chain attack, stealing AI developers' passwords, sparking discussions about the security of dependency installations and AI acceleration risks. The article points out that AI is like fast-changing rock star developers, accelerating the production of hard-to-maintain code, calling for a return to hand-written maintainability. Albanian citizens erupted in the "Flamingo Revolution" due to the Kushnara resort project destroying flamingo habitats, leading to account freezes and EU concern. FCC plans to force telecom companies to collect all customer identity information to eliminate one-time phones, sparking privacy and rights balance controversies.

1. Claude Fable 5 (Claude Fable 5) #

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5

Claude has launched two new models: Fable 5 (the safe version) and Mythos 5 (the unrestricted version). Fable 5 has achieved state-of-the-art levels in multiple areas such as software engineering, knowledge work, visual recognition, and long-context memory, capable of autonomously completing complex tasks. Mythos 5 is primarily aimed at network defense and infrastructure providers, leading globally in cybersecurity capabilities. Both models are priced at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per output token, significantly lower than the previous preview versions. In practical tests, Fable 5 completed the migration task of the Stripe codebase in one day (originally requiring a team two months), and also performed well in benchmark tests such as financial reasoning, document analysis, and playing the Pokémon FireRed game. Mythos 5 has demonstrated capabilities surpassing human experts in drug design, molecular biology hypotheses, and genomic research, with good alignment and low levels of misuse.

HN热度 1713 points | 评论 1352 comments | 作者：Philpax | 8 hours ago #

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463808

• Fable 5 performs strongly on extremely difficult problems, quickly solving long-standing issues that had been dragging on for months

• In high mode, Fable 5 performs better than Open 4.8 and Opus 4.8, is more efficient, doesn't go around in circles, saves tokens, and can find bugs that Opus missed

• Fable 5's safety measures are overly aggressive, mistakenly flagging normal content such as internal tools, music firmware, health data, laboratory automation, and MRI image segmentation as cybersecurity or biosecurity topics, leading to forced switching back to Opus

• This excessive rejection may be related to Anthropic receiving the AI Bio Open Letter, intentionally being cautious to avoid scandals, and planning to improve the classifier using 30 days of chat data

• Fable 5 still cannot solve extremely difficult constructive mathematical problems, consuming a large number of tokens without answers, hoping for a stronger model

• Compared to Opus, Fable 5 is more optimistic and easier to proceed in the "possible" direction, asks fewer questions, makes more reasonable design decisions, and complains less when reviewing code

• In visual tasks such as 3D animation, Fable 5's texture, camera following, and human rendering effects are significantly better than Opus 4.8 and ChatGPT 5.5

• Some people are反感 the AI field's early access and hype, similar to social media, which is unfair

• simonw usually gets early access, but this time didn't, possibly missing the NDA email

2. Making Graphics Like it's 1993 #

https://staniks.github.io/articles/catlantean-3d-blog-1/

Marko Stanic's personal blog post introduces his hobby project Catlantean 3D — a first-person shooter game using early 90s technology (such as VGA 256 colors, 320x240 resolution, pure software rendering), planned for release on Steam next year. The article focuses on asset creation and palette rendering techniques under strict constraints (manually creating all resources, pixel-by-pixel rendering, hand-mixing, and prohibiting AI).

Palette: Carefully selected 256 colors (including transparent, pure white, and pure black), and colors are allocated according to game themes such as blood, desert, and gray technology facilities.

Color Map: A lighting scheme that replaces modern shaders. By precomputing 32 levels of darkened versions for each color, the target color is first calculated using a darkening factor, and then the closest color is found in the palette. To avoid color bias towards gray when darkening, the author uses the Oklab color space for perceptual distance calculations and applies a slight warm hue shift (hue shift) to dark colors, making the image more vivid.

HN热度 753 points | 评论 128 comments | 作者：sklopec | 14 hours ago #

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459294

• If using software rendering, the simplest way is to efficiently display an ARGB8888 2D array on the screen via SDL2, but you need to handle the conversion from palette frame buffer to ARGB yourself.

• With SDL3, you can directly use SDL_GetWindowSurface and SDL_UpdateWindowSurface to implement pure software graphics without needing a renderer or textures.

• Precomputing scanline offsets in the pixel loop can optimize performance, but the compiler may automatically perform this optimization.

• The raycasting engine in this post is more similar to Wolfenstein 3D than Doom, because Doom and Duke Nukem 3D used BSP engines, supporting more flexible walls and variable floor/ceiling heights.

• The Build engine in Duke Nukem 3D does not use BSP, instead using portals between sectors for rasterization, supporting dynamic geometry and "rooms above rooms" effects.

• The bridge in the first level of Duke Nukem 3D can simulate 3D geometry using axis-aligned sprites and collision, and the bridge can be damaged and fall.

• If implementing raycasting with modern methods, you should use convex sectors plus portals, allowing arbitrary level geometry, rather than Wolf3D's grid blocks.

• Later in Shadow Warrior, portals were used to achieve transparent water effects, while in Quake's software rendering, water was opaque and required a 3DFX card to be transparent.

• Blakes Stone and Rise of the Triad used an improved version of the Wolf3D engine, supporting textured floors and ceilings.

• A comment mentioned developing a raycasting engine called RayFaster 2 based on sector portals for Flash using Haxe in 2009, supporting sprites and simple 3D model rendering, but map creation was tedious.

3. Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models #

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/apple-reveals-new-ai-architecture/

Apple announced a major overhaul of Apple Intelligence today, with the new architecture based on Apple Foundation Models developed in collaboration with Google (utilizing Gemini technology). These models can run on-device and on Private Cloud Compute servers, offering enhanced understanding, reasoning, multi-modal capabilities (such as image understanding and generation), voice generation, transcription accuracy, and natural language capabilities. The system coordinator dynamically adjusts responses based on the current application and task. Apple emphasized that user data is only used to process immediate requests and is not accessible to Apple or third parties, with external experts able to verify privacy commitments at any time. Some devices will receive higher performance model versions, although specific models have not been disclosed.

HN热度 710 points | 评论 549 comments | 作者：unclefuzzy | 1 day ago #

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450142

• Apple's AI strategy involves encapsulating external models within a privacy architecture, embedding them into the system, and productizing an orchestration layer. The key is whether third-party models can feel like first-party systems without exposing user context.

• Apple's design is more focused on data protection rather than privacy. European users, distrustful of American companies' ability to keep secrets from the government post-Snowden, trust Apple not to sell data.

• Microsoft promises data protection through legal constraints (technically accessible), whereas Apple ensures that even itself cannot access user data through technical design, focusing more on actual privacy.

• Apple employees report that the inability to access user data levels makes building certain internal or user features extremely difficult.

• Apple's Private Cloud Compute (PCC) ensures that no one can access the processed data (including server administrators), and supports verifiable transparency, allowing researchers to verify that the software and runtime environment are consistent.

• Apple has expanded to Google Cloud and NVIDIA, but their confidential computing verification is less reliable than Apple PCC, and researchers find it more difficult to obtain verification.

4. Monitoring Does Not Equal Safety: A Statement on the UK's Latest Threat to Privacy [pdf] #

https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06-08-uk-surveillance-is-not-safety.pdf

This is a statement released by Signal on June 8, 2026, titled "Surveillance is not safety," criticizing the UK government's latest threat to privacy.

The UK government requires all content on devices sold or used in the UK to be scanned based on the assumption of "nude content," combined with age verification and content scanning. Signal believes this approach:

• Violates basic human rights: Forcing all UK residents to prove their age or accept content scanning in order to exercise basic communication rights violates the privacy rights of everyone, including children.

• Surveillance inevitably expands: Once large-scale surveillance and review capabilities are established, they will never be limited to the initially claimed scope. History has shown that such technologies gradually expand from "detecting nudity" to monitoring political speech and other areas.

• Fails to genuinely protect children: True child safety should be reflected in sufficient educational funding, comprehensive social services, and meaningful regulatory guardrails for AI technologies and platforms, rather than default-enabled hidden surveillance infrastructure.

• Strengthens the monopoly of tech giants: This approach further consolidates the market dominance of Apple, Google, and Microsoft, allowing them to control users' most private data.

• Risks abuse: These tools will automatically be used to report individuals to government authorities, and law enforcement has already requested similar broad powers. In the current increasingly fragile political environment, they are easily abused.

Signal believes that the proposal uses the excuse of "protecting children" to hastily legislate a surveillance system, showing no concern for the real needs of children or the potentially terrible consequences that may arise.

HN热度 678 points | 评论 309 comments | 作者：g0xA52A2A | 1 day ago #

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450646

• People working on technologies like secure boot, remote attestation, and DRM often accept the status quo by default, not questioning how these technologies might eventually be abused by political power, only following authoritative instructions. The media's criticism of such technologies has gradually weakened.

• People fall into two categories: those who follow the rules and those who question the rules. Many tech workers are the former, blindly accepting the current legal or technical status, while the rules themselves may be unfair, biased, or driven by interest groups.

• Every law should be reviewed annually for its application cases, assessing its positive and negative impacts, with legislators voting to renew or cancel it, but it should be executed by an independent non-partisan committee to avoid unfairness by legislators.

• Comprehensive annual reviews are impractical, but the rule of law itself should be respected, even if individual laws are bad, they should be followed to maintain order, but the source of the laws should be questioned.

• Most people live comfortably, having never truly witnessed injustice, so they do not seriously think about the power issues behind laws and technology.

• "ventablackpilled" refers to those who are default acceptors who actively want the world to get worse, and they actively promote a pessimistic reality.

• Irony: Signal's statement itself is also trying to make the world worse, and the problem is avoiding political participation. Political direct action should be taken to prevent dictatorship, rather than retreating.

• There is also a group of "beige pills" people who are even worse, passive, compliant, and avoid conflict, suppressing anyone who tries to become aware.

5. Hello, I noticed that you mentioned needing to translate the English title in the system prompt, but the specific content of the system prompt is not provided in the current conversation. Please directly paste the English title you need translated, and I will strictly follow your requirements and translate it into Chinese without adding anything else. (Siri AI) #

https://www.apple.com/apple-intelligence/

Apple Intelligence and Siri AI have been upgraded, and will be launched later this year. The new Siri becomes a more powerful AI assistant, supporting more natural conversations, understanding personal context, performing actions in more apps, and having a dedicated app. Visual Intelligence is extended to more devices, capable of identifying content on the screen or in the real world and performing actions. Photo editing adds spatial reconstruction, expanded scenes, and smart removal tools. Image Playground supports generating and editing images. In addition, Siri can be used for writing, editing, and sending messages.

HN热度 660 points | 评论 684 comments | 作者：0xedb | 1 day ago #

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48449084

• AI application scenarios are limited, confined to mundane tasks such as rewriting emails, removing objects, and adding reminders, lacking real value.

• There is a gap between practicality and reliability, complex tasks such as planning multi-day trips are still not achievable, hallucinations are common, and trust is lacking.

• AI tools are far from actual usability, and are even "not halfway there."

• Apple's marketing content gives the impression that humans only do activities like organizing friends to hike in Big Sur.

• Even when organizing hikes, Apple Maps lacks route visualization and navigation functions, requiring reliance on Garmin devices.

• Recommending mapy.com and other OSM-based alternative mapping applications, but hard-core outdoor equipment remains irreplaceable in outdoor scenarios.

• Typical scenarios in Apple's marketing, such as going to Philz or Tartine cafes, and shifting from restaurant reservations to outdoor activities, reflect changes before and after the pandemic.

• AI is criticized for serving the ivory tower of wealthy tech workers in San Francisco, being disconnected from ordinary people.

• Psychological research often uses white male students as samples, similarly, major tech companies serve specific groups.

• There are trust issues with digital secretary use cases, companies cannot provide trustworthy personal assistants, and there is a motive to abuse power.

• Most people have never wanted a personal assistant, because it is not a need or necessity for ordinary people.

• Some people believe that people don't ask for it because they can't afford it, but if there is a trustworthy responsible party, many people would be willing to hand over household management to an assistant.

• A physical assistant that can actually work at home is needed, not a digital AI.

• There is a specific use case: AI generates a daily meal plan and shopping list based on nutritional goals, and dynamically adjusts it.

Starting from v1.1, you can configure Music Decoy to launch other applications (such as Spotify) when the play button is pressed, by running defaults write com.lowtechguys.MusicDecoy mediaAppPath /Applications/Spotify.app in the terminal. To reset this configuration, use the defaults delete command.

The system will automatically launch Music in the following situations: when the keyboard play button is pressed and no other application is playing audio; when a Bluetooth headphone is connected and sends a play command; or after a call ends, when the Bluetooth headphone switches back to music mode. This is because the system daemon rcd (Remote Control Daemon) handles media keys, and if no application is currently playing audio, it will launch Music.

There are two alternatives: one is to disable rcd using launchctl unload, but this completely disables the play button; the other is to use the noTunes tool, which kills Music immediately after it starts, but this consumes a small amount of background CPU.

This application has no Dock icon or menu bar icon. To exit, find Music Decoy in the Activity Monitor and click ❌, or run killall 'Music Decoy' in the terminal.

HN热度 654 points | 评论 266 comments | 作者：bobbiechen | 1 day ago #

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447935

• Exploiting the bundle identifier conflict with the Music app to prevent launch without any code, which requires a deep understanding of the system mechanism.

• Most engineers would write complex polling schemes to kill processes, while such elegant solutions reflect deep insight.

• Coding proxies are great as research tools, but they may amplify the tendency to see everything as a nail when you have a hammer.

• The results of coding proxies depend on users' own practice habits: engineers who write code first will use proxies to speed up iteration, while engineers who research problems first will use proxies to assist in exploration.

• Sharing an early experience of modifying a game's bundle identifier to com.apple.systempreferences to bypass parental control ScreenTime.

• Dissatisfied with Apple's cancellation of iTunes, planning to build a player using AI to break free from streaming services and vendor lock-in.

• In fact, you can turn off Apple Music's cloud service and continue using local music library and iTunes-purchased music, syncing the iPhone via cable as with an old iPod.

• Poor offline experience: even if Apple Music is hidden, clicking on an artist's name still redirects to the cloud page, and it's unavoidable under WiFi.

• After turning off the cloud service, the search still shows Apple Music content, making it difficult to find local content, which is a frustrating process.

• Some users only see local content on iOS without interference from non-local content.

• Recommending using VLC as an alternative for music playback, which is more reliable.

• Advising to directly enter the Library tab to view local files and reminding not to enable "iCloud Music Sync," as it may replace files with incorrect versions.

7. Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers #

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/08/microsofts-open-source-tools-were-hacked-to-steal-passwords-of-ai-developers/

Several of Microsoft's open source projects on GitHub were hacked, with malicious software implanted to steal passwords. These projects mainly involve Azure cloud services and AI development tools (such as Claude Code, Gemini command-line interface, VS Code), targeting developer users. Microsoft has temporarily removed at least 70 related repositories and is conducting an investigation, while also notifying a small number of customers who may have downloaded the affected content. Security companies Cloudsmith and OpenSourceMalware were the first to discover this attack. This is the second incident in recent weeks where Microsoft's open source projects have been compromised, with the previous one being the Durable Task project hacked in mid-May. This attack may be the work of the same hacker. The exact number of affected users is currently unknown.

HN热度 524 points | 评论 178 comments | 作者：raffael_de | 17 hours ago #

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48457830

• The old RBAC model has completely failed, engineers work on multiple unrelated projects at the same time, and supply chain risks have surged.

• This incident is not related to AI or vibe coding, but is a continuation of the old problem of lacking security in dependency installation, with hackers targeting developers as ideal targets.

• Official installation methods for large software often require copying commands from random blogs and executing them with sudo, which is tacitly accepted, but meeting rooms are banned from internet access due to security risks, and those who follow security practices are marginalized.

• AI tools have exacerbated the problem, as they can more easily perform batch operations without monitoring, and AI itself can be induced to run unsafe scripts.

• Many companies promote the idea that "not using AI will lead to falling behind," ignoring security in pursuit of being first, which is similar to the hype of the IoT era.

• Historical mistakes are repeated, and security is always sacrificed for speed.

• Too many projects with too few people, each developer is forced to manage a large number of projects, further amplifying supply chain risks.

• Web-based IDEs (such as GitHub Codespaces) can provide isolated development environments, but developers generally dislike them — browser editors have high latency, weak debugging tools, and lack a real CLI experience.

• Real text editors (such as Neovim, Emacs) offer a much better writing experience than VS Code, which turns coding into a chore.

8. Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers #

https://www.codingwithjesse.com/blog/rockstar-developers/

This is a blog post by Jesse Skinner discussing the problem of messy code left behind by "rockstar developers" and how AI (especially large language models) has accelerated this phenomenon.

The article first describes a typical "rockstar developer": technically enthusiastic, autocratic, writing obscure code, and refusing to collaborate. After they leave, the team often finds itself in a mess when taking over their projects.

Then, the author points out that the emergence of AI has worsened this problem: each AI conversation is like a new "rockstar," quickly generating a lot of code without caring about the overall maintainability of the system, leading to exponential growth in technical debt. Teams tend to become dependent on AI, making the system hard to understand.

Finally, the author suggests that developers should actively guide when using LLMs, control the size of generated code snippets, ensure code is understandable; slow down when necessary to avoid over-engineering; and even pause AI use and write code manually at times. Emphasizing that craftsmanship is always something machines cannot replace.

HN热度 444 points | 评论 320 comments | 作者：BrunoBernardino | 16 hours ago #

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458586

• In other industries, manual craftsmanship has not disappeared, but cheaper, replaceable mass-produced products have marginalized it; software is also becoming "disposable."

• Discussions on software craftsmanship are often misunderstood as "high-end, expensive, unnecessary," rather than emphasizing the contrast between "maintainable, reliable" and "disposable."

• Mass-produced products (such as IKEA tables) invest more expert craftsmanship in the design phase than custom products, which aligns with the software industry's pursuit of low-cost replication from the beginning.

• AI threatens the software industry's "capital-intensive craftsmanship" (similar to mass production design), not manual craftsmanship; it more successfully replaces the traditionally uneconomical "low-end manual software."

• Software code is created once and used by all customers, so investing in quality has a greater leverage effect than physical products; ongoing issues require long-term maintenance of the code, not one-time disposal.

• Machines can replicate the quality of a good screw, but the quality is limited by the original handmade screw; similarly, AI can only output the quality it itself can produce.

• Software craftsmanship is about the design level, it's the degree to which developers care about quality; as long as quality remains important, it will not disappear.

• Maintaining factory equipment (or engineers who build machines) also requires craftsmanship and pride.

• Many people are worried that AI will replace a large number of software engineering jobs, not the craftsmanship itself.

• “10x developers” have never truly existed, and whether an AI-assisted junior developer counts as 10x is just a hypothetical game.

9. Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner’s $4B Resort Triggers “Flamingo Revolution” #

https://www.yacnews.com/albania-is-not-for-sale-kushners-4-billion-resort-triggers-flamingo-revolution-asset-freeze-and-an-eu-warning/

Albania’s “Flamingo Revolution” enters its seventh day. The Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SPAK) has frozen the bank accounts of “Albania Land Development Company,” the developer linked to Kushner’s resort project, involving approximately $195 million in land purchase funds. The company is owned by Syrian-born Qatari brothers Mutaz and Lamis Al-Hayat. The investigation focuses on the 2024 change in the status of the protected area and the method of acquiring land ownership.

The resort consists of two projects: one is a $1.4 billion Amman brand eco-resort on the island of Sazan, invested in by Kushner’s Affinity Partners; the second is a larger project on the mainland’s Vjosa-Narta coast (Pishëbërrë-Narta protected area), with Prime Minister Rama stating that the combined value of both projects could reach up to €5 billion. Environmentalists point out that the area is one of the last intact coastal wetlands in the Mediterranean, home to flamingos, over 200 species of migratory birds, and the Mediterranean monk seal.

Affinity Partners, Kushner’s main fund, is primarily financed by the Saudi Public Investment Fund (€2 billion), as well as by Qatari and UAE sovereign wealth funds. Critics believe the Albanian government is trying to please the Trump family. Prime Minister Rama supports the investigation but refuses to halt the project, stating that the investors’ rights are legitimate and that the protests are driven by “anti-Trump forces.” Protesters demand the complete cancellation of the project, and the EU has expressed concern.

HN热度 436 points | 评论 200 comments | 作者：ortr | 11 hours ago #

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461012

• Jared Kushner’s similar attempt in Serbia failed due to public outrage

• Ivanka’s interview about the island was described as a masterpiece of disconnection from reality, generating many memes

• Some suspect that the interview clips were AI-generated

• Comments suggest that they have found a real paradise and want to destroy it to build a resort

• No matter how disconnected the interview was, they are so rich they don’t care

• Trump’s plan to build a skyscraper on Australia’s Gold Coast was canceled due to the withdrawal of partners

• Half of Albania’s beaches and green areas have been destroyed to build resorts, as seen in the contrast between Dermi, Vuno, and Borsh

• Resorts usually belong to international capital, and tourists rarely leave the hotel, so the local economy only receives wages for cleaners

• This phenomenon is similar to natural resource extraction, and globalization promotes neoliberal exploitation

• Resorts receive favorable tax agreements from the central government, do not generate local taxes, and limited economic growth occurs after the construction phase

• This is pure corruption, and the government does not work for the people, which is also common in the US (e.g., Amazon, sports stadiums)

• Large sums of money are extorted through tax incentives such as special economic zones

• It is challenging to find examples of foreign tax redistribution that improve the economic status of ordinary residents

• Ecotourism in Costa Rica may be a successful case

• Overreliance on tourism solidifies culture, attracts crime, and Airbnb, which is harmful to locals

• The Netherlands was already wealthy before tourism came; Spain developed tourism in the 1960s and 1970s due to the urgent need for foreign exchange; Albania is economically struggling

• Compared to previous posts about panic over American tourism, this post argues that tourism contributes little to the local economy

• The author observed extensive construction and beach occupation at Borsh Beach and predicts that it will become a tourist wasteland within two years

• All coastal areas are the same, such as Mallorca, Ibiza, and Valencia

• Corfu in Greece is also being developed, but Corfu has been a tourist destination for half a century, unlike Albania

• Questioning whether American voters tolerate open plunder, such as Smithfield pollution causing cancer but locals supporting it

• Some comments point out that Americans do not “accept” this, and Trump’s approval ratings are low

10. FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones by Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs #

https://www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-forcing-telecoms-to-get-all-customers-ids/

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is proposing to require telecom companies to collect government-issued ID numbers and physical addresses for all new and renewing customers, effectively eliminating the possibility of purchasing “burner phones.” The proposal aims to combat fraud but will significantly impact privacy-sensitive groups, domestic violence survivors, and journalists. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) criticized the move as akin to an authoritarian state’s ID registration system and warned it would harm low-income individuals and victims of domestic violence. The article also mentions that telecom companies would need to collect additional information from commercial and foreign customers, such as the intended use of bulk packages and IP addresses, and that the collected data could be used for other law enforcement purposes.

HN热度 429 points | 评论 267 comments | 作者：berlianta | 9 hours ago #

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462308

• The FCC’s proposal allows unelected officials to unilaterally decide, which is concerning

• The Administrative Procedure Act (APA) provides checks and balances for agency power, but its effectiveness is limited

• Agency power needs to be checked and balanced

• Other agencies (such as ATF) also frequently do this

• Voting for each decision-maker is different from having to vote

• If you find out a candidate abuses a puppy, you would feel guilty

• Voters are dissatisfied with too many decisions made by unaccountable bureaucrats

• Federal agencies decide details with experts, which is better than the president making arbitrary decisions

• The US has entered the era of technocratic bureaucracy, with the executive branch gaining more power

• Congress is too small to deal with complex issues and should be expanded to 10,000 representatives

• Most matters should be state rights, and the current interpretation of commercial terms is absurd

• Providing links and proposal numbers for submitting comments facilitates public participation