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Ask HN: Will you invest in SpaceX IPO?

Hacker News - Tue, 06/09/2026 - 9:41am

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461028

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Ask HN: Are you also experiencing issues with Azure Redis in Western Europe?

Hacker News - Tue, 06/09/2026 - 9:37am

Context: we've been using Azure Cache for Redis for about two years now. We have constant health checks that require a successful ping on redis. Normally, we might have a small connection issue every 2-3 days well outside office hours, not much else.

Over the last two days (June 8 and June 9) we have seen constant network issues between our runtimes (Hetzner, Western Europe) and Azure Redis. I cannot discard it being something on our end. But it is highly suspicious that we have Redis issues while we have minimal to no network issues with Azure Postgres, which is in the same zone as Azure Redis.

We see no issues reported by Azure, but that's not much of a reassurance. We've experienced Azure outages in the past (for example, sending of emails) that never had an official mention in any public status page.

If you're also experiencing network issues with Azure services in Western Europe, it'd be great to know we're not the only ones.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48460988

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Slangify: The Case for DSLs in LLM Workflows

Hacker News - Tue, 06/09/2026 - 9:35am

Article URL: https://slangify.org/where

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48460953

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Show HN: HN Debrief – A daily digest of the best HN comment threads

Hacker News - Tue, 06/09/2026 - 9:34am

I read HN every day but kept hitting the same issue: the most valuable stuff usually isn't in the linked article, it's buried in the comments. The engineering manager explaining what actually happened internally before the layoffs. The trader explaining why "energy independence" is a myth. The defense analyst who knows why the stockpiles are empty. That signal is there every day, scattered across thousands of comments in 30 front-page posts, and I never had time to dig through all of it.

So I built HN Debrief (https://hndebrief.com) to solve my problem. At the end of each day (UTC) it: - fetches the previous day's front page - picks the threads that generated a discussion worth reading and tries to surface comments (or group of comments) with the most insight - finds comments that cut against the threads majority opinion as a balance lever - pulls out the links people shared into a reference section and summarizes the rest Every insight is attributed to its author with a link back to the original comment

Feedback I'd especially value: thread and comment selection (am I picking the right discussions and comments?) and whether the "against the grain" comments are actually insightful or just contrarian. There's a daily email also if you want it.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48460942

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Ask HN: Why was my Show HN flagged?

Hacker News - Tue, 06/09/2026 - 9:33am

Why was my Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48460286) got flagged a minute after submission?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48460938

Points: 1

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Show HN: Bitemap – See where everyone would bite a sandwich

Hacker News - Tue, 06/09/2026 - 9:29am

I know the internet likes to celebrate perfect bites and debate where to take the next bite of half-finished sandwiches. So I built Bitemap. You see a photo of a sandwich, you tap where you'd take your next bite, and it shows a heatmap of where everyone else bit.

It's early. Most of the sandwiches are ones I uploaded to seed it and the maps are still filling in, so some are thin. You can add your own too.

No signup, nothing to install. Curious what you think, and where you'd bite. Happy to answer anything about how it's built.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48460888

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Scammers love Meta, according to Lloyds Bank

Malware Bytes Security - Tue, 06/09/2026 - 9:02am

Scammers go phishing wherever the victims are. In the UK, that means Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, according to Lloyds Bank. It just revealed that Meta platforms account for over two thirds of fraud reports made by its customers.

Writing in The Sunday Times, Lloyds Bank’s fraud prevention director Liz Ziegler said that 68% of fraud reports from its customers start on a Meta-owned platform.

The scams cover everything from fake concert tickets and sporting events to bogus listings for cars, bikes, campervans, mobility vehicles, and rental properties. Lloyds said customers reported losing an estimated £66 million a year after falling victim to scam ads on Meta platforms, up from £27 million in 2023.

The victim demographic isn’t who you’d guess. Lloyds says customers in their late twenties and early thirties—supposed digital natives—are reporting scams at the highest rates.

Lloyds isn’t alone in calling out the tech giant. In 2023, TSB reported that 80% of losses across its three biggest fraud categories began on Meta platforms.

Meta says it’s doing plenty

A Meta spokesperson told The Sunday Times the company:

“…removed over 159 million scam ads last year alone, 92% of which we took down before anyone reported them”.

In October 2024, Meta also launched the Fraud Intelligence Reciprocal Exchange to let UK banks share intelligence directly with the platform.

However, a Reuters investigation published in November 2025 reported that internal Meta documents estimated that roughly 10% of the company’s 2024 advertising revenue came from scam ads and ads for banned, illicit or low-quality goods and services. The documents also estimated that users were shown around 15 billion “higher risk” scam ads each day.

In March this year, Meta rolled out additional anti-scam tools across WhatsApp, Facebook, and Messenger.

The lawyers are circling

UK firms Richardson Hartley Law and Humphries Kerstetter are coordinating a group legal claim for victims who lost money after clicking ads on Facebook or Instagram.

Scammers’ use of Meta AI has also introduced a new dimension to legal arguments against the company. In the US, a federal judge in California refused to dismiss key claims in Bouck v. Meta and Forrest v. Meta, lawsuits brought by fraud victims who allege that scammers used Meta’s advertising and AI tools to create and optimize fraudulent ads. The plaintiffs argued that made the platform “a genuine co-conspirator in the creation of the offending content.” Meta denies wrongdoing, and the cases are ongoing.

Last month, Santa Clara County filed its own suit against Meta, citing leaked internal documents that allegedly show the company earned as much as $7 billion a year from so-called “high-risk” scam ads. The county also alleges that Meta built guardrails to prevent anti-scam measures from reducing advertising revenue too much.

Protect yourself

Even if social media companies do try their best to quash scam advertisers, they won’t catch them all. So it’s up to you to keep a watchful eye for potential fraudulent activity. Here are some tips:

  • Treat unsolicited social media ads—especially ones promising hard-to-find tickets, eye-watering investment returns, or impossibly cheap goods—as a default-untrustworthy starting point.
  • Research the sellers. What else do they sell on the platform? Do they have an established profile?
  • Pay with a card or service that offers chargeback protection.
  • Never pay by bank transfer, cryptocurrency, gift card, or Friends and Family payment methods when buying from someone you don’t know.
  • Be especially wary when a Facebook or Instagram exchange tries to migrate to WhatsApp. That handoff to a private channel is a classic scammer move, taking the conversation away from public scrutiny and platform enforcement.
  • Remember that seeing an ad on a major platform isn’t an endorsement. Scammers routinely pay to place ads alongside legitimate businesses.
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