🇺🇸 Hacker News English

ICEBlock is an iPhone app for anonymously reporting ICE agent sightings.

The app went viral and reached top free iPhone app rankings after US Attorney General Pam Bondi criticized it.

About 20,000 users in Los Angeles are using the app amid frequent ICE raids.

Several Azure built-in roles were found to include a generic */read permission that grants broader access than their names or descriptions indicate.

Ten service-specific roles unintentionally include */read, allowing users to view all Azure resources instead of only those related to the service.

A vulnerability in the Azure API used GET instead of POST for fetching VPN Gateway pre-shared keys, enabling read-only users to leak the VPN key.

Tesla reported 384,122 vehicle deliveries in the second quarter of 2025, a 14% decline from a year ago.

The company produced 410,244 vehicles in Q2 2025, exceeding delivery numbers and slightly above analyst expectations of 387,000 deliveries.

Model 3 and Model Y remained the most popular, with 396,835 units produced and 373,728 units delivered in the quarter.

Firefox releases from version 120 through 141 Beta were benchmarked.

Performance and memory usage were measured on an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X with Ubuntu 25.04.

Firefox 120 was used as the baseline due to automation issues with older versions.

ICEBlock is an iOS app that lets users anonymously pin ICE agent sightings on a map and receive alerts within a five-mile radius.

Criticism by US government officials and CNN coverage led to a surge in downloads, making it the top free social networking app in the US.

Officials, including the White House press secretary, ICE acting director, and attorney general, claim the app endangers officers and are considering legal action against the developer.

GPT-2 series (2019) featured models from 137 million to 1.61 billion parameters trained on about 10 billion tokens from WebText.

GPT-3 (2020) introduced 175 billion parameters trained on around 400 billion tokens from diverse sources like CommonCrawl and Wikipedia.

No official architectural or training data details are available for GPT-3.5 and GPT-4.

Spain and Brazil launched an initiative calling for higher global taxes on the super-rich to address rising inequality.

The proposal emphasizes data sharing between governments and tax authorities to close loopholes and combat tax evasion.

It suggests building national capacity in data analysis to accurately track wealth concentration and tax contributions.

The Roman Roads Research Association advances study of Roman roads and heritage in the British Isles, building on Ivan D. Margary’s work.

RRRA employs modern technology like LiDAR to map and reveal hidden Roman road features such as aggers.

The association publishes a peer-reviewed journal, Itinera, and is now accepting submissions for Volume 6, with a submission deadline of 15 November 2025.

Mixture of Grouped Experts (MoGE) balances expert workloads by constraining tokens to activate an equal number of experts per group.

MoGE’s grouping design ensures even computational load across devices, boosting inference throughput.

Pangu Pro MoE has 72 billion parameters, with 16 billion activated per token, and is optimized for Ascend NPUs.

The paper rigorously derives fundamental fluid mechanics equations, including the compressible Euler and incompressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier equations, from a microscopic hard sphere particle model undergoing elastic collisions.

It resolves Hilbert’s sixth problem by completing the program of deriving macroscopic fluid equations from Newton’s laws using Boltzmann’s kinetic theory.

The proof builds on and extends previous work by deriving Boltzmann’s equation on two- and three-dimensional tori.