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I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did by robin_reala

It is not uncommon that I raise an accessibility or usability issue with a client’s design or implementation and am met with either “But Google does this,” or “But Apple does this.” Mostly it is the default response to any issue I raise, but it is far worse when it is a reaction to a…

ByHackTechApril 2, 20220Comments

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Ask HN: Google Places API is expensive – what is your spend, or alternatives? by me_me_mu_mu

I'm using Google Places API, and the pricing is quite extravagant. Granted, it seems to have much better results compared to TomTom's API.For those who are using it: How much do you spend?For those who switched to something else: What do you use now, and what are your thoughts on it?

ByHackTechMarch 30, 20220Comments

$Google has little choice to be evil or not in today’s fractured internet by johndfsgdgdfg$

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Google has little choice to be evil or not in today’s fractured internet by johndfsgdgdfg

Well, we got to January 2nd before the latest angry resignation published by a tech executive on Medium. Today’s installment comes from Ross LaJeunesse, who was head of international relations at Google and served for more than a decade in various roles at the company. He denounces what he sees as Google’s increasingly failed ambitions…

ByHackTechMarch 25, 20220Comments

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Leaving Google Brain by ericjang

In machine learning and optimization, it’s important to inject some noise into the optimization process to prevent local maxima. Taking that advice to heart, I’m applying some exploration noise into my life – this is my last week at Google Brain. I spent 5.75 wonderful years (2097 days) on the Robotics team as my first…

ByHackTechMarch 21, 20220Comments

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Google is starting to bring Steam to Chrome OS by sendilkumarn

If you ever wanted to play your Steam game library on a Chromebook, there’s good news: Google is starting to bring Steam to Chrome OS.The company casually dropped the announcement on Tuesday during the Google for Games Developer Summit. “The Steam alpha just launched, making this long-time PC game store available on select Chromebooks for users…

ByHackTechMarch 15, 20221Comment

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Google to make changes to apps after TCD finds privacy issues by Smaointe

Google is to make changes to its Dialer and Messages apps on android phones after privacy concerns were raised about the implications of data collected. A study led by Prof Doug Leith at the Connect SFI Research Centre for Future Networks at Trinity College Dublin details the extensive data collected via the use of these…

ByHackTechMarch 14, 20220Comments

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How to implement Google JavaScript style guide with Codacy by catarinagralha

No two developers write code the same way. Indeed, in a large team of developers, everyone codes with their own style preferences. In terms of functionality, there is no problem with these personal approaches. After all, the code works, and your JavaScript program runs smoothly. However, individual preferences make it impossible to read large codebases,…

ByHackTechMarch 10, 20220Comments

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I Got into an Internship in Google by rickrollin

I just wanted to make a quick post discussing how I got an offer from Google this summer. The internship program that I’m going to be part of is called STEP. How much and what did I study? So normally people tend to study a lot for this kind of interviews. I have discussed this…

ByHackTechMarch 8, 20220Comments

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Tell HN: Google removes Russian news from results by supergirl

Searching for “Russia Today” or “Sputnik News” doesn't return their URLs, but does return other related links. Seems to be related to a gov request: https://lumendatabase.org/notices/26927483#.It's not a court order, so Google voluntarily decided to implement this.Mildly interesting; I don't think anyone is surprised.

ByHackTechMarch 6, 20220Comments

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Bypassing Google Cloud Armor by News-Dog

InsightsGoogle Cloud Armor provides a rule-based policy framework that can be used by customers of the Google Cloud Platform to mitigate various types of common web application attacks. The Cloud Armor service has a documented limitation of 8 KB as the maximum size of web request that it will inspect. The default behavior of Cloud…

ByHackTechMarch 4, 20220Comments

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