Hey buddy,

Man, Tuesday on Hacker News was pretty wild, lemme tell ya. I saw a bunch of cool stuff, and some head-scratchers.

Age Verification = Mass Surveillance?

First off, Cory Doctorow dropped this piece called "What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance." He's basically saying all these pushes to verify age online are just a sneaky way to build massive surveillance systems. People in the comments were totally on board, talking about how we need to protect kids, sure, but not at the cost of everyone's privacy. Someone even brought up GrapheneOS as a more secure option for mobile privacy.

F3: The Next Big File Format?

Then there's this new project called "F3," which stands for Future File Format. It's trying to be a better version of existing analytic file formats like Parquet. Apparently, Parquet is good, but these new formats are looking for niches where people aren't just doing typical Spark jobs. A lot of folks in the comments were hoping for better random access in columnar formats, which I guess is a pain point right now.

Google Fires Guy for Making a CLI?!

Dude, get this – some developer got "Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI." Seriously! He made a command-line tool for Google Workspace, and apparently, Google'