Hacker News with Generative AI: Personal Data

Google shared my phone number (danq.me)
Earlier this month, I received a phone call from a user of Three Rings, the volunteer/rota management software system I founded1.

Privacy, Google, Software, Personal Data

471 points by luu 33 days ago | 175 comments

What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything Alexa had heard (theguardian.com)
For years, Alexa has been our on-call vet, DJ, teacher, parent, therapist and whipping boy. What secrets would the data reveal?

Privacy, Amazon, Alexa, Technology, Personal Data

69 points by robaato 34 days ago | 48 comments

My Cloudflare R2 has been blocked from LaLiga (Spain football league) (lobste.rs)
I’m living in Spain and suddenly can no longer access my Cloudflare R2 bucket where I keep backups of personal files. (Luckily for me, I don’t use it for business things.)

Cloudflare R2, Spain, Internet Access, Website Blocking, Personal Data

7 points by DanAtC 76 days ago | 0 comments

Google is publishing the home addresses of developers without their consent (ycombinator.com)
I am currently being denied the right to delete my Google Play developer account and remove personal data attached to it.

Privacy, Google, Developer Accounts, Personal Data

128 points by ebenezerdon 91 days ago | 78 comments

Data Broker Brags About Highly Detailed Personal Info on Most All Internet Users (gizmodo.com)
The owner of a data brokerage business recently put out a creepy-ass video in which he bragged about the degree to which his industry could collect and analyze data on the habits of billions of people.

Privacy, Data Security, Internet, Personal Data

7 points by rntn 104 days ago | 1 comments

How can you utilize DeepSeek R1 for personal productivity? (medium.com)
I always wanted to collect statistics about my productivity on the computer. This idea is not new; there are plenty of apps designed to solve this issue. However, all of them have one significant caveat: you must send highly sensitive and personal information about ALL your activity to “BIG BROTHER” and trust that your data won’t end up in the hands of personal data reselling firms.

Privacy, Productivity, Software, Personal Data

3 points by rayden 141 days ago | 0 comments

Almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN (abc.net.au)
The last line of security for much of your digital life probably isn't as secure as you think.

Security, Personal Data, Cybersecurity, Technology

168 points by adrian_mrd 150 days ago | 135 comments

Vision of a New World – Design Issues (2024) (w3.org)
This article envisions a transformative world enabled by the Solid protocol, a decentralized system for personal data storage and sharing.

Decentralization, Web3, Design, Personal Data

11 points by todsacerdoti 157 days ago | 5 comments

Surfer: Open-Source Personal Data Warehouse (github.com/Surfer-Org)
Surfer Protocol is an open-source framework for exporting and building applications off of your personal data.

Open Source, Data, Privacy, Software, Personal Data

147 points by slalani304 195 days ago | 21 comments

Tell HN: Need help, locked out of Google account with 10 years of personal data (ycombinator.com)
I've been locked out of my Google account which contains over a decade of my digital life, and I'm at my wit's end trying to recover it.

Data Recovery, Personal Data, Online Security

242 points by taosx 202 days ago | 119 comments

I own my LLM chat history, and so should you (maragu.dev)
Like the rest of the world, I’ve embraced chatting to large language models (LLMs) as part of my professional and personal life. I rarely use their output directly, but they help me think and brainstorm, give me ideas, and force me to write out my own thoughts, clarifying and refining them in the process (much like writing articles like this one does, by the way).

Generative AI, Privacy, Personal Data

5 points by ingve 246 days ago | 2 comments

Answer any question about your photo albums with OmniQuery (jiahaoli.net)
OmniQuery enables free-form question answering on personal memories (i.e., private data in albums) with RAG. Specifically, it applies contextual data augmentation (taxonomy-based) to enhance the retrieval accuracy, and uses LLMs to generate answers based on the retrieved memory instances.

Artificial Intelligence, Image Recognition, Computer Vision, Personal Data, Privacy

51 points by ljhnick 263 days ago | 14 comments

Imagining a personal data pipeline (joshcanhelp.com)

Personal Data, Privacy, Technology, Data Management

122 points by surprisetalk 324 days ago | 45 comments

Windrecorder – Personal Memory Search Engine (github.com/yuka-friends)

Search Engines, Software, Personal Data

113 points by gnabgib 392 days ago | 16 comments

I uploaded 11 years of my Day One Journal data to GPT-4o (linkedin.com)

Generative AI, Personal Data, GPT-4, Journaling

34 points by indigodaddy 399 days ago | 25 comments

AI Will Be Like a Super Smart Person Who Knows Everything About Your Life (futurism.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Future, Personal Data

15 points by robblack 417 days ago | 20 comments