21 stories tagged telemetry, newest first.
106 points by taubek | 38 comments
X post by Freddy Vega claiming Samsung TVs detect Bluetooth microphones, classify sounds like dog barks and baby cries, and send telemetry including app usage.
76 points by yashdotrv | 18 comments
Landing page for Parseable, an open-core columnar data lake for observability and telemetry data written in Rust and using Parquet.
10 points by zasc | 5 comments
A yeet blog post by Jacob Pradels about an app sending StatsD UDP datagrams to port 8125 with nobody listening, exploring observability and telemetry internals.
![Screenshot of blog.szypowi.cz: Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/9/23/cca66142-3ad8-48cc-b5e2-08b9750af8e2.jpg)
453 points by pszypowicz | 257 comments
Blog post reporting that Claude Code 2.1.277's AGENTS.md support is gated behind a remote feature flag and skipped when telemetry is off, with measurements and a CLAUDE.md workaround.
724 points by thatslast | 576 comments
David Bushell's blog post about macOS enabling a feature that phoned home with personal data, which he disabled, and Apple later overriding his choice.
394 points by sbulaev | 216 comments
The Verge news article reporting Gamers Nexus findings that LG smart TVs collect data even when offline or on standby.
496 points by jhoho | 185 comments
A GitHub Gist presenting a reproducible wire-level teardown of what data xAI's Grok Build CLI (v0.2.93) sends back to xAI servers.
721 points by microtonal | 428 comments
GrapheneOS forum thread discussing the Volkswagen car app blocking GrapheneOS users, with replies on compatibility settings and car telemetry privacy.
476 points by RubyGuy | 146 comments
DO_NOT_TRACK is a proposed standard environment variable for opting out of telemetry in CLI tools, SDKs, and frameworks, with a table of existing per-tool opt-out methods.
422 points by ingve | 306 comments
GitHub CLI documentation page explaining the pseudoanonymous telemetry it sends, why it is collected, and what data is included.
403 points by avionics-guy | 133 comments
GitHub repository for MouseControl (Mouser), a lightweight open-source Python alternative to Logitech Options+ for remapping MX Master 3S mouse buttons.
528 points by cl3misch | 246 comments
Just the Browser is an open-source project of configuration files and install scripts that remove AI features, telemetry, and sponsored content from desktop web browsers.
924 points by segfault22 | 328 comments
GitHub repository README documenting an analysis of Trae IDE's resource usage and telemetry to ByteDance servers that continues even when disabled.
1076 points by ajdude | 237 comments
GitHub repository for pISSStream, a macOS menu bar app that displays the International Space Station's urine tank fill level in real time.
460 points by firebaze | 379 comments
Heise online news article reporting that Firefox now enables a privacy-preserving ad attribution feature that collects user data by default.
593 points by paprikati | 378 comments
An incident.io engineering blog post analyzing collected developer build telemetry to compare M1, M2, and M3 MacBooks and decide whether upgrading is worthwhile.
502 points by kevincox | 218 comments
Mozilla Hacks blog post describing how Firefox performance improved for real users during 2023, based on field metrics.
417 points by Brajeshwar | 205 comments
Homepage of VSCodium, a project distributing free/libre open source, MIT-licensed binaries of Microsoft's VS Code editor.
325 points by baal80spam | 269 comments
TechPowerUp news post reporting that Intel Arc graphics driver 101.4578 installs a telemetry 'Compute Improvement Program' component by default.
376 points by Xeanort | 206 comments
A Dropbox community forum thread where users complain about the Dropbox client's extensive telemetry and the inability to disable it.
954 points by h1x | 262 comments
Nitrokey blog post reporting that smartphones with Qualcomm chips secretly transmit private user data to Qualcomm.