https://macworks.dev/tags/surveillance/Recent content in Surveillance on MacWorksHugoenhttps://macworks.dev/docs/week/hackernews/hackernews-2026-05-17/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://macworks.dev/docs/week/hackernews/hackernews-2026-05-17/<h1 id="hacker-news--2026-05-17">Hacker News — 2026-05-17<a class="anchor" href="#hacker-news--2026-05-17">#</a></h1> <h2 id="top-story">Top Story<a class="anchor" href="#top-story">#</a></h2> <p>When Fisker went bankrupt, they left 11,000 Ocean SUV owners with $70k vehicles that were rapidly becoming rolling paperweights as the company&rsquo;s cloud servers went dark. Instead of accepting the loss, an organized collective of 4,000 owners reverse-engineered the proprietary software patches, mapped the CAN buses, built Home Assistant integrations, and essentially stood up an open-source car company from the ashes. It&rsquo;s a massive, tangible win for the Right to Repair movement and a damning indictment of the &ldquo;software-defined vehicle&rdquo; architecture that ties critical functionality to a startup&rsquo;s fragile runway.</p>