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How Los Angeles Is Getting Scorched by Its Homeless Problem

realclearinvestigations.com

Above, this TV screenshot from 2020 -- of a wildfire near a homeless encampment in Los...
Above, this TV screenshot from 2020 -- of a wildfire near a homeless encampment in Los Angeles' Sepulveda Basin area -- illustrates the intersection of California's wildfire and homeless problems, which are making each other worse. VENICE, Calif. – Francesca Padilla was awakened by the sound of screaming people and ...
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Show HN: Cursor Directory – From a 3-hour build to a 250k users/mo community

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We're Waiting for the End of the Sentence

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The Collective Ambition Behind Odysseus, a Game-Changing Sci-Fi Larp

mssv.net

Last year, hundreds of players inhabited a spaceship on the run, scrambling to keep one step...
Last year, hundreds of players inhabited a spaceship on the run, scrambling to keep one step ahead of the enemy. The sci-fi larp Odysseus was inspired by Battlestar Galactica’s “33“, but where that episode only lasted 45 minutes, Odysseus’ players worked, fought, ate, and slept in-game for fifty non-stop hours. Odys...
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Implementing Generic Types in C

substack.com

One of the most annoying things about programming in C is the lack of support for...
One of the most annoying things about programming in C is the lack of support for generic types, also known as parametric polymorphism. Not to be confused with the abomination that is _Generic.I wish C had something like the following:struct Vector<T> { T* data; size_t capacity; size_t length; }; void vector_resize<...
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Markprompt (YC W24) – Stripe for customer support – is hiring founding eng in SF

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Fauna Service Winding Down

fauna.com

The Fauna Team|Mar 19th, 2025Today we have some significant announcements about the future of the Fauna...
The Fauna Team|Mar 19th, 2025Today we have some significant announcements about the future of the Fauna service as well as our core technology.Fauna’s mission has been to make working with operational data productive, scalable and secure for every software development team. Over the years Fauna built a revolutionary...
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CueCat

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Cat-shaped handheld barcode reader CueCat barcode scanner and interposer cables with male and female PS/2 connectors...
Cat-shaped handheld barcode reader CueCat barcode scanner and interposer cables with male and female PS/2 connectors The CueCat, styled :CueCat with a leading colon, is a cat-shaped handheld barcode reader designed to allow a user to open a link to an Internet URL by scanning a barcode. The devices were given away f...
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Solar Generation Surge Sends European Power Prices Below Zero

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Show HN: Learn where countries are on the world map with Spaced Repetition

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Launch HN: Modernbanc (YC W20) – Modern and fast accounting software

ycombinator.com

Hey HN! We're the team behind Modernbanc (https://modernbanc.com). Today we’re introducing our modern accounting software designed...
Hey HN! We're the team behind Modernbanc (https://modernbanc.com). Today we’re introducing our modern accounting software designed for startups and small businesses. Here’s a demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLkJ-6liTNUThink of it as Linear for accounting software. It is fast, works offline, and saves you...
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How Fast the Days Are Getting Longer

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Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth

cloudflare.com

Today, we’re excited to announce AI Labyrinth, a new mitigation approach that uses AI-generated content to...
Today, we’re excited to announce AI Labyrinth, a new mitigation approach that uses AI-generated content to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that don’t respect “no crawl” directives. When you opt in, Cloudflare will automatically deploy an AI-generated set of linked pages when...

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Google to pay $28M to settle claims it favoured white and Asian employees

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Google has agreed to pay $28m (£22m) to settle a class action lawsuit claiming that it...
Google has agreed to pay $28m (£22m) to settle a class action lawsuit claiming that it favoured white and Asian employees by paying them more and putting them on higher career tracks than other workers.The accord with Google, a unit of Alphabet, won preliminary approval last week from Judge Charles Adams of the Sant...
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The Business of Phish (2013)

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Over the past four years, the rock band Phish has generated over $120 million in ticket...
Over the past four years, the rock band Phish has generated over $120 million in ticket sales, handily surpassing more well known artists like Radiohead, The Black Keys, and One Direction. Since their start 30 years ago, Phish has consistently been one of the most popular and lucrative touring acts in America, gener...
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Show HN: AGX – Open-Source Data Exploration for ClickHouse (The New Standard?)

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Memory Safety for Web Fonts

chrome.com

Published: March 19, 2025 Skrifa is written in Rust, and created as a replacement for FreeType...
Published: March 19, 2025 Skrifa is written in Rust, and created as a replacement for FreeType to make font processing in Chrome secure for all our users. Skifra takes advantage of Rust's memory safety, and lets us iterate faster on font technology improvements in Chrome. Moving from FreeType to Skrifa allows us to ...
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BigCo needs to buy SmallerCo to do anything interesting

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Supply Chain Attacks on Linux Distributions

fenrisk.com

Supply chain attacks have been a trendy topic in the past years. Rather than directly attacking...
Supply chain attacks have been a trendy topic in the past years. Rather than directly attacking their primary target, attackers infiltrate less secure assets, such as software depenencies, firmware, or service providers, to introduce malicious code. In turn, these components also have their own layers of dependencie...
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Video game workers in North America now have an industry-wide union

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There’s now an industry-wide union for video game workers in the US and Canada. The United...
There’s now an industry-wide union for video game workers in the US and Canada. The United Videogame Workers-CWA (UVW-CWA) has a mission to bring together "artists, writers, designers, QA testers, programmers, freelancers and beyond to build worker power irrespective of studio and current job status."The union makes...

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An early look at cryptographic watermarks for AI-generated content

cloudflare.com

Generative AI is reshaping many aspects of our lives, from how we work and learn, to...
Generative AI is reshaping many aspects of our lives, from how we work and learn, to how we play and interact. Given that it's Security Week, it's a good time to think about some of the unintended consequences of this information revolution and the role that we play in bringing them about.Today's web is full of AI-g...

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I got 100% off my train travel

readbunce.com

Hello, you glorious beasts. 🚂 💰️ How to get 100% off long-distance train travel 🏘️ 🤑...
Hello, you glorious beasts. 🚂 💰️ How to get 100% off long-distance train travel 🏘️ 🤑 The UK’s cheapest cities 🇨🇳 💴 The Chinese govt pays students to come home But enough idle talk—to business. How I got 100% off my train travel In 2023, I found a way to get 100% off my long-distance train travel between London and C...

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Pixel 9a: The latest A-series phone with Google AI smarts at an unbeatable value

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Pixel 9a is coming soon! Powered by our fastest, most efficient chip yet, Google Tensor G4,...
Pixel 9a is coming soon! Powered by our fastest, most efficient chip yet, Google Tensor G4, Pixel 9a comes with everything you expect from our Pixel 9 series — complete with a sleek redesign, upgraded main camera and Gemini built in. At just $499, Pixel 9a brings value, helpfulness and AI smarts that are hard to bea...

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Long-acting injectable HIV therapy offers hope for those unable to take pills

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