Europe faces waning influence amid wars, trade tensions, climate inaction and a US administration quick to hurl insults at its oldest allies. In Davos, leaders discuss how Europe can regain its mojo....
Ricardo Martinez II spent more than a decade as a 911 dispatcher, handling thousands of emergencies as US 911 centers face a nationwide staffing and funding crisis. Across the country, emergency call ...
After more than 10 years in development, Hytale early access is here! If you’re just getting started, we’re writing a variety of early-game guides on smelting , setting up servers for friends , and pl...
Hi Everyone, Digital Carrot is a programmable and pluggable app blocker. It lets you block websites and apps on iOS, Mac and Windows until a set of conditions or goal is met. For example you can block...
Ugandan officials claimed that they could also shut down the internet-free, encrypted messaging app last week, but haven't done so yet....
Sports contracts recently accounted for 91% of trading volume on Kalshi....
Haven’t you heard? Phones are boring now . And that’s just fine! Most people buying a new phone just want something familiar that works better than the device they’re replacing. If that’s your MO, the...
The New York Stock Exchange is developing a tokenized securities platform that will allow for 24/7 settlement of trades....
Israel has repeatedly accused UNRWA of providing cover for Hamas militants, claiming that some of its employees took part in the group's 7 October 2023 attack on Israel....
The EU said on Monday it wanted to engage with the United States after President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on European countries in the standoff over Greenland, but was ready to act if needed. F...
War-related violence in Ukraine killed 2,514 civilians and injured 12,142 last year, a 31% rise in the number of victims from 2024, a UN monitor said....
Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson has filmed new introductions for each movie in the trilogy, featuring reflections and anecdotes on filming. Warner Bros. Pictures and re-release company Fathom...
In 2024, the Bank for International Settlements stepped back from mBridge, seeking to distance itself from sanctions-related speculation surrounding the platform....
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is headed to Davos. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to call out President Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum. Newsom has been a vocal...
Al Jazeera's Linh Nguyen explains the global outrage of Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok....
Grok - the AI chatbot developed my Elon Musk's company - is facing growing international backlash for being misused to generate sexually explicit and nonconsensual images. Malaysia and Indonesia have ...
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/30/22410164/linux-kernel-university-of-minnesota-banned-open-source Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605950 Points: 7 # Comments: 1...
Hi HN, In most codebases I’ve worked on, temporary hacks (“TODO: remove later”, “just for this release”) slowly become permanent. Nobody remembers why they exist, but they keep shipping to production....
Hi HN, I built an open-source AI agent that has already indexed and can search the entire Epstein files, roughly 100M words of publicly released documents. The goal was simple: make a large, messy cor...
Article URL: https://www.the-berliner.com/english-news-berlin/4000-tons-of-potatoes-to-be-given-away-for-free/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618544 Points: 18 # Comments: 7...