Jafar Panahi, a renowned Iranian film-maker, is urging the international community to help Iranian people because he says the Islamic Republic has lost its legitimacy and will stop at nothing to survi...
US President Donald Trump told Iranian protesters on Tuesday that “help is on its way” as he weighed options to punish Tehran for its brutal crackdown. As the threat of military action looms, analysts...
UN human rights chief Volker Turk said Tuesday he was "horrified" by the violence in Iran as a government crackdown continued. The Human Rights Activists News Agency estimated the death toll at 646 w...
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who needs to have a graft conviction overturned to seize her best chance at the French presidency, risks seeing her life's work upended if she loses her appeal. It come...
Hi HN, I’m the creator of SnackBase. I built this because I work in Healthcare and Life Sciences domain and was tired of spending months building the same "compliant" infrastructure (Audit Logs, Row-L...
Police say a manipulated emergency exit, that shouldn't open from the outside, gave thieves access in last month's major bank heist in Gelsenkirchen. They warned customers that investigations would li...
The most interesting story at this year's CES was just a little tiny bundle of technology. One way to look at Lego's new Smart Brick is as something like a Raspberry Pi, an endlessly remixable gizmo w...
Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI tool, which has launched as a research preview this week. Anthropic Anthropic employees used Claude to build Cowork, its new agentic tool launched this week. The AI startu...
The 'Dark Enlightenment' pundit published a transcript he says shows how easily a chatbot can be steered into echoing a user’s ideology....
For the past 8 years at Louisa County High School in Mineral, Virginia, students have been using skills learned in their auto tech class to refurbish cars – and donate them to single mothers in need....
I went on my first solo trip and realized that I prefer traveling with friends. Sean Abrams In the summer of 2022, I went to London for my first solo trip to see my favorite artist perform. The concer...
Changes to how customers tip on Uber Eats and DoorDash have led to lower earnings for gig workers, according to a report from New York City. Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images Uber Eats and DoorDas...
US sanctions have damaged Iran's economy, which was the reason the protests broke out in the first place....
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 Ayder — a single-binary, HTTP-native durable event log written in C. The wedge is simple: curl is the client (no JVM, no ZooKeeper, no thick client libs). There’s a 2-minute demo that s...
Ugandan authorities shut down internet access nationwide on Tuesday, two days ahead of elections in which President Yoweri Museveni has overseen a crackdown on the opposition as he seeks to extend his...
Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan Kevin Winter/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images Polymarket partnered with the Golden Globes, showing viewers betting odds for each award category. Ultimately, Poly...
Less than two weeks into office, Zohran Mamdani said ”no” when questioned whether he held any crypto or planned to invest in a former New York City mayor's memecoin project....
South Korean prosecutors called on Tuesday for the death penalty to be handed down to former president Yoon Suk Yeol for his December 2024 declaration of martial law, which plunged the country into ch...
Hey HN! We’re Will and Jorge, and we’ve built LAD (Language-Aided Design), a SolidWorks add-in that uses LLMs to create sketches, features, assemblies, and macros from conversational inputs ( https://...