FCOSS executive director Vani Catanasiga said the reform reflects years of persistent advocacy by civil society organisations working to make national budgeting more accessible to ordinary citizens.
The recent acquittal of 24 humanitarian workers by a court in Lesbos, in what the European Parliament called the “largest case of criminalization of solidarity in Europe”, should have been a turning point in the Greek government’s assault on civil society. Instead, it has doubled down.
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A coalition of civil society organisations and organised labour under the umbrella of the Movement for Credible Elections (MCE) on Tuesday stormed the National Assembly foe a massive protest, asking ...
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By Jonathan Landay and Douglas Gillison WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The White House budget office is using millions of ...
I built a thing.For the past few weeks I've been working on Angora — an open-source design system that runs inside Claude Code.You design a button in Figma. An engineer rebuilds it in React. Someone sets up Storybook to document it. Then you spend the rest of the project keeping three versions of the same button in sync. Tokens drift. The component explorer rots. The "single source of truth" is actually four sources of partial truth.The problem isn't handoff. It's the en
I run cloud and AI infrastructure at an enterprise. Over the past year agents went from experiments to touching real systems with real credentials. Then one broke. Legal asked what happened. We had logs but no reproducible artifact, no proof of what policy governed the action, no way to show the same inputs would produce the same behavior again. Nobody was building this internally, so I started building it at 11pm after my kids go to bed. Gait is a Go CLI that turns each agent run into a signed
Hey HN. I built Deathwink (https://deathwink.com) -- a web app that delivers your messages after you die.You write a message, record a video or audio message, or both -- attach whatever you want, add your recipients, and go live your life. Every 30 days, we check in. If you stop responding, after 90 days we assume you've died and deliver your messages.The idea came from a real place. In my early 20s, my best friend Sean and I came up during the first dot-com boom. We were broke, d
The book page links to a blog post that explains how I got about it (and has a link to sample content), but the TL&DR is that I could not find a lot of books that were on "our" history _and_ were larded with technical details. So I set about writing one, and some five years later I'm happy to share the result. I think it's one of the few "computer history" books that has tons of code, but correct me if I'm wrong (I wrote this both to tell a story and to
I built a niche analytics SaaS in a noisy market where: - users already have default tools, - switching costs are mostly habit/psychological, - and credibility/trust matters a lot.<p>What actually worked for you to get the first ~1,000 meaningful users? Looking for tactics that don’t feel spammy: partnerships, communities, outbound approaches, content formats, launch strategies, anything.<p>If you reply with what worked (and what didn’t), I’ll share back what I try + results.
The most important lesson in IT security is: don't trust the user.Not "verify then trust." Not "trust but monitor." Just - don't trust them. Assume every user is compromised, negligent, or adversarial. Build your systems accordingly. This principle gave us least privilege, network segmentation, rate limiting, audit logs, DLP. It works.So why are we treating AI agents like trusted colleagues?The current alignment discourse assumes we need to make agents want to behav
Hello HN,I've been using Claude Code for managing my AWS infra and I have multiple accounts (probably should have just one but here we are), and everytime I needed to work with my Cloudfront or S3 or Dynamo or anything else I was constantly updating AWS IAM Policies and had to remember to remove the policy permissions after I was done so my account didn't just have access to everything for my user.So I built a simple MCP server that talks to AWS STS and allows claude code to request te
I am a software engineer at a small startup that is in the middle of a transition to a medium sized profitable company.To assist with this, I have been reassigned to work on security related tasks. Things like tightening up our firewalls and drafting up security related company policies which up to this point we have never had.In the last 3 months there has been a noticeable increase in demands for these restrictions to be lifted for AI purposes. I don't know why it's so sudden. Maybe
I wrote a parser (runtime and type-level) for WebAssembly Interface Types (https://component-model.bytecodealliance.org/design/wit.html). const wit = [ "record user { name: string, age: u32 }", "variant api-error { not-found, unauthorized(string) }", "get-user: func(id: u64) -> user;", "create-post: func(author: user, post: post) -> result<post, api-error>;", ] as const; type Client = WitClient<Parse
What makes a successful Employee Resource Group? Employee Resource Groups ran effectively have great potential to strengthen the professional development of your workforce. They foster engaged, community outreach initiatives and excel your Diversity, Equity and Inclusion goals. A defined mission, a committed leadership team, and an ideal budget allows you to lead with tangible and sustainable actions. But, this is only the start. Here’s how we would run an Employee Resource Group step by step
The prolonged economic slowdown has had serious social consequences. Pakistan’s unemployment rate rose to 8.5 per cent in ...