Starbucks Will No Longer Require Employees To Be Vaccinated Against COVID Or Get Tested
The move comes weeks after Starbucks employees from a Buffalo, New York, shop walked out after growing concerns for their health and safety.
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Israel-Diaspora Partnering for Shared Society
What I saw in Tira and elsewhere during my early January visit to Israel, is precisely the kind of transformation civil ...
Show HN: Perspectives – I wanted AI to challenge my thinking, not validate it
I built Perspectives because I got tired of ChatGPT agreeing with everything I said.Ask any LLM to "consider multiple perspectives" and you get hedged consensus. The model acknowledges trade-offs exist, then settles on a moderate position that offends nobody. Useful for summaries. Useless for decision making.Perspectives forces disagreement. 8 personas with fundamentally incompatible frameworks debate your question through a structured protocol, then vote using Single Transferable Vote
Show HN: Freebird – Authorization without identity using VOPRF cryptography
I built Freebird as a resistance to the surveillance state that has been established in the United States. Every useful system requires identity by default. Want rate limiting? Track users. Want access control? Create accounts. Want to prevent spam? Surveil everyone.Freebird uses VOPRF (Verifiable Oblivious Pseudorandom Function) to separate "can you do this?" from "who are you?" Users get unforgeable tokens that prove authorization while revealing nothing about identity. The
Ask HN: Will agentic AI grow to handle technology leadership responsibilities?
I think it is now pretty clear what impact agentic AI has on coders. I am curious how technology leaders (e.g., software architects, staff engineers, senior developers, team leads) are changing how they work and what they are responsible for in organizations that have fully committed to agentic AI. Now that it is the AI that is writing the code...Do we still need humans to manage tech debt?Do we still need humans to review the AI output?Do we still need humans to care about non-functional requir
Show HN: Postgres and ClickHouse as a unified data stack
Hello HN, this is Sai and Kaushik from ClickHouse. Today we are launching a Postgres managed service that is natively integrated with ClickHouse. It is built together with Ubicloud (YC W24).TL;DR: NVMe-backed Postgres + built-in CDC into ClickHouse + pg_clickhouse so you can keep your app Postgres-first while running analytics in ClickHouse.Try it (private preview): https://clickhouse.com/cloud/postgres Blog w/ live demo: https://clickhouse.com/blog/p
Ask HN: How to Follow the Bosses' Wants
Probably a pretty classic story.. keep in mind this is me being affected so there's no way I can give an impartial representation of what's happening, but I promise I'll try...I've been working in a startup for 5 years now, and the startup is going through growing pains to make a more formal company structure. As they do.We have a new boss of my product area, who is looking to deliver on their first quarter.Our product area has a long-running issue design issue that we have b
Show HN: Python lib and Java CLI tool to read/write Screaming Frog config files
Hey all, first time posting. I posted about this on linkedin and a friend said I should post here tooI run a lot of headless Screaming Frog crawls on servers.The main bottleneck is that while the SF CLI can consume configuration files (.seospiderconfig), it cannot produce them. If you want to run a crawl with complex settings (like custom extractions or specific excludes), you are forced to open the desktop GUI, configure it manually, save the file, and upload it.You can't just script the f
A Civil Rights Veteran Revisits the Summer of 1965
Society / Q&A / The white college student supported Black voters in segregated Alabama, and began documenting the front lines ...
One Year Of Trump 2.0: Impact Of Foreign Aid Cuts On Fight Against HIV, TB
The Trump administration's dismantling of US foreign aid, which started a year ago on Tuesday, has caused the preventable ...
How one organization is trying to close the funding gap left by USAID's closure
In the wake of the USAID closure, philanthropies are trying to fill some of the gap. How one organization is trying to do the most good in the face of the sudden funding gap.
After USAID And WHO: Global Health Without U.S. Leadership
With the U.S. out of WHO and USAID dismantled, global health systems are shrinking just as conflict, climate shocks, and ...
USAID is all but gone. For one family, 3 generations of service were defined by it
WASHINGTON (AP) — He was special, Albert Votaw’s daughter remembers all these decades later. Cathy Votaw is 70 now, more than a dozen years older than her father lived to be. She describes a man with ...
Show HN: Ask CLI – A simple tool to get help with commands from the terminal
I want to share Ask CLI, a tool I developed to get help with commands and coding directly from the terminal. It is a simple app designed to do one thing well: provide instant command assistance. This isn't a complex coding agent like Claude Code; it is built specifically to get short, fast answers without context switching.As a developer, I’ve always struggled to remember every command and its specific options. Whenever I need to use tools like Docker, Git, or psql, I find myself leaving th
Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
Almost all transactional emails are being marked as suspicious even when their SPF/DKIM records are fine and they’ve been whitelisted before. Did Google break something in gmail/spam filtering?
Show HN: Built an AI powered image editor for IntelliJ
Hi all, I always missed having an image editor in the Jetbrains products (PyCharm, Webstorm, IntelliJ), so I built a plugin to handle most image editing capabilities. Also added Gemini and OpenAI support, which lead to some surprising capabilities.Not gonna lie, took a while to build, even with AI tools, and I have a long list of features to add, but I'm super happy its on the market place now, and I even did a first sale, and I'll probably never be able to express how happy that made
AI's Phase Transition Noise
The Sound of a System ChangingArticles like “The AI-Powered Web Is Eating Itself” https://www.noemamag.com/the-ai-powered-web-is-eating-itself/ frame AI as a breaking point for the internet — a moment where incentives collapse, creators are erased, and the web begins consuming its own foundations. The tone is familiar: something vital is being lost, and the damage may be irreversible.But much of what’s being described isn’t destruction. It’s noise.Specifically, it’s phase-tra
Ask HN: Why doesn't JavaScript have a Laravel/Rails-level back end framework?
In most ecosystems there’s a “default” backend framework (Rails, Django, Laravel, .NET). In JS it still feels like stitching together Express/Nest + auth + ORM + jobs + queues + config. Why did JS never converge on a batteries-included backend framework?
ChatGPT has no real-time clock – time awareness is essential
During a conversation about my bedtimes, I realized that ChatGPT cannot access or track real-time, objective timestamps, which limits its reliability in time-sensitive applications.During a conversation with ChatGPT about my current and past bedtimes, I discovered that the model does not have access to a real-time clock.Time is an objective, factual element that structures daily life, and without awareness of it, ChatGPT cannot accurately determine or reconstruct past or present events. This is
Show HN: Reel Rogue – A browser roguelike (idler) about manipulating the odds
About a month ago, I shared the Day 1 prototype of this project (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46448670). It has since evolved into a somewhat more polished "Slot-Machine Deckbuilder."I also recently moved the project from qq-pwn.com to alt-qq.com. I did this mid-development specifically to see if I could migrate a live player base and session states without losing people.The Design Challenge: The core of the game is a "One-Armed Bandit" dungeon crawler.