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Are Tech Meetups Dead?

I work with a bunch of people that just left college and we were discussing how to avoid deskilling and I said "well, you could go to local meetups". They're in NYC (I'm in Florida right now) and said there isn't much going on and I couldn't believe it. Asked some more experienced friends that have been living there for longer and they said that it all died during COVID and never came back.I ran or helped organize meetups in multiple places, back in Brazil where I&#

Board Governance in 2025: Three Pillars for Navigating Complexity with Confidence

Boards are navigating a business landscape that has undergone rapid transformation. Today, boardrooms face a new phase of acceleration driven by technological disruption, stakeholder activism, and macroeconomic uncertainty. This moment demands not just agility, but a mindset shift toward exponential thinking: embracing the vastness of what’s possible while knowing when to draw boundaries.

Coworkers Producing Shit Code

hey im a jr software dev, somehow it seems like all my coworkers produce shit code 24/7. They are either trying to get it done as quickly as possible or they are lazy, or they are just clueless. They basically take the entire sprint to fix the new defects their features introduce. At first when I joined the team as a jr I didn't know exactly what their code did, now that I have been working in the codebase for 9 months I can clearly tell the code quality they are producing is just shit

GitHub commit Verification logic flaw and bypass

I know Git is not designed to use in the way GitHub is operating under and the spoofying had been an old issue that had been brought up throughout the years. With Shai Hulud and AI Agent, this time is abit more serious as the commit verification can be spoofed as well if you did not op in Vigilant Mode AND with a registered GPG key.I understand there are limitations to platform and the Git itself, but design decision and design flaw are totally different things. With the very frustrating bug bou

Show HN: Self-hosted collaborative SQL editor for teams

I built a self-hostable web-based sql client interfaces for me and my team.We were using the community version of - https://dbeaver.io, but we needed a few more features and an improved editor. PopSQL was a modern take on web based sql editor, but it didn't fit into the infra security setup we have.We needed: - SSO - Audit logs - Modern editor (https://www.pgcli.com/ like hints) - Sharable queries - Explain queries (https://explain.dalibo.com&#x2F

Ask HN: When and why did you start believing in God?

I presume many here are not believers. So, for those who believe—and in the spirit of open and genuine curiosity—I’d love to know what made them change their minds.

Show HN: Raft in Rust

For quite sometime, I’ve wanted to give implementing the Raft consensus protocol a try. I first looked at MIT’s 6.5840 Distributed Systems labs as a way to do this but it is in Go and my Go skills have atrophied as well as I have been deeply investing time in Rust. The other option was PingCAPs approach (https://github.com/pingcap/talent-plan/blob/master/courses/d...) but I also wanted the ability to define my own types and RPC approach, so I decided to do

Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale

Hey we’re Faiz and Saheed and we built Minicor so AI companies who need to integrate to desktop systems with no API can quickly build scalable desktop RPAs. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD0GHZIJ1cwWe were working on non-RPA integrations when a customer promised to sign a deal in 2 days if we could unblock a sale of theirs that involved integrating with a clinic’s Windows based medical record system. We didn’t know it at the time but it turns out that building desktop RPAs

Why codex /goal fails on complex workflows: compaction amnesia and context rot

Hi HN,When Openai released `/goal` earlier this month, I was really excited to try it for long-horizon tasks. But after using it, it didn't blow me away and i did some digging and found a major architectural flaw when using it for complex multi-issue workflows: context rot.This isn't anything new, but given how openai positioned this feature to developers, i was let down by how they'd implemented context management.Though /goal is a step forward in long-horizon coding, i

Ask HN: Sudden spike in web traffic 19-21 May?

Hi folks, longtime lurker and first time poster here.Did any of you notice a spike in traffic to your app/website/blog on 19, 20 and/or 21 May?Is my built-in traffic tracking (Awstats) possibly not very reliable?On 19 May my blog got 2.5x of a whole month's traffic (750 "unique visitors") and on 20 and 21 each got a whole month's traffic (~300 visitors).The last new post at that point had been on 14 May, so no brand new content.Usually the majority of visitors

The solution the supply chain problems is removing your deps from .gitignore

I head the major realisation today that we've all been bamboozled.All the supply chain attacks currently happening would never even happen if we just checked in our language-respective vendor/node_modules/venv directories into git and just deployed straight from that.Screw the dependency install and upgrade step. Screw the automated build step. Screw the breaking changes because $package_owner doesnt adhere to semver.Checking in dependencies and their updates individually is, and

2026-05-25 IRS Prepares to Challenge Kwong After Limited AOD on Abdo

This week we look at: Equitable Relief for Erroneous Tax Refunds: An Analysis of the Fourth Circuit's Reversal in LaRosa v. Commissioner Final Regulations Modify Information Reporting for Section 751(a) Partnership Interest Exchanges The Impermeable Reach of Section 6672: Joint and Several Trust Fund Liability and the Demise of the Delegation Defense The Taxpayer Due Process Enhancement Act (H.R. 6506): A Crucial Legislative Response to Commissioner v. Zuch Demystifying Notice 2026-33: Compreh

Expense Tracking and Budgeting — how clean books improve profits

After COVID, cooking oil prices surged significantly as supply chains recovered. Stuart couldn't control the price — but he realised he could control everything around how oil was used, maintained, and tracked. He implemented a filtration process, a strict change schedule based on usage (not guesswork), temperature discipline, and started logging oil spend in his books weekly. The cost per week came down despite the higher unit price. When he became a bookkeeper, this became the framework he use

08. Kai-Zen Recruit & Retain

Post-COVID, employees want more flexibility, protection, and retirement savings—but employers are struggling to meet those demands without increasing costs. This video introduces "Kai-Zen", a powerful strategy that helps businesses attract and retain top talent by enhancing benefits without additional strain on company budgets. By combining employer contributions with leverage, Kai-Zen can provide up to 3x more funding and 60–100% greater employee benefits. Discover how to strengthen your workfo

The Great Reset

This video explains how the technocrats used Covid as a cover for their launch of the New World Order. It identifies the main tool they use to keep us helpless and dependent and gives a clear explanation of the way to liberate ourselves.

One Move 21-Day Gentle Somatics Program

Talking a little bit about my 21-day gentle somatics program One Move. We start in 2 days, on Tuesday, May 26. Accessible practices for anyone wanting a practice to slow down and help heal your relationship with your body, designed to center the needs of those with ME, PEM Long Covid and other chronic illnesses that many movement spaces do not adequately accommodate. Join us! Link in bio or go to horsetailandoak.com

We've Been Schooled

The education system we are all most familiar with—a system that employs compulsory, age-graded, full-time instruction in a government institution—is actually a fairly recent approach to education, and in many ways, is no education at all. It’s social conditioning for the modern industrialized state. If you are surprised by the recent events surrounding the American public education system (i.e., introduction of CRT, COVID closures, co-ed bathrooms, etc), you may be even more shocked to discov

Apollo 13 – Did it really happen?

Here's a short video I recorded for my church back in 2020 – when we all had to do things online during the first COVID lockdown. Apollo 13 isn't the only important event in history we can know about! (Yes, I still have copies of the booklet I mention.) :-)

Chip Clip 2.mp4

For Voice of the Heart Center, Chip Dodd said working with virtual assistants helped transform the company into a fully remote and scalable operation. Because the team was already experienced in collaborating virtually, the transition during COVID was seamless, allowing them to stay efficient, support customers, and continue growing without the added costs of expanding office space or hiring locally.

Somali president meets civil society leaders over democracy and state-building

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on Monday held talks with representatives of civil society groups on the country's democratic transition, state-building efforts and progress in security and ...