The EU’s audit office has demanded greater transparency over EU funding contracts for non-profit civil society organisations, despite finding no evidence during a year-long probe of any wrongdoing by either NGOs or European Commission officials.
From Ukraine's Russian-occupied territory of Crimea to Central Asia, repressive regimes in former Soviet republics have been setting up fake nongovernmental organizations -- so-called GONGOs -- to try ...
TL;DR: weather forecasts but for respiratory disease. Interpret with caution :)Hey HN,Every year during the respiratory disease season (winter in the northern hemisphere), the CDC runs challenges where teams -- academics, mostly, but also government and companies -- submit forecasts of the disease burden each week. These are 4-week-ahead forecasts.We (Emily and I, Joseph) built RespiLens.com as a static website to display these forecasts all in one place with a nicer interface than what is gener
https://liquidityfm.orgI built this because existing market sonification tools usually just map price to pitch, resulting more noise than music. I wanted a system that translated market sentiment into music that I would actually want to listen to in the background while I work.THE LOGIC (State Machine)Instead of raw pitch mapping, I built a deterministic state machine that normalizes live data into 60 distinct audio permutations based on three vectors:1. Sentiment: Candle color streaks
The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. Eighty years ago, upon deep reflection on the bitter lessons of the two world wars, the international community decided ...
WASHINGTON, March 28 (Reuters) - Personnel of the U.S. Agency for International Development were told on Friday that all positions there not required by law would be eliminated, after the State ...
WASHINGTON -- The State Department said Friday it was officially shuttering the U.S. Agency for International Development, in what could deal a final blow to the beleaguered foreign aid agency. The ...
The Trump administration is launching an unprecedented, $11 billion soft-power effort to remake foreign health assistance ...
Over the past month, Michigan State University professor Marcy Hessling O’Neil has had to inform 47 Malawian students that their university scholarships can no longer be paid for. Their scholarships — ...
I am deeply concerned by the recent attacks on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and its dedicated public servants. Established by President John F. Kennedy, USAID has ...
A budding media start-up producing a culinary docuseries has been stuck in limbo for months. After being approved for USAID funding, the show’s co-founders discovered that the agency’s money never cleared — and now the Trump administration is caught in a legal battle to dismantle USAID.
The State Department Office of Inspector General on Monday issued a report highlighting possible issues with the Trump administration’s planning process for folding the U.S. Agency for International ...
Employees will be laid off under reduction in force procedures on either July 1 or Sept. 2, which also are key dates for terminating agency programming or transferring it to the State Department. In ...
Almost every observer would argue that the U.S. foreign assistance architecture in place up until January 20, 2025, needed a major shakeup. In recent months, the Trump administration has undertaken ...
Hey HN,Open Royalties is an easy way for builders to get upfront cash for new projects without setting up a new company, selling equity, or taking on rigid loans.I created this because I kept running into the same problem: I wanted to fund my projects, but the options didn't fit.- Banks want collateral - VCs want unicorns - Revenue-based lenders often have punishing termsOpen Royalties is a simple al
Hello HN,I am a Physics PhD student. I built this app because I kept procrastinating on my thesis due to ADHD, and existing tools didn't fit my workflow.Most ADHD apps are either mobile-only or require monthly subscriptions for cloud sync on their proprietary servers. Since I work on a Windows PC in the lab and use an Android phone on the go, I needed a cross-platform solution that respects privacy.The Solution: I built Gravity Focus using Flutter.Local-first & Privacy: No central serve
I posted a link to a long-form article on X (Twitter). Impressions: single digits. Nothing was deleted. No warning. No ban. It simply didn’t reach anyone.At first glance this is easy to dismiss as “algorithm roulette.” But the same invisibility patterns show up across platforms:- YouTube political content gets quietly demonetized / de-ranked - External links on social feeds often underperform (sometimes dramatically) - LLMs (ChatGPT/Claude/etc.) tend to sanitize or avoid political
After you install it, codex will start speaking after a turn by summarizing what it did. It intelligently skips over large block of codes and tries some cleverness.<p>You can change the voice, volume, speed from the tool bar.<p><a href="https://github.com/agentify-sh/speak" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/agentify-sh/speak</a>
I'm curious to know if you've ever tried any low-code tools (e.g., OutSystems, Mendix, PowerApps, etc.). If not, why not? What are your top objections to those tools? If so, which ones have you tried and what did you think about them? Any thoughts about them becoming more AI-powered?
I built this free web app a couple of years ago because I always need to know what meetings are coming up, and I've never found a satisfactory solution. So, here comes a web app that throws countdowns at you, as well as playing ping sounds/flashing the screen when meetings are approaching. I always have multiple screens around, and I dedicate a vertical panel to this app.Lately, I've upgraded it to also support booking rooms by querying for free rooms and "fast booking"