Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Did social media fan the flames of riot in Southport?

False accusations about the attacker followed a familiar pattern, the BBC's Marianna Spring finds.

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Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Going viral for the fist time – Wordware (YC S24) -- IDE for AI Agents

Article URL: https://twitter.wordware.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41113155

Points: 4

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Southport stabbing: How the knife attack unfolded

BBC Verify pieces together a timeline of how a stabbing attack at a Taylor Swift-themed class in the Merseyside town of Southport unfolded.

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Lobster dinner for King Charles cost France €450,000

The country's audit office has warned that "significant efforts" are needed to restore financial balance after an increase in spending.

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Monday, July 29, 2024

Israeli protesters enter army base after soldiers held over Gaza detainee abuse

The Sde Teiman base has been at the centre of reports of serious abuses against Palestinians from Gaza.

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Rachel Reeves's spending audit at-a-glance

The chancellor has accused the Tories of hiding a £22bn overspend, as she lays out spending cuts.

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Sunday, July 28, 2024

AMA on X with Boom CEO Blake Scholl

Article URL: https://twitter.com/bscholl/status/1817609172860780562

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41095167

Points: 2

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Olympics' AI Security Stokes Backlash over Mass Surveillance

Article URL: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/olympics-ai-security-stokes-backlash-over-mass-surveillance

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41095160

Points: 1

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Murray & Evans stage thrilling comeback in tie-break

Watch the moment GB's Andy Murray and Dan Evans beat Daniel Taro and Kei Nishikori of Japan in the first round of the men's doubles at Paris 2024.

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Obituary: Edna O'Brien, the writer whose novels created scandal and were banned

Edna O'Brien will always be known as the controversial Irish novelist who scandalised Catholic Ireland.

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Saturday, July 27, 2024

Workbrew

Article URL: https://workbrew.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41088645

Points: 2

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Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41088626

Points: 1

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Thousands join Tommy Robinson march in London

Police said a major operation was in place to "keep the peace" between protesters and counter-protesters.

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Friday, July 26, 2024

Assisted dying bill introduced in Parliament

Former Justice Secretary Lord Falconer's bill would allow terminally ill adults to end their lives.

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Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Eluned Morgan hopes to 'turn new page' for Welsh Labour

The first female leader of Wales says she will "go out and listen to what the people want".

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Saturday, July 20, 2024

Friday, July 19, 2024

Poll: The first Crowdstrike disaster of 2024 - Ignorance or Malice?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41010066

Points: 1

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Doctor calls for kindness during IT outage

Dr Jess Harvey says NHS staff are having "a hell of a day" coping without access to digital records.

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Cooper calls Leeds disorder 'audacious criminality'

Yvette Cooper MP has said those who sparked the disturbances will face full force of the law.

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Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Three things to watch for in JD Vance's convention speech

The Ohio senator will introduce himself on the national stage after Donald Trump named him as his running mate.

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Common blood-thinning drug neutralises cobra venom

Heparin can neutralise the necrosis-causing toxins in some spitting cobras' venom, scientists discover.

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Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Monday, July 15, 2024

NASA's CAPSTONE is testing "Autopilot" software suite for cislunar operations

Article URL: https://spacenews.com/nasa-capstone-testing-autopilot-software-suite-cislunar-operations/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40970398

Points: 1

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JD Vance once criticised Trump. Now he's his running mate

The junior senator from Ohio shot to fame writing about his hard upbringing and morphed from a 'never-Trumper' into a Maga champion.

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Billie Eilish to read CBeebies bedtime story

The American singer, 22, said she "loved" bedtime stories herself when she was a child.

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Sunday, July 14, 2024

Piers Morgan and Olly Murs cheer England in Euros final

Piers Morgan, Olly Murs and Peter Crouch are among those cheering on England in Berlin.

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Saturday, July 13, 2024

Friday, July 12, 2024

French rugby players charged with raping woman in Argentina

The rugby players, who deny rape, are accused of attacking a woman in a hotel room after an international match.

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Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Javalab – Science Simulations

Article URL: https://javalab.org/en/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40930490

Points: 1

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Musk defeats ex-Twitter staff seeking $500m in severance

A US judge dismissed the case, one of several filed in the aftermath of Mr Musk's takeover of the site.

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Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Monday, July 8, 2024

UK weather: Why has it been raining so much?

Some parts of the UK have seen a month's worth of rain in the first week of July. Is there any end in sight to this wet spell?

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Justin Bieber performs at India's mega wedding

Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant's wedding party is setting new standards for extravagance.

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Sunday, July 7, 2024

SQLite Integration Coming to Node.js

Article URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/53752

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40899722

Points: 3

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Senior Hamas official killed as Israel orders fresh evacuation

Ehab al-Ghussein had been appointed to manage the affairs of the Hamas government in Gaza City and northern Gaza.

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Saturday, July 6, 2024

Behind the scenes of election night with Sir John Curtice

John Curtice stays awake for 36 hours analysing the election results.

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Electioncast Results: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer

The Labour prime minister makes his first speech in Downing Street.

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Friday, July 5, 2024

Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Creating My Own Linux-Based Smart TV

Article URL: https://carltheperson.com/posts/earlgreytv/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40869173

Points: 16

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Man jailed over 39 lorry deaths to be deported

A total of 11 people have been convicted in the UK over the lorry deaths discovered in Essex.

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Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Show HN: OfferGPT – Offer letter analyzer for negotiating better pay

While this is relatively easy in ChatGPT now, ChatGPT uses salary data that is not up-to-date. Moreover, was surprised to find that it has a hard time extracting salary components properly, since they're buried in company offer documents at random places.

This one extracts the salary details with vectorization to get all components, pulls latest salary data from 6figr.com & compares it to tell where you lie.

Its also instructed to find angles for negotiating a better pay.


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40859683

Points: 2

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Man planning to buy first passport after £800k win

Neighbours in BS3 collectively won more than £3m in the draw.

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Hungary's Viktor Orban urges ceasefire on Kyiv visit

He is a critic of Western support for Ukraine and is seen as the European leader closest to Russia's Vladimir Putin.

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Monday, July 1, 2024

Show HN: I built sales API, Stripe Atlas closed me

My Co-founder and I have spent the last three months developing customsalesapi.com, a platform designed to automate sales and lead generation processes.

Essentially, we streamline everything you'd typically do with Apollo by describing your company to our AI.

If you're interested, I'd be thrilled to have you as one of our early clients. Please let me know if you'd like more information.

Few days ago, we used Stripe Atlas to create our company, and right after company is created, stripe closed our account (account id is acct_1PMyxBIbdJ0fozrG).

I went to asking help from many groups but I saw this exact same thing is happening everywhere


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40849622

Points: 1

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Rocket barrage launched at Israel as battle rages in Gaza City

The barrage targeting southern communities was reportedly the biggest from Gaza in six months.

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Man used 'slapping therapy as diabetes cure', court hears

Hongchi Xiao was charged with manslaughter by gross negligence late last year.

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Show HN: rtrvr.ai – AI Web Agent for Automating Workflows and Data Extraction

Hey HN, I'm excited to share rtrvr.ai, a Chrome extension that brings the power of AI agents to your everyday web browsing. It's de...