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🚀 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Friday, 7 August 2026 Terry Godier, “Browsers Have Standards, the App Store Has Judgment”: A while ago I tried to submit an iOS app for Dark Hours, my astronomy website for normal people. It was rejected on the grounds that it was astrology. It has no tarot function, no horoscopes, and nothing that I, or anyone else I’ve asked, would associate with astrology. I penned a nice little rant two years ago expressing my fury over the way that kooks promoting astrology often try…

✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next two months but the agency’s policy gives it broad control over what footage will be made public by specifying any releases must be in its “best interests.”After years of delays, ICE said its field officers nationwide will have body-worn cameras by the end of September. The rollout comes after recent fatal shootings by officers enforcing President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown have intensified pressure for accountability that the cameras could provide.But…

🔥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Listen to this articleEstimated 4 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.Canada added 75,000 jobs in July, up 0.4 per cent, as the unemployment rate fell to 6.4 per cent, its lowest level in two years.Statistics Canada's labour force survey released on Friday said most of those gains were split between full- and part-time work, as wholesale and retail trade alone added 21,000 new jobs.…

✨ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: When then UK Prime Minister Liz Truss and Treasurer Kwasi Kwarteng sparked economic turmoil by announcing unfunded tax cuts for top earners to boost economic growth, it created one of the most extraordinary political crises in UK history.Their "mini budget" spooked the markets and was widely condemned for appearing to rely on the discredited theory of "trickle-down economics". But it’s an idea that has persisted: the last 50 years has seen a dramatic decline in taxes on the rich across advanced democracies. Margaret Thatcher, Ronald…

✨ Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Dear new developer, When I was starting out, I thought that software development was all about code. After all, that was the main thing I was working on. Well, maybe not the main thing, as I needed to know what code to write, how to interface with other code, what was the problem being solved, how to deliver it, the correctness of the code, and how it could be maintained. But, the writing the code felt like the most important part of the job. It…

💥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The fact that you, or I, or any living creature, is here at all is a series of astonishing strokes of luck stretching back more than 4 billion years. One of the biggest hurdles was the very first one: How did life emerge from a primordial soup of stuff that very much wasn't alive?A radical new study, published in Science Advances, suggests that this unlikely threshold may actually have been crossed not once, but twice.Two of the main lineages of life – bacteria and archaea –…

✨ Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Bulldozers and heavy construction equipment have arrived in and around Big Bend National Park in Texas, amid a battle over the Trump administration's plans to expand the president's border wall across one of the country's most remote national parks.Social media videos by conservation groups and local activists show contractors clearing vegetation near the Rio Grande amid federal plans for multibillion-dollar border security project that includes vehicle barriers, surveillance systems and extensive patrol-road construction across the Big Bend region.The work has faced bipartisan backlash in Congress,…

✨ Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Lies are a lot like gourds. They come in hundreds of different varieties, sizes, and bulbous, twisty shapes. Some are off-puttingly spiked and prickly, while others remind us of fall childhood memories. (more…)

🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I've seen, and probably you have seen too, far too many prototypes out there created with AI treated as products, because it is that easy to prompt two sentences and get something that resembles a real thing. Do you want a website to sell your old furniture? Done. You want an Instagram clone? Done. What about a full-feature LinkedIn replacement? Done. Except, it is not really done. Every other week, Anthropic or OpenAI launches a new version of their models, and every other week, the internet…