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nzaki-dev/dialog: the dialog.org website plain html of 16 Jun 2026 ยท GitHub

nzaki-dev/dialog: the dialog.org website plain html of 16 Jun 2026 ยท GitHub

๐Ÿš€ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: On 16 June 2026, the full attendance list for Peter Thiel's private society, "Dialog," was leaked. The attendance list was discovered hard-coded in the HTML of the official dialog.org website. The leak was subsequently fixed by the website owners. I captured the website's HTML at the time of the leak, which included the names of the club's members. I am unaware of any nefarious activity by the organisation but find it interesting how many influential individuals were part of the society and would simply like…
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The pandemic car shortage continues to push up the prices of new and used cars

The pandemic car shortage continues to push up the prices of new and used cars

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this insightful post from Business News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The shockwaves from the Covid-19 pandemic are still hitting the US auto market and pushing prices up, even for exceptionally old cars. The epidemic dealt a severe blow to the total supply of new cars, which extended to the used market.About 8 million vehicles that were slated to be built for American buyers during those years were never made, largely because production was halted and supply shortages, said Jeremy Robb, chief economist at Cox Automotive. Automakers faced production cuts and weighted their lineups toward high-end,…
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inessential: NetNewsWire Status

โœจ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Itโ€™s been a year since I retired โ€” my last working day was June 6, 2025 โ€” and I like being able to say that Iโ€™ve spent the year adding nothing, not one penny, to shareholder value. ๐ŸŒด * * * My hope for retirement was to get a lot of work done on NetNewsWire. A year ago it was in sore need of modernization, tech debt pay-off, and bug fixes. People were asking for features, but the foundation needed a ton of work…
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Advertising spending for the 2026 elections is expected to reach a record level: AdImpact

Advertising spending for the 2026 elections is expected to reach a record level: AdImpact

โœจ Explore this awesome post from Business News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The 2026 midterm election cycle could surpass the 2024 presidential cycle to reach record ad spending for any U.S. election, according to a new report from ad intelligence firm AdImpact. This year's races are expected to reach $11.6 billion in ad spending, making them the most expensive cycle on record and surpassing the $11.2 billion spent on ads for the 2024 election between incumbent President Donald Trump and former Vice President Kamala Harris, according to AdImpact estimates. The new forecast represents an increase of $795…
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Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and massive compute burn

Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and massive compute burn

๐Ÿš€ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Sam Altman (@sama)'s OpenAI lost $38.53 billion attributable to the company in 2025, according to audited financial documents viewed by Ed Zitron and independently verified by the Financial Times, a set of figures that an Ars Technica story pushed into broader circulation Tuesday. The documents themselves are not public. But the reported figures are specific enough to cut through the abstraction that has defined the AI financing cycle: OpenAI generated $13.07 billion in revenue in 2025, incurred $34 billion in total costs and expenses,…
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The increase in World Cup travel for U.S. companies has not yet materialized

The increase in World Cup travel for U.S. companies has not yet materialized

๐Ÿš€ Read this trending post from Business News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The 2026 World Cup is expected to bring a wave of global soccer fans to North America. But the travel boom is shaping up to look less like one uniform boom and more like a test of pricing power from one city to another, one match to another.โ€œDemand is real and positive, but it is not evenly distributed across host cities,โ€ said Jay Wardle, president of travel data intelligence company Sogern. New flight booking data from Sojern shows that most host cities in the U.S.…
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frood, an Alpine initramfs NAS

frood, an Alpine initramfs NAS

โœจ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: My NAS, frood, has a bit of a weird setup. Itโ€™s just one big initramfs containing a whole Alpine Linux system. Itโ€™s delightful and I am not sure why itโ€™s not more common. As long as the firmware can find the image, the machine comes up cleanly. Deploying a new version is just copying a single file. The system is defined declaratively in the git repo that builds the initramfs. Importantly to me, itโ€™s not defined in some complex DSL: if I want a file…
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Where family offices see buying opportunities in the space

Where family offices see buying opportunities in the space

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this awesome post from Business News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: As seen from Canaveral National Seashore, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 60 Starlink satellites is launched from Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center on October 6, 2020 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. This is the 13th batch of satellites that SpaceX has put into orbit as part of a constellation designed to provide broadband internet service around the world. (Photo by Paul Hennessy/Noor Photo via Getty Images)norphoto | norphoto | Getty ImagesA version of this article first appeared in CNBC's Inside Wealth newsletter with…
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Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures

Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The Stop Killing Games campaign has been dealt a major setback in Europe, as the European Commission declined to propose legislation requiring publishers to keep discontinued video games playable. The movement, formally submitted in the EU as the European Citizensโ€™ Initiative โ€œStop Destroying Videogames,โ€ was built around the idea that publishers should not be able to make games unplayable after ending official support, especially when those games were sold to customers as complete products. In January, the initiative was confirmed to have secured 1,294,188 verified…
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SpaceX millionaires are preparing to spend on luxury homes, watches and travel

SpaceX millionaires are preparing to spend on luxury homes, watches and travel

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this must-read post from Business News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Near the coast near Palos VerdesPost_insignem | iStock | Getty ImagesA version of this article first appeared in CNBC's Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide for the high-net-worth investor and consumer. subscription To receive future issues, directly to your inbox.SpaceX's IPO has created thousands of new millionaires and many new billionaires. While current and former employees won't be able to sell their shares right away, some are already planning how to spend their windfall.This newfound wealth could have a ripple effect across…
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