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Fix the two-party system with proportional representation.

✨ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Agrarian Party of Minnesota / Platform / Peoples Act Last updated January 16, 2026. The Peoples Act is an in-progress set of legislative changes. Start your candidacy or volunteer your time to help research and define these policies. We are locked in a voting system that ends in two-party control. Minnesotans deserve better, and there’s an easy fix. We call on Minnesota to implement proportional representation. It’s simple: instead of voting for one person to represent you, you’ll vote for one party to represent you, and…
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Releasing Rainbow Tables to Accelerate Protocol Deprecation

Releasing Rainbow Tables to Accelerate Protocol Deprecation

💥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Introduction Mandiant is publicly releasing a comprehensive dataset of Net-NTLMv1 rainbow tables to underscore the urgency of migrating away from this outdated protocol. Despite Net-NTLMv1 being deprecated and known to be insecure for over two decades—with cryptanalysis dating back to 1999—Mandiant consultants continue to identify its use in active environments. This legacy protocol leaves organizations vulnerable to trivial credential theft, yet it remains prevalent due to inertia and a lack of demonstrated immediate risk. By releasing these tables, Mandiant aims to lower the barrier…
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The Engineer → Executive Translation Layer 🔀

The Engineer → Executive Translation Layer 🔀

✨ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Hey, Luca here! Today we are hosting a fantastic new article by Anna Shipman, CTO at Kooth.I have always enjoyed Anna’s writing on her blog (which she’s been writing for 15 years!) and she was a guest on our podcast last year, so I am proud to be hosting one of her pieces on Refactoring.Today’s topic is an evergreen one: how do you translate engineering to executives? Anna brilliantly unpacks it from first principles, and then by providing a ton of practical advice and…
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Reading across books with Claude Code

Reading across books with Claude Code

🚀 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: LLMs are overused to summarise and underused to help us read deeper. To explore how they can enrich rather than reduce, I set Claude Code up with tools to mine a library of 100 non-fiction books. It found sequences of excerpts connected by an interesting idea, or trails. Here’s a part of one such trail, linking deception in the startup world to the social psychology of mass movements (I’m especially pleased by the jump from Jobs to Theranos): How it works The books were…
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GitHub – Pankajtanwarbanna/stfu: stfu

GitHub – Pankajtanwarbanna/stfu: stfu

💥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: i was at bombay airport. some dude was watching reels on full volume and laughing loudly. asking nicely doesn't work anymore. me being me, didn't have the courage to speak up. so i built a tiny app that plays back the same audio it hears, delayed by ~2 seconds. asked claude, it spat out a working version in one prompt. surprisingly WORKS. discussion - https://x.com/the2ndfloorguy/status/2011734249871954188 something something auditory feedback loop something something cognitive dissonance. idk i'm not a neuroscientist. all i know is it makes…
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Earth from Space: The fate of a giant

Earth from Space: The fate of a giant

🔥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image over the South Atlantic Ocean features a close-up view of the A23a iceberg, once the world’s largest. The unusually cloud-free image shows the first signs that the iceberg will soon disintegrate completely.Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution.A23a calved from the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf in West Antarctica in 1986. At the time it measured around 4000 sq km – more than three times the size of Rome – making it the largest iceberg in the world.…
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Canada breaks with US, slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%

Canada breaks with US, slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%

✨ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: In a massive shift in North American trade policy, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced today a new “strategic partnership” with China that effectively reopens the Canadian border to Chinese electric vehicles. The move marks a significant departure from the United States’ hardline protectionist stance and could bring affordable EV options like the BYD Seagull to Canadian roads as early as this year. For the last two years, Canada has largely walked in lockstep with the US regarding Chinese EV tariffs. Following the Biden administration’s…
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6-day and IP Address Certificates are Generally Available

6-day and IP Address Certificates are Generally Available

🔥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Short-lived and IP address certificates are now generally available from Let’s Encrypt. These certificates are valid for 160 hours, just over six days. In order to get a short-lived certificate subscribers simply need to select the ‘shortlived’ certificate profile in their ACME client. Short-lived certificates improve security by requiring more frequent validation and reducing reliance on unreliable revocation mechanisms. If a certificate’s private key is exposed or compromised, revocation has historically been the way to mitigate damage prior to the certificate’s expiration. Unfortunately, revocation…
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America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan—but our zoning laws make them illegal

America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan—but our zoning laws make them illegal

🔥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: In Japan, workers rely on healthy lunch bowls for under $4. Japanese media literally tracks these prices because they're a daily staple for working people. The Japanese media reported on a surge in their price from $2.63 to $4.25 in 2021.In America, we track grocery prices. Restaurants are luxury goods.The U.S. lacks this budget restaurant tier! There's obviously demand for it. We'd buy $4 balanced meals if we had the option.How does Japan’s restaurant market do this?It’s not grocery prices; Japan’s grocery prices are…
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Discover Michelangelo’s First Painting, Created When He Was Only 12 or 13 Years Old

Discover Michelangelo’s First Painting, Created When He Was Only 12 or 13 Years Old

✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Think back, if you will, to the works of art you cre­at­ed at age twelve or thir­teen. For many, per­haps most of us, our out­put at that stage of ado­les­cence amount­ed to direc­tion­less doo­dles, chaot­ic comics, and a few unsteady-at-best school projects. But then, most of us did­n’t grow up to be Michelan­ge­lo. In the late four­teen-eight­ies, when that tow­er­ing Renais­sance artist was still what we would now call a “tween,” he paint­ed The Tor­ment of Saint Antho­ny, a depic­tion of the tit­u­lar reli­gious fig­ure…
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