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EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices

EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices

💥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 64 products tested — 45 contained non-approved pesticide residues  The laboratory tests covered rice grain, paprika powder, different types of tea, cumin seeds and curry powder.The results are alarming: 49 products contained residues of one or more pesticides.  45 products contained residues of pesticides not approved in the EU.  14 samples contained residues above the legally allowed limit and should therefore not be on the market.  All tested paprika powder, chili and cumin samples contained residues of non-approved pesticides.  One paprika powder sample contained 22…
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Ask HN: Why hasn’t there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?

Ask HN: Why hasn’t there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?163 points by mdni007 15 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 130 commentsIt feels like every event/venue is selling tickets exclusively through Ticketmaster. Every other ticketing platform seems to only hold resale tickets in their inventory which just transfers the tickets to your Ticketmaster account when bought. With all the hate Ticketmaster has gotten and all the other ticketing platforms out there, I'm surprised Ticketmaster still has a hold of pretty…
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Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism

Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism

🚀 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: You might think, based on the volume of her Facebook posts, that Nieta Aqila is an Albertan who supports separation."I signed the Alberta independence petition" because "Canada is not a great country anymore," an account in her name wrote in a popular Facebook group called Alberta Independence that promotes the movement and has more than 100,000 members. In another post, Aqila said she was harassed and had rocks thrown at her as she canvassed for petition signatures.The account's posts have generated thousands of reactions, comments and…
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Apple Intelligence and Siri – Apple

Apple Intelligence and Siri – Apple

🚀 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Great powers come with great privacy. Apple Intelligence is designed to protect your privacy at every step. It’s integrated into the core of your iPhone, iPad, and Mac through on-device processing. So it’s aware of your personal information without collecting your personal information. And with groundbreaking Private Cloud Compute, Apple Intelligence can draw on larger server-based models, running on Apple silicon, to handle more complex requests for you while protecting your privacy. Private Cloud Compute Your data is never stored Used only for your requests Verifiable privacy promise 🔥 **What’s your take?**…
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Porting the ThinkPad x61 to coreboot

✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: So after a few days the code seemed to work quite fine with multiple DIMMs in different combinations. Time to upstream! Doing native raminit on x86 (in coreboot) is quite a lost art. One of the people enjoying this dark magic is Angel Pons. So I asked him if he would kindly review this code (he's a very thorough reviewer). To my eyes the code looked 'aight, but he has way better eyesight than mine at least with regard to code.Here is a summary of…
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Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

✨ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I've got really comfy `just` scripts for generating Clang "intermediaries" in my CMake project. I can generate `.ii` files which get formatted and edited in a manner making them directly recompilable, along with `.ll`, `.bc`, and `.s` files. All the above are per-translation unit or post-LTO and I can constrain the output to specific functions or files, and the LLVM bitcode can take optimization passes or optimization levels to very easily introspect how my work in this codebase optimizes.I've also got a clang-repl wrapper…
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Head of Stonehenge | English Heritage

Head of Stonehenge | English Heritage

💥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Heritage is for everybody, and we are here for heritage. Heritage lives in places and people, memories and stories, artefacts and traditions. It can connect us all to the past, and to each other. It can make us happier, strengthen every community, and help shape society for the better. Everybody should be able to enjoy the benefits it brings. That's why, as a charity, we care for over a million objects and hundreds of historic sites in every part of England, from international icons to…
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Why We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued

Why We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued

🔥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Why Is Morningstar So Bearish on SpaceX’s IPO?We value SpaceX at $63 per share, a 53% discount to the upcoming IPO’s offering price. Our valuation is the result of mathematics more than skepticism. With such a wide range of possible outcomes for the company’s financial future, we created forecasts and valuations for three scenarios and probability-weighted them.Even at $63 per share, we give SpaceX a lot of benefit of the doubt in two of the three scenarios, in which we assume the company can achieve…
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Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers

Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers

🚀 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Apple is hoping to draw in newer developers with lower AI infrastructure costs, the company announced during its developer keynote at its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday. The tech giant said that developers with fewer than 2 million first-time App Store downloads will be able to use its Foundation Models running in Private Cloud Compute, with no cloud API cost. “It’s access to frontier-tier level intelligence with unparalleled privacy protections, because getting started exploring ideas shouldn’t be held back by infrastructure costs,” the presenter noted.…
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Federal judge blocks H1-B visa $100K fee

Federal judge blocks H1-B visa $100K fee

✨ Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - A federal judge ruled on Monday to block President Donald Trump’s policy on imposing a $100,000 fee for new H1-B visas, a ruling that could save hundreds of education jobs in Alaska.The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant, employer-sponsored visa for foreign professionals in “specialty occupations” requiring at least a bachelor’s degree, commonly in STEM, healthcare, or education fields. It is valid for up to six years, but must be renewed in three-year increments.Judge Leo Sorokin ruled that the fee violated the…
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