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Fred Smith, FedEx founder who revolutionised package delivery, dies at 80

https://www.independent.ie/business/world/fred-smith-fedex-founder-who-revolutionised-the-package-delivery-business-dies-at-80/a463484960.html
5•Bluestein•3h ago

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bell-cot•2h ago
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_W._Smith Note that Fred seems to have had some issues.

I once knew a guy who'd worked at FedEx, bottom-end, in the late 1980's. He saw Fred "drop in" to their airport a time or two. (When low-end managers demonstrated that they were the 4th Type of officer*). From the stories, I'd say the FedEx workers felt hard-driven - but they respected Fred, and didn't think the managers in-between were treated any better.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord#Cl...

DHS warns of sharp rise in Chinese-made signal jammers 'tools of terrorism'

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/20/dhs_issues_warning_about_influx/
1•Bender•1m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: At what point did your startup hire its first lawyer?

1•randerson001•2m ago•0 comments

"Cold spray" 3D printing technique proves effective for on-site bridge repair

https://news.mit.edu/2025/cold-spray-3d-printing-technique-effective-bridge-repair-0620
2•rbanffy•3m ago•0 comments

Conflict, Montage, and AI in Data Storytelling – Communications of the ACM

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/conflict-montage-and-ai-in-data-storytelling/
1•rbanffy•4m ago•0 comments

Uncle Sam seeks time in tower dump data grab case [title shortened]

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/us_tower_grab_appeal/
2•Bender•4m ago•1 comments

The Evolution of Metal Music: From Its Roots to Modern Metal (2023)

https://www.ourmusicworld.com/archives/4391
1•almost-exactly•4m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Were any of the DropZap World game rules hard to understand?

1•amichail•4m ago•0 comments

Huang's Law

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/huangs-law
1•rbanffy•5m ago•0 comments

Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarne%E2%80%93Thompson%E2%80%93Uther_Index
1•doener•5m ago•0 comments

Japan Adventures: A Designer's Perspective

https://www.tombihn.com/blogs/main/tokyo-adventures-a-designers-perspective
1•wallflower•7m ago•0 comments

The New York Dating Economy

https://menofny.com/
1•wallflower•10m ago•0 comments

I built AI Legal Helper – an AI-powered legal assistant for everyone

https://ailegalhelper.com/
1•stafane•10m ago•1 comments

He's the godfather of AI he wants to keep it

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/417087/ai-safety-yoshua-bengio-lawzero
1•HR01•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Wave – A C-like low-level language (now with %, [], and and= operators)

https://github.com/LunaStev/Wave
1•LunaStev•10m ago•0 comments

Networked tuple set with authenticated elements – 1A Insecure Network

https://www.1a-insec.net/blog/82-authenticated-tuple-set/
1•bo0tzz•11m ago•0 comments

No War

https://www.sammcalilly.com/writing/2025/06/18/fuck-war.html
1•greenie_beans•12m ago•1 comments

Pressing Down on Mushrooms

https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/06/pressing-down-on-mushrooms/
1•Tomte•27m ago•0 comments

The Father of Modern Metal

https://nautil.us/the-father-of-modern-metal-235939/
12•bookofjoe•30m ago•1 comments

Show HN: TCP Reassembly and Application-Layer Analysis Library

https://github.com/chunhuitrue/protolens
2•chunhui_true•32m ago•1 comments

KNighter: Transforming Static Analysis with LLM-Synthesized Checkers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09002
1•nickpsecurity•36m ago•0 comments

Roons – Mechanical Computer Kit

https://whomtech.com/roons/
1•thepbone•37m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Ziip – Open-Source Version of LinkedIn's Popular Puzzle Game

https://www.ziip.fun/
1•alexandergekov•37m ago•0 comments

Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot

https://www.neilchen.co/blog/kasa
4•NWChen•39m ago•2 comments

Google is killing the web with AI Overviews – I made an extension to block them

https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/block-google-ai-overviews
2•Bluestein•41m ago•0 comments

Erik Prince and Erik Bethel – The China / Taiwan Conflict – SRS #209 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oghBVS0QvOM
2•keepamovin•42m ago•0 comments

Android 16 is here. I love these 6 new features

https://mashable.com/article/android-16-features-worth-update
1•Bluestein•45m ago•0 comments

Reducing tool calling error rates for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini models

https://mastra.ai/blog/mcp-tool-compatibility-layer
1•mooreds•49m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Scale by display gnome shell QoL extension

https://github.com/ilya-m32/scale-by-display
2•k0tan32•49m ago•0 comments

Building native packages is complicated

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/anubis-packaging/
2•mooreds•51m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to regain the ability to read with focus and learn

5•albert_e•54m ago•1 comments