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1•benbreen•2m ago•0 comments

Data Ecofeminism

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3715275.3732027
1•slater•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: DeepMarketScan: Counter Trade Retail Traders

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1•retroviber•7m ago•0 comments

Foxconn mysteriously tells Chinese workers to quit India and return to China

https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/07/02/foxconn-mysteriously-tells-chinese-workers-to-quit-india-and-return-to-china
1•signa11•10m ago•0 comments

Maxell MXCP-P100 Cassette Tape Player Offers a Retro Look with Modern Features

https://hypebeast.com/2025/7/maxell-mxcp-p100-cassette-player-release-info
1•Bluestein•10m ago•0 comments

Foxconn Pulls Chinese Staff from India in Hurdle for Apple

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-02/foxconn-pulls-chinese-staff-from-india-in-hurdle-for-apple-aapl
5•mgh2•13m ago•0 comments

The world of Voronoi diagrams (2021)

https://fbellelli.com/posts/2021-07-08-the-fascinating-world-of-voronoi-diagrams/
1•nickcotter•20m ago•0 comments

How I Built a P2P Texas Hold'em Game (Part 1: Protocol and Encryption)

https://medium.com/@predator.ray/how-i-built-a-p2p-texas-holdem-game-part-1-protocol-encryption-d043edb93288
1•zetaplusae•23m ago•0 comments

Denial vs. OpenAI, Inc. (ND Cal 2025) [pdf]

https://archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.cand.452129/gov.uscourts.cand.452129.1.0.pdf
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•27m ago•0 comments

Kilmar Abrego Garcia describes beatings and psychological torture in CECOT

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/02/kilmar-abrego-garcia-salvadoran-prison-account-00438153
3•wk_end•32m ago•0 comments

Dalai Lama vows he won't be the last leader of Tibetan Buddhism

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/02/asia/dalai-lama-reincarnation-announcement-intl-hnk
1•Tomte•47m ago•0 comments

OfflineInstallers – Download browser and .NET Framework offline installers

https://offlineinstallers.com/
1•louizo79•49m ago•0 comments

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) [video]

https://archive.org/details/colossus-the-forbin-project-1970
1•petethomas•53m ago•0 comments

What's wrong with AAA games? The development of the next Battlefield has answers

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/07/behind-the-next-battlefield-game-culture-clash-crunch-and-colossal-stakes/
3•Tomte•54m ago•1 comments

Options for Handling Form Submissions Without a Back End

https://devmatter.app/blog/how-to-handle-form-submissions-without-a-backend
1•adityavinodh•57m ago•1 comments

AetherScript: AI-Assisted Development That You Can Trust

1•papabili•58m ago•0 comments

NIH Scientists Link Air Pollution and Lung Cancer Mutations in Non-Smokers

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02072025/air-pollution-linked-to-lung-cancer-mutations/
6•OutOfHere•1h ago•0 comments

Demonstration of Algorithmic Quantum Speedup for an Abelian Hidden Subgroup

https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.15.021082
2•boilerupnc•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Track your favorite music, movies, shows, games, books and more

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1•Andrew8581•1h ago•0 comments

Nothing's Untestable

https://antithesis.com/blog/2025/bugbash_2025/mitchell_hashimoto/
2•zdw•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made a social media platform

https://onelined.tech/
2•sahil423•1h ago•0 comments

How to write Rust in the kernel part 1

https://lwn.net/Articles/1024202/
2•pkilgore•1h ago•0 comments

CEOs Start Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: AI Will Wipe Out Jobs

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-white-collar-job-loss-b9856259
7•planetjones•1h ago•1 comments

Debian on Apple M1/M2: status and call for testers

https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/86037b55-e1b8-49e6-a0c9-f961b4ddc1a1@disroot.org
6•pabs3•1h ago•1 comments

GitHub Copilot coding agent now has a Playwright web browser

https://github.blog/changelog/2025-07-02-copilot-coding-agent-now-has-its-own-web-browser/
1•felineflock•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Piskvor Prime: a five-in-a-row iOS game with a reactive AI opponent

https://vojtahavlicek.github.io/vojtanyc/posts/piskvor_prime/
1•vh311•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Wyntk.ai – anti horseless carriage email

https://www.wyntk.ai/
2•gregorvand•1h ago•0 comments

Give Footnotes a Spec

https://nathansnelgrove.com/2025/07/give-footnotes-a-spec
2•OuterVale•1h ago•0 comments

Braess Paradox [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QTkPfq7w1A
1•travisgriggs•1h ago•2 comments

TPC-DS Benchmark: Trino 476, Spark 4.0.0, and Hive 4 on MR3 2.1

https://mr3docs.datamonad.com/blog/2025-07-02-performance-evaluation-2.1/
1•epdlxjmonad•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

14 Million People Could Die in Next 5 Years Due to USAID Cuts, Study Finds

https://gizmodo.com/14-million-people-could-die-in-next-5-years-due-to-usaid-cuts-study-finds-2000622755
39•perihelions•14h ago

Comments

TurkishPoptart•11h ago
Bill Gates could single-handedly fund USAID and still half $70B remaining. Can private philanthropy not step in here to cover the gap?
bdcravens•11h ago
USAID spent $20B in FY 2024.
nielsbot•8h ago
Because systemic philanthropy > individual philanthropy
FilosofumRex•9h ago
Corrected version should read: "14M people could die in 5 years due to USA-ID cuts, AND LACK OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS' CARING, study finds".

USA-ID was not preventing deaths so much as it was funding the Western Elites' preferences over local priorities.

more_corn•9h ago
What the fuck is this even supposed to mean?
misterhill•9h ago
My best guess is that it means if red state Americans start dieing of malaria they will go to hell since even a tiny amount of dispensation bought by humanists was not selfish enough for them.
Hojojo•9h ago
It means helping people is imperialism and imperialism is bad, so actually it's a good thing these people are starving. At least now they can finally pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

Or something, I don't know. I don't understand these people.

FilosofumRex•9h ago
Why don't you look it up... why'd there be so much opposition to USA-ID in Africa, India, Brazil and South East Asian countries if it was preventing 14M deaths.

I believe the technical jargon for it is "soft power" - bribing locals to do what you can't force them to do, militarily.

triceratops•8h ago
Is there "so much opposition" actually? No one is ever forced to take money.
FilosofumRex•6h ago
depends on what you define as "force". Force doesn't necessarily come from the barrel of a gun - Sean Diddy was just tried for forcing women into sex trafficking under American law.

Russia, Ukraine, India, Bangladesh, Mexico, El Salvador, and just about the entire Africa & South America have complained about political strings attached to USA-ID. yet, they'll gladly accept Chinese aid because it often only comes with economic conditions.

triceratops•5h ago
I define force as force. I don't know anything about "Sean Diddy". I don't see how this person is germane to what we're talking about.

"complain" is not the only option when one objects to "political strings" attached to a donation. There's another option, known as "decline".

Revealed preference tells whether the "political strings" are actually maybe ok or just some haters doing what they do.

Hell, I don't even know what specific "political strings" you're talking about or how they differ from China's "economic" conditions. I'm just taking it on faith they exist, but you might be lying for all I know.

macrolocal•7h ago
Upvoted. USAID has been misused plenty: political meddling in Bangladesh, Cuba's ZunZuneo op, boomerang aid in Haiti, Afghan contractor enrichment, etc. I could go on.

But understand: the soft power isn't going away, just the doctors, food shipments, and vaccines.

mindslight•8h ago
It's a half-baked narrative meant to make you tune out caring how abruptly stopping aid hurt actual human beings, and to support the denial that these actions aimed destroying America's stature in the world have anything to do with fiscal responsibility or taking care of our own. Trillions of dollars in new inflation have since shown the latter to be an abject lie, but the fascist movement relies on constant isolated "questioning" to feel superior and justified while never actually following through with a full analysis.
more_corn•9h ago
Good ol Elmo. Caused more unnecessary deaths than any richest man in history.
tracker1•8h ago
Most of the USAID spending that was cut should be funded by charity contributions. I'm just not a fan of foreign spending using taxpayer funding at all. There's plenty of room for charity in the world, and less bureaucracy in the middle.
foxyv•8h ago
My therapist had a saying I like to repeat. "Shoulds" are a lie we tell ourselves.

There really should be enough private charities to keep every man woman and child fed and healthy. There are not. I imagine that this is in large part due to the greed of small men and women who own 90% or more of our economy.

danudey•7h ago
The US government used USAID to buy soft power around the world to spread influence; private charity contributions don't do that, and doing things on a larger scale and at a higher level leads to economies of scale that small-scale charity contributions can't ever reach.
1659447091•7h ago
> I'm just not a fan of foreign spending using taxpayer funding at all.

If only things were that simple.

The US spent billions of dollars for food from US Farmers. Ask them about their lost billions for sorghum, corn, beans, soybeans, rice, vegetable oil and other crops that they could sell to the US government in bulk. Not just the farmers, but also the small town USA communities that benefit from the farms.

Or the US AID funded innovation labs that "was providing market access to U.S. farmers [...] not just in trade negotiations but also in indirect ways by creating a populace that is not starving so they have extra income to buy poultry, for example, which in turn expands the global market for soybean-based feeds.”[0]

Here is a site[1] that attempts to piece together a "reconstruction of USAID's agricultural connections across America" "following the removal of the official USAID website, which contained comprehensive data on agricultural partnerships" from archived reports and other public sources.

[0] https://www.agweb.com/news/policy/politics/usaid-dismantling...

[1] https://www.usaidstopwork.com/agricultural-impact

os2warpman•6h ago
USAID was charity in name only. It is, or was, more of a marketing and not-quite-coercion-but-something-softer-and-gentler-than-that body.

And it was a pathetically small attempt at it, too.

Bureaucracy is irrelevant. What matters is bribes. China and Russia are bribing the shit out of everyone and everything.

USAID was practically our only way to do that quasi-morally and almost certainly on the order of their masters the administration destroyed it.

All to save a rounding error’s worth of annual spending we fucked ourselves and its absence will only benefit our adversaries.

Edit: it could just be stupidity and not conspiracy. These are the same people who think vaccines cause autism and don’t understand how space research leads to cordless power tools, a hippie studying lizard spit in the 70s leads to GLP-1 drugs, and nuclear warheads lead to microprocessors. The simple clay of the new America. You know, morons.

smarm52•2h ago
The primary purpose of Foreign Aid isn't about charity.

McGillivray, F., & Smith, A. (2008). Punishing the prince: a theory of interstate relations, political institutions, and leader change. Princeton University Press.

It's about influencing governments. It's a really nice way to "bribe" foreign officials for things that a government wants.

NaOH•7h ago
Actual study: Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

>Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

theendisney•6h ago
I see the strangest interview with an african farmer one time. He argued the manipulation of his country is so sophisticated that even the people excuting it dont understand it. He showed his rice and pointed out that it was gray, had rocks in it and wasnt uniform in shape. I would like to sell it but they are handing out free rice, perfect White uniform. There is no competing with this. Its a con but no one understands. If they sincrely wanted to give aid they should give me a bag of fertilizer. I would have more rice, i could sell it and next season i would be alle to buy it myself. Problem solved