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Elon Musk's Boring Company Is Tunneling Beneath Las Vegas with Little Oversight

https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-boring-company-las-vegas-loop-oversight
13•barbazoo•2h ago

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duxup•1h ago
> Last year, Boring requested that the county no longer require it to hold a special permit that, among other things, mandates operators of private amusement and transportation systems to report serious injuries and fatalities

Yeesh, just reporting? That's some backwards stuff.

jimrandomh•15m ago
You were tricked. If you click through the link, you will find a request that isn't about injury reporting at all.

WhatsApp have just fixed the PSTN (and simultaneously killed it)

https://simwood.com/2025/08/whatsapp-have-just-fixed-the-pstn-and-simultaneously-killed-it/
1•vanburen•1m ago•0 comments

A note about eventual consistency

https://www.ufried.com/blog/eventual_consistency_1/
2•speckx•2m ago•0 comments

FTC sues LA Fitness for making it exceedingly hard to cancel gym memberships

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/08/ftc-sues-la-fitness-making-it-difficult-consumers-cancel-gym-memberships
3•jmsflknr•4m ago•0 comments

Zed for Windows: What's Taking So Long?

https://zed.dev/blog/windows-progress-report
1•janjones•5m ago•0 comments

How do LSM Trees work?

https://rowjee.com/blog/lsmtrees
1•romanhn•6m ago•0 comments

Why is my device a touchpad and a mouse and a keyboard?

http://who-t.blogspot.com/2025/08/why-is-my-device-touchpad-and-mouse-and.html
1•naves•6m ago•0 comments

Major autism study uncovers biologically distinct subtypes

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/07/09/major-autism-study-uncovers-biologically-distinct-subtypes-paving-way-precision
1•josh-sematic•6m ago•0 comments

How Americans View Journalists in the Digital Age

https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2025/08/20/how-americans-view-journalists-in-the-digital-age/
1•thm•6m ago•0 comments

Our Shared Reality Will Self-Destruct in the Next 12 Months

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/our-shared-reality-will-self-destruct
1•nickwritesit•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bizcardz.ai – Custom metal business cards

https://github.com/rhodey/bizcardz.ai
1•rhodey•7m ago•0 comments

Political Donations via ChatGPT Agent

https://matthodges.com/posts/2025-08-20-chatgpt-agent-political-donation/
1•m-hodges•7m ago•0 comments

A Climate of Unparalleled Malevolence

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/19/a-climate-of-unparalleled-malevolence-are-we-on-our-way-to-the-sixth-major-mass-extinction
1•anigbrowl•9m ago•0 comments

The theory and practice of selling the Aga cooker (1935) [pdf]

https://comeadwithus.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/the-theory-and-practice-of-selling-the-aga-cooker.pdf
1•phpnode•9m ago•0 comments

Fine-Tuned Open Sourced Models vs. System Tuned SOTA Models for Customization?

1•Ihmzf•10m ago•0 comments

GSA launches AI sandbox, says it won't be around for long

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/20/brandnew_government_ai_sandbox_only/
2•rntn•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Nestable.dev – local whiteboard app with nestable canvases, deep links

https://nestable.dev/about
1•anorak27•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We beat Google DeepMind but got killed by Zhipu AI

https://github.com/minitap-ai/mobile-use
2•orangepomodoro•13m ago•0 comments

We keep fixing symptoms, not root causes

https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2025-08-21-logs-traces-metrics-before-and-after/view
1•ndhandala•14m ago•0 comments

A refresher on end-to-end API Security

https://wso2.com/library/blogs/securing-apis-with-wso2-api-manager-a-guide-to-end-to-end-api-security/
1•langur•14m ago•0 comments

Modal's custom container runtime, filesystems, and GPU solver

https://www.amplifypartners.com/blog-posts/how-modal-built-a-data-cloud-from-the-ground-up
4•itunpredictable•16m ago•0 comments

Ultra Ethernet's Design Principles and Architectural Innovations

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08906
1•giuliomagnifico•18m ago•0 comments

Russian drone fell in eastern Poland

https://www.reuters.com/world/russian-drone-fell-eastern-poland-warsaw-says-2025-08-20/
3•danielam•20m ago•0 comments

Proxy 4: The Next Leap in C++ Polymorphism

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/announcing-proxy-4-the-next-leap-in-c-polymorphism/
2•janjones•21m ago•0 comments

I gave Claude Code a folder of tax documents and used it as a tax agent

https://martinalderson.com/posts/building-a-tax-agent-with-claude-code/
1•martinald•23m ago•1 comments

The Dangerous Legal Strategy Coming for Our Books

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/book-bans-public-schools/683921/
2•littlexsparkee•24m ago•3 comments

Privacy Washing Is a Dirty Business

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/08/20/privacy-washing-is-a-dirty-business/
3•samuel246•27m ago•0 comments

Can Peanut Allergies Be Cured?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-treatments-can-free-kids-from-the-deadly-threat-of-peanut-allergy/
1•stevenjgarner•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Llmswap v3.0 – CLI and SDK for OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Watsonx

https://pypi.org/project/llmswap/
2•sreenathmenon•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Turn any study material into practice questions with one photo

https://www.lexielearn.com/en
2•e_patjas•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built an app to track expense temptation

https://app.skipwise.org
1•0xshadow•30m ago•0 comments