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I'm 15 and built a free tool for reading Greek/Latin texts. Would love feedback

https://the-lexicon-project.netlify.app/
1•breadwithjam•1m ago•1 comments

How close is AI to taking my job?

https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-close-is-ai-to-taking-my-job
1•cjbarber•2m ago•0 comments

You are the reason I am not reviewing this PR

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/479442
2•midzer•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: FamilyMemories.video – Turn static old photos into 5s AI videos

https://familymemories.video
1•tareq_•5m ago•0 comments

How Meta Made Linux a Planet-Scale Load Balancer

https://softwarefrontier.substack.com/p/how-meta-turned-the-linux-kernel
1•CortexFlow•5m ago•0 comments

A Turing Test for AI Coding

https://t-cadet.github.io/programming-wisdom/#2026-02-06-a-turing-test-for-ai-coding
2•phi-system•5m ago•0 comments

How to Identify and Eliminate Unused AWS Resources

https://medium.com/@vkelk/how-to-identify-and-eliminate-unused-aws-resources-b0e2040b4de8
2•vkelk•6m ago•0 comments

A2CDVI – HDMI output from from the Apple IIc's digital video output connector

https://github.com/MrTechGadget/A2C_DVI_SMD
1•mmoogle•7m ago•0 comments

CLI for Common Playwright Actions

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli
3•saikatsg•8m ago•0 comments

Would you use an e-commerce platform that shares transaction fees with users?

https://moondala.one/
2•HamoodBahzar•9m ago•1 comments

Show HN: SafeClaw – a way to manage multiple Claude Code instances in containers

https://github.com/ykdojo/safeclaw
2•ykdojo•13m ago•0 comments

The Future of the Global Open-Source AI Ecosystem: From DeepSeek to AI+

https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface/one-year-since-the-deepseek-moment-blog-3
3•gmays•13m ago•0 comments

The Evolution of the Interface

https://www.asktog.com/columns/038MacUITrends.html
2•dhruv3006•15m ago•1 comments

Azure: Virtual network routing appliance overview

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/virtual-network-routing-appliance-overview
2•mariuz•15m ago•0 comments

Seedance2 – multi-shot AI video generation

https://www.genstory.app/story-template/seedance2-ai-story-generator
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Πfs – The Data-Free Filesystem

https://github.com/philipl/pifs
2•ravenical•22m ago•0 comments

Go-busybox: A sandboxable port of busybox for AI agents

https://github.com/rcarmo/go-busybox
3•rcarmo•23m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation for NVFP4 Inference Accuracy Recovery [pdf]

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/files/NVFP4-QAD-Report.pdf
2•gmays•23m ago•0 comments

xAI Merger Poses Bigger Threat to OpenAI, Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-02-03/musk-s-xai-merger-poses-bigger-threat-to-op...
2•andsoitis•23m ago•0 comments

Atlas Airborne (Boston Dynamics and RAI Institute) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNorxwlZlFk
2•lysace•24m ago•0 comments

Zen Tools

http://postmake.io/zen-list
2•Malfunction92•27m ago•0 comments

Is the Detachment in the Room? – Agents, Cruelty, and Empathy

https://hailey.at/posts/3mear2n7v3k2r
2•carnevalem•27m ago•1 comments

The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail

https://blog.nix-ci.com/post/2026-02-05_the-purpose-of-ci-is-to-fail
1•zdw•29m ago•0 comments

Apfelstrudel: Live coding music environment with AI agent chat

https://github.com/rcarmo/apfelstrudel
2•rcarmo•30m ago•0 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
3•0xmattf•31m ago•0 comments

What happens when a neighborhood is built around a farm

https://grist.org/cities/what-happens-when-a-neighborhood-is-built-around-a-farm/
1•Brajeshwar•31m ago•0 comments

Every major galaxy is speeding away from the Milky Way, except one

https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/every-major-galaxy-is-speeding-away-from-the-milky-wa...
3•Brajeshwar•31m ago•0 comments

Extreme Inequality Presages the Revolt Against It

https://www.noemamag.com/extreme-inequality-presages-the-revolt-against-it/
2•Brajeshwar•31m ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

1•dtjb•32m ago•0 comments

What Really Killed Flash Player: A Six-Year Campaign of Deliberate Platform Work

https://medium.com/@aglaforge/what-really-killed-flash-player-a-six-year-campaign-of-deliberate-p...
1•jbegley•33m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

IRS furloughs nearly half of its workforce due to government shutdown

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/08/irs-furloughs-workers-government-shutdown.html
41•donsupreme•4mo ago

Comments

beefnugs•4mo ago
Doesn't make any sense, seems like if a huge portion of the population colluded to not pay their taxes at once then the whole military overspend would collapse? Or do they already have a backup plan to hand out trump-crypto to military and ICE?
eek2121•4mo ago
My (admittedly naive) understanding is that when the U.S. government shuts down, ALL funding stops. If a department still has dollars in the the bank, they can operate until those dollars run out.

Complicating the matter further, employees may choose to work without pay, because backpay is legally required by law (certain individuals are trying to undo this, however, I lack the patience or desire to get into this on HN). That means that if employees have the means to hold out, they will ultimately be compensated.

Perhaps someone more informed can provide more detail.

trenchpilgrim•4mo ago
This isn't correct. All nonessential work stops immediately regardless of funding and all essential work continues. Individual workers don't choose whether they work or not, their departments do. Historically, everyone gets their backpay when the shutdown ends, essential or not, based on their salary level.
Jtsummers•4mo ago
And after the 2018-2019 shutdown, a law was passed guaranteeing backpay. But the WH has gone back and forth on whether that very plainly written law would apply to this lapse in appropriations even though the law very clearly does apply to it. I believe today they are back to paying furloughed employees.
wtallis•4mo ago
The source of funding matters. There are parts of the Federal government that are not entirely funded by annual appropriations from Congress. Funding from permanent appropriations or fee collection has not stopped, and agencies are allowed to operate to the extent that those other, non-lapsed funding sources can support. For example, a National Park campground that can support a basic level of services with the fees it collects doesn't have to shut down.
Jtsummers•4mo ago
> Complicating the matter further, employees may choose to work without pay

This is wrong. If they're furloughed, they aren't working. Yes, by law (passed in 2019) they will get back pay, but they do not have the option to work without pay. If they're not furloughed, they may not be getting paid but it's not by choice that they continue working, it's because they weren't furloughed.

jhbadger•4mo ago
Depends on what "work" is. In theory furloughed workers aren't working, and can't go in to their workplace, but many different sorts of people are government employees. Yes, an IRS worker isn't processing returns, but it's not like government scientists stop thinking about their research even if they aren't allowed in their labs.
bombcar•4mo ago
As with ALL things; true democracy is the actions of the people; if everyone treated tax laws like they do speed limits; well, we have countries where that’s so.

The problem is getting everyone to work in such a concerted manner.

naveen99•4mo ago
With mandatory back pay, isn’t it just a vacation for the furloughed employees ?
dragonwriter•4mo ago
Employees working incurs other costs beyond the employees’ compensation, but, yes, assuming the back pay requirement is honored [0], that’s essentially what it is.

[0] The White House this week argued that the law that clearly and unambiguously requires this does not in fact do so, and OMB removed references to the law and its requirements from their shutdown guidance to agencies, so I would not count on the Administration honoring it, at least initially.

georgemcbay•4mo ago
> The White House this week argued that the law that clearly and unambiguously requires this does not in fact do so

Interesting side note to this (to point out the hypocrisy and attempts at memory-holing): the law in question is the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 which passed with extremely broad bipartisan support and was signed into law by Trump during his first term.

trenchpilgrim•4mo ago
When I go on vacation, I still get paid that pay period, so I don't have to worry about paying the rent/mortgage and utilities in the meantime...
Jtsummers•4mo ago
My furloughed gov't friends joke about it that way, but as pointed out by trenchpilgrim, they're not getting paid during this. Their paychecks this week will be for only 7 days of work, 30% short of a normal paycheck, and if the shutdown persists two more weeks, then they will not receive their next paycheck (they will eventually receive the pay, but late).
Braxton1980•4mo ago
Trump said some workers won't receive back pay and don't deserve to be taken care of
Jtsummers•4mo ago
Yes, he's said that, then they backtracked, not sure where they stand now. The law is pretty clear though that back pay is owed to the furloughed workers.

EDIT:

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/10/tuesday-trump-admi...

That article covers the backtracking. Yesterday no back pay, today they tell the employees they will get back pay.

Braxton1980•4mo ago
I don't see how this is clear backtracking. Trump made the comment but only one agency (that I'm aware of) mentioned back pay in the information all federal workers received.

The article also states "...the Office of Management and Budget has deleted from its guidance any reference to the 2019 law [requiring back pay after shutdowns] back pay for furloughed federal workers"

OMB also issued a press release stating the law only applies to the one shutdown the law was created after.

So

1. Trump hasn't backtracked himself.

2. OMB has stated an argument allowing them to challenge the 2019 law.

4. The IRS is just one agency and Trump's comment was clear that only those he believed deserve back pay will get it. There's no contradiction in what the IRS said.

Also, A long drawn out executive power court battle will take months to years. People won't be paid unless there is some emergency relief from the courts.

Braxton1980•4mo ago
The IRS backtracked and are now saying it's up to the OMB
ozgrakkurt•4mo ago
It is incredible how unhinged “businessman” can be