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Administration begins layoffs of federal workers amid government shutdown

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/trump-russ-vought-layoffs-government-shutdown.html
10•rntn•4mo ago

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silexia•4mo ago
The federal government is a bloated cancer growing continuously due to the fact no one can be held accountable or fired.
zippyman55•3mo ago
I fired people when I was in the gov't. And I gave tough reviews. And I sent NCIS to their homes to collect their CAC cards. There are some problems, but I think much of those problems also exist in industry. The problem I was frustrated with was it was sometimes sometimes hard to select the best qualified candidate for a position. An example: I had a candidate who wanted to come to my place because his girlfriend lived there. He was 100-percent unqualified. I was not able to reject him, and we needed to disqualify the entire job posting to avoid hiring him. It was also frustrating to "have to spend some residual money" at the end of the year. I would have had no problem returning the money to the treasury as opposed to "thinking of something creative" to spend the money. I was proud to work in the gov't and retire, but it was harder work than what I ever experienced in industry.
jauntywundrkind•3mo ago
Utterly illegal, and planned so so so long ago by Vought & Project 2025.

> Three key points: 1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February 2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty 3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise - https://bsky.app/profile/bbkogan.bsky.social/post/3m2u44bxav...

There are foes to the USA who have desires a rapid scheduled disassembly.

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1•breve•55s ago•0 comments

Free Trial: AI Interviewer

https://ai-interviewer.nuvoice.ai/
1•sijain2•59s ago•0 comments

FDA Intends to Take Action Against Non-FDA-Approved GLP-1 Drugs

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-intends-take-action-against-non-fda-appro...
1•randycupertino•2m ago•0 comments

Supernote e-ink devices for writing like paper

https://supernote.eu/choose-your-product/
1•janandonly•4m ago•0 comments

We are QA Engineers now

https://serce.me/posts/2026-02-05-we-are-qa-engineers-now
1•SerCe•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Measuring how AI agent teams improve issue resolution on SWE-Verified

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01465
2•NBenkovich•5m ago•0 comments

Adversarial Reasoning: Multiagent World Models for Closing the Simulation Gap

https://www.latent.space/p/adversarial-reasoning
1•swyx•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Poddley.com – Follow people, not podcasts

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1•onesandofgrain•13m ago•0 comments

Layoffs Surge 118% in January – The Highest Since 2009

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/layoff-and-hiring-announcements-hit-their-worst-january-levels-si...
7•karakoram•13m ago•0 comments

Papyrus 114: Homer's Iliad

https://p114.homemade.systems/
1•mwenge•13m ago•1 comments

DicePit – Real-time multiplayer Knucklebones in the browser

https://dicepit.pages.dev/
1•r1z4•13m ago•1 comments

Turn-Based Structural Triggers: Prompt-Free Backdoors in Multi-Turn LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14340
2•PaulHoule•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Agent Tool That Keeps You in the Loop

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2•dshearer•16m ago•0 comments

Why Every R Package Wrapping External Tools Needs a Sitrep() Function

https://drmowinckels.io/blog/2026/sitrep-functions/
1•todsacerdoti•17m ago•0 comments

Achieving Ultra-Fast AI Chat Widgets

https://www.cjroth.com/blog/2026-02-06-chat-widgets
1•thoughtfulchris•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Runtime Fence – Kill switch for AI agents

https://github.com/RunTimeAdmin/ai-agent-killswitch
1•ccie14019•21m ago•1 comments

Researchers surprised by the brain benefits of cannabis usage in adults over 40

https://nypost.com/2026/02/07/health/cannabis-may-benefit-aging-brains-study-finds/
1•SirLJ•23m ago•0 comments

Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist, apocalypse linked to the 'end of modernity'

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3•randycupertino•24m ago•2 comments

USS Preble Used Helios Laser to Zap Four Drones in Expanding Testing

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3•breve•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Animated beach scene, made with CSS

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1•ahmedoo•30m ago•0 comments

An update on unredacting select Epstein files – DBC12.pdf liberated

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3•ks2048•30m ago•0 comments

Was going to share my work

1•hiddenarchitect•33m ago•0 comments

Pitchfork: A devilishly good process manager for developers

https://pitchfork.jdx.dev/
1•ahamez•33m ago•0 comments

You Are Here

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3•mltvc•37m ago•1 comments

Why social apps need to become proactive, not reactive

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1•JoanMDuarte•38m ago•1 comments

How patient are AI scrapers, anyway? – Random Thoughts

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026/02/07/how-patient-are-ai-scrapers-anyway/
1•samtrack2019•39m ago•0 comments

Vouch: A contributor trust management system

https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
3•SchwKatze•39m ago•0 comments

I built a terminal monitoring app and custom firmware for a clock with Claude

https://duggan.ie/posts/i-built-a-terminal-monitoring-app-and-custom-firmware-for-a-desktop-clock...
1•duggan•40m ago•0 comments

Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
6•guerrilla•41m ago•1 comments

Y Combinator Founder Organizes 'March for Billionaires'

https://mlq.ai/news/ai-startup-founder-organizes-march-for-billionaires-protest-against-californi...
4•hidden80•42m ago•4 comments