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EU to propose short-term rental rules to tackle social crisis in housing

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/15/eu-executive-short-term-rental-rules-affordable-housing-plan
3•hansmayer•2h ago

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theothertimcook•59m ago
Homes can’t be an investment and affordable.

Airbnb took the couch surfing model and added payment for people who couldn’t or didn’t want to participate in the social exchange, and when it was people renting out a spare room it was pretty rad.

Now you have holiday slumlords with a managers and cleaners that expect you to strip beds, load washers and alike, all while running the risk of being filmed in the bathroom or being trapped in a building not up to fire regs cause it was never intended to be a hotel.

If you and your kids are filmed in the bathroom or if you book accommodation well in advance of a big sporting event and the host realised they’ve missed an opportunity to gouge and cancels to re-list, you’re often SOL.

In Australia you don’t need to be a car dealer to buy and sell a car, but if you make a business out of the regular sale of buying and selling cars then you need to register as a car dealer and acquire a licence. The same thing needs to happen to platform rentals where the host is doing more than renting a room or letting their home while on holiday.

Without taking into account build requirements for accessibility and fire safety, in many LGAs in Australia the local rates/taxes are higher for investment properties, and if a property was zoned as a residence a town planning application for a change of use needs to be submitted.

For examples sake this may be an extra $1000-2000 per year for taxes and $5000-10000 one off for the approval, however the fines for not notifying/undertaking are often less than $1000, meanwhile a hotel with a non-compliant fire suppression system or expired licence will be promptly shut and fined enthusiastically.

Like Uber, Airbnb thrived on a lack of regulation but similar to uber a big chunk of their “fleet” has degraded to the point where they’re just as bad as what we had before, gross cabs and shitty hotels.

Would this be a popular approach, not a chance, people have built serious portfolios of AirBnb properties but people should be able to live and participate THEIR cities and communities.

OpenAI board member is selling ChatGPT / Claude API to banned country

1•justiceforai•1m ago•0 comments

Next Steps for the Caddy Project Maintainership

https://caddy.community/t/next-steps-for-the-caddy-project-maintainership/33076
1•francislavoie•4m ago•0 comments

Can Long-Context Language Models Subsume Retrieval, RAG, SQL, and More? (2024)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13121
1•fzliu•7m ago•0 comments

The Dreamseeker's Vision of Tomorrow

https://soatok.blog/2025/10/15/the-dreamseekers-vision-of-tomorrow/
1•SlackingOff123•8m ago•0 comments

Holistic Agent Leaderboard: The Missing Infrastructure for AI Agent Evaluation

https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11977
1•randomwalker•12m ago•0 comments

I Learned to Spot Inflated Bids (and What You Can Do Too)

https://spicermatthews.com/blog/how-i-learned-to-spot-inflated-bids-and-what-you-can-do-too/
1•cloudmanic•14m ago•0 comments

What people write in Boss's Day cards

1•tumidpandora•17m ago•0 comments

ISPs angry about California law that lets renters opt out of forced payments

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/california-says-landlords-cant-make-tenants-pay-for-a...
3•bikenaga•18m ago•1 comments

ChatGPT in a robot does what experts warned [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIxq03dipUw
1•dp-hackernews•19m ago•0 comments

Agent Prism: React components for visualizing traces from AI agents

https://github.com/evilmartians/agent-prism
1•handfuloflight•20m ago•0 comments

PyTorch 2.9 released with C ABI and better multi-GPU support

https://pytorch.org/blog/pytorch-2-9/
1•ashvardanian•21m ago•1 comments

X executive says creator monetization program may potentially be ended

https://twitter.com/DMichaelTripi/status/1978482790950981761
5•jrflowers•22m ago•1 comments

Locality, and Temporal-Spatial Hypothesis

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/10/05/locality.html
1•surprisetalk•22m ago•0 comments

A letter received from a plane crash fatality

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2025/10/05/late-word-2/
1•surprisetalk•22m ago•0 comments

Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes

https://apnews.com/article/tipping-fatigue-business-c4ae9d440610dae5e8ff4d4df0f88c35
3•paulpauper•22m ago•0 comments

Americans Need to Be Richer Than Ever to Buy Their First Home

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-02/will-home-prices-fall-first-time-buyers-face-a...
4•paulpauper•23m ago•0 comments

Sandspiel

https://sandspiel.club
2•surprisetalk•23m ago•0 comments

Windows 11 Cumulative Update 2025-10 breaks localhost applications

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5585563/localhost-not-working-anymore-after-2...
3•marksamman•25m ago•0 comments

The price of gold is skyrocketing. Why is this, and will it continue

https://theconversation.com/the-price-of-gold-is-skyrocketing-why-is-this-and-will-it-continue-26...
3•mgh2•26m ago•0 comments

Transformers for Software Engineers

https://blog.nelhage.com/post/transformers-for-software-engineers/
1•Frotag•26m ago•0 comments

The Aspect.build CLI now in Rust

https://github.com/aspect-build/aspect-cli
1•rmhsilva•27m ago•0 comments

65% of Americans support monthly $2k Covid stimulus payments

https://www.masslive.com/coronavirus/2021/01/65-of-americans-support-monthly-2000-covid-stimulus-...
2•paulpauper•28m ago•1 comments

British social media star 'Big John' detained in Australia over visa

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy196k9p4po
1•e2e4•30m ago•0 comments

Drew Struzan – March 18, 1947 – October 13, 2025

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Struzan
2•franze•30m ago•1 comments

Experience: I own the world's largest Monopoly collection

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/10/experience-i-own-the-worlds-largest-monopoly...
1•bookofjoe•32m ago•0 comments

Cifar-10 Speedrun Record Broken by Research Agent

https://twitter.com/kellerjordan0/status/1978502058023031214
2•australium•33m ago•0 comments

components.build: OS standard modern, composable and accessible UI components

https://www.components.build/
1•handfuloflight•34m ago•0 comments

UI = Fn(state) Done Right

https://yagni.club/3m3anpetejc23?auth_completed=true
2•andersmurphy•36m ago•0 comments

China Accessed Classified UK Systems for a Decade, Officials Say

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-15/china-accessed-classified-uk-systems-for-a-dec...
8•beejiu•36m ago•0 comments

Gravity Can Explain the Collapse of the Wavefunction (Sabine Hossenfelder)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11037
2•felineflock•39m ago•0 comments