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Web Speech API on HN Threads

https://toulas.ch/projects/hn-readaloud/
1•etoulas•40s ago•0 comments

ArtisanForge: Learn Laravel through a gamified RPG adventure – 100% free

https://artisanforge.online/
1•grazulex•1m ago•1 comments

Your phone edits all your photos with AI – is it changing your view of reality?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260203-the-ai-that-quietly-edits-all-of-your-photos
1•breve•2m ago•0 comments

DStack, a small Bash tool for managing Docker Compose projects

https://github.com/KyanJeuring/dstack
1•kppjeuring•2m ago•1 comments

Hop – Fast SSH connection manager with TUI dashboard

https://github.com/danmartuszewski/hop
1•danmartuszewski•3m ago•1 comments

Turning books to courses using AI

https://www.book2course.org/
1•syukursyakir•5m ago•0 comments

Top #1 AI Video Agent: Free All in One AI Video and Image Agent by Vidzoo AI

https://vidzoo.ai
1•Evan233•5m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How would you design an LLM-unfriendly language?

1•sph•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MuxPod – A mobile tmux client for monitoring AI agents on the go

https://github.com/moezakura/mux-pod
1•moezakura•7m ago•0 comments

March for Billionaires

https://marchforbillionaires.org/
1•gscott•7m ago•0 comments

Turn Claude Code/OpenClaw into Your Local Lovart – AI Design MCP Server

https://github.com/jau123/MeiGen-Art
1•jaujaujau•8m ago•0 comments

An Nginx Engineer Took over AI's Benchmark Tool

https://github.com/hongzhidao/jsbench/tree/main/docs
1•zhidao9•10m ago•0 comments

Use fn-keys as fn-keys for chosen apps in OS X

https://www.balanci.ng/tools/karabiner-function-key-generator.html
1•thelollies•11m ago•1 comments

Sir/SIEN: A communication protocol for production outages

https://getsimul.com/blog/communicate-outage-to-ceo
1•pingananth•12m ago•1 comments

Show HN: OpenCode for Meetings

https://getscripta.app
1•whitemyrat•13m ago•1 comments

The chaos in the US is affecting open source software and its developers

https://www.osnews.com/story/144348/the-chaos-in-the-us-is-affecting-open-source-software-and-its...
1•pjmlp•14m ago•0 comments

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in USA

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/07/jd-vance-boos-winter-olympics
50•treetalker•16m ago•10 comments

The original vi is a product of its time (and its time has passed)

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ViIsAProductOfItsTime
1•ingve•23m ago•0 comments

Circumstantial Complexity, LLMs and Large Scale Architecture

https://www.datagubbe.se/aiarch/
1•ingve•30m ago•0 comments

Tech Bro Saga: big tech critique essay series

1•dikobraz•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A calculus course with an AI tutor watching the lectures with you

https://calculus.academa.ai/
1•apoogdk•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: 83K lines of C++ – cryptocurrency written from scratch, not a fork

https://github.com/Kristian5013/flow-protocol
1•kristianXXI•42m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SAA – A minimal shell-as-chat agent using only Bash

https://github.com/moravy-mochi/saa
1•mrvmochi•42m ago•0 comments

Mario Tchou

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Tchou
1•simonebrunozzi•43m ago•0 comments

Does Anyone Even Know What's Happening in Zim?

https://mayberay.bearblog.dev/does-anyone-even-know-whats-happening-in-zim-right-now/
1•mugamuga•44m ago•0 comments

The last Morse code maritime radio station in North America [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzN-D0yIkGQ
1•austinallegro•46m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hacker Newspaper – Yet another HN front end optimized for mobile

https://hackernews.paperd.ink/
1•robertlangdon•47m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Is Changing My Life

https://reorx.com/blog/openclaw-is-changing-my-life/
4•novoreorx•55m ago•0 comments

Everything you need to know about lasers in one photo

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Commercial_laser_lines.svg
2•mahirsaid•57m ago•0 comments

SCOTUS to decide if 1988 video tape privacy law applies to internet uses

https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/us-supreme-court-to-decide-if-1988-video-tape-privacy-law-app...
1•voxadam•58m ago•0 comments
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Wealth Taxes Will Barely Slow Inequality. So Why Do the Super-Rich Resist Them?

https://truthout.org/articles/wealth-taxes-will-barely-slow-inequality-so-why-do-the-super-rich-resist-them/
3•robtherobber•3mo ago

Comments

bell-cot•3mo ago
Not that I'm within 10000X of being "Super-Rich"...but I'd assume there's a rather narcissistic "Divine Right of Kings" attitude that goes with the turf. Which is continuously reinforced by their retainers and sycophants. Along with a host of slippery slope arguments.
hnthrowaway0328•3mo ago
Taxing individuals will not make a lot of money. Tax holding companies as if they are humans.
stopbulying•3mo ago
A wealth tax would force business owners out of the majority ownership of the companies they founded even when they don't have income. Many business owners forego healthier lifestyles for a number of years in order to build their business. Business owners tend to work 60-80 hours a week, and they don't get to quit and take a buyout and job hop.

Why can't you just raise regular taxes and/or cap the capital gains exemption?

Why can't you stop pissing money away on debt financing wars and defense/war bs? Why can't you stop killing without due process? Should they afford you if you are killing without due process? Can they ethically be complicit with you without legal liability?

Should you expect them to become civically involved if you're blackmailing them about their medication which you are using their taxes to sabotage quality control of?

Why can't you stop picking fights, losing them, and sticking us with the bill for your bitch junta tirades?

(Kicks insulin away from your seizing body and explains that you don't deserve healthcare, though you must afford that entitlement for others)

If the government were going to afford personal welfare for the people to get people out of the red and into the black (instead of very selective corporate welfare), instead of debt financing wars, there would probably be more support for increasing taxes in the United States.

We can increase taxes on the wealthy without class warfare and without changing the subject to a hypothetical wealth tax.

There are a number of wealthy people who support increasing taxes on the wealthy.

One number to review in reviewing tax policy: tax revenue as a % of GDP.

Another number: the effective tax burden by binned household income

stopbulying•3mo ago
Let's take a look at how we blew $4T in 4 months and then went to shutdown showdown for a month, but the tariff slush fund for the children.

How many people did the government kill without due process while the government was out of money?

If I can't stop you from killing without due process using my money, should I give you more money?

What sort of assistance from wealthy people does the government need? Are religious and nonreligious NGOs better able to assist the poor without causing harm without due process?

stockresearcher•3mo ago
If you describe the actual mechanism required to fairly and accurately determine the amount of money owed under the wealth tax proposals (such system being not trivially defeated by an army of accountants and lawyers), the reason why the wealthy oppose them should be quite evident.
Mountain_Skies•3mo ago
The few 0.1%ers I've known had no other goals in life other than running up the score on the balance sheets. While others in their twilight years are exploring the world, deepening ties with family, or going all in on hobbies, these people are on endless defense of their wealth. Resisting any type of tax that doesn't benefit their wealth growth goals is a natural outcome.

While not the only reason and probably not even the primary reason why they resist wealth taxes as a group, the four or fiveish I know are very much motivated by personal score.

red-iron-pine•3mo ago
greed. "fuck you pay me" as a world view.